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I'm the camera operator of the Berlino show. The video was then edited by Ingo Seufer that mixed my video with a better audio source. He is now editing the credits of the video and so on.
Back in fall 2001 I was following the band from Italy to Germany and back and the Berlino show was an absolute highlight, a huge 70' fest! The audience was incredibily "hot".
From that tour I have also filmed the Treviso (9/10/2001) and Bielefeld (17/10/2001) shows. After almost 20 years I still have the miniDV original cassette here to be transferred and edited so if someone is interested I can send them.
to traktorbass: yes, in that tour trapdoor was always played like that, I loved that version
From this video there was a full Wheel (18m) and then they turned back to lacuna/sunrise
https://www.facebook.com/vincenzo.santoro/videos/10217209277698194/
simply amazing, that was I was looking for at the Milano show, I miss the wheel.
I've attended the show with Marco and met Teo and the legenday Øystein Winsnes after the show (one of the best things of the night). I enjoied the concert even if a little too much on the heavy-prog-jamming side for my taste (I prefer the 90's noise era).
I was particularly impressed by The Crucible, the noisy part in the middle of the song was the absolute highlight for me.
We discussed a lot about Reine's contribution to the band. Marco summerized it perfectly.
It is not our intent to be offensive, often joking at the end of the concert there is a tendency to exaggerate opinions. I don't discuss the technical part, I am much more instinctive in the judgment and probably also weighs the way of being on Reine's stage, which often gives the impression of being there by chance and never "inside" the band and inside the concert. A negative example in this sense is the first part of the Lacuna-Sunrise jam where you could clearly see Snah completely in his own world and Bent who seemed to guide Reine step by step on the right tones. The resulting feeling is that of attending a test in the garage rather than a performance where everyone provides their contribution at 100%. From this point of view the attitude on the stage of Lo in the last tour was of a completely different level.
All in all, considering the concerts in Milano in the last, to say, 10 years, In my opinion the two weakest have been this and the 2014 one (both with Reine).
The best one was probably the 2016 at Magnolia club where they palyed as a trio pushing out this incredibile setlist with a great performance
Big Black Dog (19') —>
Un Chien d'Espace (22')
Sleepwalking / Lacuna Sunrise (12')
12' of "The Rock Hits": Forget it / On the Plate / Vanishing Point
Feel (5')
Blueberry Daydream (7')
Running with Scissors –> I.M.S. –> Spin Spin Spin (25')
Arne H. (18')
WEARING YOUR SMELL
Watersound
Junior –>
Feedtime
Here Be Monsters (22')
…perhaps they do not have an absolute need for a fourth element
Riccardo
The comments confirm in a way what I'm thinking from some time: the new songs are much more complex from a compositional standpoint and are not bad, but despite this sort of "compositive refinement" all in all the good old 2 chords THE WHEEL is still on another planet!
I know it it impossibile but I hope they can go back to the simple and massif song concepts at some point.
I attended the MP concert at Bizarre festival in 2002, I agree with mefisto that it was one of the worst. However, the day before in Cologne was much better, a really great concert.
End of Vortex Surfer from the first row
Go to California
another VS from instagram
11 minutes of the central part of un chien d'espace
I haven't recorded. Until 2 years ago there was a guy thatused to record shows in the Milano area, I hope he will show up here on the forum. I bet there will be some videos on youtube soon like this!
Vortex Surfer
Hi Andres,
Go to California was very similar to the studio version albeit more powerful.
Keybord solo followed by the guitar solo like in the studio version. Bent was really into it by rocking as hell on the bass.
After all the different renderings of the last tours (included in Cornucopia or short solo-free versions) it seems they are back to the "classic". When in 2001 we where touring toghether all over Europe, the keybord solos by Baard were much longer.
Weird setlist yesterday
Great beginning, compared to Parma the sound was not so loud but perfectly clear and the mood onstage was very different, much more interplay, much more jamming mood (expecially by Snah). Manmower was magic, faster than the studio version with a particular jam with keys and guitar. The monolithic psychedelic setlist I was waiting for, seemed on the way but then: go to california, a complete mood shift toward pop rock. Bent was really on and rocking but still a dramatic mood change in the economy of the set.
