POV: Can

xpost: on my list yo!

Never heard the full quarter-hour "Mother Sky" but it probably belongs here, if the edited version is any indication.

ha, then I should go back, because I can't remember what that is. I'm talking about the song they're playing with the juggling guy. bass-heavy, fast rock drone. with the right stereo, that kills pretty much everything

oh god quantum physics rules

^^^^

mother sky
spoon
future days
pinch
outside my door

halleuwah
mushroom
you doo right
mother sky
i want more

Future Days
Moonshake
Haleluwah
Little Star of Bethlehem
One More Night

vitamin c
halleluwah
future days
thief
mother sky

serious Can are serious:
Father Cannot Yell
Mother Sky
Oh Yeah
Halleluwah
Future Days

ghey Can are teh best:

Tango Whiskeyman
Turtles Have Short Legs
I Want More
Little Star of Bethlehem
I'm So Green

She Brings the Rain
Chain Reaction
The Empress and the Ukraine King
Turtles Have Short Regs
Spoon

Ok, someone help me here. There is an old, grainy clip where there people breakdancing to Can. Something off Ege Bamyasi I think. Looks like mid-80s New York. You know, some B-Boys gettin' down to some funky Krautrock. I know it exists! Anyone?

Damn. This is killing on me. HELP.

Probably Vitamin C? You still occasionally see street dancers dancing to that, I saw some in the Union Square station a few years ago.

this was rough, but having playcount available helped me out in the end:

mother sky
future days
vitamin c
oh yeah
sing swan song

I'm So Green
Future Days
Bel Air
Hallelluwah
Moonshake

ctrl-f "swan" (1 result) = madness btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pwHQlv4tuA

Gold! There it is!

Gold it is.

ctrl-f "swan" (1 result) = madness btw

it's (one of) my favourite(s). karoli's guitar... it hovers over the track like a pendulum.

http://www.prog-sphere.com/2012/05/16/update-on-the-cans-lost-tapes/

Let's do this!.

good list

Tough to narrow down this much, feel like the post Damo records deserve more love.

All Gates Open
Call Me
Dizzy, Dizzy
Mushroom
Future Days

halleluhwhah
outside my door
spoon
mushroom
vitamin c

Let's see what my top 5 in the Can poll was...

Future Days
Chain Reaction
Quantum Physics
Yoo Doo Right
Oh Yeah

Chain Reaction/Quantum Physics is one track in my head, so my #5 is

Sing Swan Song

mother sky
halleluwah
yoo doo right
chain reaction/quantum physics
bel air

the longer the better with this band, imo

halleluhwah
animal waves
mary, mary so contrary
i want more
oh yeah

Tango Whiskyman
Oh Yeah
Spoon
Bel Air
All Gates Open

my first can CD was "flow motion" and i hated it, didn't get what the big deal about can was based on it. maybe there's some good stuff on it but i've never been able to find anything about it i like, and avoided post-damo can based on that

which is a little sad because over the past 20 years as i've slowly gotten around to listening to the other post-damo records, while they're really patchy pretty much all of them except "flow motion" have at least one track i like

so here's a little over an hour of post-damo can, one track from every one of their post-damo records except "flow motion" and "rite time", plus a couple tracks from BBC broadcasts

Serpentine (Out of Reach, 1978)
Call Me (Saw Delight, 1977)
Quantum Physics (Soon Over Babaluma, 1974)
Tape Kebab (Peel Sessions, 1974/1995)
Sodom (S/T, 1979)
Gomorrha (Limited Edition, 1974)
Under the Surface (Onlyou, 1976/1982)
Untitled (For Pink Floyd) (Old Grey Whistle Test, 1974)
Vernal Equinox (Landed, 1975)

Onlyou?

nm, just found it.

(xp) Hold on, you don't like "I Want More"?

Flow Motion is great

And More

opo solo/side project track: “fragrance” by holger

Kate I am legit staggered that you don't like "Flow Motion" - try the title track again maybe?

I love the first side, Can's pop stuff is great.

honestly, i think it's the mix; the mix is just so bad. i could see how "i want more" _could_ theoretically be a good song, but irmin sounds like fucking tom constanten on it, and the whole thing is so goddamn dry, like every instrument comes from a different dimension. the cod-reggae thing on the title track just drives me up the wall, too. i don't care how good a drummer jaki is, the beats on this one are wack.

