Swans Band Practice

Swans let us into their very small rehearsal space right before they went on tour.
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[@nickguyone]

I feel like being in a band with Micheal Gira would be fucking terrifying

[@thenug3489]

+anthony medina source(s)

[@alecisseri6502]

+anthony medina he's not, the whole thing was a lie to give him a bad name. The woman who made the claim even said it privately to Michaels ex-wife I believe

[@melvinmelvins5202]

Do you know what that song is even about?

[@melvinmelvins5202]

....Rrriiiight. Please refrain from using your childhood flashbacks as tepid insults, 'kay? 'kay. The song you're citing has nothing to do with rape. Surely you're being sarcastic? I mean, I hope you are.

[@LucyGoosey4636]

@@melvinmelvins5202 what song

[@HateDisease]

Been into SWANS since 1968. I still remember their first show ever in 1952.

[@stal9425]

Wait

[@spitgorge2021]

what

[@Yuri-ll9rw]

the

[@maotse-tung4438]

fuck.

[@liamsjamsyt1047]

bro.

[@guilhermevideira1]

Gira's looking a lot like my father after work

[@internetsuser5251]

You have a dad?

[@staghunter2579]

@@internetsuser5251I have a dad… in case you were wondering.

[@jamestank7653]

did he guide you up a rope to the sky?

[@Vojife]

I read "Swans Bad Practice" and thought it was a song I didn't know. Kinda sounds like a Swans song title.

[@user-bf6gz8ej4o]

taco taco

[@simonjbutler9189]

I never heard of Swans until 3 years ago. Saw them live and they blew me away.Thanks to my mate Phil for me getting into them..

[@pseudoplotinus]

Cheers to Phil!

[@creature57]

I hear they are amazing live. My sister saw them play twice in Melbourne recently and she came away a huge fan.

[@kraftyhandz]

One of the best gigs I’ve been to. Definitely a spiritual experience. Super, super, loud. Shakes yuh right to your bones.

[@MartinoGrosso]

I just went to a Swans gig. It was probably the loudest live I've been to. If you have a chance, you have to see them live.

[@jdalbiac]

I've always been intrigued as to why M.Gira specifically uses a Gibson BB King Lucille almost exclusively. I suppose the real answer is probably along the lines of simply "because hejust likes it, that's why", but I can't be the only one whose struck by what a unique choice of guitar it is considering the music he makes.

[@y4bly]

i think his guitar parts are mostly mid-range frequencies, at least in this iteration of the band it gives the music some meat next to the much brighter telecaster and lap steel. semi-hollow body works good for that

[@DoctorWhomThe1st]

@@y4bly That's possibly the reason. I feel like he saw it as a standard 335 without the hassle of feedback and the 5th knob was a bonus for options.

[@kromathaw]

Swans is the blues

[@rasputinvanclitt]

This is why I love the Internet.

[@MortonGoldthwait]

In response to Carol Miller's question, the song is Eden Prison.

[@charmicarmicat2981]

I love watching them work.

[@jasonkoning]

Thank you, recently seen them play in Auckland, New Zealand - epic.

[@Sighbot]

“Can I trouble you for your leather, man?”

[@anfrankogezamartincic1161]

I had luck to exchange few words with the pedal steel player (sorry,don't know his name),a skinny guy,very polite and friendly. It was in Rijeka/Croatia after (or before?) the gig. Which was brutal and punishing, a real experience

[@albundie3]

the drummer looks like the tall dude from mad tv

[@giorgioIP]

Bobby lee

[@oneminutefixed5003]

to me he looks like a young doctor house

[@KDF54321]

Michael McDonald

[@GeorgeTengTV]

Genius.

[@TheSWolfe]

Finally! After all these yrs, will be seeing them tomorrow night.

[@zeno6169]

how was it?

[@TheSWolfe]

@@zeno6169 It was...an Experience (ordeal?), a skin-raking, tooth-loosening, ground-shaking, cyclical marathon of quiet intensity-cum-ear-splitting soundscape I have neither heard, nor felt, in many, many years. I knew it was going to be an Event when pedal-steel player took stage, walked over, & personally handed me not 1, but 2 sets of ear plugs from his suitcoat pocket. For duration, from head to toe, hairs long & short across my entire body vibrated. A team of talented musicians giving 100% thruout, w/every ounce of attention laser-focused on Gira, simultaneously rocked their soles off/souls out whilst fearing having them ripped asunder if caught slacking, or failing to crescendo to nth degree whenever Michael elevated an eyebrow, lifted a lid, or frantically raised/gyrated his arms in mesmerizing attempt to literally PULL the sounds he demanded from them. Gyrating audience transfixed, entranced, or perhaps struck dumb. Empty beer cans/plastic cups danced across floor of their own accord, prompted by palpable vibration. Michael agreed to post-gig signing of autobio I bought, but I had to split w/band still onstage playing last song. They started late & ran long. Still kickin' myself in arse, but If not left when did, I'd have missed last train + bus & been stranded overnite on winter street in cold City rain. Regardless, glad I checked email 45 mins prior to showtime, cuz I won those tix! Missed most of 1st band. All I recall is gal vocals & chorus of, "Eff u, I quit!" But caught entire Swans set.

[@jacc0placc0]

thank you very much man! saw them live last night, brilliant band

[@Tordah90]

Gonna see them in one week! Really stoked!!!

[@aviansoul]

End of march here... if the world doesn't end before then!

[@PandazHub]

@@aviansoul it's ending now :)

[@emmanuelhernandezolvera]

@@PandazHub I'll never see them live lol

[@LucyGoosey4636]

Were they any good?

[@kevinclements4962]

Reminds me of Popol Vuh.

[@daroachdoggjr7497]

just guys being dudes

[@mouthbreather1]

Eden Prison

[@rohanbeer1654]

Michael sounds like John Malkovich

[@Mustachfinger]

What's the name of this song?!?

[@movimentodoscacos]

I think is Oxygen? from To Be Kind. The album version sounds totally different tho.

[@chillsmoke7093]

ljrdnmrts no, its eden prison

[@darkestfearspodcast]

Eden Prison from My father will guide me up a rope to the sky

[@jacksonwilburn6775]

@@movimentodoscacos bruh

[@jerryseinfeld1988]

Superrrr late to this, but it sounds like it's Eden Prison from a lyrical point, but the instrumental actually ended up becoming The Daughter Brings The Water

[@rleeroberts6350]

Hes lost a lot of weight since this.

[@mercster]

I learned one thing from this video: I could be a member of Swans. I don't know how to play guitar.

[@yaboi2500]

The important thing is learning how to make whatever you play sound good, and that’s what Gira does and has been doing since 1979.

[@HeroinChrist]

You probably could not. It’s one thing to be able to play a chord, it’s another chug away at a chord for 10+ minutes IN TIME while Gira gutturally screams, possibly at YOU if you mess up a bit.

[@masongriffin7345]

Way to make something really wonderful sound like ass, Fader.

[@rleeroberts6350]

5 pieces of animated meat have no taste or spirit.

[@supimcactus]

very bad sound quality

[@MrPolsovatel111]

ValMil rehearsal.

[@cyrussayah3416]

You're hearing a recording from a single mic in a small room with a ton of loud instruments playing, there's no mixing or anything.

[@CJCJCJCJ]

Very bad comment quality