Psychic TV - Your Body [Live at thee Circus, 1988]: Is this good?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q60x5rEWCXc

I was way too wrapped up in this (and PTV in general) at one time, but this track really does have a lot going for it. It just comes rolling at you, like most of the first side of this album.

Hints of brilliance or just utter waste product?

FYI: This is PTV in sample-heavy (jazzy? do I hear hints of clave?) rave/rock mode. P-Orridge pulling out some absurd Some Girls era MickJaggerisms, to my ears anyway.

I don't think I've ever heard this one, gimme a couple of hours

If you are going to look for the full album somehow, be forewarned that the CD quasi-reissue, Live in Astoria is not really the same as the original album. "Voodoo Acid" is quite different from the track on vinyl under that name. Might be a different stretch of the same semi-chaotic performance. Also the mystery song "In the Big House" is missing. I don't think they've ever re-recorded that song. The personnel for that track is a mystery. A musician friend of mine felt very strongly that some of the playing was at a higher technical level than PTV's usual, and suspected the personnel information was withheld do to licensing issues. But that was just speculation. He had no inside info.

Live in Astoria is on Spotify.

nah was just gonna listen to yr track, but busy. I did look this up and noted the lack of credits. this album came at the tail end of the live onslaught and I prob ignored it for financial reasons at the time.

weird, yeah sounds like more of a pro session person lineup and not like the Gianelli era, there was a transitional period after Fergusson left, maybe related to the Mardi Gras lineup? I gave up like three albums into this series...

https://www.discogs.com/Psychic-TV-Live-At-Thee-Mardi-Gras/release/149466

this was a weird time for PTV. saw them at Variety Arts in LA around this time, just a couple of years after the hyperdelic band shows at the Roxy, which were utterly spectacular. the word was that they'd had their instruments seized at customs, but anyway it was all beats/tapes and Genesis singing -- evidently in ad-lib -- and talking a lot about acid.

x-post: I didn't buy them all, but between my best friend at the time (mentioned earlier) and me, we hit a lot of them.

I like the more jump/cut feel of transitions on the vinyl Live at Thee Circus compared to Live at Astoria.

I saw them for the first time in 1988 at Revival in Philadelphia, so it was about the same time period. I don't remember much from the show, but I remember the keyboardist playing A Whiter Shade of Pale over which Genesis was saying: They say: say no to drugs; but I say, I want some drugs, etc.

feel like this was maybe around the high-water mark for TOPY and probably the heavy drug use was part of that -- I had a friend who full-on joined up & moved to Colorado, came back with the sort of body piercings not a lot of people had back then. but he was fully over it by '92 and calling Genesis "the old man."

Does anyone else here the resemblance between this and PTV's rave/rock phase? I mean, it's more conventional and more tightly crafted and has a different atmosphere (and. . . and. . . and. . .), but the groove? Especially in the beginning.