Swans perform "Just a Little Boy" - Basilica Soundscape 2014

Swans perform "Just a Little Boy" at Basilica Soundscape 2014.
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[@sunnowo]

Imagine just walking your dog and hearing this music blasting out of a random barn

[@TheTheode]

And then your dog breaks off its leash and runs into the barn. What do you do?

[@williamyule3418]

😯😯

[@williamyule3418]

@@TheTheode 😲😳

[@notsanger]

@@TheTheode "HERE, NOW! HERE, NOW!"

[@markbosink4434]

The dog would bark!!!

[@Tokiofritz]

This was our first dance song at our wedding. People wept.

[@croinkix]

Nathalie Neal's a more fitting wedding song

[@afterceasetoexist]

The studio version or this particular performance? Either way, that's awesome. I might steal the idea. lmfao

[@estebanb7166]

That's a hilarious mental image. Best to you.

[@derekamarpreet]

That is my kind of wedding

[@chriswilliams7928]

That does not surprise me.😂😂😂

[@spencerbracey2373]

Lowfi Hiphop- beats to relax/study to

[@pitstopchr]

They should do a david lynch soundtrack

[@spiral-blast]

tottally!!

[@IliasPiperis]

Hopefully Lynch will make another dreamy horror film first...

[@sethmoore8484]

@@IliasPiperis I really hope so. The last season of Peaks was almost peak Lynch. In my opinion. I'd be excited to see what he's cooking up. He's certainly not been dormant given the KZbin channel and appearance on the Flying Lotus album.

[@Laizerdisk]

@@sethmoore8484 Wisteria is his next project but it’s fate is unfortunately very up in the air right now. Keeping my fingers crossed but also if The Return is the last movie/show he makes it’s an amazing note to end on

[@curxs2047]

We need a song with David Lynch... ♥

[@harrisonwintergreen1147]

Johnathan Kane, early Swans drummer, said blues musician Howlin' Wolf was a big influence on Gira. Decades later we get a tribute to Wolf aka Chester Burnett

[@xntruth9131]

Gira's vocal performance during the chaotic part is absolutely great

[@Garentei]

Evil blues.

[@thethinkingroom4532]

evil drunken blues.

[@Jacksmusicshack]

Evil indeed but we love swans us fans

[@Weifs]

Holy shit, Gira lost his fucking mind in this performance!

[@sambennie5160]

hes always like that lmao

[@19billythekid69]

He always do ;) !

[@zlessly]

really channeling howlin' wolf here

[@westernhemlock]

Channeling Joseph

[@Mantooth901]

Mom: Go to bed Me: 6:44

[@hermano_mario]

I think about this comment a lot. 😂

[@iancampbell1411]

I saw them live just last month and I don't think it's shown much in the video, but Christoph gives the audience the most menacing, evil looks you can imagine

[@griffinjurisson9119]

Ian Campbell Christoph is the definition of badass

[@CB-qg3yh]

He is a pretty sinister looking dude

[@123artish]

Yeah, he looks like one of those Church of satan looking dudes.

[@tomatedesign1976]

Actually probably more like more like one of those Catholic Priests shuffled off to a backend parish for molesting children looking dudes.

[@ididgt4259]

I always thought Christoph and Thor were really intimidating, but they can't hold a candle to the black vortex of despair that is Jamie Stewart.

[@el_mal_de_ojo]

Always a treat to come back to these stunningly-captured performances, as they never play old material. It's always a progression forward with these cats, I love it. This is pure necrotic blues, absolutely incredible.

[@tw33z7]

No lightshow. Fantastic.

[@transcribeded]

Underrated aspect of their performances of this time. Didn't have one, didn't need one.

[@malcolm_mal2055]

A light show would've completely ruined the performance. Their song is all they need to fill the room. Not on a loudness level but an emotional one. Just hearing this grabs your attention to the fullest and I think the lights would've just overblown the audience with information.

[@complications9718]

This has got to be the most intense thing I've ever seen.

[@aarongtr180]

Fantastic performance. Also, Swans' drummer bears a striking resemblance to Hugh Laurie.

[@Cugelclever]

I was thinking Lou Reed.

[@themoon8321]

Exactly what I think. Thought I was hallucinating Dr House on the drums

[@transcribeded]

One of the best things I have ever seen. Back here again, six years later

[@MihaelPinter]

Next level shit. Seen them live in Zagreb on this tour. You have "concerts" and Swans concert in your life. Don t miss this if you ever get a chance.

[@SpaceCadetZgb]

cool advice man, i can tell you know what's good music.

[@MihaelPinter]

SpaceCadetZgb i know man.tnxs

[@TheCSJones]

This absolutely kills the album version.

