simoncoil
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Berlin, Germany
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Posted on May 30 2014 07:42 AM
Here is a pretty good video from a gig Laika & the Cosmonauts did for german television.
Enjoy!
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skeeter
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Virginia, USA
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Posted on May 30 2014 08:17 AM
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DonBale
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Posted on May 30 2014 08:24 AM
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UKAY54
Joined: Nov 02, 2013
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Köln
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Posted on May 30 2014 11:11 AM
Really awesome - I love this band
Simon, do you know anything about this TV-series "Absolut Live"? It must have been in the late 1990s and as I see it's from Radio Bremen. The video seems do be ripped off a rerun on 3SAT. Maybe there is a better copy at the TV-station!
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HallmarkSweptWinger
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Berlinesia, Germanifornia
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Posted on May 30 2014 02:10 PM
Fantastico!
Hey, the lead guitarist is playing a VOX AC30. Ha! For sure he is playing an AC30. But what is this thing lying on his amp? A kind of reverbsomething?
Soooo incredible great musicians!
WHAT a setlist!!! All the fascinating Laika songs!!!!
The only thing when watching here on computer: The unbelievable good drummer is the only one who is doing a kind of stage acting. The lead guitarist is just standing and playing….
When I see bands live I love to see bands totally get weird on stage. …but maybe the Laika songs are weird enough in itself?!
And I ask myself: DO they want to get the people dance? I think they don`t care. The music is very good for jumping around, screaming and yelling.
WHAT a band!!!!: On about 28:00 min: You hardly can groove more than this!!!
Heroes!
— Twang cheers!
Ralf Kilauea
www.kilaueas.de
https://kilaueas.bandcamp.com/album/touch-my-alien
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Ruhar
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San Diego, CA
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Posted on May 30 2014 02:41 PM
Wow!! What a find! That's awesome! Thanks!!
IMO, one of the finest instrumental bands of all time! Playing a show with them and having Matti blow out my speakers with his keyboard continues to be one of my great musical memories.
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StevieMartini
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Chicago
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Posted on May 30 2014 08:20 PM
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Badger
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Wisconsin
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Posted on May 30 2014 09:15 PM
Ausgezeichnet!
— Wes
SoCal ex-pat with a snow shovel
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simoncoil
Joined: Sep 28, 2012
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Berlin, Germany
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Posted on May 31 2014 03:52 AM
UKAY54 wrote:
Simon, do you know anything about this TV-series "Absolut Live"? It must have been in the late 1990s and as I see it's from Radio Bremen. The video seems do be ripped off a rerun on 3SAT. Maybe there is a better copy at the TV-station!
I must damit, that I don't know anything about it. I just stumbled upon the video on youtube. Since their logo is shown in the beginning my guess would be, that Absolut Live was a spin off from Rockpalast (like the Crossroads show they did in later years, which focused on blues rock). Further investigation might be worthwhile: Some public TV stations as Radio Bremen offer copies from their archives for a reasonable fee. But then again the tapes could also be in the Rockpalast archive...
HallmarkSweptWinger wrote:
But what is this thing lying on his amp? A kind of reverbsomething?
Probably a digital delay (from the sound I would think there wasn't any reverb)
When I see bands live I love to see bands totally get weird on stage. …but maybe the Laika songs are weird enough in itself?! [...] The music is very good for jumping around, screaming and yelling.
I think the songs are very complicated and they probably need a lot of concentration and precision to play them. So the old question is: What is more important, the music or the show? For me too the music would be enough to get totally nuts in front of the stage - wild stuff. I was also pleasantly suprised by the noise/feedback stuff at the end of Get Carter!
— Los Apollos - cinematic surf music trio (Berlin)
"Postcards from the Scrapyard" Vol. 1, 2 & 3 NOW available on various platforms!
"Chaos at the Lobster Lounge" available as LP and download on Surf Cookie Records!
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HallmarkSweptWinger
Joined: Jul 27, 2006
Posts: 1284
Berlinesia, Germanifornia
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Posted on May 31 2014 04:56 AM
simoncoil wrote:
So the old question is: What is more important, the music or the show?
No no! This is no question.
Important for live is the music AND the show of course.
If I want just the music I can listen the albums at home.
I am nearly depressed by bands just standing boring and HIGHLY concentrated and stiff on stage…
At last Laika are not really stiff on stage, they KNOW how to play and do not have to concentrate soooo much I guess.
Good example for good live bands would be Slacktone or El Ray or Fifty Foot Combo. They know also how to play and act on stage and get the power of their songs with their whole bodies through their instruments to the audience.
And why they can do this? Because they have practiced enough before getting on stage. …but this sounds like an other thread now, sorry.
Laika rules!
— Twang cheers!
Ralf Kilauea
www.kilaueas.de
https://kilaueas.bandcamp.com/album/touch-my-alien
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HallmarkSweptWinger
Joined: Jul 27, 2006
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Berlinesia, Germanifornia
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Posted on May 31 2014 05:05 AM
simoncoil wrote:
I think the songs are very complicated and they probably need a lot of concentration and precision to play them.
No! Sorry simoncoil, I think you are TOTALLY wrong!
Laika composed the songs, so they are NOT complicated fo them to play!!!
So they do not need need so much concentration. And they are precise BECAUSE they simply practiced a lot.
When you hear the live tempo of some songs in the video you can feel that is NO problem for them to play song even in a faster tempo. Which does not mean that a song is better when it is played faster.
