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Yeah, I got the point. They are humans! I was surprised to see such a compress tour schedule. Good they have a day off today
comment by the band on Instagram:
“Well, that was interesting. From sublime to shit in two hours. And then back to something that at least was somewhat decent (we hope!). These things happen when you’re walking the musical tightrope at 104dBs 🤷🏻♂️
We blame ear fatigue, fever and the full moon, and ask for forgiveness from the rock gods.
Off-day today. Will try even harder in Portogruaro @palmariva_discoteca on Tuesday!!”technical issues?
Hello psychonauts.
Few words about yesterday evening concert in Trezzo. First of all, every time I see MP onstage, I feel fine. I’m thinking about it since I’ve seen them getting old sine the middle 90’ and I feel like a subtle intangible connection between my personal life and this band. I have always a big smile in my face for every single minute they are onstage.According to my taste, last night was not a top concert (at least considering the Milano area saga since 1997). Not among the worst but not at stellar as some others.
The setlist was a sort of a mixed bag. I’d like more focused setlist, if it’s a rocking show, go for it, if it’s psych, jam out. Yesterday every two songs the atmosphere shifted. Song of a bro was a perfect start for warming up and setting the volume, Starmelt a nice singalong hit warming the crow and Paranoid…hem, sorry, Quick Fix a good and short rocking one. This is your captain was one of the best tunes from the latest albums but not stellar in live rendition. The first hit was Lucifer, a true surprise live, one of the strongest and most enjoyable song in the setlist. Not jamming but (hopefully) switching the intensity of the concert. Unlucky the lost momentum with Up/Dow and Like Chrome, one of the lamest song in the catalogue. Good versions of CMC and Sinful but soon after another shift with the first part of Pacific Sonata shutting down a little the atmosphere but starting the best moment of the show with the very nice second part. Balthazaar was one of the hits even if I’ve got maybe too high expectations on this (I enjoyed more Lucifer from the last album). A solid Stanley and a very interesting and powerful rendition of Theme De Yo-Yo. Barleycorn was nothing to write home about driving to Hey Jane that was quite lame considering how nice and tight could be this gem. The main act was closed by the good old Mountain, one of the few moments of heavy rock of the entire set. Fools gold was the best song of the set. I’ve listened to it many times but it’s always an emotional hit with crystal beautiful vocal rendition and incredibly nice sound.
The set was sub average in length (around 2h15’) and it looked a bit more like a festival setlist than a proper tour one. I’ve got the idea that this kind of shift toward short songs and the avoiding of the more complex psych out ones is due to Olaf. He’s done the job (I’m impressed how many songs he has learned for this tour) but maybe a little bit too straight and faint comparing with the monsters we have seen in the MP history.
The venue (that is very large) was surprisingly filled. I’m not 100% sure but I’ve got the feeling of a sharp increase in audience presence since the last time they’ve played here in 2022, quite surprizing.
Good luck to Francesco and all the guys that are travelling around Europe, you’re the best!
RiccardoMy original post was hidden while I was editing it because off some sort of spam filter. Anyway, I’ll repost it here:
Hello guys,
Setlist of the saturday night concert in Morbegno (SO-Italy) at the Morborock festival, a free festival run by the local association “Lokazione”.
Setlist– The Waning Pt. 1 & 2
– Psycholab
– Black as night
– Dank State
– The tower
– Sinful, Wind-Borne
– The Magpie
– Whip That Ghost (Song for a Bro’)
– Patterns
– Hotel Dedalus
– Quick fix (first time live!)
– Hyena
– The united Debased
– Go to California
– Hogwash > Spin, Spin, Spin > Hogwash (started with free your mind…)
– Into the Sun
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– Rock bottomStarted 22.50 til 1.00 (2h10′)
Typical festival show with a lot of rock jams, not much space to “space” or sing-along tracks but a overwhelming rock-jamming sequence without any break.
Audience “around” 6500, mindblowing considering that Morbegno is a very small city of 12000 inhabitants. I think most of them were there without having any idea who motorpsycho were. Not a bad thing if we consider the natural tendency of the most loyal fans to progressively age and “close”.
I’ve got entusiastic feedbacks from a lot of friends who attended for the first time a MP concert. After all, in this small community in the middle of the Alps there had never been a band of the value and intensity of motorpsycho. At the same time MP called a lot of people travelling here from other palces in northern Italy so that the entire festival gained visibility. All in all the audience was great supporting the band.Something more about the songs:
Very intense rendition of “The tower” and “United debased”
Rocking go to california with a long intense middle jam
Hogwash was “slower” than usual but very intense
I confused the beginning of both quick fix and rock bottom with ASAFE :-DI was thrilled to hear sinful, wind-borne for a very particular reason. I discovered motorpsycho by hearing them on the “planet rock” radio show in 1996 with this song. For me it remained a milestone. From that moment my passion exploded and also involved my friend Michele with whom I saw all the first MP concerts from 1997 onwards, we were only 16 years old at that time. Michele himself organized the arrival of Motorpsycho at Morborock right here, 200 m from my house, it was a natural closing of the circle.