[@henrycurtis3652]

Which is saying something.

[@bee-nf5bj]

@@henrycurtis3652 i havent even heard Swans live in person but since seeing the way they adapt their songs and draw them out when played live I just feel like everyone else that doesnt do that is slacking. I think thats such a brilliant way to approach a live performance

[@oryangoat5915]

I actually agree. It wasn’t until I heard this version that I really started to dig this song.

[@19billythekid69]

agree

[@t0ypuddl3]

Neh & Nahh...the OG doesn’t dawdle like this one and he doesn’t much channel the actual inner boy genuinely enough.

[@jerrys1]

I love how threatening they all look, like they’ll chase you down on their motorcycles and beat you up if you cross them.

[@justinpontani3950]

Oh man, I would kill to see these guys live...

[@kvltslime2261]

By far one of my favorite pieces of music of all time.

[@nathjcaldeira]

Will I ever be blessed enought to see them live?

[@nathjcaldeira]

enough*

[@Divuar]

+Nathália Baptista dos Santos I HAVE and now I'm blessed

[@bobsbigboy_]

They'll be releasing a new album hopefully early next year so they'll tour i reckon

[@numberfive3323]

Moshy if they come to australia i might actually lose my shit.

[@leomonteiro4612]

Vai mano, tenha fé

[@kazimierzgarshin3924]

For Chester Burnett: honour where honour is due.

[@anttam117]

Some of my best memories include watching Swans live, while pissed drunk, various times here in beautiful Barcelona!

[@MrBurndonesinkchair]

I hear stuff like this, and I think 'I’m the only person who could enjoy this.' It’s comforting to know that isn’t the case and restores hope for the future of music.

[@Jacksmusicshack]

I tottaly want to cover swans oxygen.. that bassline is chaos dude lol

[@nick5839]

Honestly I find swans music soothing and relaxing, takes me to a place kind of like listening to Sleep or Kyuss lol

[@stengah69]

i cried when i heard this live

[@TheSnoClan]

Even the Cover-Art cried :D

[@xTheOxx]

Can the entire performance please, please, please, please be released in some form?

[@matthewbritt8498]

Seriously. In need of more decent quality live swans

[@henrycurtis3652]

Do you know if they ever released it?

[@transcribeded]

I was at this show and it was one of the best live performances I've ever seen.

[@josh-rz3uq]

@@transcribeded How long did your ears ring afterwards?

[@transcribeded]

@@josh-rz3uq three days at least lol. Not the time to forget plugs, that. I think it was Thor's intro on the Chinese gong that got me.

[@Kapila]

Seen em live in Louisville. When they got to that part at 6:45 shit got super creepy. Amazing band.

[@justinmikko1321]

That guitar on the left though, didnt even know that type exists but i love it.

[@metalyuncle3106]

Lap steel

[@123artish]

saw them a few years back and the musicians playing was just downright savage. such a brutal performance.

[@alwaysnegative211]

When people say " How do you listen to swans?" 6:44

[@aye2you]

This exact song is one of the most terrifying song i've ever heard. That "Im just a little boy" part caught me off guard when I first hear it, I feel attacked.

[@dashwig]

I really enjoy listening to a lot of so called "dark or weird" and somehow "challenging" music. But Swans actually frightens me and makes me feel uncomfortable. Seeing them live was a very special, precious experience.

[@CJCJCJCJ]

idk, I've never felt uncomfortable listening. If anything, I feel way more connected to it than other music, on an instinctual level.

[@benw3029]

dashwig any recommendations for ur favorite dark or weird or challenging albums??? I love this shit

[@sweetsoul3145]

@@benw3029 hey, Aphex Twins Selected Ambient Works 85-92 is a good, eerie meditative album.

[@ForgotFuckIt]

Devilled Eggs you mean vol 2

[@sweetsoul3145]

space pirate Ye

[@nellevw2950]

9:55 this shot is beautiful

[@floridtv]

so pure.

[@gimmedataids]

"IJATALIOBOI!!!!"

[@SatieSatie]

PLEASE PLEASE come to Vienna! We love you here.

[@loubest3935]

0:46 I think he might be the most evil looking man I've ever seen

[@thebetbetunderground9548]

wtf

[@capitantomate9014]

@Laleen Darshika so he is smart and evil

[@jglovehart9021]

Kristof may look evil, but he is the sweetest soul when you talk to him.

