CAN....S and D?

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

Surely Irmin and the BBC can get together and work out a way to release all of the Can sessions - whether for Annie Nightingale or Peel - AND the In Concert sessions(!), I think there's two of those at least.

Liberate the Can sessions!

LL check yr email!

Thank you sleeve!! I finally have it! That super long first track is going to be my timer for getting ready for work :)

it's a damn shame video of their 1974 performance on the Old Grey Whistle Test no longer survives... i have a hold-the-tape-deck-up-to-the-tv audio tape of the track they played ("untitled (for pink floyd)") and it's very good indeed

lol that scared me -- thank god tthis one with Michael Karoli looking like Garth Brooks/Irmin in a metal vest is still there! I had to check to see if one of my favorite youtube was gone and phew it's not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVHDKs-AgB0

the video is so high quality too, i love this one

here, this is the one i'm talking about

https://www.sendspace.com/file/qh3qo1

thx Kate!

oh my god that Vernal Equinox video. Jaki is just unreal, how do you play that way for 8 straight minutes? and what's with the camera holding on Irmin while Karoli is shredding?

can't unsee the Garth Brooks thing. oh well. I guess it's not the worst fate.

what are the high quality Can bootlegs? the officially released live set has pretty dodgy sound quality. Peel Session is obviously good and well-recorded. A lot of the other ones I've got just don't sound great.

There's an awesome live version of Spoon on the Lost Tapes that starts off with a lot of audience clapping and the most satisfied-sounding "yeah" ...ever?
It's at 1:09 -- ignore the video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV-w9Aachg4

I got a Jackson Browne vibe from Karoli, looks-wise. Even the shirt looks like something Browne would have worn back then.

(xp) They could at least have given Holger time to get dressed when they woke him up in the morning.

I just heard this brilliant peel session for the first time:

https://youtu.be/n1IcQ9ulUCA

Am I crazy or are there parts in the second song where it sounds like two different drummers playing along? Specifically 10:40 onwards. Did they used an extra percussionist around the time? There’s so much going on that I’m having a hard time separating the drums apart to identify if it’s actually possible to play with only two arms.

hmm, to my ears at that time stamp, a modular synth patch is introduced which at first sounds "clicky" (low-/zero-attack AREG), but then the low-pass filter is tweaked to sound more like swelling wind or surf.

the clicking sound does sound percussive (like tight beats on a high-hat) but you can hear that sound color from that channel start shifting soon after.

I've got that on CD but I've ever noticed that bit before, maybe there's something wrong with the audio. By the way, people outside the UK tend to make the mistake of assuming that Peel Sessions were necessarily recorded live, in fact they were just studio sessions that were to be completed in one day, so you could overdub to your heart's content if you were quick and knew what you wanted to do. Can probably did play live though.

posted this to facebook last week:

You ever like a song so much you wish it never ended and you just start playing it over and over again? I was going through that with Can's Oh Yeah, a perennial favorite, and was also curious about how it sounded backwards, because a lot of the guitar and half of the vocals are recorded backwards. So I made a version called Yeah Oh Yeah. It's Oh Yeah forwards, then On Yeah backwards, then Oh Yeah forwards but run through an Eventide H910 plug-in and some EQ, then it's Oh Yeah forwards while Oh Yeah backwards plays at the same time slightly quieter and panned a bit, aligned so the transition between forwards and backwards happens at about the same time, followed by Oh Yeah forwards again. It's 36 minutes long and can be found here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/m4fl1x6t6g905vp/yeah%20oh%20yeah.mp3?dl=0

Oooh yeah! Relevant to my interests, thanks for sharing/posting!!

Oh No

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(in a DJing context, I should've specified, haha)