Re: (TV) Berlin report

["Per Rosen" <per@ronz.org>]

Thanks, Leif. Nice review. So if it hadn't been for the mixing desk list,
you hadn't known it was The Dream's Dream as intro and outro? What did it
sound like? Like Swells, or? Wich The Dream's Dream did they play in the
States in March, the Adventure track or the improvisation? Does anyone know?
Btw, I think Squaggle and Sleep All Day is the same song. Am I right? I will
not expect any big surprises for Sunday's show, I only hope the boys are in
good mood and shape. I also wish there will be a little more mixed audience,
not only "akademisk expertis"./Per

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "leif joley" <leifjoley@hotmail.com>
To: <tv@obbard.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 11:45 AM
Subject: (TV) Berlin report


> Since it was their first appearence on German ground, it was only
> appropriate that Tom Verlaine yelled a "Hello Germany!" to the Berlin
crowd,
> then struck a power chord before leading the band into "The dream's
dream",
> an instrumental improvisation that served as an intro as well as an outro
> this evening, and which to my ears had nothing at all to do with the
> "Adventure" track. Tonight the orchestra will perform in the small city of
> Heidelberg and the day after tomorrow in the bigger city of Hamburg; no
> second Berlin show on Monday, due to bad ticket sales.
>
> All this took place Sunday the 13th of June at Volksbuhne, an old venue in
> the eastern part of Berlin, with two art cinemas and the headquarters of
> PDS, the reformed Communist party, as closest neighbours. This auditorium
> may at some point have served as a cinema, and as there was no feel of a
> rock'n'roll club whatsoever the harsh Germans might have labelled it all
as
> an "akadaemische eksperientze" - the rows of chairs denied any outbursts
of
> excitement other than applauses, and as the audience seemed very serious
and
> behaved well, no one seemed to be put off by the circumstances. I decided
to
> sit pretty far back, almost alone in a row in the half-full - or
half-empty
> - building, and to listen carefully to the group's music.
>
> This was by far the noisiest Television I've seen (I have encountered them
> twice 1992 and then in 2001). Five new songs: "Squaggle", "Baloon",
> "Persia", "Stax" and one that I can't recall the title of, but it wasn't
> "Sleep all day" that have been mentioned in here - at least not with that
> title according to the mixing board play-list. As I didn't took notes, I
> can't tell anyone much about them, apart from that one had oriental
> influences ("Persia", probably); at a first listening, they all seemed to
be
> strong on chaotic atmosphere, and - perhaps - weak on melodies. My
> reflection, or theory, is that they might be an extention of the audioally
> idea that once formed "Rocket" (also featured this evening) and this
> experimental attitude was shown even more in the encore, "Psychotic
> reaction". As Joe Bob Briggs might have put it, this was "Guitar Fu". They
> shot the poor tune into pieces; imagine a cross between "Yonki time" and
the
> tracks from that French EP from '92 and you come close to what kind of
> musical insanity we're talking about here.
>
> From "Marquee moon": "MM", "Evil", "Venus" and "Prove it". No songs from
> "Adventure". "1800", "Mr. Lee", "Rhyme" and "Rocket" from the third album.
> And "LJJ", in what seemed to be a rather short version. Verlaine's best
work
> appeared, I think, in "Prove it"; as usual, he improvised all through.
> Lloyd's finest moments, I believe, came in the new songs. After all this
> years, his soloing in "MM" and "Evil" is practically the same as when the
> compositions were recorded in 1977. Some may argue "well, why change solos
> that already are perfect?", but as was Verlaine's and he still try out new
> ways to play them.
>
> If someone find it hard to believe that Verlaine actually said and did the
> things I claimed he did in the first paragraph, of course he didn't. I
just
> wrote it to cause a bit of confusion.
>
> Leif J, Sweden
>
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