Bauhaus - Mask Live 1981

Audio Only, Bauhaus, Mask Live

Hamburg, Markthalle
30/11/1981
Murphy/J/Ash/Haskins

The man of shadows thinks in clay
Dreamed trapped thoughts of suffocation day
He's seen in iron environments
With plastic sweat out of chiselled slits for eyes

From the growth underneath the closed mouth
You'll catch if you listen
Rack-trapped cubist vowels
From a dummy head expression
From a dummy head expression

The transformation is invested
With the mysterious and the shameful
While the thing I am becomes something else
Part character part sensation

The shadow is cast

Category:

Music

Tags:

• bauhaus
• live
• 1981
• mask
• peter
• murphy
• florianklose
• markthalle

[PeriwinkleTickle]

Thank you for posting this! This is like Gold!

[Oloferne8181]

You are welcome.

F.

[jonamoraa]

whoa thanks x posting this...i´ve spent lots of time searching for a live version of "mask"...

thank you...

THE SHADOW IS CAST

[Oloferne8181]

You are welcome!

I agree, this is not so easy to find live.

F.

[jonamoraa]

Is this from a live album... or just a rare recording...?

[Oloferne8181]

It is a bootleg.

F.

[BakedHarp]

great version, thanks so much for uploading :)

[GabloFX2]

@PeriwinkleTickle What are you talking about, THIS IS GOLD!!!! Its not LIKE gold, IT F@#$IING IS GOLD!!!

[TheRATTLEHEAD75]

@carlotapuig t'es con ou sourd? cette version live de mask est aussi bien voire mieux que la version lp!

[bauhaus2121]

BAUHAUS AT THEIR BEST GOOD FIND GOOD ONE I LOVE SOME BAUHAUS ESPECIALLY THIS RARE VERSION OF MASK AND THE MAN WITH X-RAY EYES PRESS EJECT VERSION.

[carlotapuig]

I didn't know that Mask was ever performed live. It's interesting but at the same time you can notice that it is impossible to recreate the unique atmosphere of this very particular masterpiece in a live performance (without pre-recorded sounds)

[userfriendly73]

Grazie.

[mekosilvar]

trying to create that errie sound for the first minute or so....and in the studio version you can't even tell that that's a guitar at all..good stuff ..sure it freaked the hell out of people back then..and now even.

[mindlestep]

Hard to transpose the oppresive atmosphere from the studio version to the Live performance . Perfectly achieved here.

What a GREAT and creative band.

Brilliant !

[dechiricoeraser]

nooooo, this version is too faster!!!

[JTerrible63]

thanks for the greatness