[@losophy4588]

It's strange but they remind me of early Pink Floyd phenomenon..I mean trippy sound, a lot of people listening to music and tripping together

[@qualityinvestingmx]

Me too bro, this bands make me feel so fucking happy

[@vinyldiary6664]

​@@ausland595 I didn't know ... it makes sense to me! Not long ago I listened the album, and it actually reminds me Swans in some passages ... I even thought Michael Gira definitely listened this album! Floyd most experimental album.

[@22z83]

Bruh you can't trip to this you would die

[@MejorContoneo]

IM JUST A LITTLE BOY

[@iamdamosuzuki_]

I'm going to be seeing them in less than a week at Thalia Hall in Chicago. I'm so excited!!!

[@paragraphs7235]

16:53 what is it with musical geniuses and that dance. seriously: thom yorke, morrisey, david byrne, jarvis cocker, and michael gira,.

[@mihalyponyiczki1855]

and Ian Curtis lol

[@emanuelleyzaola3364]

and portishead and pj harvey ...

[@Guadeloop]

that's how the limbs feel music when you set them free

[@aglorklmeel9425]

i was thinking the same

[@mitchelwalsh5356]

the timestamp you posted doesn’t exist

[@jackal59]

A few minutes ago, I wondered, "What if Michael Gira and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge decided to record an album of duets?" I'm still giggling, but I'm not sure if it's from amusement, desire, or fear. (Maybe all of those.)

[@joakinsa]

jackal59 Well, they were both on the same Pigface album "Notes from Thee Underground", not on the same tracks though.

[@CCornellE]

+jackal59 Genesis P-Orridge? Please, no.

[@jackal59]

C. Cornell Evers "They say we're young and we don't know / Won't find out until we grow..."

[@xTheOxx]

A collaboration with Carter and Tutti would be even more exciting.

[@anickner1178]

I think that it wouldn’t work because they have both a very strong personality and they won’t accept each other idea. Their vision of art is too precise to be dissociated. That’s my opinion, but, who know, I might be wrong.

[@NPC.6]

Absolute perfection, as usual. Love the video editing on this last batch of vids; all beautiful.

[@SuperDuckPro]

10/10

[@BeebopConnard]

never heard a lapsteel guitar that sounded so evil .

[@bobsbigboy_]

the one and only Kristof Hahn

[@zlessly]

@@bobsbigboy_ he’s the reason I started playing lap steel

[@corehero9580]

Norman just gets paid to stand there

[@minhaz252]

This is masterpiece!

[@trklsswndr]

Missed my chance to see them here this past year...now listening to this fantastic dirge, for what what could be the soundtrack for the most F-ed-up Hell-scape-year in memory ~ the one that everyone died, except those that deserved to perish the most...

[@sampitman3630]

i’m so glad this exists

[@madlipzjagd5378]

There is heavy and there is swans heavy.

[@xTheOxx]

So grateful I got to see this incarnation of Swans three times. In hindsight it still seems like it was too good to be true. But there it was!

[@19billythekid69]

Beautiful

[@eyesintheroad]

I wanna see them live so bad

[@Tommy-oy7sm]

Sounds even better live.

[@fantasmaatriste]

So intense and increible.

[@cadexus]

Why is Dr. House on the drums?

[@AndrewWells]

Fantastical...

[@tomt5745]

Brutal beauty :)

[@spiral-blast]

fuckin insane, i love this performance,

[@seansabu310]

Kristophs tone near the end makes me wanna eat myself

[@spinkicker27]

Swans is not for everyone.

[@saturatedneowax]

Swans is for everyone

[@aleksifradet1654]

I agree wholeheartedly. They just don’t know it yet.

[@PlazaMoon]

Then watch something else?

[@ashd-h4911]

Nothing is for everyone. Embrace it.

[@paul43700]

Swans is for the children

[@lyd388]

see them 3 months later

[@eileenstubington8592]

Damn they are good

[@habitualrabbitsuicide6483]

God damned. This is music here.

[@Jannacek]

i miss watching swans live

[@christoroppolo8742]

Incredible. Killer! Peace Christo 👽🐕🎶🛸☮️

[@sadiesleepwalker646]

Gira and Swans is like a new kind of Bible' discovered. 💙

[@joerogan3079]

*WHY IS THIS THE BEST THING I HEARD IN MY LIFE?! WHAT*

[@figjuice8957]

i'm shook

[@Petrodemshere]

What is that instrument in hands of percussionist? Oddly shaped viola?

[@patrickmcnally5481]

That's a viola that he made himself.

[@mythoughtsonblank5769]

I have the seer vinyl that credits that as "hand made violin thingy"

[@literatureandmusic1272]

Now I sleep in the belly of woman And I sleep in the belly of man And I sleep in the belly of rhythm And I sleep in the belly of love I sleep in the belly of oceans I sleep in the belly of truth I sleep in the belly of kindness And I sleep in the belly of you I'm just a little boy I'm just a little boy I'm not human I'm not human I need love! I need love!

