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

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  • Swans perform "Just a Little Boy" at Basilica Soundscape 2014.
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ความคิดเห็น • 307

  • @sunnowo
    @sunnowo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +907

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

    • @TheTheode
      @TheTheode 5 ปีที่แล้ว +51

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

    • @williamyule3418
      @williamyule3418 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😯😯

    • @williamyule3418
      @williamyule3418 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TheTheode 😲😳

    • @notsanger
      @notsanger 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

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

    • @markbosink4434
      @markbosink4434 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The dog would bark!!!

  • @Tokiofritz
    @Tokiofritz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +440

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

    • @croinkix
      @croinkix 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Nathalie Neal's a more fitting wedding song

    • @afterceasetoexist
      @afterceasetoexist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

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

    • @estebanb7166
      @estebanb7166 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @derekamarpreet
      @derekamarpreet ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That is my kind of wedding

    • @chriswilliams7928
      @chriswilliams7928 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That does not surprise me.😂😂😂

  • @spencerbracey2373
    @spencerbracey2373 4 ปีที่แล้ว +119

    Lowfi Hiphop- beats to relax/study to

  • @xntruth9131
    @xntruth9131 8 ปีที่แล้ว +187

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

  • @Garentei
    @Garentei 8 ปีที่แล้ว +473

    Evil blues.

  • @pitstopchr
    @pitstopchr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +364

    They should do a david lynch soundtrack

    •  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      listen to david lynch's album "the big dream"!

    • @spiral-blast
      @spiral-blast 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      tottally!!

    • @IliasPiperis
      @IliasPiperis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

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

    • @sethmoore8484
      @sethmoore8484 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@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 TH-cam channel and appearance on the Flying Lotus album.

    • @Laizerdisk
      @Laizerdisk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@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

  • @el_mal_de_ojo
    @el_mal_de_ojo ปีที่แล้ว +20

    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.

  • @kvltslime2261
    @kvltslime2261 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

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

  • @transcribeded
    @transcribeded 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

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

  • @iancampbell1411
    @iancampbell1411 9 ปีที่แล้ว +336

    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

    • @BloodIncantationTab
      @BloodIncantationTab 9 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Ian Campbell Christoph is the definition of badass

    • @CB-qg3yh
      @CB-qg3yh 6 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      He is a pretty sinister looking dude

    • @123artish
      @123artish 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

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

    • @tomatedesign1976
      @tomatedesign1976 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @ididgt4259
      @ididgt4259 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      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.

  • @complications9718
    @complications9718 9 ปีที่แล้ว +76

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

  • @tw33z7
    @tw33z7 9 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    No lightshow. Fantastic.

    • @transcribeded
      @transcribeded 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

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

    • @malcolm_mal2055
      @malcolm_mal2055 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      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.

  • @justinpontani3950
    @justinpontani3950 10 ปีที่แล้ว +54

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

  • @Weifs
    @Weifs 8 ปีที่แล้ว +128

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

    • @sambennie5160
      @sambennie5160 8 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      hes always like that lmao

    • @19billythekid69
      @19billythekid69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      He always do ;) !

    • @zlessly
      @zlessly 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      really channeling howlin' wolf here

    • @westernhemlock
      @westernhemlock 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Channeling Joseph

  • @nathjcaldeira
    @nathjcaldeira 9 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    Will I ever be blessed enought to see them live?

    • @nathjcaldeira
      @nathjcaldeira 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      enough*

    • @Divuar
      @Divuar 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @bobsbigboy_
      @bobsbigboy_ 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @numberfive3323
      @numberfive3323 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @leomonteiro4612
      @leomonteiro4612 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Vai mano, tenha fé

  • @MrBurndonesinkchair
    @MrBurndonesinkchair 6 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    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
      @Jacksmusicshack 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @nick5839
      @nick5839 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @123artish
    @123artish 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

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

  • @harrisonwintergreen1147
    @harrisonwintergreen1147 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    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

  • @aarongtr180
    @aarongtr180 9 ปีที่แล้ว +116

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

    • @Cugelclever
      @Cugelclever 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I was thinking Lou Reed.

    • @themoon8321
      @themoon8321 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @kazimierzgarshin3924
    @kazimierzgarshin3924 9 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    For Chester Burnett: honour where honour is due.

  • @anttam117
    @anttam117 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

  • @Mantooth901
    @Mantooth901 5 ปีที่แล้ว +195

    Mom: Go to bed
    Me: 6:44

    • @hermano_mario
      @hermano_mario 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I think about this comment a lot. 😂

  • @stengah69
    @stengah69 8 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    i cried when i heard this live

    • @TheSnoClan
      @TheSnoClan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Even the Cover-Art cried :D

  • @MihaelPinter
    @MihaelPinter 8 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    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
      @SpaceCadetZgb 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @MihaelPinter
      @MihaelPinter 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      SpaceCadetZgb i know man.tnxs

  • @xTheOxx
    @xTheOxx 10 ปีที่แล้ว +266

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

    • @matthewbritt8498
      @matthewbritt8498 9 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      Seriously. In need of more decent quality live swans

    • @henrycurtis3652
      @henrycurtis3652 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Do you know if they ever released it?

