Can - March 22 1973 - Bataclan-Paris-Sing Swan Song

[mrhippy26]

this drummer man........

[huhnerhai]

@mrhippy26

Jaki is the best drummer in all time, no doubt.

Watch his drumming in Can - Vernal Equinox (live), its epic.

[polistyrenejassband]

zzremington is a toby keith fan enough said

[bube299]

fuck all, this is good and that's it !

[MucusMcTard]

What are those gadgets Irmin is adjusting?

[zwartepiet412]

i used to think that king crimson were the gods of live rock improvisation until i discovered can

[villon1463]

Lieber Damo, war nett Dich in Tübingen zu treffen. The Slaves Of The Burning Seconds.

Gruß Axel

[zzremington]

When bands are good but not great and do not make it commercially, we call them "artists" and say they didn't sell out. When bands are great, have enormous talent and make it big commercially (like Floyd, Zeppelin, Beatles, Stones, Elivs etc.), we say they're not artists anymore and they are sell-outs. Sorry, but the "artists" tag is horse shit sometimes. Can has some creative muscisans but an average group at best.

[canaxis861]

You have a point, but those artists you listed have been played to death. Can's not an average group, never were and never will be.

[polistyrenejassband]

@zzremington funny half the bands you mentioned ripped the black man off word for word riff for riff maybe thats why they are not considered artists

[SydBarrett7]

@polistyrenejassband minus Pink Floyd and Beatles 65-69 then yup spot on.

[zzremington]

@polistyrenejassband American music has been influenced by every country on the planet, didn't know Europe was dominated by blacks? Irish and Scotish music influenced American pop as much as Delta blues or African folk - why can't we appreciate many influences?

[polistyrenejassband]

@zzremington THE ARTISTS I MENTIONED RIPPED OFF DELTA BLUES MEN SPECIFICALLY WHICH WERE BLACK MEN THERE ARE NOT TO MANY IRISHMAN PICKING COTTON STRUMMING THE GUITAR TALKING ABOUT HOW SHITTY LIFE IN THE SOUTH WAS SO I AGREE AMERICA HAS HAD MANY A CULTURE BRING SOME TYPE OF MUSICAL INFLUENCE NOT IN THIS CASE YOU CANT GET A BAGPIPE FROM THE CROSSROADS

[rupilan]

@zzremington I'm Betting u never had any real Sugar, did you??

[swans1997]

@zzremington Sorry, guy. As a huge Floyd and Zep fan, I have to say that also as A CAN head, comparing CAN with Floyd and Zep and the others is a futile task. Floyd were nowhere near the level of CAN, who would've left them in dizzy in their wake and Zep would've had some hard work going keeping up. For me though, a show with them two, would've been money well spent. I love them both, for different reasons.

[DavidF89999]

@zzremington Seriously? Average? Have you listened to Soon Over Babaluma or Future Days or Ege Bamyasi? They're masterpieces when you listen to the album as a whole. Listen to them and try not ending up in a trance-like state (especially with good headphones), they can just transport you to places of your mind you didn't know existed without needing anything else besides the music.

[yehigota5inchtaint]

Does anybody else notice that the keys player is grindin his teeth! He's so tweaking!

[br00talKidHxC]

I love music, I really like this band, their sound, and I really like Kanye's new album. The guy is an idiot but there's no doubt that the album is a really great album.

[fureasteen]

swan song!!!! Damo rule!

ダモ鈴木かっこいい！

[fureasteen]

swan song!!!! Damo rule!

[applevenus0608]

bewundernswert!!



[raydog699]

Canye.

[br00talKidHxC]

@raydog699 Canye.

[misterpickles530]

I do my best to not think about people like Kayne West. Those pop icons are nothing but no talent assclown corporate shills. Can is the shit, long live true artists, not businessmen.

[nichobert]

All rappers are arrogant. Kanye's the only one to ever poke holes in his own mystique. I guess people would realize that if they listened to his groundbreaking music instead of just clips of him on tv running his mouth. Dude gets such a bad rep from so many people who should be appreciating how wide-ranging his influences and the way he applies them to his music are.

[shesaidpurr]

@nichobert are you serious? i mean, do you really believe that music influenced by Can could sound anything like kanye? i thought it was called sampling.

[nargargole]

A harder edge than Gong and Steve Hilliage, rather good, shammanic; I think of Jim Morrison 'I am a modern shaman'

[YrendenQ]

cool

[brotherbuttcrack]

Not a fan of Kanye (or any of those arrogant rappers) but I was kinda impressed that somebody in the hip hop industry even knew who King Crimson was.

(for those of you who need it= Kanye sampled K.C.// Yes, I no this is not a King Crimson video))

[lucalone]

I am a big kanye west and CAN fan. believe it or not...

as far as i know kanye does a lot of his beats by his own

shame on him if not...

listen to his new album, it is great!

CAN were, are and will ever be the best german band of all times; even better than the great Kraftwerk!

[setuda3]

verry cool!



[DanaGarden]

And the Disco Biscuits ....

[delmar3skate]

now i can see where radiohead got their influences

[MrThreshold2009]

@MrMeddled You're rather moody, eh? In 30+ years if anyone even gives one solitary shit about Kanye West or any of his vacuous, dipshit rapper friends the human race will indeed be close to a timely demise.

[Jdubeats]

Okay, I went onto a myspace Can fan site.. There are three total parts documented on video.. He had the links up and everything but they've been removed because of violation bullshit.. Moonfields , Where did you get this video?

