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  • in reply to: Freak Valley 20.06.2025 #44669
    Johnny_Heartfield
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      freak valley video on DIME as well, but BIG (2 GB).

      in reply to: Freak Valley 20.06.2025 #44666
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        @ Anders: Wetransfer message/dl on the way. Enjoy!

        in reply to: Freak Valley 20.06.2025 #44660
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          Yes, I downloaded the video – but with fucking Video download helper QR-Code embedded. If it is just for the sound, I’m always ready to help.

          in reply to: 2025 Live #44640
          Johnny_Heartfield
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            Yep – Motorpsycho stream today. I was wrong with the day before. Watch!

            https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/video/sendungen/rockpalast/clip-freak-valley-festival-2025-motorpsycho-100.html

            in reply to: 2025 Live #44636
            Johnny_Heartfield
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              I got a few 90s shows from DIME some years ago, hopefully still find them. Especially from the 98 tour, but a few earlier ones also. Probably start with those then. But don’t except miracles – one show a week will be the most I can deliver within my time schedule. And this weekend is already reserved for Freak Valley.

              in reply to: 2025 Live #44633
              Johnny_Heartfield
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                Btw: Freak Valley livestream Saturday:

                https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/video/sendungen/rockpalast/clip-livestream-freak-valley-festival-2025-tag-2-100.html

                With a proper Rockpalast TV broadcast in August.
                Enjoy!

                in reply to: 2025 Live #44632
                Johnny_Heartfield
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                  Yep, Joecoco is doing a hell of an upload job for MP archive these days. Thanks a lot! Wish there would be a lot more similarily engaged uploaders, including myself. But I’ll start with some older stuff these days, promised!

                  Btw.: Despite the amount of great stuff from 2025 available, I’m still waiting for some possible recordings to appear, especially Portogruaro and/or Bern, to get the complete live tracklist (Eagle’s Son, Blueberry Daydream). As in Italy they’re obviously more into celebrating than recording (happy people there…) this looks quite unlikely, but I put all my hopes in Francesco, who attended every show and had some recordings from the tour already posted.

                  Johnny_Heartfield
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                    My first impression of Phanerothyme was that of a rather unspectacular, nice but rather short album. With MP delivering far less that they could. A rather short-sighted first judgement, as the songs started to develop in my ears over the years and I began to recognize the subtle quality of the compositions and recordings. I was rather a newly-convert then, having known MP by name and a rather muddy sounding old cassette for years, but not really discovering them until Trust Us and becoming a full enthusiast with RW I. So the following albums seemed a bit of a downer to me, fool that I was.

                    Bent’s commentaries about Phanerothyme especially are probably due to the fact that it is an album full of songs very hard to reproduce on stage to the band’s satisfaction. Really a studio effort. Besides that the massive touring betwenn 2000 and 2002 took its toll on the band, so I understand this period is not always regarded highly by them. Still there’s always some of material from this period represented in recent setlists.

                    Johnny_Heartfield
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                      Yep – Manzarek rhythm in the solo part. Though I rather think of his instrumental part in “Light my fire”.

                      @ shakti: Love it or hate it – but MP have developed a mastery of “pastiche” songs over the years. “Barracuda” is full of them, and there are several on the much loved and much hated “pop” trilogy.

                      Johnny_Heartfield
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                        Love Cult has “The Mirror and the Lie”, which alone makes it great. The bass riff (or is it guitar?) in the calm middle part is a forerunner to an obviously derived tune on “Gullible’s travails”. For me no weak track on the album – well, yes, “Serpentine” probably ;-)

                        And LTEC Side 2? “Whip That Ghost”, “Stained Glass”, even “30/30” – great tracks!

                        Therefore for me there are three best of three between 2000 and 2002 – or out of four, if you count “Barracuda” in, which isn’t bad itself.

                        in reply to: 2025 Live #44557
                        Johnny_Heartfield
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                          @ Joecoco: Hamburg is on the way.

                          in reply to: 2025 Live #44545
                          Johnny_Heartfield
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                            There was certainly some Roadwork worthy material played on this tour. I just started my annual post-tour review listening to some tunes from Faust Hannover – the sequence “Song for a Bro” – “Sentinels” and “Spin x 3” is really good. They’d have to overdub the vocals in the studio once again though ;-)

                            I’ll happily wait for Bent’s decisions looking forward for another volume of the massive RW series…

                            Cheers, Johnny H.

                            in reply to: 2025 Live #44541
                            Johnny_Heartfield
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                              Joecoco’s doing a great job uploading all those DIME recordings of the tour to the archive site.
                              BTW: Are there any recordings of LEUVEN 01 May in preparation?
                              Any filming of that show by Bernie?

                              Thanks for information!

                              in reply to: 2025 Live #44516
                              Johnny_Heartfield
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                                @ Joecoco

                                If you like to help with archive uploads from the recent tour, I can send you one or two of the recent shows from dime. Would need your e-mail address though. Mail me at christof.koehler [at] gmx.de

                                in reply to: 2025 Live #44513
                                Johnny_Heartfield
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                                  As posting on archive.org has turned out to be a complicated and slow affair, the usual distributors continue on dime and leave it to all the others, i.e. us, to upload the stuff on archive. If you want to see Motorpsycho up there, feel free to contribute.
                                  Because of all the alledged shortcomings of the archive upload we will need a lot of people to do the work together. The material once upped, the advantages of archive.org are obvious. But right now not yet a place for easy grabbing…

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