{"id":4700,"date":"2021-12-21T18:04:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T18:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=4700"},"modified":"2022-12-18T12:02:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T12:02:49","slug":"music-can-live-soest-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=4700","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: Can, Live, Soest, 1970"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I wound up watching this this evening, prior to breaking out the \u2018new\u2019 Can CD that arrived from Amazon today, namely Live In Stuttgart, 1975<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I watched several other shorter live Can videos as well. It seems more such material is coming online. My last Can-fest, some years ago now, involved a lot of searching online, and didn\u2019t turn up some of these newer finds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two particularly groovy videos are Vitamin C, with Damo, and Moonshake, the latter sadly sans Suzuki, but still terrific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Karussell f\u00fcr die Jugend<\/em> indeed!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This concert was the longest that I watched. And I\u2019ll confess I skipped through a few segments. I will watch the whole thing at some point. But in truth I just wanted to \u2018prep\u2019 myself for listening to the newly arrived Stuttgart recordings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Track one at Soest is not a promising or auspicious beginning, to be perfectly honest. The guitar and bass DIY d out of tune. And it comes over as a somewhat punky Malcolm Mooney era type leftover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, to my delight and astonishment, this was immediately followed by Oh Yeah, which is stupendously groovy. Riding along on a signature Jaki Leibezeit groove, this one both motorik and jazzy simultaneously, the rest of the band provide haunting sonic sculptures, and Dani\u2019s singing brings the Can jamming into a song type focus. Sublime!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly, the initially baffled audience is gradually won over by the earnest intensity of the performance. Despite Can sporting the togs and hairstyles of their contemporary hipster crew, and, to a degree, the young audience, they play with a fairly self-contained unaffected manner. Only Suzuki, in his semi-shamanic frontman role, getting a bit wilder at times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shamanic loonbag Damo Suzuki, in full effect!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Holger Czukay is great to watch. Holding his bass at an unusual slanted angle, and clearly totally into the music. His head-nodding \u2018in the zone\u2019 mien perfectly encapsulates, for me, what this group and their music are all about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At some point in the set the band get the audience clapping, and from that point on the vibe in the room – at least as conveyed visually – has thawed from cold incomprehension to warm admiration, and a good deal of fairly abandoned enjoyment. Some guys are kind of \u2018freak-dancing\u2019, and even some of the chicks are digging it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Towards the end of the set they play another of my Suzuki era faves, Paperhouse. I\u2019m not sure, but I think this might be one of the old Can concerts that\u2019s part of a current wave of live Can reissues. In which case, I look forward to listening to and watching it again. Next time I won\u2019t be pressing fast-forward!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jaki Leibezeit grooves like a mother!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wound up watching this this evening, prior to breaking out the \u2018new\u2019 Can CD that arrived from Amazon today, namely Live In Stuttgart, 1975. I watched several other shorter live Can videos as well. It seems more such material is coming online. My last Can-fest, some years ago now, involved a lot of searching … <\/p>\n

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