Do you like Future Days?

but irmin sounds like fucking tom constanten on it

I've got no idea what this means, and I know who Tom Constanten is.

future days is mixed weirdly too but irmin's keyboard tone is better at least and jaki's drumming is way busier/funkier.

Listening now and I agree.

I noticed that Flow Motion is the only one of the main albums (not counting Out Of Reach and Rite Time) I don't have at the moment, although I have had it on record and CD before. So that may say something. I got rid of the late 80s CDs when the remasters were done and never replaced that one. The title track is really the basis for the wah workout in the long version of Fool's Gold isn't it.

the vocals on "I Want More" are so fucking weird, especially for a charting single

I didn't know there were quite so many cover versions of I Want More (Richard H Kirk, Finitribe and latterly, Blancmange) although I did know Galaxis' funky Italo track which is really good.

https://youtu.be/hd5BTePojkg

I LOVE I Want More bc it’s so totally goofy. It’s the essence of good vibes imo. I can’t listen to it without feeling a tiny bit happy. And in case you wondered, there are 20 “and more”s in that one part. I even like And More.

My fave Can songs were the subject of the Canzine I made w my students at the end of last semester aka 450 thousand years ago in rona time. (We all made zines, including me, only mine was Can-centric)

Love Kirks. It first showed up in a cd compiling his outtakes but I think minimal wave got it on vinyl?

So good, when they had Can's appearance on totp repeated a few years ago, also the story of the stand-in guitarist they used and how they got him.

Yes, as I think I said on the TOTP2 thread, they were the only people in the studio older than the DJs.

wow this galaxis track is pretty nice, thanks Noel

i've been listening to future days a lot in my car, after not hearing it for years, and finding it weird that i always thought it was the breezy, accessible can record when so much of it is rock-derived free jazz and deliberately blunt / dis-harmonic. it's probably because of the mixing that puts the ayahuasca trip of keyboards and guitars in the background. they just completely take apart rock/blues, no wonder they were popular with punks.

My fave Can songs were the subject of the Canzine I made w my students at the end of last semester aka 450 thousand years ago in rona time. (We all made zines, including me, only mine was Can-centric)

Canzine? Would read this on title alone. Is it online anywhere?

Yes, I made a Canzine! It's not online but I am willing to mail one out if you're really interested. My webmail works.

To All our fans, bootleggers, Hunters and Collectors!
As you all know we are currently releasing the CAN LIVE series, the third album Cuxhaven 76, is coming soon. We received all the files we have from our fan nr 1, Andy Hall, but sadly Andy passed away recently and we are now looking for other tapes, reels and data, collectors might have in their homes. If you have a Live recording and always thought, wouldn't it be amazing to have this released , then let us know!
Send us a mail to i✧✧✧@spoonreco✧✧✧.c✧✧.
An alle unsere Fans, Bootlegger, Hunters and Collectors!
Wie ihr alle wisst, veröffentlichen wir derzeit die CAN LIVE Serie, das dritte Album Cuxhaven 76, kommt bald. Wir haben alle Dateien, die wir zur Zeit haben, von unserem Fan Nr. 1, Andy Hall, erhalten, aber leider ist Andy vor kurzem verstorben und wir suchen jetzt nach weiteren Bändern, alten Tapes und Dateien, die Ihr vielleicht in Euren Häusern habt. Wenn Ihr eine Live-Aufnahme habt und immer schon dachtet, es wäre toll, diese zu veröffentlichen, dann lasst es uns wissen!
Schickt uns eine Mail an i✧✧✧@spoonreco✧✧✧.c✧✧.
A tous nos fans, bootleggers, Hunters and Collectors!
Comme vous le savez tous, nous sommes en train de sortir la série CAN LIVE, dont le troisième album Cuxhaven 76, arrive bientôt. Tous les enregistrement que nous avons à présent, nous ont été donnés par notre fan n°1, Andy Hall, mais malheureusement Andy est décédé récemment et nous sommes maintenant à la recherche d'autres cassettes, bobines et fichiers que les collectionneurs pourraient avoir chez eux. Si vous avez un enregistrement live et que vous avez toujours pensé que ce serait génial de le publier, laissez nous savoir !
Envoyez-nous un courrier à i✧✧✧@spoonreco✧✧✧.c✧✧.

is a message circulating on Can's FB feed and presumably elsewhere.
Sad to hear that the source of the earlier volumes has passed on anyway.
Though assume that was more widely known.

