CAN....S and D?

not to derail the thread but congrats on babby bg!

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.

I've got the Pascal Bussy book, it's fairly skimpy.

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.

(babby’s not here quite yet btw, just been busy prepping! thx anyway nick :D)

It's a bit like the Wire book on SAF being comprehensively superseded by that other Wire published a couple of years ago.

other Wire book, that should read.

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.

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 :)

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.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/may/31/i-grew-up-in-total-ruins-irmin-schmidt-of-can-on-lsd-mourning-and-musical-adventures

xps yeah i found the bussy book to be disappointingly lightweight.

Has some good quotes in it, mostly from Jaki.

More from Irmin:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b3fkx3

quick update, is Oh Yeah the greatest song ever recorded why yes it is

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.

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.

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.

I heard "Tupelo" ont' radio the other day, and Oh Yeah I agree.

Not hearing the resemblance but, goodness, I can't imagine listening to early Nick Cave anymore.

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>"

one more night
mom sky
oh yeah
future days
butterfly

imo

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.

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 guy
Sitting alone over there
Pisses from atop rainbows
We call him our pimp
We leave the LSD town
And fearing hungry ghosts
We take it as a lucky thing
That morning still won’t come"

https://youtu.be/EhNFtoY4nNo

lmao who the hell I didn't even recognize what song that was at first

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.

doesn't make up for years and years of "REAL PEOPLE NOT ACTORS" featuring beardo egg thrower but its a start

mmm, quite contrary that one...

I saw that one this weekend, bit strange to hear Donny & Marie mixed with Can, but there you go.

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

new dn

They didn't specify the country or the kind of rock and roll tbf.

"I'm a little bit Krautrock, I'm a little bit NoizeMetallll"

Hahaha brilliant

CAN On The Whistle Test!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEoaIuDB5Nc

Apparently the synch goes wonky partway in before correcting about halfway into the ep.

Rosko Gee and Reebop playing with Jim Capaldi, I see.

And not with Can!

i've probably mentioned this before, but i'm pretty sad that the video of their 1974 ogwt performance where they played "untitled (for pink floyd)" has been wiped. there's pretty decent off-air audio, and for my money winter '74 was can's peak as a live band.

when i first saw that vernal equinox clip it blew my mind that they were faithfully playing what i had assumed was a track relying on some degree of studio wizardry.

add to search: the peel sessions - "Up the Bakerloo Line w/Annie" sounds like an acid trip. in a good way

Just noticed this cool exchange on YouTube which explains the title of this track:

Gus Cairns
2 years ago (edited)
I named this track. True. Peel held a competition to give this track a title, and I suggested "12 weeks on the Bakerloo line with Anne Nightingale" (based on a joke Peel had made). I received a copy of Ege Bamyasi in the post, and a handwritten letter from Peel, *which I lost*. It was officially the Day I Became Cool at School.

Annie Nightingale
2 years ago
this is one of my proudest moments...perhaps! Maybe the reference to me was a piss take, which I don't mind at all. Can you remember the joke John Peel made? I don't mind if its uncomplimentary, i met Can some tears later, which was great. Its a bit of history here, so would like to hear the real authentic story. thanks annie n

Gus Cairns
2 years ago
I'm honoured to attract a reply from a living national treasure! I think JP suggested a few titles of his own, one of which was something like "A trip on the Bakerloo with Annie Nightingale and then back again without her" and I just embroidered it a little.

Annie Nightingale
2 years ago
ah, so there was some customary wit from Peel over this, I am glad to know. You know he was sometimes referred to as a 'national institution', which he did not appreciate --'makes me sound like an old building covered in ivy''. was his comment..... thanks so much for your reply Gus.

So there you go!

itt: ground-breaking historiography

aw that's sweet
now i wanna hear from Deadly Doris!

awesome

also,the Peel Sessions totally rule, why they have never been reissued baffles me

Listened to them today, twice, Jaki is absolutely off the scale on the track we're discussing.

They recorded a very similar jam called Up The Bakerloo *for* Annie Nightingale (supposedly) broadcast originally on March 16th 1972, that Peel session being a year later. Is that right, and wouldn't that explain the name?

You saying this Gus Cairns guy is a liar? Actually the BBC site has the title of the track recorded for Peel in February 1973 as "Spare a Light". To confuse matters further, I've just seen a claim that the track "Up the Bakerloo" on the Peel Sessions CD is the one recorded in March 1972 not the track recorded in February 1973. So is it possible the track was indeed recorded on March 16th, 1972, for Top Gear, which, that particular night, happened to be hosted by Annie Nightingale - who was standing in for the regular host, John Peel? And was it perhaps untitled until the returning Peel suggested listeners write in to suggest a title? The only problem with that is Mr Cairns says he was sent a copy of "Ege Bamyasi" as a prize - and that wasn't released till November 1972. Send for Columbo.

Anyway, it seems the Peel Sessions CD was not approved by the band, so that's why it's never been reissued.

i reviewed it for the wire so i win

i would like to hear this peel session