Thanks to Lokazione, Morborock and all the psychonauts, it was a pleasure to have you all here “at home”, Marco, Barbara, Federica & family, Francesco…
Riccardo
So fun to see all my Morborock friends in the video here on the forum. Most of those you see are psychonauts. In particular Valentina, with whom I played for a long time and the wife of Michele, the main organizer of the line-ups, with whom I shared the first motorpsycho concerts at the end of the 90s!
I really hope that many psychonauts will come to see MP here in this occasion to sustain this small association that made this possibile.Yes, it is true! but we can also consider it a little deserved given all the kilometers I have traveled to see them over the years :-D. In all these years the minimum distance for us who come from the Alps to see them is 100 km (Milan is the closest city), not considering the dozen of concerts around Italy and Europe.
Thanks Francesco for the setlist, it was very nice to have met you yesterday after the gig with Federica and Marco, we’re getting old and it’s nice to see guys like you travelling around like we did 20 years ago.
Some random points:
Bent and Snah seemed to have a bit of trouble with their voices, a bit ill perhaps. They looked very tired at the end of the gig but they managed to do a great ending.
It was a different show compared to the last tours. Less hard-prog, even less up-tempo and more a jamming 70s-90s mood. Probably Ingvald style is involved in this, I was particulary impressed by his performance, he has a loose an more jamming style compared to Thomas and it fits very well. He made a couple of minor errors but nothing dramatic of course.
Lowpoints:
Like Chrome (IMO sloppy song even if in a good live rendition)
August (incredible interplay between Ingvald and Snah but all in all very confused)
Highlights:
Sentinels (much better live than on the album),
Superstooge (both guys on guitars, never seen Bent on guitar in this song)
Gullible’s Travails (with a shor portion with Ingvald lead singer)
Mona Lisa/Azrael (the surprise of the setlist. Bent asking quiteness before the song, great rendition that didn’t suffered beeing the first appearance in the tour).The Santeria was a very nice venue for the band, slithly bigger than Bloom but way smaller that Live Club in Trezzo where they played the last years. Having a smaller room and a smaller stage with a dedicated sold out audience helped a lot finding the right atmosphere. I was in the center front (3-4th line) and the sound was very good even with the drum a little to much loud in the mix.
rock on psychonauts and good luck for the end of the tour, I hope you’ll enjoy the band as much as I did yesterday.
RI agree, according to my taste, by far the best setlist of the entire tour. The awesome Manmower is back.
It looks like a very hard rocking setlit. Very nice encore choise with the soperstoof-hogwash combo.
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Quote:LLM – I always get the impression of confusion in this suite,
haha, isn't that its point, though…?"
yes, of course
I was even wearing the LLM t-shit with the "s" fallen down too
Given the fact that good old Marco BronYAur is really getting old and hasn't posted his review yet, I write a few lines too.
Opening note:
I hate to be argumentative after such a great concert but I find it a bit unfair that the band started playing at 20.30 when the ticket indicated 21.00 as starting. I don't know if the fault lies with the band or the organization but I've lost the first two songs
It was a very heavy-rocking jamming mood concert, very compact and solid setlist.
Some comments about each song I've seen
LLM – very powerful and energetic but I always get the impression of confusion in this suite, even the sound was not yet at its best
Cloudwalker – IMO on paper the weakest song, they improved it with a long jamming middle part
A Pacific Sonata – Great second half, they started to kick in
The Magpie – nice song! nice rendition live, maybe it would have been perfect later in the set in between the rocking part
Kingdom Of Oblivion – what a STONE the live version of this track, very nicely fitting in the setlist of an heavy gig
STG – maybe it has been the point when the magic started, the final rendition similar to the studio version was one of the highlight of the entire concert
Hey, Jane – surprise n°1! nice even if in a sort of rehearsal fragile version. It's a very difficoult track for new drummers, I remember many errors back in 2006 in Milano on this track by Jacco. In particular Thomas played it resonably well but not in the best possible way
No Evil – surprise n°2! another great great rocker, straight and heavy
Whole Lotta Diana – Diana surprised me, incredible performance by Thomas with a long solo before the ending part. Long version with great fast jamming
The Wheel – I was waiting for a compleate version of The Wheel since Milano Binariozero back in 2000, what a stone. I don't think it's physically possible to create a stronger and wall of sound with such an emotionally intense sonic punch. Maybe the Live Club with its powerfull sound system was the perfect place to perform this sonic assalt, maybe they gave 110% but it was one of the highest moment ever in more than 40-50(?) MP concerts I've attended. No way to play anything else after this, perfect main set ender.
Fools Gold – After the wheel I was expecting an acoustic encore but they gave us another great ender from the 90's
It was my first real concert in three years of covid-19 period and it's always great to see MP back on tour and in great mood-shape. They have played with a lot of energy in a very nice club with great sound and great audicence, although I must sadly point out that the audience was less numerous than usual yesterday at Live.
