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@ Krist Rampage right you are, Krist, we must have been nearly in the same spot (I'm the whitebearded guy with shiva shirt) and at one point I thought about moving to a different spot in the audience, as a lot of the singing and mellotron was not even audible to me. The physical sensation of that bulldozer-bass and the close view on the stage kept me from doing so, however.
And Heartattack mac/b2s made me wanna pogo!
Yeah, most MP titles start with 'Ma'(Maypole, Malibu, Manmower, Mantric muffin stomp, and of course M.A.S.F.E (means there's a song for everyone). The hidden message:they are the mamas of invention! :lol:
Yup! My brother is converted. Alas, no beer for the newborn psychonaut, he's now driving back to Zwolle and goes to work tomorrow, probably playing some MP in his classroom to a younger generation!As for me, I had a blast, it still feels so wonderful to me to witness Bent and Snah perform, the guys whose music plays such a big role in my life, like it does probably in all of yours!
Taifun this time like a total body and soul cleansing, especially the bass pedals causing small earthquakes. Nice to see folks totally freak out (like I do, can't help it) or standing still, attentively. The Tower-songs are great for live performance as well as on studio-recording. I don't feel the same for classics like manmower, the album-recording stands like a monument for me, every time the mellotron sets in for the finale it gives me goosebumps. Wouldn't wanna miss it in the set though.On a plate worked opposite for me; on the album okay rocksong, this night in Alkmaar a blasting display of power and swing, great!
Enjoyed Tomas's drumming very much. Very supportive, creative, never overdone.Both my brother and I (amateur musicians) felt a strong urge after the concert to play ourselves, oh, this ecstatic joy of music! I would almost quote: keep the sex and drugs (those anyway) but let me keep my rock an'roll! Psychonauts of the planet, I salute you!
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I meant that funny emoticon, since it will surely be Sonic, not so teenage anymore, and I don't know about Guinevere…
Yea, calling all Psychonauts, come to Nederland! Just keeping my fingers crossed the sound will be ok (after what I read about the Oslo gig)…LOUD GUITARS MAN! THESE GO TO 11 ! Also curious about what setlist will be, hope for no introductory greatest hits but for space travel (have suit) and for them to rock my brothers'socks off, so I finally convince him 110% that MP is the best rockband in the universe right now! And whatever it will be, to me it already feels like a really big :STG:highlight of 2018 anyway since the gig was anounced. Hurrah !!!!!
Wow that's amazing…
thanks, mr. best friend, very nice to exchange these kinds of experiences, the magic of music in our lives! Sail on, bro!
Yeah, nice idea! For me Winter used to be Stained Glass, although last 2 months after getting the Angels&Daemons box, the long Deathprod thing opening for the Rockefeller show (Komet) became an obsession , love that ominous mood, the rawness and 25 or so minutes of it after which the guys kick in with their uplifting powerchords and melodies!Great tension building and release!
Summer for me I associate with Little Lucid Moments, as I got it and took it to Crete, Greece on holiday early May the year it came out, letting it sink in my (un-)conscious staring at the sea or sitting under a star filled nightsky while sipping Raki. It was very early season, nothing of the tourist activities yet, and the lyric "nothing but a ghosttown now" seemed to fit the time and place perfectly. I met some Greek musicians later on and while I discovered their intense brand of Cretan folk-music, and although their familiarity with Rockmusic went no further than Deep Purple (a great MP coverband in it's own right, of course!) they imediately recognised LLM as truly great music when I played it,
that was a nice cultural exchange! I left them my copy and back in Holland bought me a new one imediately (which I gave to my brother on his birthday so I've bought it 3x in fact!)
Hey, Punj, I know that KC stuff you refer to well, and those albummers got me in the wrong mood every play. Shizoid man by the original band was a great sonic adventure, I just get a headache when the Frippmaster overrates it's importance by turning it into a Frankensteins Stitchwork!
Had the same experience with the Thrak mini-album back in the day. A sensational livegig surprise turned into a blinding headache of noodling hell. I certainly hope MP will never fall for this kind of studio-stitching, that they will for ever keep it fresh and exciting as they have always done so far, and the joy of every roadwork-album for me is exactly that! Whichever songs we'll get, we are guaranteed to sail an adventurous journey. A lot alike the incarnation of KC of the larks-starless-red period, their improv and adventurous skills within the same few songs and idiom is well documented on the later released live recordings 'The Night Watch'and 'The Great Deceiver', give me those stichless monsters anytime!
WOW! just watched THE CUCKOO from this gig on YouTube, and I'm amazed by this rendition. Very powerfull singing by Snah here, and from the whole trio a self-confident and maybe agressive performance!
Thank you to Federica Blue for putting it there, and filming it so, :STG: we're very much in the middle of the action, in fact almost riding along on Bent's Bass. Great vid and recommended to all fellow psychonauts!
Just watched some of it on youtube, seems like they travel light this time; no background projection, no vintage lights, no keyboards. Just 3 great musicians, guitars drums and voices, and er well…lots of pedals and effects. Of course, both Bent & Snah are known to have four arms and three legs…Manmower; such a beautiful melody that hits me right in the soul everytime…the Tower songs: interesting developments and improvs. This is what the band, to me, is about; already sailing a great ship they explore unknown waters every time, and what a privilege it is for the listener to sail along!
Rockbottom sounds to me like a typical MP rocksong, nice cover,guys from
UFO! (I'm not into time, man!)Anyways, a nice rocketship to launch Snah up towards The Infinite. Very much looking forward to Alkmaar, later!
(ThorEgil's link above) Haha, always suspected the Residents Ultimate Box Set to be a desperate
try to get some retirement funding for those two guys, and hope THESE two guys (MP) won't retire in a while… Regarding Expensive Collectible Stuff: it can be a short lived epiphany. The object you so desired becoming just another thing on the shelf. (I know because I'm a Magic The Gathering fanatic).I reckon 25 euro for a MP concert experience which will stay with me forever as a warm and inspiring memory was certainly not too expensive and to me worth a lot more than the world's biggest freezer filled with every box set ever put on the market, to paraphrase: "I'm using more than enough already, thank you"! Nevertheless, happy persuits to the collector, if it's your thing, this is a free world. Enjoy, :wink:
