Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 8:46 pm
really delightful album, has perfect progression. i really like all the shows around this time too.
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my 'guess' is that Chris's Moog 960 sequencers (the things with the lights on) where doing little if anything on the night and most things were coming off his digital sequencer or 'something else'Fritter Jr. wrote:Yes! I remember thinking at the start, "All musical equipment should have chaser lights on it". I recall all three of them turned away at the start, twiddling knobs and pushing buttons on the racks behind them, like some kind of space ship crew. From the sounds of it, Edgar and Johannes were probably just trying to get theirs to work24db wrote:Johannes played quite a few of melodies (on his Oberheim and Roland Jupiter 8?...I forget now), but they were quite low in the mix at times, whereas the sequencer melodies were still belting out (very loud even right at the back of the hall...loved the BASS, especially the doom ridden section on part 2...leading into the little false start to the sequencer section. Don't remember the band playing with the backs to the audience (only Chris for obvious reasons), as their equipment was set up differently (Edgar told me last month that the Helmut Grothe sequencers have been 'recycled'.Fritter Jr. wrote:An amazing album, made better by the memories of being there. It was my first sit-down gig (for musicians as well as audience) and through my juvenile bewilderment I remember:
the interminable wait for them to start, only for the "thank you for being patient" announcement to make me think, 'Oh, that's nice of them'.
The chest-vibrating bass (especially on what became the first part of Side 2) and those FM shrieks and gongs scaring the bejesus out of me and being quite relieved when the following sequence started up.
Mojave Plan, Midnight In Tula and White Eagle were highlights as they were still so fresh and rocked so hard.
It's odd that I don't recall them doing Choronzon as that was my favourite track at the time, but that's 28 years for you.
Schmoelling really gave it some on his solos throughout, didn't he?.
The minimalist lighting/visuals were very effective and I thought the fact that the musicians spent a lot of their time with their backs to the audience was very cool indeed, as were Chris's cowboy boots. And to cap it all the back of my head turns up on the album cover!!!
Apologies for rambling, but this was a special night and the record has remained a favourite ever since. It's nice to read that so many people 'here' were 'there'.
I remember doing a double take when Johannes played the melody on the long version of Choronzon thinking 'he's ****ed it up' only to realise that TD had changed the arrangement (from 6 to 8 bars, for musos amongst you). Mind you it still sounds wrong to me, even to this day.
I seem to have a memory that the curtains opened to a darkened stage, with only the equipment lights or perhaps a very faint purple and then increased to a rich Red when then 'Wake-up' part of Logos started to play (perhaps with some flame effects..or am I thinking of the twisted curtains? being short sighted I was lucky I could see the stage ). Later they had some backlighting and a couple of slide projections (pyramids, statues...and the earth for White Eagle).
Yes. It's a digital sample.dgb1 wrote:The voice that repeats over and over during one of the sections in the first half - what does it say?
Is it "Wake up"?
A friend of mine (not a TD fan) heard this segment of Logos and thought the sample voice was saying something entirely different. In fact, his interpretation is entirely inappropriate for me to repeat here!Chris Monk wrote:Yes. It's a digital sample.dgb1 wrote:The voice that repeats over and over during one of the sections in the first half - what does it say?
Is it "Wake up"?
....welcome, by the way.
I read an article where Edgar stated that it was one of the first digital samples and it was definitely "Wake up!!!". It was designed to do just that, wake up the audience. Not from sleep obviously, who could sleep through a TD gig, but to the world around them. Not as effective as a bullwhip into a piano though.rigel wrote:A friend of mine (not a TD fan) heard this segment of Logos and thought the sample voice was saying something entirely different. In fact, his interpretation is entirely inappropriate for me to repeat here!Chris Monk wrote:Yes. It's a digital sample.dgb1 wrote:The voice that repeats over and over during one of the sections in the first half - what does it say?
Is it "Wake up"?
....welcome, by the way.
But yes, it is indeed "Wake up!"
Does anyone know if a recording of the afternoon show at the Dominion has ever surfaced? It would be interesting to compare the performance with the evening one.24db wrote:...we need Tony to tell us about the afternoon show now!!!!!!!!
tony??