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Just watching Glocksee 97 – excellent gig! One of the best versions of STG I know. Great Vortex Surfer. Great singing by both Bent and Snah. Brilliant sound – a real gem. Thanx Bernie, Thanx MP.
@ Bernie: btw. – have you received the material from Herzberg 2011 in the meantime? I have reminded the authors several times. The legal restrictions they underwent then with MP mamagement regarding publication of the video should now be obsolote with Bent's call for material and you publishing it on MP's behalf.
@shakti: Absolutely agree, the 40+ mins of STG>VS>Chien>Manmower is out of this world
Motorpsycho VHS Archive #1
1997-05-04 | Hannover (DE)
***.. | Superstooge
***.. | Sinful, Windborne
**… | Like Always
***** | S.T.G.
****. | Vortex Surfer
****. | Un Chien d’Espace
****. | Manmower
***** | Sideway Spiral II
****. | Dr. Hoffman’s Bicycle
***** | You Lied
***** | Heartattack Mac (inc. Rocket USA)
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***.. | Summertime Blues
****. | Starmelt/Lovelight
***** | Sterling Says
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**… | Flick Of The Switch
Thank you so so much, Bernie! What a fantastic way to kick off the VHS Archive! The spring-leg of the AADAP-tour is amazing, and to have a quality recording like this of a complete show is such a gift.
The start is solid, if not slightly tentative, but the quality of the recording makes it a superb watch/listen. Great camerawork, top notch editing, and the mix is so engaging! Surprisingly balanced, all the while being raw and exciting to boot. It has an analogue "melt"-quality to it. The guitars really sound like God. Just magical! Nice to see an embryonic "Superstooge", but the first highlight is a GREAT "S.T.G." with a lovely psych-outro. Also: That moment when Bent screams "Trust in me, I’ll change your destiny"…!! Wonderful to see people being exposed to a fairly finished VS for the very first time too, and a superb move to follow that with Un Chien. Love the mid-part. A great, swirling meditation. Free and open. It sounds sooo good! A BEAUTIFUL "Manmower" follows. Really powerful, and it has that spooky magic that gives it an extra edge. And then, YES, "Sideway Spiral II", which I love so much! This version really does it for me! Dat sound…!!! Mmmmm! Huge highlight, and Geb is awesome here! Now, "Dr. Hoffman’s Bicycle" is maybe not much of a song, but they hit it with so much force here, it reaches some great peaks. Love the melodic outro. But they still save an extra gear for the next, though. This "You Lied" is IT. THE version. One giant wave of energy, that while being great on its own, also totally ignites what follows, which is a MAJESTIC "Heartattack Mac". This is where things get truly psychotic, and they really reach the golden core here. The energy is through the roof. Fantastic vocals from Snah too, and Bent goes all the way into psychoverse during his Rocket USA-part.
They come back for a nice Who-take on "Summertime Blues" (complete with a windmill from Bent), and a beautiful "Starmelt/Lovelight", which has some guitar-drop-outs in the recording, but no big deal. Great Snah-vox! Then comes a real treat. "Sterling Says"! Fuck yes!! Wonderfully chaotic, and has a noise-out on par with "Heartattack Mac" to boot. Super cool "White Light/White Heat"-type climax! Sterling would be very pleased.
"Flick Of The Switch" is something of an anti-climatic ending, and is along with "Like Always" the only two middle-of-the-road-moments during this gig imho. But that doesn’t take away from the overall experience here. It’s like when McCartney said "Fuck off, it's the Beatles' White Album." – this a multi-cam club-show from May ’97 with soundboard audio! Blessalujah!
This was filmed early in May, and the tour just got crazier as it went along with many of their all-time best setlists imho (particularly May 22 – Rimini, May 24 – Mezzago, May 29 – Vera, and the best one of the tour: June 1 – Eindhoven), and on top of that they introduced "Swiss Cheese Mountain", which was originally a stoner-masterpiece on par with "On The Toad Again" and "Home Of The Brave". My dream is that there is a ’97 recording of that which will magically turn up on a Trust Us deluxe…
Anyways: Thanks again, and looking much forward to future archive shows!
casually I have found another xmas gift
Motorpsycho – 2001-10-15 – Berlin, Casino
Snafu
Go To California
Walking With J.
All Is Loneliness
Landslide
Hey, Jane
Neverland
She Used To Be A Twin
Sideway Spiral III
Bedroom Eyes
As We Go Along
Big Surprise
Sunnyboy Gaybar
Trapdoor
Song For A Bro'
Superstooge/Tristano
Star, Star, Star
The Other Fool
Young Man Blues
When You're Dead
second show is up…merry new year https://vimeo.com/377593365
@Phoots Flower, no the link is dead at the moment – hopefully very temporary.
Thanks for the link to the '01-show too. I'm always up for a Superstooge > Tristano!
I'm the camera operator of the Berlino show. The video was then edited by Ingo Seufer that mixed my video with a better audio source. He is now editing the credits of the video and so on.
Back in fall 2001 I was following the band from Italy to Germany and back and the Berlino show was an absolute highlight, a huge 70' fest! The audience was incredibily "hot".
From that tour I have also filmed the Treviso (9/10/2001) and Bielefeld (17/10/2001) shows. After almost 20 years I still have the miniDV original cassette here to be transferred and edited so if someone is interested I can send them.
to traktorbass: yes, in that tour trapdoor was always played like that, I loved that version
@Elnibi : Id love to get the original DV tapes of those shows and see If I can improve them. I have the VHS copies of those 3 shows you sent to the band and was gonna post them soon
…but if you have the original that would be better. Please drop me a note if youre interested at ffbernie@gmail.com…thanks x Bernie
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