Then they went on shifting again the mood alternating quiet songs (nice Up/Down with horns) with heavy rock until the first surprise: Ghost!
I admit that I have not recognize it, I mean, I know it but didn't get the title and location in the MP discography until Marco told me. I disagree with him about the weakness; it was an interesting listening, heavier than the studio version with sharper changes in the various parts of the song.
However, the majestic version of Un Chin like played yesterday was so much on another league compared with all the other songs that proved they haven’t written anything comparable after 1997. Un chien brings MP to incredible levels of intensity, interplay, showing the wilder side of the MP sound that I particularly love. Alone it worth an entire concert.
Ship of fools was much much better than in Parma and easily the best “the tower†song of the evening (even if they have skipped the beautiful title track). Vortex Surfer was the last surprise of the set, mainly because, giving the general mood of the concert and the relatively short length, we expected a longer encore with the classic rocking section. Emotional and heavy, it is always a great closing. After the first encore the audience went on asking for more for 5 minutes but this time the second encore did’t happened.
The venue was top-notch as always, with the only negative note of some idiots loudly whistling or screaming in the quite parts of Un Chien and Vortex Surfer spoiling the most intense moments of the set. In the last concerts in this venue the audience was the best I’ve experienced so far, but you know, it is easy to find 1 idiot out of 1000 beholders.
I’m happy of the two concerts I’ve seen this year, the “new†band is up and rocking, and I really hope they will keep Kristoffer in the next tours.
Riccardo
Nice concert yesterday in Parma,
Bent has the flu so the vocals were under the average, but they managed it
highlights:
Kristoffer Lo: he adds a great mood and attitude to the set, probably the best 4th member of the last 15 years.
Cuckoo: 1st big surprise of the new album, a bomb!
Heartattack Mac: I was waiting for it from 1997! finally. Very intense noise part, even a quite straight climax in the middle.
Superstooge: one of the best versions so far, great jam by Smah and Kristoffer with Ben just watching
The Tower: I was really impressed by this track live. on the album iT does not emerge from the others but live is massif, a real sonic attack, an instant classic IMHO
TGC: great and intense version, I'm double happy that it was not on setlist
Negative notes (sort of):
Sound. I rarely complain about sound but yesterday it was very bad at least until Superstooge! In the first 20 minutes it was really horrible and it spoiled kill some day. From plan n°1 the overall volume was 30-40% higher than before, I've never faced such changes. The drum was mostly inaudible (really). Terribily high keys at the beginning of TGC…bad
ASFE. No redemption in the live version, it was lame compared to the other rock n' roll tracks…as an example, the old "no evil" was way better
Ship of Fools. Maybe too long and the sound ruined the complex guitar interaction, not bad but I was hoping for more
In our tree. The real weak point of the setlist
Before the concert I've got a short talk with Bent with other italian psychonauts. He's very happy about the tour. I've found the way to give him a t-shirt of my band https://ultimobranco.bandcamp.com/
I'm confident that they will do an excellent show in Trezzo tomorrow
Riccardo
Hi all, great night and a really top concert. Much better the PowerTrio compared with the line up of the last tours.
Tiny location, very intimate and very good devoted crowd for one of the best MP experiences of the last 19 years.
The beginning was absolutely mindblowing: BBD>Un Chien>LacunaSunrise > enough to come back home happy…for my taste the vey best possibile beginning of a MP concert. BBD and HBMII deserve a location in the MP "classic huge" songs.
Less exiting parts: the rocking trio and a quite lame Running with Scissors while IMS and Spin Spin Spin were great, powerfull and inspired.
Very nice arrangement of the oldies including a quite and sweet Wearing yr. smell with singalong.
As always, nice to meet the italian psychonauts, among others: Marco (BronYaur) and Federica (babyscooter)