[76sagi]

Irmin's sideburns look like they might rebel and jump off his face at any minute. Dangerous.... those sideburns.

[malkiebroon]

@76sagi lol. do you want salt and vinigar with your mock chop?

[jackal59]

The time signature shift at 6:10 - 6:20 is amazing, all the more so because they are risking having it fall apart at any moment.

[Luckyrawk]

Freeze the image at : 2:62...creepy face...he,he,he

[Gimp1994]

i'm high

this is cool..,.;

[Tengent]

Me and my boyfriend are going to do swim synchronized to this song.

[PoliceBoy465]

Stupidest statement ever = the drummer is okay.

[mtnlogistics]

you guys are fukkin hippies. seriously.

[chelito19play]

échele mi SUZUKI......!!!!

[Bringerofnoodles]

Jaki Liebezeit has been one of the few drummers to actually change how I feel my way around the drumset.

[tomoxolos]

there are many better drummers... maybe, but no drummer made better music,for me he was the non plus ultra for such a freak-hippie-session-band--the­y made songs out of their sessions and he hold it all together.

And the Bassdrum- and Snaresound of the Canrecords...unbelievable...

[Jdubeats]

Can, you have driven me nuts. I will never be able to listen to any other music anymore because of you.

[capmkrob]

I totally identify with this comment. Can's music reaches a level of genuine beauty that other 'rock' music just cannot touch.

[incaroads80]

@Jdubeats I got the same syndrome!!!! We need help perhaps!

[jendralpargiyo]

wow... this is better than the studio version!

[TiggerOaks]

I think these guys will always sound ahead of their time. Man, the guitar player is stoned!

[Jabbah757]

People will never know how much this band influenced the modern music.

[boss0fkings]

keyboard player is crazy mother fucker

[clone67]

CAN from the beautiful city of COLOGNE, Germany!

Yeah! Jaki surely is the greatest drummer ever! R.I.P. Michael! Thanks so much for posting!!!

[marcosnl281]

excellency

[Downbythewater73]

Seems fast, compared to the record...

[Downbythewater73]

True, but still great.

[cometa1958]

thanx a lot!!!

[reitzle]

thank you!

[Verve91]

Absolutely beautiful.

Heard them last night for the first time,and man they're good.

[aryanjesus]

biggest influence on me thanks you guys

[76sagi]

Ya know.... with all this awesome Live CAN stuff, you'd think that SPOON records would want to release some of it... That official live double disc is great, but there is obviously a lot more out there... Great band.

[yodro]

Check out the bootleg "Horrortrip in the Paperhouse", it's on the net and the quality is pretty good -(in fact the rough quality brings out the groove even more). It's very intense like the "Colchester Finale" on the live double disc. Incredible

[cheeezdooodle]

Anyone else think it is pretty cool the drummer is in front of the stage-instead of behind all other musicians?!

Awesome!!

[Snitsie]

If i had a band and Jaki Liebezeit was the drummer i'd probably put him on a flying platform which was rotating 360 degrees all the concert long with every light focused on him.

[Jdubeats]

So true. He really is the greatest. Fuck all these speed drummers, he has so much more technique.

[robzitinho]

Unfortunately its the last thing he would want though, altho your sentiment is I'm sure well meant.

[thesuikerlounge]

haha, nicely put!

[cheeezdooodle]

Man , I LOVE Can-

thanks for posting

[narablog]

Happy as the day is LONG!

[is11045]

Yes,we CAN!

[SpaceRitual]

Best drummer ever by the way.

[therealsmithylad]

Fantastic drummer!

[Pighood]

That would be correct.

[Snitsie]

Pretty much. A human metronome.

[HowToLootBrazil]

today i rehearsed with him!

[Jdubeats]

What?

[HowToLootBrazil]

yep, we both finished a tour with phillip boa where i play bass and he was the additional drummer/percussionist. sorry for bragging but i'm still proud ;-)

[cecopiteco]

so cool

[pikey56]

can supreme live saw them for the first time in 73 lsd and can live what a heady mixture michael karoli saddly missed

[beebfader]

I think if I'd seen Can live on LSD I could die a happy man !

[SydLuciferSam]

Can is the best band of the kraut and one of the best bands of all time. Brilliant sound. Thanks for this.

[capsula2006]

Lo maximo CAN inmortales!!!!!

[rebelpowerz]

Thanks for posting this.

[joeheadblues]

Incredible! Can rules indeed.

[refmos00]

kanye west sampled this song

[slalomluke]

Kanye West's management and production and marketing team sampled this song. Kanye West doesn't know krautrock from sauerkraut.

[SonikToooth]

@slalomluke You are a fucking hater idiot. if you see kanye west blog you would see he knows alot about this kinda stuff.

[nichobert]

@slalomluke Kanye has kinda repeatedly shown himself to be up on really hip and influential music, even from hisold beats when he was just a guy named Kanye and not a megastar.

I've loved Can since I was a little kid, and Kanye since he came out. Dude makes music thats light years more interesting than anyone else making big budget rap music.

[nicolas932]

@slalomluke "...detuned electronics with elements of "Sing Swan Song" by German progressive rock band Can.[23] West claimed that while listening to the song, he heard the line "drunk and hot girls" in place of the actual "drunky hot bowls" lyrics..."

[KERAKAO]

can RULEZ!!