(I remember a guitar teacher of mine once he said I have to practise SLOW every day. Then later I could play it in EVERY speed I need. Simple and true.)
But mostly you destroy the real energy of a song when you play it too fast on stage.
— Twang cheers!
Ralf Kilauea
www.kilaueas.de
https://kilaueas.bandcamp.com/album/touch-my-alien
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UKAY54
Joined: Nov 02, 2013
Posts: 284
Köln
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Posted on May 31 2014 07:22 AM
simoncoil wrote:
UKAY54 wrote:
Simon, do you know anything about this TV-series "Absolut Live"? It must have been in the late 1990s and as I see it's from Radio Bremen. The video seems do be ripped off a rerun on 3SAT. Maybe there is a better copy at the TV-station!
I must damit, that I don't know anything about it. I just stumbled upon the video on youtube. Since their logo is shown in the beginning my guess would be, that Absolut Live was a spin off from Rockpalast (like the Crossroads show they did in later years, which focused on blues rock). Further investigation might be worthwhile: Some public TV stations as Radio Bremen offer copies from their archives for a reasonable fee. But then again the tapes could also be in the Rockpalast archive...
Thanks for your answer, Simon. I dont' think that "Rockpalast" has anything to do with this. So I asked the internet - "Absolut Live" was a series of live shows in the late 1990s produced and recorded by Radio Bremen in their studio, broadcasted by "N3". I found a list with the original broadcasting dates - 1998.02.05 at 12 pm, length 45 min., and a rerun one day later at 1:15 am. (You need the dates if you want to order a copy at N3 - not really cheap - it costs 35.- €)
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Brian
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Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Jun 01 2014 04:48 PM
Holy sh*t this is amazing!
This is the first time I've seen the bass player have his strap over his left shoulder.
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Brian
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Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Jun 01 2014 05:02 PM
The music sounded very familiar. At first I thought they were miming along to their recording on their live album Laika Sex Machine. But then I pulled out that CD and it says that some tracks were recorded on Absolut Live!
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Brian
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Posted on Jun 01 2014 05:06 PM
The liner notes to Laika Sex Machine say the Absolut Live recording was done on September 15, 1997.
These guys were at the top of their game here!
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simoncoil
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Berlin, Germany
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Posted on Jun 03 2014 07:11 AM
UKAY wrote:
"Absolut Live" was a series of live shows in the late 1990s produced and recorded by Radio Bremen in their studio, broadcasted by "N3". I found a list with the original broadcasting dates - 1998.02.05 at 12 pm, length 45 min., and a rerun one day later at 1:15 am. (You need the dates if you want to order a copy at N3 - not really cheap - it costs 35.- €)
Ah, interesting. I was looking myself, but didn't find anything. 35 € is indeed a bit expensive; I guess I am not such a big Laika-fan after all.
HallmarkSweptWinger wrote:
simoncoil wrote:
I think the songs are very complicated and they probably need a lot of concentration and precision to play them.
No! Sorry simoncoil, I think you are TOTALLY wrong!
Laika composed the songs, so they are NOT complicated fo them to play!!!
So they do not need need so much concentration. And they are precise BECAUSE they simply practiced a lot.
Being the composer doesn't necessarily make the songs easy to play. Beethoven for example wrote a lot of music for instruments, although he couldn't even play them (even before he turned deaf). And Schumann needed his wife to play his piano pieces after he ruined his hands with too much practice.
— Los Apollos - cinematic surf music trio (Berlin)
"Postcards from the Scrapyard" Vol. 1, 2 & 3 NOW available on various platforms!
"Chaos at the Lobster Lounge" available as LP and download on Surf Cookie Records!
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UKAY54
Joined: Nov 02, 2013
Posts: 284
Köln
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Posted on Jun 03 2014 02:54 PM
simoncoil wrote:
UKAY wrote:
"Absolut Live" was a series of live shows in the late 1990s produced and recorded by Radio Bremen in their studio, broadcasted by "N3". I found a list with the original broadcasting dates - 1998.02.05 at 12 pm, length 45 min., and a rerun one day later at 1:15 am. (You need the dates if you want to order a copy at N3 - not really cheap - it costs 35.- €)
Ah, interesting. I was looking myself, but didn't find anything. 35 € is indeed a bit expensive; I guess I am not such a big Laika-fan after all.
Yes, It's not easy to find anything - the terms "Absolut" and "Live" are no good search terms for search engines, too many hits. Btw. today I got an answer from N3, they don't have the tapes. They told me to ask Radio Bremen. I'll do that, I'm a big Laika-fan.
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caddady
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N.E. Ohio
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Posted on Jun 13 2014 12:31 PM
I finally got to sit and watch the whole thing last night.
WOW!
Impressions,
Duct tape! Holding the keyboard rig together! And the roll standing by on the lower keyboard left.
A lesson on how to use a Jazzmaster/Jag trem.
Pull UP.
Shake.
Absurdistan must have been fresh at the time of this performance.
That album (Absurdistan) was one of the records that brought me back to playing guitar again.
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Brian
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Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Nov 05 2015 10:05 PM
Just want to bump this thread. If you have Laika Sex Machine you'll know this is amazing. If you don't... hang out to your hat.
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wfoguy
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Posted on Nov 06 2015 07:58 PM
I watched it again. It reminded me why I am a big fan of their work.
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