Ah, that’s a shame. But credit to him for his wonderful work, I’m glad his legacy on that front exists.

wait does this mean that might be the last volume?

listening to the Brighton set right now. man oh man this is the sort of music you can really lose your head in

Might as in a possibility that might be regarded as low. Though presumably relying on what can be turned up being as low a generation as possible.
They are looking for other recordings from other sources. So hope things are going to turn up. There have been some great live sets appear on torrent sites over the years. Wahldbuhne 72 is one I really like.

Sorry if this was already posted

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/arts/music/can-live-albums.html

There had been a similar call out by the Tim Buckley estate back when expanded reissues of his lps were being planned. Though there it only seemed to actually get release for the first lp. If what was released then actually was the result of that. Rhino Handmade released a set with the recordings of Buckley's band from 65 among other things. I think they had been looking for memorabilia to reproduce in the artwork too.
Would have loved a full series of that stuff with bonus material of that level but it never happened beyond that first one.

But the Can thing is a similar public call out for recordings etc. So presumably if successful the bootleg series will continue a lot.

there is so much out there, I hope that's true

just in my HD I have

CAN - Another Lost Tape - Studio Fragment from ca 1973
Can_72-May-22
CAN1975-08-06
CanColchester1975-05-17
Canobits
canparis73

it does give me hope when I think about all the King Crimson bootlegs out there, they've got 'em for more different shows than they even played it seems

I think the 22nd May 72 is the Wahldbuhne gig I was mentioning above. Think that's the venue anyway. I thought I heard some commentary in some of the version I have which might suggest it was a radio broadcast. Which would make it a good choice if it was still stored at a still active radio station.

I assume what they are really looking for is other tapers who have first generation tapes they've curated ever since. Or people who've inherited similar generation copies. I assume that indicates a level of amnesty over recordings though not sure what the legal thing would be. Also assume tapes would be returned to recorder though again not sure how that works. Cos not sure how Can estate is on tape or recording trading. & even Grateful Dead made it into a commercial thing after a while. Though that couldn't change them having had taper zones at gigs.

The Tim Buckley thing was an announcement partially saying "We Know What Is Out There" & giving people an opportunity to come forward with whatever they had. I think announcement went on to say they would be trying to make releases as comprehensive as possible. I think the s/t deluxe set came out in the wake of that and would have been a great pattern to follow. The next thing I was aware of was the My Fleeting House dvd which I assumed was tied into the series but proceeded to edit the 26 minute continuous performance of the Boboquivari appearance and omit one of the 2 OGWT performances from 1974 when they would have fit. So far from comprehensive. Then had the person organising it claiming he was the director so taking credit for work done in 1970 which I found both odd and extremely pushy. Shame would love a complete remastered version of the Boboquivari performance since I had it in a much rougher version which must have been in circulation since it was broadcast.
I would have thought that if there was one official video one would try to make it as comprehensive as possible. Not start imposing ones artistic licence over things. There was enough space to do so. & I had seen the estate's mission statement beforehand.
Unfortunately no further 2cd deluxe versions of Buckley lps appeared. Tim at least. There have been a few live sets since which have been interesting and the more avant lps are available in some form though not sure if alone. They're definitely in box sets though.

So looking forward to see what does happen with Can. I thought the Velvet Underground had a bootleg series started, did that just stop after a couple of releases or am I unaware of other official releases.

it stopped after *one* release, which imo disqualifies it as a “series”

wonder if Lost Tapes will ever get a reissue. they're doing a good job keeping everything in print but this is still the holy grail of archival releases, they really oughta do a second run

I read earlier this week in I Am Damo Suzuki that Jaki Liebezeit didn't like playing with most bassists. Only really liked playing with a handful including Jah Wobble and it was one reason Holger Czukay moved away from bass in Can. Apparently Liebezeit prefered playing with Rosko Gee. Appeared to find the way bassists held down the rhythm obstructive and prefered more exploratory styles or not at all. This was in the book at a point when the Damo Suzuki band had become a 4 piece with 2 guitars and no bass and Liebezeit on drums.
Don't think I had really heard complaint about that early minimalist bass style Czukay had on the early lps which other people picked up as influence.

He called the bass a "stupid dinosaur instrument" in The Can Book (by Pascal Bussy). He says a lot of things which might surprise Can fans in that book!