    • @transcribeded
      @transcribeded 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @josh-rz3uq
      @josh-rz3uq 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@transcribeded How long did your ears ring afterwards?

    • @transcribeded
      @transcribeded 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@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.

  • @NPC.6
    @NPC.6 10 ปีที่แล้ว +17

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

  • @floridtv
    @floridtv 9 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    so pure.

  • @TheCSJones
    @TheCSJones 9 ปีที่แล้ว +239

    This absolutely kills the album version.

    • @henrycurtis3652
      @henrycurtis3652 5 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      Which is saying something.

    • @bee-nf5bj
      @bee-nf5bj 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@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
      @oryangoat5915 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

    • @19billythekid69
      @19billythekid69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      agree

    • @t0ypuddl3
      @t0ypuddl3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @Kapila
    @Kapila 10 ปีที่แล้ว +57

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

  • @SatieSatie
    @SatieSatie ปีที่แล้ว +1

    PLEASE PLEASE come to Vienna! We love you here.

  • @justinmikko1321
    @justinmikko1321 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

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

  • @iamdamosuzuki_
    @iamdamosuzuki_ 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

  • @jerrys1
    @jerrys1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

  • @paragraphs7235
    @paragraphs7235 8 ปีที่แล้ว +143

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

    • @mihalyponyiczki1855
      @mihalyponyiczki1855 8 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      and Ian Curtis lol

    • @emanuelleyzaola3364
      @emanuelleyzaola3364 8 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      and portishead and pj harvey ...

    • @Guadeloop
      @Guadeloop 6 ปีที่แล้ว +45

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

    • @aglorklmeel9425
      @aglorklmeel9425 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      i was thinking the same

    • @mitchelwalsh5356
      @mitchelwalsh5356 6 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      the timestamp you posted doesn’t exist

  • @nellevw2950
    @nellevw2950 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    9:55 this shot is beautiful

  • @gimmedataids
    @gimmedataids 5 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    "IJATALIOBOI!!!!"

  • @aye2you
    @aye2you ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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.

  • @SuperDuckPro
    @SuperDuckPro 9 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    10/10

  • @alwaysnegative211
    @alwaysnegative211 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

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

  • @minhaz252
    @minhaz252 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is masterpiece!

  • @sampitman3630
    @sampitman3630 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i’m so glad this exists

  • @loubest3935
    @loubest3935 9 ปีที่แล้ว +89

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

    • @capitantomate9014
      @capitantomate9014 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @Laleen Darshika so he is smart and evil

    • @jglovehart9021
      @jglovehart9021 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

  • @dashwig
    @dashwig 6 ปีที่แล้ว +238

    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
      @CJCJCJCJ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

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

    • @benw3029
      @benw3029 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @sweetsoul3145
      @sweetsoul3145 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @ForgotFuckIt
      @ForgotFuckIt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Devilled Eggs you mean vol 2

    • @sweetsoul3145
      @sweetsoul3145 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      space pirate Ye

  • @losophy4588
    @losophy4588 9 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    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
      @qualityinvestingmx 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @vinyldiary6664
      @vinyldiary6664 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@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
      @22z83 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Bruh you can't trip to this you would die

  • @jackal59
    @jackal59 9 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    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
      @joakinsa 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @CCornellE
      @CCornellE 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +jackal59 Genesis P-Orridge? Please, no.

    • @jackal59
      @jackal59 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @xTheOxx
      @xTheOxx 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @anickner1178
      @anickner1178 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      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.

  • @trklsswndr
    @trklsswndr 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    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...

  • @19billythekid69
    @19billythekid69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Beautiful

  • @eyesintheroad
    @eyesintheroad 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I wanna see them live so bad

  • @MejorContoneo
    @MejorContoneo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    IM JUST A LITTLE BOY

  • @fantasmaatriste
    @fantasmaatriste 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    So intense and increible.

  • @Tommy-oy7sm
    @Tommy-oy7sm 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Sounds even better live.

  • @xTheOxx
    @xTheOxx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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!

  • @tomt5745
    @tomt5745 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Brutal beauty :)

  • @AerikVon
    @AerikVon ปีที่แล้ว

    🖤🖤🖤🖤

  • @BeebopConnard
    @BeebopConnard 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    never heard a lapsteel guitar that sounded so evil .

    • @bobsbigboy_
      @bobsbigboy_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      the one and only Kristof Hahn

    • @zlessly
      @zlessly 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

  • @AndrewWells
    @AndrewWells 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fantastical...

  • @lyd388
    @lyd388 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    see them 3 months later

  • @corehero9580
    @corehero9580 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Norman just gets paid to stand there

  • @madlipzjagd5378
    @madlipzjagd5378 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    There is heavy and there is swans heavy.

  • @cadexus
    @cadexus 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Why is Dr. House on the drums?

  • @spiral-blast
    @spiral-blast 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    fuckin insane, i love this performance,

  • @eileenstubington8592
    @eileenstubington8592 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Damn they are good

  • @skirtboi
    @skirtboi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    9:50 stunning.

