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The “Cornucopia”-jam should not be forgotten: That mean Fuzz-guitar-like-sound we can hear towards the conclusion of the jam is actually Bent’s bass!
Great sound quality on the recording! And the recording confirms this was indeed as good as we experienced it. “Bomb proof” is so perfect and “Mountain” simply flies away…
The guy on Last.fm ultimatly didn’t go. But Lars provided us with more info:
“hi.. the sshow start 21.20 and end around 23.50…..no Mountain or K9. that will i remember….when they start, it was around 20 people in the local…and Bent wisper..hello we are MOTORPSYCHO FROM NORWAY….they looking to be in good mood…drinkin wine and smiling…..in the most psychedelic parts and noise..some people go out and smoke o s v….. i like the concert…..the last song was Gullible…… sorry that i’m could help more than this….but as you know, i’m new in this game………..”
Thanks for the setlist Elisa! Sounds awesome! Flick — wow!
Unfortunately this show will be remembered for the spitting incident. But let’s not forget it was still one of the best the band has played during the HMF-tour as well as during the last years!
I would be thrilled to see them in the Czech Republic and I sure would travel there. But keep in mind that they also play to ca. 50-100 in other countries (Denmark, Sweden, Spain, France) where they have even played before. Since they have never been to CZ I am sure we would be looking at very small crowds! It would be really cool though if they tried to break new grounds and tried to build up new fan bases in other places than GER, IT, BE, DK, CH and NL but maybe that time is ultimately over…
From Dampsaba:
Frankfurt 1993:
No Encores: Deathprod collapsed
Marburg 1993:
At this point Snah & Deathprod are fighting onstage, and Bent decides it’s time to stagedive and hey, pronto chips his tooth real bad. That was the end of that gig!
Oslo 1993:
Notes indicate only half of it played. I seem to remember that excessive stage diving stopped at least one song.
Berlin 1993:
This was when Geb jumped off stage and stepped on a broken glass. He had to sew up the mess, and walk on crutches for a couple of weeks. This is the reason why the following gigs were cancelled.
Must have been a wild year! Can’t find anythig about Bent hitting someone though…
Just returned from Leipzig and just waved good-bye to the last psychonuut so my HMF-tour is now officially over! It was nice to meet you all at the three shows I attended. Already looking forward to next time! See you!
Alex
A review in Welt online (German).
GOING BACK TO LEIPZIG AFTER TEN YEARS
My god, where to even begin to review this show? Like I told you before this was truely one for the books! It found us grinning widely, high-fiving, yelling, singing and rocking along and being ultimately blissed out already after the first hour of the show!
Conne Island is a lovely left-alternative culture project in the south of Leipzig with a professional concert hall for 500-900 people. It fills up well but not to capacity, lots of space for everyone to move and see well and an excellent sound made for a perfect setting to experience a laid-back and revitalized band (after a lovely experience at Duna Jam and one off day). Add to that a appreciative crowd, ridiculously low prices for alcoholic drinks as well as an anbundance of soft drugs and you have yourself a picture perfect Motorpsycho show!
It starts out with “The other other fool”. Anders comments next to me: “Oh, there it is”, noting our first wish fulfillment for today. This is a very laid back version, they take it down completely and Snah’s bluesy noodling is the icing on the cake. Great vocals and swinging heads everywhere! “Vanishing point” takes me by surprise and they deliver this as a cool blues rocker.
“Whole lotta Diana” opens the flood gates to this nights monster jam, a mix of swirling psychedelia, burning solos as well as a lot of improvised space — everything neately and smoothly segued together into one magic Motorpsycho cake! They nail all versions by providing their playing with that certain X-factor that is really hard to pinpoint! “Greener”? Sublime! “Starhammer”? Just great! “Arnie H”? Well, this version clocks in 20 magnificent minutes. The first part of the jam is a structureless space out of which they sculpture something that resembles a melodic movement, with strange keyboard-like sounds, some delays and low register drones by Snah. The band is lit with indirect white light from behind, everyone holds his/her breath and this moment lasts for maybe 10 eternal minutes — the towering psychedelic highlight of the entire show! From here on they enter a more structured and upbeat jam powered by chaotic fills from Kenneth. Just when it feels right to go back into the coda Snah decides against it and forces the band into several rounds of additional jams that go on and on and on, making us — yet again — lose our orientation of place and time! So far out I could see the proverbial dropped jams and shaking heads in disbelief all around me.
“Year zero” and “Mad sun” are magic! The former is of course not different from other shows but still it is refined with that little extra thing tonight. The latter is a moving moment and it finds me rediscovering the much adored lyrics and shouting them out! Slow beginning and then a great build up to a storm of emotion!
Just when everyone thinks this couldn’t possibly get ANY better they dive into an unbelievable “Mountain -> Hogwash” combination that takes the entire hall along for the ride! Up and down, one solo after another, one wave of picture perfect jamming follows the next one only to be interrupted by a carefully articulated “Hallewujah”, complete with a build up from VERY quiet noodlings all the way up to a rocking part which features the lyrics! When the hog comes back and squeakes its last breath the hall truely explodes and screams and the applause is simply deafening! At this point everyone inside the buidling understood that this was IT! You can see how the band feels flattered and they let Conne Island wash away with the power of the “Golden core”…
And that was the the two hours main set! Can you believe that? We hardy couldn’t because it was so good it was beyond our comprehension…
The entire first encore is segued together as well. “Cornucopia” doesn’t dissappoint (no “Other one” this time though) and the following “Sparks” finds Kenneth nailing it, what a surprise in the setlist department! To think that they can break out this complicated piece of manic instrumental jamming just like this is mindblowing! The segue into “High time” was just so logic (but still unexpected) and we all scream along with this rocker.
“Shrug and fisty” is a crowd pleaser and when they take it down in the middle the entire hall — again — screams and yells in delight which gets the recognition of the band. Kenneth stands up and bows, the lights go on, they wave at us, extending this moment for a little while and then they say thank you — a magic moment of mutual appreciation and LOVE between band and crowd! “Come on in” brings back the urgency of our youth and it is a fitting and emotional closer of this epic, exceptional show that ranks among the best I ever saw.
We all agreed afterwards on the extraordinary magic that happened tonight and to many ears this show is an instantly releasable “Roadworks IV” because it simply cannot get better than this!
Conne Island did not let us down and neither did Motorpsycho! Wahnsinn! Thank you all! See you!
Alex
We were told yesterday (by the merch guy) that they played between 2 and 2,5 hours and that Tos (guitar tech) joined them for an encore-jam which was a cover (but not the Rainbow one).