As for Czukay stopping playing bass, I'd read that the band thought Czukay was playing too much and too loud live. In contrast, Jah Wobble and Rosko Gee are both pretty in the pocket bass players who very much hold the rhythm down, whereas Czukay was much more exploratory - live that is, not on record.

Future Days
Paperhouse
Sing Swan Song
Moonshake
Pinch

I like their short poetic songs as much as the epic jazzy spaced out jams. Nothing against the early raw psych stuff, but it can sound a bit like Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

I interviewed Malcolm Mooney this morning! What a lovely guy.

I saw he just played NYC with a band consisting of various ex Sonic Youth, Yo LA Tengo and others.
Not seen a torrent appear yet, so not sure if it was captured officially.
But Steve Shelley had a post on his FB feed

(xp) Awesome!

yeah it's a cool band — ava mendoza, too. jamaladeen tacuma has played bass on previous shows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRbdl1k3ZwE

He's been working with Ava Mendoza for a while. She emailed me about putting out a 7" of duos with him on my label, but I don't do vinyl releases.

yeah, there's this thing that came out last year — pretty cool! https://avamendozamusic.bandcamp.com/album/motherless-children-single

daaaaaaaang!! i had chosen ava mendoza in my mind as dream michael karoli in the all-woman can jam band
she rules

the all-woman can jam band in my mind that is, there isn't a real one i am aware of

I had dinner with Malcolm Mooney once. And Rick Brown and Sue Garner. Bryan from Brooklyn techno party the Bunker and his then wife Seze put it together. I think Seze was like “Dan is gonna get a kick out of this”. I had met Rick Brown before but not Malcolm. Seze’s mothers partner was there as well, and old Hoboken scene guy who was friendly with the feelies. It was alternatively awkward and awesome. Sorry if I’ve told this story up thread I’m too lazy to search. Everybody was super cool.

Presume it's you on drums LL, maybe Leezy from Khruangbin on bass, what about keys? and probably Kim Gordon for vocals if I wanted Damo-type free vibes.

Cuxhaven out today, waiting for my shipping notice. Still only one minute samples up on Bandcamp.

waiting for my copy too, apparently this one's only 30 minutes long? but the scattered reviews I've seen make it sound interesting. still kind of curious why they started this live series with 3 shows from roughly the same period, kinda makes me doubt there are that many other good records out there

Full bandcamp digital release today. It starts out kind of riffing on I want More!

Yeah it's a shorter release compared to the last two, but still good stuff.

I have a '72 show, a '73 show, and the 4CD "Canobits" studio outtakes set, but yeah for such a jammy band it's weird that there aren't more taped shows.

There are actually a quite a lot of Can bootlegs!

o yeah I have that "Radio Days" LP as well which is very goog

there are a lot of them that I've found on Slsk or whatever but the sound quality is nowhere near what you get on this live series. I mean, they do still sound like boots, but they're pretty clear

at least compared to the 1971-1977 Live Box - the performances on that are great but I find it unlistenable

Apparently the full Cuxhaven show was two sets and there is a 100 minute recording floating around out there. Guessing that either the rest was not up to snuff quality wise or Irwin didn't like the rest.

Pretty cool, if short (as others have said), but as with the previous two volumes, I can't see ever pulling this out over the proper albums or even The Lost Tapes, at least not after I've listened to this 3-4 times and the novelty of 'OMG, a live Can thing I've never heard' wears off. I'm afraid I might be expecting too much from this series.

speaking of a repress of The Lost Tapes would be super cool

There is about another 50 mins worth from Cuxhaven and it's great, the quality is the same, I've no idea why Schmidt didn't just put it out.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fzyejzn5yixwboq/1976-01-07%20Cuxhaven%20sc-04.wav?dl=0

ty!

That is kind of weird. I can see them trying to kee these releases down to 1 LP for economic reasons maybe, but I ask wonder if they’re holding stuff back for some kind of box set/collection of the whole series

Jfc phone autocorrect: “keep” them down to 1 LP, and I “also” wonder

the Cuxhaven bit MaresNest posted (thx!) is better than the part they released imho - weird.

Totally agree, I'll keep that up for another day or two if anyone else wants it.

Got it, thank you MaresNest! Listening now - "Vernal Equinox" is intense! Wow. That is frustrating that they left over half of the show off the CD/LP - wasn't the original intention of the series to present complete shows...?

