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@mark: True words. Society is on the totally wrong track. Success today is material goods, 15 minutes on TV. Not understanding, compassion, caring for others and being mindful of your environment. People just sit on their asses all week doing pointless jobs that exist only to keep this wasteful, shallow culture of mass spending afloat.

Suicide rates, depression, cancer, alcohol and hard drug abuse. Riding around in metal boxes, living in concrete boxes, food comes from paper boxes and plastic bags. No wonder you get down in the dumps.

Countless people dying everyday because some greedy, careless fucks are stealing their food and their water, giving them nothing in return. Creationism on the rise, religion fighting science and reason, telling fairy tales to lull people in. Don’t break out, conform, conform, conform. Cut your hair short and buy those Levi’s. Wear a shirt to work. Conformity is absolute if it were up to some.

We have a pretty wild communications network with both stationary and mobile devices capable of sharing information at low costs around the globe, and what do we use it for? Ring tones and pornography. Yeah. Go humanity.

It’s true, we do need someone to kick our asses into place.

‘The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.’ ~Isaac Asimov

We’ll kill ourselves with our technology.

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Looks like I’ll be attending this one Anyone else?

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@supernaut: True, I have no idea if Bent wrote it, I just assumed I guess.

@TvdR: Great way to put it. I’ve never looked at the lyrics on the album as a whole, perhaps I should!

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@supernaut: I bet you have lots of thoughts around it that you could share

@mark de klerk: Completely agree. Who is the guide (for you)?

I would guess MP has been searching for meaning through psychedelics, and alot of people seem to find comfort and balance through the unifying experiences provided therein. Others through religion. I can’t see this in MP, what with Ãœberwagner and Walking with J for example.

At any rate, something abviously needs to kick western culture onto the right track again.. Leave the greedy selfish hands of capitalist behind, give science and reason a chance to guide the masses instead of, well, you know. Fairy tales.

edit: If any of you have read Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon, he talks alot about the spiritual crisis that seem to haunt technologically advancing societies. I see a parallell here. Think Bent is into sci-fi?

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@Rolf: Whats the story of the gong-intro on The Nerve Tattoo? I haven’ heart that one

I definitely agree with pretentiousness not necessarily being a bad thing; great works of art have come out of pretentious minds. Someone has to have the vision and bigger perspective on music and art, and try to make something fresh and thought provoking as opposed to all the mindless crap that is lauded as mankinds greatest achievement every day in mainstream media..

Anyway, if any of you have read Siddhartha, Bent is effectively putting himself in the role of the ferryman; enlightened, modest, complete and in balance, but with a twist of youthful energy and an urge to actually change something.

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Man, you guys are so old school, I love it..

I feel like a whipper snapper.

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Cool. I wish all you people with the bootleg videos would share them with the rest of us one day Spread the treasure, so to speak..

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@supernaut: Read my posts

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Think I started with Phanerothyme actually, then Demon Box, BH/BC, Blissard. Last one I got bought was LLM, naturally. Can’t remember them all, as I trawled through a lot of second hand shops to get my (almost) complete catalogue over a period of a handful years.

edit: First song I heard was Waiting for the One. A girl I knew played Demon Box for me on a long bus trip.. Then Nothing to say, Feedtime etc. I was amazed by the variation of styles on the album. Fell in love with Plan #1 instantly. Never looked back.

I Was even more amazed by the variation in the rest of the back catalogue as I delved deeper into their discography..

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Yeah, this is very good, ffbernie Thanks for sharing

By the way: These clips (as well as youtube clips etc.) can be downloaded via this site: http://clipnabber.com/

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Of course, supernaut, I agree. like I said, I chose this song because its pretty simple and straight forward, to get the ball rolling if you will

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@Rolf: I agree with that, Nothing to say is definately critical of the whole establishment and mainstream society, as are alot of Sæthers lyrics.

I had also thought about how the lyrics are a bit pretentious, unless he meant it as sarcasm. But I think he has a lot to say, so I guess a little pretentiousness is allowed. Where would psychedelic/progressive music be without it?

Come on people, chime in!

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@mark de klerk: After a quick wikipedia-read, he seems interesting, I will check him out.

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Feel free to play in or around Oslo april 5th to april 9th. Or some time after june 15th. Thank you.

Also: Mountain.

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I guess it will grow on me, but the colour needs to change, imho

The idea about reforming the website sounds good. More user-generated content, more frequent updates.

edit: Also like the possibility for avatars.

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