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Thanks for the lenghty comments! If no other recording of this gig will show up the audio of your video might indeed be interesting to have.
"Starwheelhammer" on YouTube:
Excellent quality video of "Hallucifuge" (excerpt) YouTube. Deep space…
Given the brilliant London show — what Snah does there really blows me away — which was recorded just 3,5 months ago it's hard to believe these last two shows were painted by numbers by him, uninspired, soulless and cold. Can't hardly believe it. I would love to have a recording to hear for myself
So like this:
Close Your Eyes
Leslie's Vest (new song)
Whole Lotta Diana
Neanderthal (new song)
Sail On
Hallucifuge
Year Zero
Starhammer ->
The Wheel ->
Starhammer
Mountain ->
Nothing to Say
Kill Devil Hills
The Alchemyst
Gullible's Travails
WOLF PEOPLE from the UK have blown my mind the last months with their debut full lenght "Steeple" wich was released on Jagjaguwar last October! Fantastic psychedelic Folk- and Hard Rock! Of the many new psych bands out there probably my favourite!
26.02.2011
Fifteen years ago on this day Motorpsycho played the first proper concert of 1996 at Studenten in Steinkjer (NOR). In this show they would debut "Heartattack Mac" and "Starmelt/lovelight". They also played one of only two versions of "Sister confusion" performed in 1996 (and the fourth last to date). Altogether the band played 61 shows in 1996, making it the fourth busiest year of their career. [url=http://]Compare the year 1996 in Dampsaba[/url]!
…and of course they could still continue to release highlights as RW on vinyl once a year or every two years.
Let's say they actually decide to release selected past shows and current concerts / tours officially. Do you really think it would be possible to issue all of those on vinyl?
Really, I would be fine with FLAC/MP3 downloads.
Or they could choose one or two concerts from each tour and bring them as exclusive merch on the following tour, as a tour-only-release. These could be CDs housed in a simple cardboard sleeve.
Or they could make each show they play available on CD-R or USB-stick immidiately after the show. It's possible, other bands do that too (incl. small and independent bands).
It's about getting this stuff out there and fancy vinyl releases are only obstacles in this regard, I guess.
Stating that "every single Roadwork release was a very big dissappointment" and that the releases are "castrated" is way too harsh, imo! Although I was among the first to critisize the 1CD format of RW4 I want to make clear that RW1 in particular is the quintessential MP live album, just perfect in any way. When it was released in 1999 it was hardly dissappointing. To this fan it was just anything I had ever dreamed of and it turned me into a die-hard psychonaut. It captures the essence of the 1998 tour in the best possible way. It was typical of them to follow with the "Motorsource massacre", quite an off-center choice, but certainly not a castrated release and in hindsight a wonderful contrast to the picture perfect live album they delivered with RW1. However, I agree that the release schedule has been a big dissppointment because I, too, took the comment on the cover as promise which was never fullfilled — not by releasing just four issues in 12 years!
Unauthorised audience recordings or even unauthorised FM/SBD recordings are not an appropriate substitute for official live recordings. Only VERY FEW audience recordings (and certainly no MP tape in circulation) can compete with officially mixed multitrack soundboard recordings. Just listen to RW1 or the mp3s on Øyvind Brandtsegg's site and you just have to notice that these are lightyears ahead of any audience tape. They reveal details you could never hear on an audience recording. I would go so far as to call the audience tapes "castrated" in terms of sonic quality (and I do own and have listened to way more than 300 unofficial live recordings by MP). Also unofficial recordings are only available to a small circle of fans, their character is highly exclusive and elitist. And that is why they really should feed us with more official live recordings! Just think what these releases could do for the band: Their reputation would grow immensely and many fans and journalist could marvel about the amazing live qualities of this band!
Bent once said that he does not like to see so many unofficial MP live recordings to be spread widely because they do not represent the band's sound properly and he does not want the general public to get a bad picture of the band. That bears only one solution: More OFFICIAL live releases.
And finally, If they are to release entire shows/tours they will have to say good-bye to the policy of releasing everything on vinyl. Fine with me.
For now I am happy with RW4 and I am sure it will be an appropriate representation of the band for the moment. It will not solve the general "problem" though. If anything it will most likely be further proof that it would be justified to open the vaults and reveal the magic.
