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@Tomcat; ik ga het ze vragen (I will ask them), just sent Doornroosje an email, when I know more I'll post.
@Tomcat; same here, this is a bummer. Glad I didn't buy tickets yet, will think it over some more.
Both are needed for really impressive music, I'd say, and the one exists by contrast to the other.
And yeah, the balance seems exactly right most of the time with MP, their music is for the heart, the mind and the balls, so no wonder it keeps grabbing, shaking and vitalizing us in the way it does! :MPD:
@ Bartok; "and I'm only speaking for myself…",
well you're speaking for me as well the way you put it. It was surprising to witness an MP-forum thread transform into this kind of gentlemen's intellectual's society meeting, and as usual, while the port and cheese are consumed at the end of the evening,staring into the dying embers of the fireplace, the soaring intellect lands in it's nest of doubt and regret. The more we know, the more (or less!) we may see the great VOID behind it all. Which is the true way to go, and in a relieved and joyful state. Like you quote the late great SunRA: space IS the place! (for psychonauts ). And "into the void we must travel" is a MP motto, and I've always interpreted that not only as a way to perform music for them, but also as a way of experiencing their music for us, the audience!
Since all you symphonicprogrockers are having a field day here, I feel it's high time to mention another power trio that was highly influenced (…not) by MP; Emerson Lake & even Palmer ! :lol:
Gimme Tarkus over the Unicorn, everytime I'm dishwashing !
But seriously, I've never regretted the loss of any of my old Genesis, Rush and Yes albums after my 16th birthday, and although I think a musical quote or wink to their music by MP is fine, MP transcends all that and at the same time respects them and kicks their asses as well! YES they give me a RUSH and ARE, in our time, in fact the only real Crimson King, who, as Robert Fripp so mystically explained, is nothing but a musical powersource that can be tapped into by dedicated musicians (even a group without a Fripp in it I suppose!…)
@Punj Lizard
Thanx for all the story, and about earplugs: can't do without them at an MP gig, and with them, it's such a joy to be able to hear but still feel the sonic waves through your whole body and experience the earthquaking Bentbass(-pedals), like at the culmination of Taifun for instance!
…To quote The Breadingred Foggyroads (a cultband here in Holland): from the song 'Old Rockers': "they put in their earplugs and quote Spinal Tap, 'cause these go to eleven and it's way off the map!" Sail on, psychonaut!
Woweee!!! I think this song-sequence is great, and what a showcase of prime Motorpsycho, with the Wheel as the climax (would liked to have seen some more of the audience here getting into trance-mode. though). Also very much enjoy the on-stage interaction, especially Bent & Tomas; those amazing breaks during Dreamhome!And for once I can see and hear the value Reine brings in (after some concerts where he was inaudible to me). If some friends ask me what this MP thing is all about I'll just link them to this WestDeutcheRundfunk now, so they too may get rundfunked good! :STG:
@Johnny_Heartfield: Haha, fantastisk Johnny! Also noticed the triangles and/or pyramids Battlestar & MP have in common (the latter regarding band-formation) and……..anyway, can't wait to hear the NerveShip's next spacetrip!Maybe one day they'll find the place called…"Urf"
Yay! Starbuck was a great mellotron-player, always smoking a thin cigar on stage with a sparsely dressed babe on the keyboard…Pity the 70's Galactica series was rather ehm…disco. Luckily those vocoder wielding centurions blasted that away.
Been listening to MP's own spacerockopera album the last few days (HeavyMetalFruit) and it's been a rediscovery of something great! The Starhamster in the recent sets got me going for this one again, and this time around (played it to death after it's release) I hear new elements, in pieces like Gullible's Travails and W.B.A.T (can anyone tell me what this stands for?)it now sounds to me like The Tower was already 'being built'! Of course when you keep turning the volume up, at that fantastic outro of the last song you get kind neighbours asking the name of that classical composer and the name of the opus they have been hearing every evening!
Yes, Bard, especially his finest hour playing electric piano on 4 Norsemen of the apocalyps/roadwork 3 in Hogwash, when Johan Sebastian B. Himself looks upon him from the golden clouds!
With Storlokken is often a bit too bombastic for my taste. Reine is like the modest but hardworking hired man, comes over very introverted at gigs, while Kristoffer Lo was the opposite in his presence, which I liked a lot, and also a bit more spunking the melting pot, i.m.o.
As far as orchestration of MP songs went up till now, I think string arrangements work often great with their songs, but I'm not always convinced by the use of horns… or…wait! I love em in Siddhardtino (Trust Us), something like an ambient polar circle sound! And at the end of Taifun on the same album.
@BronYaur; "nothing's really changed" (yes; including BtS) :o
Sungravy is Holy Music. Very intimate (Bent's voice) and beautiful (that strings arrangement!). Play this at my funeral (not in a long time I hope)!
Juba Juba !!!! Spent a wonderful, sunny long weekend in Maastricht, enjoyed the good life of "the south" there, and of course the concert: had a real sonic blast this time and some moments (during Ship Of Fools and HeartattackMac especially) felt like standing at the front of a ship in the heart of a tornado (Taifun, although that one wasn't played), lovely feeling of energy soaring through body, heart and mind ! Today, home again, I feel HHHIIIGGGHHH (on sonic waves, not on drugs, haha).
Funny moment when an old fashioned speaker-cabinet beside Bent was about to collapse and two guys came out to shove 'em back in place, must have been that all-powerfull Love-Bass (same power as das Hate-Bass) causing the earth to quake!
My first Wheel;sensational and like it would never end, jawdropping people around me!
Also very nice Pacific Sonata, Snah very good.
:DNice to have met you, Crosskip, we shared some of the amazement of the evening and enjoyed talking a bit afterwards, made me feel not too much on my own, because usually my brother joins me for MP, but he couldn't make it this time.
See you probably in Nijmegen !
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How about The Alchemyst(Little Lucid Moments)?!! especially the grand finale!!!
Also, for me, a lot of songs on BlackHoleWhiteCanvas, for example You Lose&Before The Flood, and Sail On ! Talk about putting in that drive and emotion and riffs and melody!
Leaving tomorrowmorning for Maastricht…MP 'mission't-shirt; check. Anticipation and rising excitement; check. Good weather forecast; check! My Shiva sweater only and always worn at MP concerts; check. Cleaned earplugs and polished glasses (hey, I'm 54…); check! Hope a lot of you will be there, let's rock our socks off and space out and show Maastricht there's something different going on than Andre Rieu, haha!!! :STG:
