i'm almost certain it's two "books" bound as one volume
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 23:01 (six years ago) link
also thanks to everybody in this thread for the great links etc. this past week
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 23:06 (six years ago) link
too much flute around for me personally. what's that other really early david johnson era recording they did? prehistoric future?
― Arnold Schoenberg Steals (rushomancy), Thursday, January 18, 2018 11:02 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah and it rules. super blown-out and messy, sort of on that early amon düül vibe
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 23:09 (six years ago) link
http://fabersocial.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2018/01/CAN-Credit-Hildegard-Schmidt.jpg
<3
Yeah that Kamasutra thing was super great. Prehistoric Future was more like ‘inspiring and important to hear but might not listen again’.
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 13:30 (six years ago) link
an advance review copy of ALL GATES OPEN landed in my loving arms thanks to a partner who works at a place where books are reviewed i'm about 60 pages in, enjoying immensely so far.
reading about the early days of the formation of the group is especially interesting. i also did not know that irmin schmidt was inspired by the stomp of early music for some of the early Can tracks. he said "a lot of this music had an unbelievable rhythm; the people sang hard, so that they yelled it out" that's right!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 1 April 2018 14:14 (five years ago) link
Looking forward to that, official release is 3rd May & there's a talk tour tied in with the release around tehn so coming up fast. There's a date i Dublin I noticed earlier.
Would still love a copy of the old Can Book by Pascal Bussy
― Stevolende, Sunday, 1 April 2018 14:20 (five years ago) link
This book really delivers! Is anyone else reading it yet? There is a very detailed description of how Mother Sky was made that I personally have never read before and found illuminating.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 14:11 (five years ago) link
Didn't know it was out tbh.
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 14:21 (five years ago) link
(xp) Let me guess, the end section is a tape loop? (Mother Sky that is, not the book).
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 14:22 (five years ago) link
Nothing about a tape loop so far -- Irmin shuttled back and forth from where the filmmakers were and decided on cues, structure, mood and then he went back to Inner Space/the castle and explained to the band what they should do. I loled when I read that the band wasn't interested in the details of the movie anyway. Jaki confirmed this process and said "we simply made the music and it always fit." I am enjoying this book so much.
you can read about the book here https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/07/all-gates-open-story-of-can-rob-young-irmin-schmidt-review
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 14:30 (five years ago) link
my copy arrived a couple of weeks ago and has been sitting on my desk taunting me ever sincepicked a bad time to have a baby tbh, i should have thought ahead
― i am fast and full of teeth. i willl die in a barn fire (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 15:23 (five years ago) link
not to derail the thread but congrats on babby bg!
― Toto Cuomo (NickB), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 15:32 (five years ago) link
Am at Soon Over Babaluma so far. been interesting. Shame Damo didn't want to be interviewed especially if he did go and get interviewed by Mojo right around the time the book was released.
Enjoying it, would still really like to read the Pascal bussy book. Not sure why I never got around to getting it. Found out it came out in '89 through SAF so wondering if I at least got to look at it.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 15:33 (five years ago) link
I've got the Pascal Bussy book, it's fairly skimpy.
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 15:36 (five years ago) link
Oh right. I've been building it up on my head since it was supposed to be being reissued about 10 years ago. Possibly because it was the book on Can.I guess i have what I need now then.Or would do if i get all the visual footage as well as the rest of the audio.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 15:41 (five years ago) link
(babby’s not here quite yet btw, just been busy prepping! thx anyway nick :D)
― i am fast and full of teeth. i willl die in a barn fire (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 15:43 (five years ago) link
It's a bit like the Wire book on SAF being comprehensively superseded by that other Wire published a couple of years ago.
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 15:44 (five years ago) link
other Wire book, that should read.
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 15:49 (five years ago) link
Yeah still need to read that too. But wasn't the older Wire one getting slagged before the newer one appeared somewhat or am i thinking of a 3rd Wire book.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 16:02 (five years ago) link
i am glad i waited to read this book! it's got everything i wanted to know about so far. the guardian review complains that it doesn't get far enough into the other "personalities" of the band members, but that hasn't bothered me so far. not only do some people prefer to keep their professional and personal lives separate, not everyone wants to know that stuff. i think it's fine the way it is. his complaints about Rob Young's florid descriptions are otm if you dislike florid description but apparently i like it!
congrats on your babby, the book will still be there when you're ready :)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 16:10 (five years ago) link
i am enjoying Irmin's contributions specifically. even if he is biased because he is Irmin Schmidt, it's always good to get a firsthand recollection of process and intention. at least i am enjoying that.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/may/31/i-grew-up-in-total-ruins-irmin-schmidt-of-can-on-lsd-mourning-and-musical-adventures
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Friday, 1 June 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
xps yeah i found the bussy book to be disappointingly lightweight.