This is wonderful, thanks maresnest

Got it, too - thank you Maresnest, much appreciated!

Yeah, I can't lie, I'm a little bit disappointed. The official release is really good stuff but absolutely baffling that they'd cut this down to less than half an hour given what's out there for this show. Particularly after all the buzz for the first two volumes about how they wanted to treat each show as complete and tell the full story of the whole trip, i.e. this about Stuttgart:

Originally recorded on tape, these carefully restored live albums will comprise the entirety of each show in the format of a story with a beginning, middle and end, with Can’s performances taking on a life of their own.

Don't get me wrong, still thrilled to have an official release and I'll continue to support the series, just really surprised that this one is so truncated.

Thanks Maresnest!

I am genuinely dumbfounded how Irmin Schmidt could listen to that version of "Vernal Equinox" and decide it wasn't good enough to release. Maybe he thought it was too close to the recorded version? In fact this whole recording is great and actually has better audio quality than anything they've released in this series so far.

maybe this half is by another taper or something?

That's a possibility but then why release not even half of the concert?

I'm fairly sure it's the same taper. Given their stature, Can are actually pretty well served in the taping community, especially given the times and the technology available, maybe being in Germany helped with its accessibility to decent gear.

I've been told that there was a guy called Paul (iirc) from the UK who was a sort of semi-official archivist/überfan and over the years he had amassed a good collection of recordings and master tapes, and would apparently float things out now and again (within reason, to trusted mates) sadly he passed away a little while back (perhaps before the Lost Tapes?) but the material has made its way back to the band.

Andy Hall was the guy's name and he became a close friend of the band. He did good work that man!

Ah, thanks for the correction.

yeah I'm kinda baffled by this one, gotta wonder if maybe getting another triple LP printed would've been a considerable delay. idk what else would explain it

Could it be Irmin unhappy with his performance on the unused material? Wouldn't be the first time someone made an executive decision for that reason, despite the general quality being high.

Just one problem with that theory: his playing is fucking great on the unused material!

thx MaresNest – listened to the released material this week and enjoyed it v much, and it's great to be sitting here on a damp dark Sunday morning listening to the unreleased material too.

I must admit I wasn't massively engaged by either Brighton or Stuttgart - should give them another go - but i'm loving the attack on the Cuxhaven recording/s.

FYI well worth searching for imho: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/can-s-lost-77-concert-help-us-buy-the-reels#/
and it came out as: https://www.discogs.com/release/20245258-Can-Fizz-Re-Master-Can-Live-At-Nottingham-19031977

Ok that looks an interesting set list.

looks like Damo show in the works, some folks think this might be Paris '73

https://www.facebook.com/officialCan/videos/1330892847733748/?extid=NS-UNK-UNK-UNK-IOS_GK0T-GK1C&mibextid=2Rb1fB

wasn't some of that on The Lost Tapes

Yes but this is the sequel The Found Tapes

I'm fine with some overlap with The Lost Tapes, presuming we get the entire show this time and not just a partial one.

yep same

later solo work promotional appearance on a surprisingly mainstream looking show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klPlEJoHF1M

i decided to see what genius thinks the lyrics to the damo-era can records are

it's kind of not a question of "right" or "wrong" with those lyrics, some of them anybody's guess will do

you could just do a thread for genius annotations with wild-ass interpretations of the lyrics, probably, there are some really cool takes but there are also some takes that are just like, uh, what?

anyway i love what genius has for the lyrics of what they say is "verse 4" of peking o:

[Verse 4]
Ahahahahahahahahhaahaha!
Ablabaaablablabahabbababalablabbalbalablabalbalbabalbalbabalbaalalhaah
[Gibberish & Screaming]
AAAAAAAAAAA!
Where else can I go?
Where else can I go?
Where else can I go?
Where else can I go?
AHAAAAAAAKAAAKAAAH
Where else?
Where else can I go?
[Gibberish & Screaming]
Ugh!
[Gibberish & Screaming]

listening to the later records and wondering: did the Rosko/Reebop-era can actually play any shows? were there any recordings? I get that it's not the Can we all know and love but I still find those albums plenty entertaining. and they can really groove! I'd listen to a good 90 minutes of jamming around Serpentine and A Spectacle right now. and then Can Can as the encore!! is there anything???

