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Hi Anders,

There is a Mountain song that has the line “coming back from the mountain”: ‘My Lady’ from the album ‘Nantucket Sleighride’. No mention of “Louisiana” in there though.

I guess I’ll be able to tell you once a vid shows up on utoob.

Best,

M

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This was the first time I saw Motorpsycho since 2007. I use to be big fan but these days I guess I’m just remotely interested in the band. Got the last album and liked it alright for its riff-heavy stonerrock sound but didn’t think there were any memorable songs. The older mp albums I still play these days are Timothy’s, Blissard & Angels and Daemons, so it was good to hear some of those songs.

I thought it was a nice show but definitely not one of those magic nights.

It had a decent start with some of the newer material. KSD was not bad but Bent should learn to recognize the limitations of his own voice by now and sing this one register lower (like on the record).

ITF came in a decent rendition and was great to hear; I always loved this track.

The vocals on Wishing well -an otherwise pretty song- were indeed lacking (severely). Bent must have thought the same because he threw a little tantrum right after ending the song.

But the band got over it and ended the first set with a good version of the LLM suite, which demonstrated Kenneth’s amazing talents on the drums best. He is an ‘intelligent’ rock drummer with a great feel for dynamics, much like Mitch Mitchell.

As the show progressed, the crowd was getting more and more rowdy and as long as the band fed them those crazee rawking tunes, the roof went off. When they didn’t though (like during the first parts of Manmower and Vortex), the screams and cheering were still going on. But this didn’t bother me in the way it would have ten years ago, it was actually kind of amusing, I thought.

During the whole show I tried different spots and never really found a place where the sound balance was satisfying. The drums were buried beneath the guitar and bass which took a lot of the drive away. And the sometimes less than average vocals were totally dry most the time and tended to stuck out like a sore thumb. Some over-the-top creativity on the soundman’s part with reverb, delays & phasing effects could have made a huge difference.

All in all a fun night. Good enough to make me wanna see them again next time in May.

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