CAN....S and D?

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

Oh wow, what kind of bathroom break to end all bathroom breaks hath now been unleashedehsaelun neeb won htah skaerb moorhtab lla dne ot kaerb moorhtab fo dnik tahw ,wow hO

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

Well trans Europe express has long been many DJ’s bathroom break record. Always good to go to the Germans for such uses.

https://i.pinimg.com/600x315/ca/a3/05/caa3056ec0056def2fbdb1a6d7ce6a12.jpg

OMG, somebody with more skillz than me please retouch the kool aid man to look like Damo.

Kalling Karl Malone to thread.

Yesssss.
this is sounding great. I like that Damo sounds like he's backwards regardless of whether he's actually backwards. How did he do it!

the moment in Oh Yeah when the bass really kicks in, like 2 minutes into it, is really one of my favorite moments ever

last night I listened to the Singles comp, such a strange way to listen to Can's catalogue especially since the concept forces it to kick off with one of their worst tracks (IMO) in "Soul Desert". and it kinda misses everything that's really great about the band, no "Mother Sky", only 3 minutes of "Halleluwah" and "Future Days", no "Bel Air", etc. but it's still a fun listen. ending with "Can Can" and "Hoolah Hoolah" is pretty hilarious, actually. the "Hoolah Hoolah" remix samples a few of their old songs, it's bonkers

Agree — that singles Comp is very weird as an introduction to Can. I’ve got a huge soft spot for “Can Can” though

The comp does have “turtles have short legs” and it’s a ridiculous song that also kicks ass and it’s not available in any of the albums or previous comps iirc.

Seriously if that song was on Tago Mago or Ege Bamyasi (would fit better in the second imho) it would make a 10/10 album a 11/10. It’s one of my favorite Can songs with Damo.

i don't care if he is a moose, i ain't taking no driving lessons from someone named "mooselini"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6KR16f6hAE

lol every time I hear Turtles I sing that in my head

Do you know why we stopped the car
Do I know why we stopped the car

Cherry Red released Turtles as a 12" with Moonshake and One More Night. That's the version I have. Not sure what the story was in 1983 when they did that, but thank god.

https://www.discogs.com/Can-Moonshake/release/401665

Compiled by Epic Soundtracks! That's cool.

Yes, I've got that. Different mix or edit of "Turtles" I think?

yeah I think there's two edits of it, one of them (I think the original single version?) has this weird false start with Damo & more of a stereo mix. the one on Radio Waves is diffa bit more flat but probably sounds better

High Tyler, good to see you've still got info and links re Can w Tim Hardin and other passing voices, although the Tim Can youtube vid has been removed---yall check https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/search/Tim%20Hardin%20Can

(xp) There's definitely something weird about one of the versions, there's a strange edit - and I've got a feeling it's the one on the Singles comp. Though that might be because I was familiar with the earlier version.

if you google around you should be able to find the can / tim hardin thing elsewhere xp

so I just went ahead and tried to retouch a damo suzuki kool aid man and uh, I think Adobe is cancelling my creative cloud subscription.

maybe i'll try again.

I might be able to hook up an enterprise CC license if it helps

Turtles is core syllabus Can for me because for several years the only Can I owned was that moonshake 12”. You could read about Can a lot in 1986 but finding their records was another matter

I just meant they were cancelling it because of how terrible a job I did. I still have it, I spend 10 hrs a day in it.

Just remembered one of the shows I missed due to quarantine was Damo in a club earlier this month. Tickets were about to go on sale when everything hit.

lol

was curious what Damo was singing on "Deadlock", so I looked it up

When we fool didn't know how build the new room
You could choose too along the sunshine.
But then the smile and then the reefs just for chess and me,
Now you fools stand happy in the pan.
When the smile and tender leaves just for chess and me,
Now you fools must stand in the pan.
When we fool didn't know how build the new room
You could choose too along the sunshine.

oh, thanks for clearing that up, I guess

have "official" Can lyrics ever been published anywhere? did the other members of the band even know what they are?

not even sure what damo knew what they were tbf

From reading the book iirc like a lot of Damo's songs were made up on the spot, like spontanteous poetry more than conscious song lyrics

idk if other Can lyricists approached composing lyrics the same way but i remember reading that somewhere

i know this is stupid but the first time I heard "Halleluwah" the bit where he names the previous three tracks kinda blew my mind - "Mushroomhead, oh yeah, paper house"

haha yeah thats a cool moment

on many other racks it seems clear to me that hes often vocalizing sounds that correlate to words and parts of english language speech but are not themselves actual words

Part of that is because didn't speak English when he joined Can iirc. He was a tourist who overstayed his visa and joined a band while in Germany and that band happened to be Can :) There was even a part in the book where he had a deportation scare but he got out of it.

as told in the book, the individual sagas of both mooney and damo are truly amazing stories!

so why was he mimicking English and not German? because Mooney sang in English?

speaking of - it's recently occurred to me that "Peking O" is, in modern terms, 11 minutes of musical shitposting. I don't know what inspired that track, it almost seems like they were looking at what Zappa was doing and figured "we might as well make this funny"

Also worth noting that Damo was aged 20-23 during his tenure with the band.

so why was he mimicking English and not German? because Mooney sang in English?

Because rock bands sing in English I suppose?

He said he was into Deep Purple at the time he joined Can.

It’s possible those prior tracks weren’t named, per se, when he sang that and the repetition was part of the naming