Was just curious what everyone's fave part of the set (whichever tour, etc.) was.
My faves that I've witnessed were:
Live--> Intro (Tomorrow Never Knows) and the builds in The Reel
DJ --> Don't Stop the Rock/To a Nation Rockin mash
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Fave part of Chems gig (live + dj set)
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Posted 18 May 2008 - 1:27 PM
Well for me it must be my first show ever, back in february 2005. And it was that intro that really stuck in my head for a long time after this gig. I was yelling "fuckin yes" when I got my hands on the coachella show. It was like a revelation. I also loved the music response intro/track and the galvanize transition.
The reel as the closer was just a perfect moment that night.
Some months later, was it november?, I was blown away by Morning Lemon which was asked for so long to be played - finally it was! I couldn't trust my own ears. Those moments are pure magic.
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Posted 19 May 2008 - 12:44 AM
my fave was last years WATN tour!from elektrobank into chemical beats!
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=4a0dQdXiw3U
best viz....ever! and love the momentum before it starts!
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Posted 20 May 2008 - 1:43 PM
Pretty hard to answer
i would say for live shows, (1) the incredible break and insade build up of Believe in WATN tour best moment far away ! or DIA --> GYH/HBHG ! I should also add the 2004 transition between come inside & under the influence/ it doesn't matter. It's great. Perhaps the transition between Pills and WATN will be number one !
For dj set, i don't really now but the passage between Nine acre remix and Funk d'void's "jack off" is pretty good.
#13 whirly
Posted 20 May 2008 - 10:50 PM
Hmmm. This is one of those questions I've been mulling over since Darkstar started this thread.
I don't even know where to begin... or where I would stop once I started! And so much of what I hear is enhanced by the crowd response. So I need to joggle my memory.
I guess a good place to start would be the live bit of Hoops and Setting Sun from Fuji Rock that's on the Singles DVD. It gets me every time. Seeing the crowd bobbing up and down in one giant manic mass only adds to the intensity of the songs.
As for the live experience, that buzz signalling the start of Hey Boy Hey Girl will always be special. That was the first live Chems song I ever heard and the feeling was electric and magical.
Hearing Flashback live was pretty intense, too. That was in 1999 and the gig was well underway by that point. It was like being aurally assaulted - and I didn't even know what song it was because I hadn't started collecting singles/b-sides yet. I just kept thinking "what the hell is this? it sounds like spaceships are landing in my brain!" Pretty fun. Especially when the memory of hearing that song for the first time live came flooding back when I got my hands on the single/b-side.
It Doesn't Matter. When that bass drops to near brown-note levels, it feels like the earth is going to give way underneath your feet. Just one tiny pitch lower and that song could've levelled every standing structure within a 6 mile radius.
The Test. I suppose I am one of the lucky few here that got to witness that one live. As a closer, no less. I'll never forget stash's jaw hitting the grass when it first started playing. An awesome way to wrap up an awesome gig at an awesome festival!
Come Inside with the Chemical Beats "uh's" mixed in. I loved it! It was a cool way to add in some classic Chemical love to a new song (at the time).
Surface To Air. It was a really beautiful moment when this was playing, because it was as though everyone in the audience was in a trance. I had my eyes closed for some of it, completely lost in space and time. And when I opened my eyes I didn't know how long my eyes were actually closed. There was a great sea of outstretched arms raised toward the ceiling - and it sort of felt like being a fish swimming through this giant kelp forest (no I really wasn't that inebriated!!)
Hoops. It was as though Fuji Fest had made its way to Coachella. The swarms of birds being projected onto the sides and ceiling of the great tent we were congreated in was like being a part of another world. And those high pitched, shrill synth screeches felt like they were splitting through my soul. I get goosebumps just thinking about it!
We Are The Night. I just love the way the song is played out in a live setting, like it's being threaded together in pieces as this big melodic tapestry takes shape. I would love it if a live version of this song was officially released somehow because it's just too cool. Same with Do It Again.
Burst Generator. Someone once came by here a few months ago and mentioned this song's placement in the live set as being a catalyst to get the gig moving - and I think there is some truth to that. It's blast off! I rank this song pretty high and up there with some of the best the Chems have to offer, so hearing this loud and live was something words can't do justice for. Even now when I listen to this in my car or wherever, my heart starts to race a little. That said, this song would be epic peak if it came into the set a little bit later on - but I'm not complaining!
Uhhhmmm. Gawd. What else...
Oh yeah! The REEL! I could never forget the Reel. It moved me in ways a live song never moved me before. Ah, it was so beautiful. nuff said.
The Sunshine Underground. I guess everything comes full circle eventually. The Chems closed with this one at Coachella 1999, and they closed with it again last time around. It was smack dab in the middle of their set for the Come With Us tour when I saw them and it was beautifully showcased within the set each and every time. It was extra special at Nocturnal Wonderland because it was such a solid closer to such a solid and beautiful set.
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As for DJ sets, that's a tough one as so much time has passed since I last saw a Chems DJ set, and I'm kind of a crappy trainspotter. I will however never forget the first time I ever heard It Began In Afrika. I knew ahead of time to listen for the "It began in Afrika ka ka ka" so when I heard that deep voice ring out during the set I saw in 2001, I nearly lost my shit. I got my second wind and was jumping up and down like a little kid. Tom was mouthing the "Afrika ka ka" bits and both Tom and Ed were scanning the audience looking for a response. Sorry if the response might have been a tad lackluster but it was 900 million degrees in that tent and we'd been out roasting in the hot Coachella sun all damn day!
In 2003 the Chems mainly DJ'd their own material when I saw them out promoting their Singles release. I needed that night so bad. I just remember Tom and Ed taking the decks and putting on Get Yourself High and being so grateful I was able to make it to that show. And hearing the Ewan Pearson mix of The Golden Path gave me the best feeling I ever had watching and listening to a DJ set by anyone. stash and I were up there in the front singing along like the dorks we are, and it felt so good.
I think I need to stop...
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Posted 20 May 2008 - 11:57 PM
Hahahaha! Whirls, I do love you.
In response, I also love the Hoops->Setting Sun. In fact, I was listening to it today on my walk along the Embarcadero, and it got me rolling. ;-) It's hilarious because I definitely have the image of Tom putting his hand up in the air as he let in that awesome house beat, coming down like an immense, silky, velvet hammer on the crowd, their hands in the air in turn.
And The Sunshine Underground live elevated me to an ethereal plane when I first heard it in 2002, and brought me to tears when I last heard it in 2007.
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