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And well done, Francesco! If I’m not wrong, you’ve been at the front of every show this tour, and you have posted setlists minutes after the end of each show. We met briefly before the Haugesund show; I’m glad you made it to the end.
After the penultimate gig of this run in Dresden the previous night, which the band celebrated with an exceptionally emotional social media post as “the bomb” and a “gift”, they wrap up the tour with the only three hour show of this tour at Bremen’s Schlachthof, one of their old haunts.
They take the stage visibly reinvigorated, particularly Bent is very animated and into it. The gig opens with a free form jam which the setlist calls “Gong” because Olaf employs the giant instrument behind him. At the end of night they would reprise this jam-with-a-gong during the last fading moments of “Fool’s Gold”, neatly framing tonight’s motopsychdelic journey.
Once the concert gets properly underway it doesn’t take long for the psychonaut typing this to notice that the band is much more together than in the beginning of the tour. Everything gels, they are tighter, Olaf’s sound is fatter, they nail every tune.
This is a well rounded and well balanced set giving us psychedelic rock and tender acoustic music followed by even deeper space rock before the songy and heavy songs, grouped together and only seperated by the breather “Patterns”, bring the house down thus appropriately closing the main set.
The big news is of course the tour debut of “Superstooge”. It’s an insanely energetic version, they simply slay it, a noisy and piercing deconstruction for two guitars, by miles the most jawdropping moment of the night. Other highlights included a relaxed and patient “Song for a bro” with a crystalline solo towards the end, a perfect reading of “Lucifer” and 14 groovy minutes of “Lacuna” (totally different from the dark exploration of the Hamburg version three weeks earlier). “Kill Some Day” is a powerful version (not considering the final vocals though), “Sinful Windborne” grooves and “Hyena” makes a big showy appearance with its irresistibly catchy chorus. “Neotzar”, the third Tzar of the night, a giant rugged chunk of unadulterated motorpsychodelia, appears as first encore while “Fool”s Gold” is a rare second encore, preceded by a little thank-you-speech by Bent and a long and tight hug between Bent and Reine.
What a fun tour finale: Long, engaging and satisfying, performed by a band who has worked hard night after night to make it work and who succeeded to deliver the magic we all crave. Thank you, Motorpsycho!
I was in Schorndorf – with my 19 years old son Bent.
All good things come to those who wait.
Quote Bill Graham, on Grateful Dead New Year’s Eve.You might will relieve the unique electric spheres from the nthe westcoast spaces from the deltas of the fjords…
And OFF course, this is the one. F**ing great venue, and as both Bielefeld and Bremen love the band, it’s a give an take.
Tusen Takk. Fantastic music played on this tour.
But I still hope they never play ROCK AM RING as HEADLINER…LOL…
@melanzani @stereosofa
My Bent has just turned 18. I have not been able to convince him to join me at a MP concert yet, but one day I will for sure. How about a Bent meeting with all the Bents. And Bent.
Didn’t Bent say something like
“This is the last show of this tour and you saw everyone of them!” directed at Francesco?
He also shook a hand in the front row.The dedication doesn’t go unnoticed by the band.
Is there a recording?
If so can somebody share it to me outside of dime?.My account was somehow lost the second time and I lost all my ratio.(BTW I get the community thing of Dime and other torrents, but from a practical standpoint torrents seem to me like the fax machine of the Internet. For small bands there are hardly any seeders, Internet speeds are high, storage space easily available.)
…yes, here are 2 different recordings available:
https://archive.org/details/mp2025-05-17
(Tomcat/Wulf)
and
https://archive.org/details/mp2025-05-17.TOA
(The Other Anders)…enjoy!
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