[@0nzer0]

No cellphones. Why cant every concert be like that?

[@6Mega6Man6]

Michael Gira probably spits on people with their phones out before even performing lmao

[@boulderdashcci]

if every concert was like Basilica, the world would be an alright place.

[@AliothSenator]

That's pretty much because your phone can explode into pieces.

[@haleywilson4111]

Endless Static Apparently he took someone's phone in the front row once.

[@TheCSJones]

I saw them last night and a bunch of people had their phones out. But there's really no point in recording the audio, at least, since there's no way to capture something that loud on a phone.

[@sonnymartinez5214]

I NEED LOVE

[@RichardQuirkmusic]

I'd love to hear a mix of this with just the lapsteel and percussion

[@andrewfragoso3174]

It’s a crime that there ads in this

[@jglovehart9021]

There use to not be in ads during this video. I use to watch this obsessively. It’s my favorite version of this song and cannot find any other recording of it. When they put ads on it, it crushed me. Ruins the whole experience.

[@nicknickson3650]

@@jglovehart9021 You know adblock exists, right? I haven't watched an ad on youtube in years

[@skirtboi]

9:50 stunning.

[@martinemmanuel386]

is it harvey keitel on slide guitare?

[@davidmckelvey2601]

What kind of pedals do they use?

[@michaelperry6641]

🤘🖤🤘

[@kameraadbonesoep]

Fuck! And I invested in synthesizers.;-)

[@AerikVon]

🖤🖤🖤🖤

[@kamilkowal9493]

6:53 fuckin killin it

[@leafloev]

I need love...

[@draganad.8351]

6:18

[@frankalbin8547]

Strong

[@stefanhristov514]

massive! TNX!!!

[@SLGHTRRR]

Can anyone explain to me why he has the tape on the switches of his guitar? Is it just so that the switches do not accidentally move?

[@Jacksmusicshack]

Likely sooo! I'd do the same!

[@koukouvania]

n o s p a c e s

[@elemeclipse]

I'm a minor in Australia, which means I have 0% chance of seeing them live. Fuck.

[@iain2080]

elemeclipse same 17 and had tests on the same day on 28/5. Missed em if only I was a year older coulda caught them

[@mjrleaguesweetie]

Are Swans available for bar mitzvahs

[@SatieSatie]

Yes

[@mrlevinielsen]

They should do a collab with Weird Al

[@el_mal_de_ojo]

So far I've missed 2 of the 3 shows they've put on in London while I've lived here, crucially they were during their comeback incarnation. Legitimately one of my biggest regrets. Seeing them on all 3 dates next year to try to make up for it, but never having seen this live (or A Little God in My Hands) is depressing.

[@robertmunro5382]

hail

[@pengefikseret]

This is SO much closer to the original idea of the blues than those shit "show off" guitar players like Eric Clapton or Gary Moore. Drony, slow and sloppy!! Listen to guys like Muddy Waters,Son House, Robert Johnson (or Howlin Wolf for that matter) and you will see what i mean. Pure emotion!

[@theneovas1]

Wtf? You're fucking wrong, blues is a feeling not a fucking category Fuck off

[@jonajon91]

+theneovas1 And this has oodles more feeling than any shred blues player.

[@TeaDrinker3000]

+theneovas1 The studio version of the song is called "Just a little boy (for chester burnett)". Chester Burnett is the blues musician Howlin Wolf. The song is literally a tribute to blues music.

[@kaisertita8224]

but...you just categorized blues as A feeling

[@kaisertita8224]

i refer to you asian dude

[@MinecraftandDerps]

Does anyone know the tuning/chords he's (being Michael Gira) playing?

[@TheStingOfDeath]

+MinecraftandDerps I can tell you for sure, the tuning is standard with the low E dropped to a B.

[@MinecraftandDerps]

nice! Thanks!

[@atarirob]

I'm sure he plays in Drop D (i.e, the low E dropped down to D), as does the rest of the band, but Ben might be right...It sure sounds like a drop B in this song.

[@sohamsengupta6470]

@@atarirob That's actually not what a drop B is but yeah there really is no name for the tuning

[@atarirob]

Soham Sengupta ok.

[@propoytsa]

In fact Live performance better studio version

[@jamesbrousseau2736]

Holy Fucken Shyt.....

[@southendbusker7534]

i do graffiti late at night to this

[@cardenas8995]

When will they stop tunning their instruments?

[@synthmalicious7541]

My god this just sounds loud