I believe their live schedule was pretty much the same as before - in 1977 anyway.

https://www.discogs.com/release/20245258-Can-Fizz-Re-Master-Can-Live-At-Nottingham-19031977

I notice Reebop isn't listed as playing at that gig, maybe he joined later?

see now this is cool, sounds like it was actually professionally recorded and their approach doesn't seem too different from the 75/76 shows. wonder if there are any that go further out than that

that nottingham recording is incredible

the version of I Want More kicks so much ass

I heard this on TV in the background and thought "Wow, that's a really good Can rip-off" - with a closer listen later on YouTube, I realized it WAS Can ("Moonshake" of course):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpjfSmAnyOU

Apparently this is the earliest footage of Can playing live - July 5, 1970 to be exact - just after Damo had joined. There isn't much of it though. It doesn't sound much like the recorded version of "Oh Yeah" but that's definitely what they're playing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5AZ0Jq0hNw

whoa i love new-to-me CAN live footage -- thanks for posting! it's a special joy to watch people in the audience jamming out along with them, even for a second or two

oh this isn't the same as the soest footage! the soest version is great, it goes on for 20 minutes, and just like here damo actually sings "oh yeah"... there it's more of a repeated chorus. "oh yeah" developed a lot from damo's earliest days to tago mago...

Soest is from November 1970, Damo had settled in by then!

recently watched Wim Wenders' Alice in the Cities which features music by Can. It's really one thing they play over and over again, but that was really cool. I know they have multiple compilations of soundtrack stuff they did but that might be the first time I stumbled on one of them randomly

That piece of music is on "The Lost Tapes".

Which one is it?? If it’s Dead Pigeon Suite that is one of my absolute faves - I know SOME people have negative feelings about the collages but I’m not one of them. Need to see this movie!

What the piece from the Wenders' film? It's "Alice"!

And it's a great film too.

Cuxhaven came out a year ago now, was hoping to have at least another announced by now. Hope things haven't dried up already.

feel like a while ago (maybe the beginning of the year?) there was a video of an engineer on FB working on a Paris 1973 show. idk what vinyl lead times are these days but maybe they're not announcing anything until they get closer to the actual pressing

would love an official release of that 1977 show - wouldn't even have to be cleaned up much. the really long version of "I Want More" on there is amazing

Oh, interested

Yeah, just greedily hoping for more. I just hope the next one gives us the full show and not an abbreviated version.

the entire rollout has been weird. Stuttgart was a great way to kick it off, maybe not the era of Can everyone wanted to hear but still a great show. and then the second is...a similar show from the same tour? and the third from one that's just a year later, but this time only the first half hour? whole thing just seems not very well thought out

Nothing worse than pre-ordering the Cuxhaven one, then seeing the running time and then hearing the chorus of, "and it doesn't include the best part of the show!".

yeah! it was an expensive LP too

I agree this series has been disappointing on the whole. That said, I'm sure I'll buy the next one.

I mean, it’s CAN, c’mon

on the whole? the first two sets still bang out of control

time for them to release the show which abi ofarim took david niven to

Yeah I'm not going to cosign on the whole series being disappointing, loved the first two volumes. Was just disappointed with the Cuxhaven release.

According to this Danish site, it's Paris '73 is coming out next month, 2/24 to be exact:

https://soundstation.dk/shop/4-all-products/178863-live-in-paris-1973---2024-european-mute-label-5-track-lp-pre-order/

Mute and Spoon Records present the next instalment of the curated CAN live concert series, LIVE IN PARIS 1973—the first in the series to feature Damo Suzuki's vocals.

The series was overseen by founding member Irmin Schmidt and producer/engineer René Tinner, who delicately worked on restoring the archival recordings to the best quality for current modern technology. This record captures the band’s 1973 performance in Paris and features Irmin Schmidt on keyboard & synths, Jaki Liebezeit on drums, Michael Karoli on guitars, Holger Czukay on bass, and Damo Suzuki on vocals for one of his final shows with the band.

Tracklisting.

1.Whole People Queueing
2.One More Night
3.Spoon
4.Stars And Lines
5.Vitamin C

Release date: February 23rd 2024

Ooh goody goody

good stuff — that show definitely deserves to be cleaned up and made part of the official, er, CANon

only a single LP? or am I reading that wrong?

i want to say that the "queuing" here is more than a half-hour long, so I hope not?

