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!

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.