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Just a few bits of subjective and irrelevant information:
The show must have been somewhat under 2:30 hours, at least it felt very short.
The crowd was very attentive and during Fool's Gold, everyone was seemed to be moved. For me, to date the most intimate performance of Fool's Gold I've witnessed.
Reine was unfortunately not very present in the mix, both with Mellotron and Guitar.
Tomas wore a T-Shirt saying "Listen to Switchmaster"
Talking about T-Shirts: Not available from the Webshop, but the Merchandise sold Kids' T-Shirts. At first I was delighted until I noticed that they come in either blue or pink. Seriously? In the 21st century? From a Scandinavian band?
@ supernaut: that's a gem! We need more blogs like this! Exposing fake news and falsehood by producing even more fake facts. Great approach! <irony off, intellectualism on>
That would then probably be called second-order fake news. Welcome to the meta-level;)
"the veils come off in the masquerade
the lies are worn, they've ceased to take
all the facts are fake"
I've always wondered how they could have sensed the fake news debate back in 2002.
Well, there was this one girl who had to seek shelter from being 'danced upon' between me and my boyfriend.
Looking back, I liked the winterthur show better than the Bern one, for the same reason as pj said. Reine is a helluva chameleon, stealthily fitting in and adding that little extra to the performance…
Nevertheless, I enjoyed Tomas' performance better in Bern
I was fully socialised in the Kenneth era, so it took me a while to adjust.
the Dachstock shows was like unleashing a three-headed rockmonster! Tight riffing with some lengthy drony parts, the latter particularly in the second half. In the jammy parts, however, it sometimes seemed to me that they didn't always find the thread.
So, all in all, the show was totally different from the Winterthur show, which was much more playful and the jams really reminded me of the mighty good old Dead. Also, the songs, were more "songy" yesterday, with clear ends, and much less seguing from one song / fragment into another.
In my eyes, and that is what I almost liked best about yesterday, Tomas got more stage presence yesterday, or at least he got more opportunity to showcase his versatility in the three piece formation. I wouldn't have wanted to have missed out either of these two shows.
Side remark: a bit of unrest in the crowd yesterday (bottles smashed on purpose, girls molested, bottle collectors elbowing their ways through), and more minor technical issues (like mike stands repeatedly needing to be adjusted and stuff) than what I've so far seen at MP shows. Also seemed that the stage sound in the beginning might not have been optimal.
I was really happy about the selection of "classics" they dug out for the show. super intense show, with some delicious jams (Reine does that Bob Weir thing in the jams really good) in the first half and then the real mean ones in the second half.
Erlangen it is. And maybe Zakk, Düsseldorf.
Hopefully more shows popping up between Erlangen and Rust?
I am totally with Supernaut – a tour without some Swiss Cheese Mountain Incident is only half a tour.
shhhh! don't wake up the sleeping beast
the question remains: what is that supposed to tell us? snah gonna leave the field to kristoffer?
Cool idea, thanks for the thread.
Ah, end is sad
And she said
Ash | Sin | Dead
Plus a few more morbid one's which I don't wanna post (don't want to call upon the self-fulfilling prophecy…)
A very brief report to all psychonauts who couldn´t make it:
The band was in a relaxed and very playful mood yesterday, lengthy and psychedelic jams. Charming venue (dome of a former gas tank) with an autonomous youth culture history ranging back to 1968, and still very much the feel of it. Good sound quality, quite young audience. The only Swiss show on tour; even though the venue was rather small, it was an excellent pick.
Oh, and as it was on the brink of the French part of Switzerland, nobody seemed to care about the smoke ban indoors…
bit more on the classic rock/blues side and currently not very active, but tons of videos, live shows plus 2 full studio albums for free download.
if you want to make it objective and stick to their albums (cause that seems what you want to measure, right?) then why dont do a small analysis of album reviews (lets say 3 per album or so) over the years counting for tags like "jam rock" "improvisation" "metal" "punk" "noise" or whatever?
to me the magic lies more in the live experience, less in the albums. there are bands with more coherent albums, especially in the psychedelic rock scene (to which i would broadly assing mp), more like concept albums, telling a story. of course count out the unicorn from that statement.
I really liked the double lead guitar parts,Reine and Snah improvising together. They perfectly contrasted in sound (Reine with that typical cold and itchy strat sound, Snah just warm and buttery) and what and how they played, without getting in each others ways. It was not this Deep Purple-like firing lines back and forth but more this communal westcoast noodling, made me think at some points even of Jerry/Bob, but with a mean and tight heavy riffing rhythm section backing them up. A truly enjoyable performance. Overall a lot of classic rock moments.
My Highlight was Satan>Fools Gold though. A real trip back into earlier albums, but with a kinda new feel to it.
anyone from zürich or surroundings going to bern tomorrow and being able to give me a ride back?I ll take over fuel costs for that one way, for sure!
@ supernaut: great you're posting a swiss band.. do you know those guys?