Very limited data for sure, but going by that site's other offerings, the price point at least seems to indicate a double LP.

ahh okay actually I remember this bootleg, it's about 90 minutes long, so either a double or a triple

iirc the sound quality on the boot isn't the greatest. wonder if this is coming from a different source or if they did a bunch to clean it up.

interesting that they actually use the track names this time!

Yeah, I was surprised by that as well, cautiously optimistic that this won't be another whittled down one ala Cuxhaven given that the tracklist matches the bootlegs.

yeah this is it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbslKldRCIw

main thing I remember is how much the version of "One More Night" rules

And indeed, up for pre-order now (2xLP, 2xCD):

https://canofficial.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-paris-1973

30 second preview of "Vier" (they are NOT using the song names like previous bootlegs, sticking with the numbering format of the others in this series)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fAqv3-4o-o

90 minutes! 🙂

I never did have a boot of this show, but the excerpt sounds pretty good to me!

oh hell yeah, take my money Irmin

preordered

I heard "I Want More" at my local gyro shop at around 8pm last night. Was a nice pairing.

The nasty completist part of me is still irritated that Cuxhaven was only an excerpt of the total show.

Yeah, I'm still bummed about that one.

Paris 1973 is out now…going to wait until I get properly stoned to play it but the first track is about six minutes longer than the entire Cuxhaven release which seems promising

Really hoping my copy ships soon, my only frustration with this series is that Mute always seems to wait until a few days after release day to ship the pre-orders.

Haven't bought a physical copy but was listening in the car yesterday and the first track is excellent driving music.

very much enjoying this today

It's a pretty famous bootleg, hopefully the official release sounds even better.

It very much does

This is so fucking good.

my shop just got a copy in, excited to give it a spin

wonder what's next...I can't imagine there's any Mooney era stuff, is anyone aware of any decent 71 or 72 boots? otherwise it would be cool if they released the Fizz show from 77

yeah there's a 72-May-22 ROIO out there

(Berlin)

01 Improvization (Entropy)
02 Vitamin C Improv
03 Bring Me Coffee Or Tea
04 Mother Sky
05 Improvization 2
06 Spoon

in true bootleg fashion, this one has the wrong date on the cover: https://www.discogs.com/release/13275926-Can-Waldb%C3%BChne-Berlin-1972

Did they ever even play a proper gig with Malcolm Mooney? According to the website below, there were three "events" at Schloss Norvenich. Mooney isn't on "Prehistoric Future" recordings afaict, which leaves the famous performance of "Yoo Doo Right" where he freaked out. Then there are three performances in Switzerland, two of which where they were apparently doing a live soundtrack at a theatre. I don't know if Mooney was there or not. Note that the filmed Soest performance was like their 12th ever gig... though probably less than that if you discount the Schloss Norvenich performances.

http://all-blues.de/music/kraut/canlive.htm

... some very unlikely locations for UK gigs, Penzance! Westcliff-on-Sea! Redcar!

uhhh - the Mother Sky bootleg, that says it's from June 71, is also that same 72-may-22 show, just split into different length tracks, and not sounding as good as the later fan "remasters"

man, I feel like Future Days saved my life this week.

insane it was released 50 years ago. someone could put it out wholesale today and it would be huge.

like one of my favorite DJ memories was playing some of the title track and having someone come back to see what it was, then coming back a few minutes later going "wait, this is an OLD band?"...buddy, if you don't know Can, you got some good times ahead of ya.

another fun one was when my sister in law showed up who loves Garth Brooks, so I played "The Thunder Rolls" which I segued into "Oh Yeah" during the thunderclap at the end. as I always say if you can't amuse anyone else you might as well amuse yourself

I like it

respect

Haven't seen it myself, but apparently this was from a Q&A with Irmin Schmidt in the new issue of Uncut:

But following the the release later this year of two 1977 UK sets from Aston and Keele universities,
Schmidt is minded to reseal the archive for good. "I think it's enough," he says simply.
"There is quite a lot out from Can. These live records for me, they keep the standard and the quality.
I hate the idea to squeeze it out and find the last little ****!"

Bummer, but I'll choose to focus on getting what we did get.

I mean, obviously the hope of a long-running Schmidt's Hits series wasn't going to happen, but could've done with a few more.

what word was censored there

Farfisa

I want more ...

Yeah, was only to be expected.

Oh, and there's a v.long version of "I want more ..." on the last one!

The missing word was "this" (anag).

But you have to get that "Uncut" as there's a free covermount of one track from each of the five volumes so far released.