CAN....S and D?

Are these the same versions that are on Live 71-77?

drum break on Brighton Zwei is my reason to live at the moment - the funk heart of Bel Air

The Brighton set gets to the point more immediately, I think - it’s crunchier, longer.

And the crowd noise is an important ingredient. If you’re in public listening through earbuds or headphones it can trick you a little.

Any thoughts on what the themes for the artwork of the Live 1975 releases may be based on? Stuttgart/butterflies, Brighton/submarine..

Next live archival release announced

https://canofficial.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-cuxhaven-1976

One LP (and CD version) this time!

Sounds good, mind!

yessssss

I love the first two releases in this series but I'm also very, very cool with it being a single LP.

did the bootlegger capture anything from the Damo era?

celebrating this news by smoking weed and listening to can

👍🏽

did the bootlegger capture anything from the Damo era?

I gather this one didn't, based on past interviews.

love this stuff, can't get enough.

loved stuttgart
still need to get around to ordering Brighton

Was lucky enough to get a promo just now -- certainly quick, just half an hour long as noted, but four good jams, just being their exploratory selves.

any recognizable bits? (maybe with a spoiler tag?)

definitely some "bel air" in here

listening to Saw Delight for the first time in like, a decade. I forgot how much Sunshine Day and Night made me smile. Call Me is a great tune too. It sounds like Mooney-era Can, but on uppers instead of downers. Fly By Night is so damn fun too. I actually think it's an interesting take on funk. Because they aren't quite a funk band like that. With some of these grooves it sounds like it's their first time playing them, but they're total pros so they get it right anyway.

and the drumming on "Animal Waves"! Wicked. imagine if you could isolate that.

It's the first of their albums I ever heard and I still love it, massively underrated

That's my feeling about Flow Motion

New live album coming out Aston 1977

Yep, and into the Rosko Gee era! The sample track sounds really good, I'm glad this series is still marching forward.

https://canofficial.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-aston-1977

very nice, I was wondering if we'd get some later period shows

The artwork for this series is so awful, I do not understand it!

The artwork for this series is so awful, I do not understand it!

I don't know, I actually like it.

I'd heard from someone that Aston was coming in May and one from Keele University was coming in August. I guess he must've had an inside source. Keele I believe is the Fizz show which is really excellent and well-recorded. it was also recorded two days from this show so the Aston album (which looks like a single LP?) might be superfluous soon. whatever, I'll probably buy it anyway

i like the artwork too

Can is one of the greats and I’m never going to complain about getting more live material at all but for some reason none of them have hit like Brighton for me and I don’t know if that’s because that was the first one so it was new and exciting and I put a lot of time into listening to it or if I just actually like that one more than all the rest on a purely musical level.

In other words it feels like a case of the latter but I could be blinded by it actually being a case of the former.

Stuttgart is the first one, and I kinda agree the next two were kinda superfluous after that. Paris is different though and I suspect the next two will be as well

Goddammit Stuttgart is the one I meant and the only one I have a physical copy of.

Paris is great, it’s probably my favorite right now (probably because I was listening to it just the other day. Catch me on another day and I might pick a different one ).

just picked up Paris a week ago and that definitely hit the sweet spot.

I realized I haven't listened to it so far, so I have it on now

Is this a double album? The bootleg of this gig lasts 78 minutes.

... or do we have another Cuxhaven on our hands?

I suspect that will be the case yes, only the 1st four tracks. 4th track of the boot = Dizzy Dizzy = 4th track here as well.

So probably going to miss the last 3 tracks (sunshine, I want more, kami kazi attempt)

Wish I knew what drove the decision to cut some of these down, I'm not sure I understand the arbitrary choices to shave some down.

total madness

could be something with the boots themselves - I don't think this is sourced from the same recording. the drums sound quite different to me, as though this bootlegger got a lot closer. could also be something with the vinyl release, like maybe they didn't have the capacity to do a double, though maybe not because the Brighton release probably didn't need to be a triple...its 90 minutes but they could've easily cut out some of the second half where it's just dead space between sets. curious how the next one will be handled, if indeed that is the Fizz recording they should just use the version that was played on the radio, since it was recorded really well.

it is pretty maddening though, I don't really need another version of "Dizzy Dizzy" but would love "Sunshine Day and Night", one of my favorite tracks of the Rosko/Reebop era

Listening to Aston rn and it’s like absolute pure ambrosia to my ears. Like seeing inside the mind of Jaki in a less confrontational atmosphere than previous live releases I’ve heard. Loving it, want to be Can 77 for Halloween this year.

I went straight from Aston back to the copy of Miles Davis' Agharta I'm ripping, and damn I know it's been compared before but they were really on the same wavelength for a while in the 70s

Good call, sleeve! I can totally hear that connection.

This might be my favorite of these Can reissues (and that’s not something I’ve said about every one of them)

I am, I think, totally unfamiliar with the Rosko era, it's definitely a different vibe

One of the best things about this series is the song numbering, disassociating the riffs from the original song settings. It’s made me listen in a different way, hearing them as self-sufficient material, rather than live variations on familiar songs. (Even if many of those studio songs were also somewhat arbitrary captures of ever-evolving ideas )