MOTORPSYCHO - JUGENDZENTRUM BUCKENHEIM, FRANKFURT 1993.09.01
| Sound quality: | 9 |
| Source: | 2 mics in the ceiling -> 1st generation tape -> cdr |
| Complete: | Yes, except the cut in Demon Box |
| X-ref: | Different transfers to cdr exists, but this is the definitive one. |
Recording comments: A clear and well balanced recording with depth and very good dynamics.
Once the "legendary" audio cassette bootleg "Demon's Feedtime", which at the time was said to be made and sold in 200 copies. This is a transfer of a 1st gen copy of the original master, and the best sounding cdr version out there.
Demon Box cuts off before the first verse, missing some 15 minutes. It cuts back in during Step Inside Again, which leads into the coda and the usual ending.
Performance comments: 11 days after Geb stepped on the broken glass in Berlin, Bent has caught his usual tour cold. Bent sums it up pretty well even before they tear into the first song: "Our drummer is like one footed right now, so he doesn't groove. And my voice is like really fucked...". I can't really hear anything wrong with Geb's drumming, but Bent's voice is almost gone by the time they start Feedtime.
This must have been one of their worst nights ever, vocal wise. I feel genuinely sorry for the guys when listening to catastrophes like Mad Sun and The Golden Core. It does not help that Snah had not learned to sing yet either. He pulls off his screaming, but his singing in The Golden Core leaves even more to be desired than usual at that time (To his defence, he does ask for more monitor, so he does probably not hear his own singing). Add Bent's cold, and some guy in the audience who screams the melody of London Bridge Is Falling Down during the first bars of the quiet intro, and you have the worst Golden Core ever caught on tape.
Still, they play a very powerful set, as if they try to make up for the troubled vocals by hammering the shit out of everything.
This recording is not a must have, but an interesting look into a bad night with a few highlights. The good sound quality also makes this one worthwhile if you can get past the bad vocals.
Highlights: Powerful opening with heavy and solid versions of Sheer Profoundity and Fleshharrower.
The first live version of Mad Sun known to exist on recording is, if not a highlight, at least very interesting, and does groove pretty well during the instrumental parts.
The House At Pooneil Corners gets another good take. Scary organ in the beginning there. Gotta love it!