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@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:
Oh yeah! Helmet! I love that and except for fuel, need it to drive my car to work, absolutely my 2nd fave sonic heroes that never lose their magic…As for the early heavy MP songs, love them very much, and always get back to them, it's a question of the energy and mood I'm in. When I bought the Demon Box box and wigged out to Loaded (live) I even gave their first albums another try (don't like the way they're produced although most songs are great)! But, then was then (and forever here) and now is now, and the latest developments of the band are so great, I have a feeling in ten years we may be talking like "don't you miss that fantastic Tower-era ?!!
We are just so lucky to enjoy all the diversity of MP. I hope they keep on exploring as is in their nature and won't repeat themselves (not talking about playing old stuff live, because that's always astonishing fresh and never "let's play it like it is on the record!)
Must we start this same discussion all over again? (see working methods thread). Or is this a bad acid flashback of some kind? Agree with Mephisto here.
@mybestfriend83, sorry you seem so upset. But I think too we have spoken enough about the drugthing here, after all the thread is about working methods.
(rock-)mythology: now there's a thing MP surely have played around with all this time, in references, wordpuns (booklets of the ep's for example), and I think it's great fun, being somewhat of a rock-quizzer myself. Surely studying rock-history has brought them lot's of ideas for their own music!
and now…:For our sensitive readers…don't be schocked: SNAH IS NOT GOD !!!(but Eric Clapton was said to be).It's playing with rock-mythology…Snah=Hans Magnus Ryan, no more and no less! And: Bartok of the Universe does NOT contain any Black Sabbath riffs, and so on! :lol:
I understand, @mybestfriend83, whatever they use for inspiration (and you as well!) is allright with me, just hoping they won't have to deal with "strings of stroop" when playing live, haha!
(stroop is a Dutch word for ehm melted-sugar-sauce, the stuff you put on pancakes, and I remember the bassplayer of Jefferson Airplane once said that playing while under acid made his strings feel like this?!) :lol:
@mybestfriend83; I don't believe a lot in that drugthing related to creative output. More often than not you play, or write, or paint or whatever under influence and think wow this is really great. Next day when you're sober it usually isn't. Maybe sometimes a little smoke may open up your ears, though. I remember a long time ago I listenened to Trout Mask Replica on headphones after smoking a joint and heard everything in a totaly new way. I don't want to criticize the use of mind-altering substances, but i.m.o. music made from a pure (developed) mind, heart, soul, is much more of an accomplishment.I remember Snah saying in an interview that he likes to be stoned, but on stage performing, there's so much going on he needs to be alert and probably not too hazy… So anyway, light one up for me, bestfriend, and enjoy, but I am much better since I quit 8 years ago. One thing I'll always be addicted to is MPmusic, the best trip there is!
