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What a special night! The day's temperatures had peaked between 38-40°C (in the car) and the heat had faded to a very warm and beautiful summer night when Motorpsycho took the stage at 22:10. The festival provided a very intimate setting to see the band (my first open air show in ca. attended 60 concerts). I did not recognise "7th" dream so the set began quite magical to me with a seemingly unknown song and the surprises just kept coming as I didn't recognise "Sterling Says" either and I had not heard the "Instrumental" before. Also this was my first "True Middle" in 16 years. The band was in a great mood, the playing was very tight and Reine's contributions were spot on, much more so than during the 2 shows I saw of the spring tour. To me the set seemed very loose, wild, spontaneous and EXTREMELY jammy. There were long instrumental sections perfectly balanced with song-like structures. Even "Numbness" and "The Nerve Tattoo" made sense within this set, the latter a great version thanks to the second guitar. With some good humoured stage banter added this made for one of the most enjoyable shows of the recent years. Bent wore ugly ass cargo trousers and a t-shirt. He explained that their luggage (including instruments and clothes) was lost at the airport to which Snah added "No underwear!". The segues between songs and the jamming were sublime all through the set. A spectacular version of "All Is Loneliness" found the audience singing the outro part over and over again, the band singing along too, quieter and quieter, while the crowd sang louder and louder and Bent directing the choir a bit towards the end. A magic moment, acknowldged by Bent and Snah by putting their hands on their hearts. Goosebumps! My favourite 2013 concert and one of the best I have seen in the last years. Worth every traveled kilometer as Wulf said. It was nice to meet some fellow psychonauts. I hope everyone made it home safely. See you next time! Peace!
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Livedownloads.com could provide that service. This idea is not too far-fetched. The band just needs to decide for it.
Being an avid collector of live music in all formats (vinyl, CD, CD-R, digital) I could see myself spending a considerable amount of money for FLAC/mp3 downloads of MP concerts. I think I could not resist to purchase at least one show a week or similiar which would equate maybe 30-50€ a month.
I have a few Dropbox download links readily available with recent shows (Köln, Hasselt, Darmstadt, Dresden, Hamburg) in Flac/.rar format. Drop me a line at mpnews[at]motorgigs[dot]org if you need a fix!
A great audio recording reveals hot versions of "Hell", "Ãœberpilgrim", "Adolf Hissler" and "All is Loneliness". Even the clapping during the latter makes sense when listening on the setero. It felt a bit awkward live. Really, great stuff! Thank you SpaceBandit!
He is right about one thing though: The torrent technology has singlehandedly annihilated the sharing/swapping/helping out for free culture among tapers and unreleased-live-music-aficiniados. Many communities have faded to exist including the actual Motortrades list/community. What is left is the Motortrades tracker and Dime.
Ps: Be, if you still need help e-mail me at mpnews[at]motorgigs.org and I will send you a few Dropbox download links of recent recordings
I said the "magic flow was missing".
The disrupted and mixed setlist prevented them from really slipping into the magic zone. There were no transitions between the songs. Instead of a fluent jammy set we got a collection of great individual songs that were all played to perfection. The best moment might have been the first 30+ minutes (Year Zero, Hell, Ãœberpilgrim). Another highlight was the altered "STG" outro during which they went way out there, a solid 15 min "Arne H", a wild "August" and an emotional "Fool's Gold". "Bro" was nice to hear and Snah's solo was insane but it didn't really sit comfortable with the rest of the set. Absolute highlight was "Hell"! Indeed one of the better Hamburg shows, maybe the best since Markthalle 2000. Berlin 28.04. however was more my kind of Motorpsycho show
The other setlist thread states "Arne H" instead of "Manmower > Wheel"…? Great to see "Pilgrim" still in there! "K9" AND "Song for a bro" would have been a sick second encore, argh!!!
