rbally: Live Music Feast… and Mogwai
[editor's note: rbally.net has closed its doors. See my comments below.]
rbally.net is the best thing since iPods and 42″ plasmas, and it features (free) mp3 tracks of live shows. I recently dug into Mogwai at the Gothic Theatre. [As I write this that URL is down. I'm hoping this situation is temporary.]
I’m going to turn this into a Mogwai thread somehow starting… well, now.
After listening to this live version of Glasgow Mega Snake (from their mostly-brilliant 2006 release Mr. Beast), I’m just shaken to the core. The song is all business; it’s an instrumental earthquake of the highest order. It’s brutal, melodic, stunning rock music.
It’s good on the studio album, but it’s even better live IMHO. And it the show just happens to be at the venue where I saw the Pixies in 1990 and 1991 on their Bossanova and Trompe le Monde tours, respectively.
Incidentally, the sound on this live recording is outstanding.
Something is still broken on the site besides the link to the Mogwai page — notice the index page has no styles applied. Hmmm.
I’ll keep an eye on it.
Ahrg! It’s done.
“And then, that’s it for the site . . . thanks to everyone who stopped by and supported rbally.”
Here’s what it used to look like, pulled from Google’s cache.
I am not one for live recordings and bootlegs, but there are a few bands whose live work eclipses their studio work, Mogwai being one of the best. But in all honesty I have to say that GY!BE/Silver Mt. Zion whose recorded works are a league apart from most others, are the best of the bunch, and arguably the peel session, Hungover as the Queen in Maida Vale being the pinnacle of that live work.
Sigh. Now even Google’s cache of the site is gone (in my link 2 commonts above this one).
It was a good site while it lasted. If I find any others like it, I’ll be sure to let everyone know here at NWMB.
rbally is back by the way . . . and thanks for the shout (back in 2007).
Peace.