Can - Vernal Equinox Live

BBC Live 1975

[@stefanblue660]

Isn't that phantastic? It's 1975 and I hear drum&bass, punk, new wave, synth pop, techno structures,years before it was invented, mixed with Jazz Rock, minimal, heavy rock guitar, even metal, funk and hip hop beats, visionary! In the 70s german bands like Can, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream etc etc. took the next step in music evolution.

[@kazoshay]

RIP Jaki, one of the finest drummers that has ever lived

[@rory693]

Criminally unrecognised

[@alexeyA1]

@@rory693 He is very recognized :)

[@Burt472]

Agreed.....

[@samuelward1912]

Jaki is literally on fire here. So is the rest of the band, but Jaki is seriously showing blur lines he's playing so damn fast. Yet technical all at the same time.

[@OlafProt]

Can's music arc is so extraordinary that they are really due much more recognition.

[@zapbranigan5314]

I totally agree. They were undoubtedly one of the best & most influential bands of all time.

[@OlafProt]

@@zapbranigan5314 along with Cymande. Also - "Kif, I Have Made It With A Woman. Inform The Men."

[@masstransit2]

The keyboard players expressions are great, like something out of a 1970's British sex comedy

[@markkeogh18]

In chain mail too!

[@colorojo145]

Mr powers

[@devintariel3769]

Keep the change strannix

[@juanllamas4531]

MR LIEBEZEIT ON DRUMS. MR SCHIDT ON SOUNDS & KEYS MR KAROLI, ON STRATO, ALWAYS ALIVE MR CZUKAY

[@kellykerr5225]

This is new to me. My new favorite song.

[@dennisbenzle7493]

This is more advanced than the album track very cool

[@deciocavallo7332]

all four great musicians

[@astridolearczyk8510]

Yes!

[@ashleyupshall7641]

Brilliant. I had the pleasure of seeing them when they did some dates to promote Soon Over.. A unique and fantastic band.

[@sjwillis1137]

I want to light a fire pit in my garden , and play CAN loud , loud , loud . Invite all the neighbours round and get them pissed and blow their Covid stressed minds .🦍🤔🐄🤣😃👡📿🧤💭💭💭💭💭🧣👙💜🖤💜💖👄👄💖💖💖💖💖💖❣🎷🎶🎧

[@MarioZupanovic]

It has sort of the organic drive in the rythm pattern that only few electric bands could achieve.

[@iremainproductions4827]

You sir are correct!

[@thefollandgnat]

0:55 Michael chucking a foretaste of "Teenage Kicks" in there.

[@underbedbeast]

Thank you so much for posting this! I love CAN and never saw this OGWT. This is a great instrumental and terrific performance!

[@whatevershebrings]

That extensive wall-of-speaker system in the background looks similar to the one shown in photos from their Inner Space studio.

[@markboon341]

Can at their most unhinged, possibly

[@nikolaosmosxakis3395]

very very good all..........................

[@dane3038]

Why does this only have 204 views? This is the tits.

[@WesHampson]

Yes.

[@stanmenshic2997]

Bloody Wonderful, better than any music coming out now days (except maybe Jambinai), thx 4 posting :)

[@user-vn1zb9ov8d]

I can't decide, silver surfer jacket or Clanger's chainmail? ...... Irmin Schmidt once again proving that the 70's was a decade that should be repeated.

[@Burt472]

Wow

[@tomtrana3449]

When a Metronome needs a Metronome it asks for Jaki Liebezeit' s drumwork.

[@foleyhuck2344]

Tony Clifton on keys, ladies and gentlemen

[@thomasreubold3573]

Yeah

[@raheelrazvi8475]

On keyboards a kind of Teutonic Keith Emerson

[@chrisharry3475]

holy shit this at .5x speed is just completely fucked

[@Schwertfisch13]

hah! Chopped and Screwed Astro-Funk. THe drum beat is on point tho.

[@whatevershebrings]

Irmin seems to be channeling Milo O' Shea as Duran Duran here.

[@finaldelay18]

mandibuleo extremo

[@user-sp2ui6gd9l]

Does anyone know if Michael's guitar is being run through the Alpha 77? I can hear the dry signal, but at times there seems to be another guitar present with quite a bit more reverb?

[@tomtrana3449]

Michael Karoli said to this: "We never used synths until the very last records. '_Vernal_ _Equinox_' uses a ring modulator applied to Irmin's piano and organ; a synthesiser allows you to get a very large number of sounds from which you can choose, but Irmin's idea and everyone else's was to take an instrument with a certain sound and to change that sound into something else. That's more creative, again because of limitations; using a synth is too easy, you just turn a switch and you get a completely different sound. The Alpha 77 unit we used wasn't a synthesiser, it was a sound modification unit built to Irmin's specification. We used its ring modulators on the _guitar_ and bass, and it also produced flanging which was really a fault in the machine; it used a tape under tension for echoes and it tended to slip a little. Many of the effects in Can music came about that way, which is still for me more interesting and more creative than intentional things." Check for more: www.muzines.co.uk/articles/michael-karoli-on-guitar-improvisation/5919

[@RufusT9]

On the album version of this, Karoli's guitar sounds like a buzz saw, a fuzz he could fade in and out. Anyone know how he did this?

[@heathermartin8932]

Distortion pedal...don`t know which one.....Holger probably made it 😅

[@operenyi]

I think by this time he had a ring modulator directly installed into his guitar

[@tomtrana3449]

check my answer to @user-sp2ui6gd9l above

[@conradmason87]

Superb...which came first...Can...or...Amon Duul...🥁

[@epicdanny11]

CAN

[@cmorg17]

CAN were way ahead of Amoon Duul as musicians. Both are great, but CAN are truly great!

[@highlyvenomoustoad]

where did you get this footage? they took the compilation documentary off youtube and im tryna peice it back together

[@Alex-nk1eu]

KEYBOARD KARATE by Irmin Schmidt

[@stst2321]

why? because the video has been removed and re-uploaded :)

[@juanllamas4531]

where can I get more of this???? THANX FOR POSTING CAN CAN

[@colorojo145]

Cuando el sintetizador estaba en su primeros años

[@romo2674]

En sus primeros años, unos 15 después de su primera aplicación comercial, sí.

[@colinpumpernickel2605]

Well that settles it. Prog rock and punk are really two sides of the same coin.

[@fritzthedog007]

Uh huh. Mr Rotten is a big fan of Tago Mago.

[@geoffkalender1103]

They both come from the Velvet Underground

[@josepgrasrius3819]

I.m a Can fan untill the early days.💪💥Saw Can live 1976. Sorry but No Damo (or Malcolm Mooney) No Can

[@wmorris189]

This is not prog rock. It’s genius not turgid blancmange.

[@waldisusi]

Kann man nicht erklären und schon gar nicht reproduzieren.