― visiting, Friday, 1 June 2018 18:30 (five years ago) link
Has some good quotes in it, mostly from Jaki.
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Friday, 1 June 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link
More from Irmin:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b3fkx3
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Friday, 1 June 2018 19:13 (five years ago) link
quick update, is Oh Yeah the greatest song ever recorded why yes it is
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Friday, 8 June 2018 10:14 (five years ago) link
Is that the one that's based on Bix Beiderbecke or is it "Mushroom"? Started reading this, I'm up to "Ege Bamyasi". A lot of it I already knew and I've read a lot of the quotes before but there's some great stuff, particularly on Malcolm Mooney, and what about Stockhausen's letter to the newspapers to try to prevent Damo being deported - nice one KH! One quibble is I find Rob Young's opinions on the music very predictable and canonical, there's a lot of 'the longer the song is the more important it is' going on so far.
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Friday, 8 June 2018 10:31 (five years ago) link
I dug out "Unlimited Edition" a couple of days ago, and I have to say it's mostly alright. I recant my postings from Can - finally remastered onwards, but I will add that the 'the longer the song is the more important it is received wisdom does not apply to this one.
― Mark G, Friday, 8 June 2018 11:16 (five years ago) link
Oh Yeah is the greatest song ever recorded. It's the track that cracked this band for me, after much effort with Ege Bamyasi that wasn't clicking. I eventually realized I was primed to be struck by Oh Yeah because for a long while Nick Cave's Tupelo was the greatest song ever recorded, and it's sort of Oh Yeah with a whole lot of words on top.
― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Friday, 8 June 2018 11:17 (five years ago) link
I heard "Tupelo" ont' radio the other day, and Oh Yeah I agree.
― Mark G, Friday, 8 June 2018 11:18 (five years ago) link
Not hearing the resemblance but, goodness, I can't imagine listening to early Nick Cave anymore.
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Friday, 8 June 2018 11:23 (five years ago) link
what about Stockhausen's letter to the newspapers to try to prevent Damo being deported - nice one KH!Yes! My favorite line was "Society dearly needs birds like these>"
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 8 June 2018 13:13 (five years ago) link
one more nightmom skyoh yeahfuture daysbutterfly
imo
― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Friday, 8 June 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
Oh Yeah is def the greatest song ever recorded, and it's surprising that I love it so much since I usually don't like things where like, half of it is backwards.
― dan selzer, Friday, 8 June 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
I often think of Karoli's guitar solo as he's de-tuning his guitar circa 2:30 of "Oh Yeah" before Damo switches to Japanese:
ひとりでそこに座ってる頭のイカレた奴虹の上から小便我らがヒモと呼ぶLSDの街から離れ餓鬼を怖れ朝がまだこないのを幸いなことに
"The crazy guySitting alone over therePisses from atop rainbowsWe call him our pimpWe leave the LSD townAnd fearing hungry ghostsWe take it as a lucky thingThat morning still won’t come"
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 8 June 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
https://youtu.be/EhNFtoY4nNo
― L'assie (Euler), Thursday, 10 January 2019 13:52 (five years ago) link
lmao who the hell I didn't even recognize what song that was at first
― frogbs, Thursday, 10 January 2019 14:21 (five years ago) link
I've known a few people in music licensing in my time and they can be crate-digging types that are routinely beaten back by the brand's desire for Sigur Ros or Pomplamoose type shit, whoever got this through the gate, I take my hat off to you.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 10 January 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link
doesn't make up for years and years of "REAL PEOPLE NOT ACTORS" featuring beardo egg thrower but its a start
― frogbs, Thursday, 10 January 2019 14:45 (five years ago) link
mmm, quite contrary that one...
― Mark G, Thursday, 10 January 2019 14:49 (five years ago) link
I saw that one this weekend, bit strange to hear Donny & Marie mixed with Can, but there you go.
― earlnash, Friday, 11 January 2019 01:18 (five years ago) link
― MaresNest
new dn
― Sigur Ros or Pomplamoose type shit (rushomancy), Friday, 11 January 2019 01:23 (five years ago) link
They didn't specify the country or the kind of rock and roll tbf.
― Never Turn Your Back On Virginia Woolf (Tom D.), Friday, 11 January 2019 09:52 (five years ago) link
"I'm a little bit Krautrock, I'm a little bit NoizeMetallll"
― Mark G, Friday, 11 January 2019 11:18 (five years ago) link
Hahaha brilliant
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 11 January 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link
CAN On The Whistle Test!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEoaIuDB5Nc
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 04:10 (five years ago) link
Apparently the synch goes wonky partway in before correcting about halfway into the ep.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 04:25 (five years ago) link
Rosko Gee and Reebop playing with Jim Capaldi, I see.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 09:33 (five years ago) link
And not with Can!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 12:34 (five years ago) link