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High Rise "Live" - Oh My Fucking God

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Okay, see, Ted Nugent's Double Live Gonzo was a major formative experience for me as a young rock listener. I saw Neil Young and Crazy Horse on the Weld tour with Sonic Youth and Social Distortion opening up, and Neil smoked 'em both with raw amp-burning destructo power. I've seen Motorhead, Fushitsusha (as a trio), Merzbow & Borbetomagus (on the same bill, but sadly not as a collaboration), Khanate and Sunn 0))). So the sound of a speaker cone self-immolating is a major source of joy in my life. One of the records I want buried with me is Mainliner's Mellow Out. But this thing...holy fucking shit! I already had High Rise II, Durophet and Psychobomb, but none of those compare to this thing for sheer eye-bugging, foot-on-the-pedal-never-ever-false-metal berserkerism. This is The Shit.

I guess this is one of those Alex-in-NYC-style tribute threads. If you know the glories of this mind-roasting album, speak up. If you don't, fix that. Right away, if not sooner.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 15:25 (twenty years ago) link

is that the disc on PSF or the one on paratactile?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 15:47 (twenty years ago) link

The live disc is great, but I actually like II more, if for nothing else than "Cotton Top."

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 15:52 (twenty years ago) link

It's the one on PSF. I got the Squealer reissue, though.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 15:56 (twenty years ago) link

Now you need to mellow out a bit with the jammy hendrix manouevres on Dispersion!!

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 16:18 (twenty years ago) link

I'm sorry to be a dummy, but what's the story on this band (AMG didn't really have a bio)....are they like a Acid Mothers Temple type of thing?? they sound interesting.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 16:21 (twenty years ago) link

If Acid Mothers could edit, yes.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 16:25 (twenty years ago) link

I saw Neil Young and Crazy Horse on the Weld tour with Sonic Youth and Social Distortion opening up, and Neil smoked 'em both with raw amp-burning destructo power.

he also smoked 'em both, in time-honored arena-rock headliner tradition, by not letting either opening band use the full power of his sound system. a standard trick to make the headliner sound louder and bigger than the opener. and neil, much as i love him, is very much guilty of it.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 16:48 (twenty years ago) link

There was this high rise show in philly once that is a treasured memory for me. Major Stars opened up and they were good, if predictable, making fun psychrock noise and all. Wayne was spazzing out and going all hendrix on everybody. good fun. but here is the funny part. like i said, wayne was throwing himself around the stage getting all sweaty and by the end of the set looked like springsteen after a 10 hour stone pony set. then high rise take the stage. ya know, impossibly cool looking. sunglasses. i swear to god it was like flicking a switch. they just stood there without moving a muscle and this roar comes out of the amps that made it seem like you were standing behind a 747 engine as it's taking off. it was the complete opposite of what came before. just this sustained fury that made jaws drop all around me, but with a complete economy of motion and a seeming effortlessness. the club was hot and smoky and the band looked as nonplussed and cool as you could imagine. i could have stood there listening to that noise forever. religious really.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago) link

which one is this? "Live" ; "Live 96" ; 86-88 live?

Maybe I should just download 'em all.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 21:15 (twenty years ago) link

Cut this crap out and get back to lookin' at those bare pussies, you! -- The Boss.

― Dock Miles (Dock Miles), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 22:29 (twenty years ago) link

The one in question (Squealer-via-PSF) is called 'Live.' Those others are from Nanjo Asahito's La Musica CDR "label."

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 01:27 (twenty years ago) link

Their first album's my fave cos you literslly can't make out what's going on for the first few minutes until you get used to it, it just sounds like a malfunctioning wah-wah pedal even though there's bass and drums in there too. I'm still pissed off I didn't get to see them playing to 7 people at the Dublin Castle in London a few years ago.

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 01:40 (twenty years ago) link

I thought that Dublin Castle gig was cancelled for 'Health and Safety' reasons??

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 07:45 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...
I scored the paratactile CD ('speed free sonic') 2nd hand today: OH MY FUCKING GOD!!!!

jesus fucking christ phil, you need this or

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 5 March 2004 22:43 (twenty years ago) link

...YOU'LL DIE!

and then we'll have to bury you with it, but you'll never hear it unless you believe in heaven. or hell.

(got carried away, do u see what this thing did to me).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 5 March 2004 22:45 (twenty years ago) link

twenty years pass...

There's a previously unreleased live performance from 1992, Disturbance Trip, coming out in September via Black Editions.

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Monday, 15 July 2024 15:50 (three months ago) link

so is this the thread title record?

https://www.discogs.com/master/178634-High-Rise-Live

I love II and Dispersion but don't think I ever heard this one

― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Monday, 15 July 2024 16:33 (three months ago) link

Yeah, that's the one. It rules.

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Monday, 15 July 2024 17:16 (three months ago) link

boo, not on bandcamp

― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Monday, 15 July 2024 17:22 (three months ago) link

ok yeah this is great, got the CD

― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Monday, 22 July 2024 22:32 (two months ago) link

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

― calstars, Monday, 22 July 2024 22:36 (two months ago) link

?

― calstars, Monday, 22 July 2024 22:36 (two months ago) link

yep

― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Monday, 22 July 2024 22:36 (two months ago) link

Their first album's my fave cos you literslly can't make out what's going on for the first few minutes until you get used to it, it just sounds like a malfunctioning wah-wah pedal even though there's bass and drums in there too

yeah this is well put, I love the first one, real wild “heard her call my name” electricity

― brimstead, Monday, 22 July 2024 23:25 (two months ago) link

otm, oh hold on that was me posting that in 2004. Discogs lists 26 albums! Mostly cassettes, including the intriguing-sounding "Play Gaseneta".

― lanyard kipling (Matt #2), Monday, 22 July 2024 23:31 (two months ago) link

two months pass...

Holy shit, finally hearing this properly after finding a CD copy at a local shop this weekend (also grabbed White Heaven's OUT in the same visit). This is so fucking good.

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 9 October 2024 19:25 (one week ago) link

I listened to these guys (II) due to the thread revive. Pop Sicle is a monster.

― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 10 October 2024 18:46 (one week ago) link

It is! II and Live are the only ones I have so far, I wish Black Editions did CD as well as vinyl.

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 10 October 2024 19:28 (one week ago) link


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