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The Magnificent Brotherhood of Eternal Love & the Happiness 2005-12-31
Mayday, Hamburg, Germany
Set 1
First set: Jam -> Lifetime, Kicksville, The golden road to unlimited devotion, Mind Garage, Streets of your town, The drifter, Old tattoo, My flash on you, Mimi’s tune, Can’t remember, Evil talking, Good lovin’
Second set: No mercy on ravers -> The trip, Psychosis, Camera, Cracker, Gun or run, Better hurry, Degeneration, Jam -> High flying bird, Are you happy?, A thing called love, Soma shop, Companions -> Turn on your lovelight -> Mountain Jam -> Turn on your lovelight
Encore: Good lovin’
Set 2

Set 3

Comment
New Year's Eve celebration Dead Head-style in Hamburg. With an old VW bus they borrowed from a collegue of Todde’s Brotherhood makes it to Hamburg through a heavy ice-strorm that makes traffic and road conditions very difficult to handle. Here in Hamburg at a small live music pub near the Fabrik Altona Germany’s Dead Heads celebrate NYE for the tenth year in a row and this time they have invited The Magnificent Brotherhood because the word about them as Dead cover band had spread beyond Berlin though at this point the band is already way past the cover band stage. With their original west coast 60s sound Brotherhood pleases the Dead Heads anyway and the band decides to pull off jams, Dead covers and rare songs galore tonight which the audience honours with good time dancing and “Weltklasse”-cheers! The band performs two sets and an encore -- with a total playtime of 210 minutes this is their longest show ever! The first set starts around 11 and stretchtes past midnight for some minutes minutes. After a break during which snacks are served the band takes the stage again around 1:15 am to perform another two hours of psychedelic rock. For any companion who digs long jams and improvisations generally this concert is a dream come true: a jam opens and segues seeamlessly into “Lifetime”. “The drifter” features mainly Kiryk going off on the guitar in best west coast language for 17 minutes and even the garage punk number “Old tattoo” opens up to a small jam during the finish. The first set ends with a monumental 20 min version of “Good lovin’” which the band pulls out of their pocket especially for tonight’s audience. They make it a very danceable version at first before going into a more dreamy and psychedelic mode. Kiryk forges ahead endlessly only interrupted by a lenghty drum and bass solo interlude.They get totally caught up in the momentum of this jam and thus they forget to wrap up the song by midnight, so the turn of the year occurs during the jam just before the conclusion. The second set opens with a very rare coupling of “No mercy” seguing tight into “The trip”, a cover-song, this is the only ever performance by Brotherhood to date. After the tune Kiryk welcomes the audience to the new year, to “1966”. They also debut Erik’s “Gun or run” tonight, soon a standard in every one of the band’s shows. The jam-centerpiece of the second set is a 17 minute version of “Better hurry” that finds Kiryk once more impersonating his Bay area heroes and wailing away tenderly with the most psychedelic chord- and notes progressions. Todde grooves elastically during this jam. And of course Erik gets a solo too. Yet another hot yet relaxed jam soon leads to a great version of the 60s classic “High flying bird”, first and only time ever covered by The Magnificent Brotherhood, Kiryk does the lead vocals wonderfully and movingly. A brief but vibrant “Companions” goes right into “Turn on your lovelight” to finish the second set in true Dead-1969-style. There is a very brief 20 seconds “Mountain jam”-tease during Kiryk’s intro solo. They let it shine for 16 min and in the middle of the song some technical troubles force them to bring the song to a halt and half a minute of silence occurs. Kiryk comments: “alte Instrumente, alte Probleme”. They pick up the jam agin with some blues guitar noodlings and the Kiryk introduces the chant “before we go home we wanna take you a little bit higher” and they increase the tempo and intensity again and wrap it up. Three minutes encore break with the people insisting on a Zugabe. Since the band has run out of material they repeat “Good lovin’” for the encore that lasts 17 minutes with a very interesting and way funky jam. An extraordinary and unique concert – the longest Brotherhood show ever – as well as a great NYE celebration featuring the band in in full west-coast-jam-band mode playing very rare songs and jams: this is most likely as close as The Brotherhood ever came to really being The Warlocks or the primal Dead! Out of sight!
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Sun Jul 15 2007 15:39:42 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
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Wed Nov 22 2006 15:56:19 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
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