  • @seansabu310
    @seansabu310 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Kristophs tone near the end makes me wanna eat myself

  • @Petrodemshere
    @Petrodemshere 10 ปีที่แล้ว +23

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

    • @patrickmcnally5481
      @patrickmcnally5481 10 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      That's a viola that he made himself.

    • @mythoughtsonblank5769
      @mythoughtsonblank5769 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

  • @figjuice8957
    @figjuice8957 ปีที่แล้ว

    i'm shook

  • @Jannacek
    @Jannacek 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i miss watching swans live

  • @joerogan3079
    @joerogan3079 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @sonnymartinez5214
    @sonnymartinez5214 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I NEED LOVE

  • @pliozhkapliozhkapliozhkapl7414
    @pliozhkapliozhkapliozhkapl7414 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    One day they will come to Kazakhstan. hopefully 🤞🏻

  • @habitualrabbitsuicide6483
    @habitualrabbitsuicide6483 9 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    God damned. This is music here.

  • @RichardQuirkmusic
    @RichardQuirkmusic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @michaelperry6641
    @michaelperry6641 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    🤘🖤🤘

  • @draganad.8351
    @draganad.8351 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    6:18

  • @christoroppolo8742
    @christoroppolo8742 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Incredible. Killer! Peace Christo 👽🐕🎶🛸☮️

  • @sadiesleepwalker646
    @sadiesleepwalker646 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @literatureandmusic1272
    @literatureandmusic1272 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    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!

  • @frankalbin1957
    @frankalbin1957 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Strong

  • @0nzer0
    @0nzer0 10 ปีที่แล้ว +163

    No cellphones.
    Why cant every concert be like that?

    • @6Mega6Man6
      @6Mega6Man6 10 ปีที่แล้ว +81

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

    • @boulderdashcci
      @boulderdashcci 9 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

    • @AliothSenator
      @AliothSenator 9 ปีที่แล้ว +17

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

    • @haleywilson4111
      @haleywilson4111 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

    • @TheCSJones
      @TheCSJones 9 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      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.

  • @martinemmanuel386
    @martinemmanuel386 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    is it harvey keitel on slide guitare?

  • @davidmckelvey2601
    @davidmckelvey2601 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    What kind of pedals do they use?

  • @leafloev
    @leafloev 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I need love...

  • @kamilkowal9493
    @kamilkowal9493 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    6:53 fuckin killin it

  • @mjrleaguesweetie
    @mjrleaguesweetie ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Are Swans available for bar mitzvahs

  • @spinkicker27
    @spinkicker27 10 ปีที่แล้ว +113

    Swans is not for everyone.

    • @saturatedneowax
      @saturatedneowax 5 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Swans is for everyone

    • @aleksifradet1654
      @aleksifradet1654 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @PlazaMoon
      @PlazaMoon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Then watch something else?

    • @ashd-h4911
      @ashd-h4911 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Nothing is for everyone. Embrace it.

    • @paul43700
      @paul43700 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Swans is for the children

  • @SLGHTRRR
    @SLGHTRRR 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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?

  • @stefanhristov514
    @stefanhristov514 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    massive! TNX!!!

  • @kameraadbonesoep
    @kameraadbonesoep 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fuck! And I invested in synthesizers.;-)

  • @deepstateandy
    @deepstateandy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It’s a crime that there ads in this

    • @jglovehart9021
      @jglovehart9021 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      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
      @nicknickson3650 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @MinecraftandDerps
    @MinecraftandDerps 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @TheStingOfDeath
      @TheStingOfDeath 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @MinecraftandDerps
      @MinecraftandDerps 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      nice! Thanks!

    • @atarirob
      @atarirob 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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
      @sohamsengupta6470 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @atarirob
      @atarirob 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Soham Sengupta ok.

  • @koukouvania
    @koukouvania 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    n o s p a c e s

  • @robertmunro5382
    @robertmunro5382 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    hail

  • @pengefikseret
    @pengefikseret 9 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    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
      @theneovas1 9 ปีที่แล้ว +18

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

    • @jonajon91
      @jonajon91 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @TeaDrinker3000
      @TeaDrinker3000 9 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      +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
      @kaisertita8224 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      but...you just categorized blues as A feeling

    • @kaisertita8224
      @kaisertita8224 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      i refer to you asian dude

  • @el_mal_de_ojo
    @el_mal_de_ojo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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.

  • @propoytsa
    @propoytsa 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    In fact Live performance better studio version

  • @jamesbrousseau2736
    @jamesbrousseau2736 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Holy Fucken Shyt.....

  • @mrlevinielsen
    @mrlevinielsen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    They should do a collab with Weird Al

  • @BarronVonSchnoot
    @BarronVonSchnoot 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I find it fascinating that swans is so concerned with having an image. I mean, I would not be surprised if all the gear onstage belonged to Michael Gira and he just hires people that “look the part”

  • @cardenas8995
    @cardenas8995 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When will they stop tunning their instruments?

  • @arabian_coffee
    @arabian_coffee 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @iain2080
      @iain2080 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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