Priest=Aura is such a masterpiece of a record. It's like a vast spiritual journey. In a way, it feels like the sequel to their ealier record Seance. But replace the gothic elements with a desertous wash of hues. Simply brilliant, as are all their records!!!
I am SO grateful that these shows were recorded. The audio is un fucking believable. When this gets released, it's going on the "epic" shelf, right next to Pink Floyd; Live at Pompeii.
FSBass, have you discovered some of their other great gems? Every album has a completely different atmosphere and some of their songs, in my opinion, should have been left on the shelf. However, Kilbey is one of the most prolific song writers ever, if not THE MOST. I recommend the songs "Locust", "Block", and "Belle in Mid-Air" for some other stuff you may not be familiar with, although "Belle" is not the Church.
that's a good point and I didn't realize it until I read your post. Since The Church is beyond all space and time, we may never know. I think I'll watch 'Aura' again and see who is playing what.
Yeah I think I was there at that one it reminds me of those big jams that used to do done usually one or two songs during a the gig where they just trailed out from one number into another partly improvised neo-psychedelic jam .but what I noticed was and I think I do remember that being there because of what a little twist it was that Steve was playing guitar not bass and Marty change from the Rickenbacker back to the jaguar big squalling wall of sound exit from another transcendental experience
@@richardroberson2564 It's a Fender Bass VI. It has a shorter scale length, 30 inch down from 34 on most basses and is usually tuned the same as a conventional guitar tuning, EADGBE, but an octave down and with thicker strings. Robert Smith from The Cure uses one, but more as a guitar.
Chrom, the Church does indeed transcend time & space. Long after you and I are taking dirt naps the chords of Ripple will linger on ... And, moreover, it ultimately matters not who is playing what ... but whether I am I aware.
oh yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Looks fucking incredible live!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wish I lived in Australia and had no job other than to follow The Church, Kilbey, and listen to great music. BYW: I love Isidore's album, where are those musicians from?
@@earjwee Fender don't make a "regular guitar" with that body shape, three straight set, single coil pickups, a Jazzmaster/Jaguar vibrato and a long neck with a Fender VI decal on the tuning head. It's a short scale 6 string bass they first marketed in the early 60s.
Steve is playing a regular 6 string guitar through a midi to make it a bass sound for this song as he did on the album. He had been trying that out at the time and wanted to make the sound the same for the live performance
And he's been using the Bass VI since 1984 - on most albums for melodies and some bass lines. P=A was the first (and only to my knowledge) album he used it as the exclusive bass instrument for all songs. It's basically a short scale bass tuned one octave higher than a standard bass - which suites Steve's playing fine since he usually plays in the mid to high registers anyway. But yeah - it's still a bass. Check Robert Smith of the Cure for another famous user. Particularly Pictures of You (lead melody) and lullaby - but there are heaps of others.
Hi! Fender Bass VI is not tuned one octave higher. It is tuned...as a bass (i.e one octave lower than a guitar) The low E of a guitar is on the 12th fret of the low E on a Fender VI (...at least mine is tuned that way!) 😉 This is a real bass guitar, the only frustration you can have with it is that you will miss some low end (not the best bass to use when you are playîng in a band with guitar players using a lot of drive/distorsion) and you can't slap it (even if I was always surprised to achieve hard popping on the low E string)... Moreover, the vibrato was a good idea... but is unfortunately nothing but a gadget (removed from mine as it was a huge root cause for undesired detuning...😩 now it is removed, bridge is working well...) Yet and despite these small issues, it's one of the bass that I prefer in my collection (sound and quality) even if it is hard to use it for a whole set for mix or dynamics purposes (a bass preamp is highly recommanded ... I will not perform any advert here but the one packaged in a black box with a tube, 2 green and yellow leds and a sounding French name is a good friend of the FVI 😉!!). -------------------------------------- NB: I've just discovered this band because I was looking for samples of FVI use...and this band is just an hidden treasure!! I've just bought the p=a album after watching the Aura video! Amazing and inspiring band!! 😛👍🏻
@@olivierroquelle8007 The vibrato used on the Bass VI is the same as is used on the Jazzmaster/Jaguar, which were the go to surf guitars because of their vibrato. I'm not sure why you think it's useless. It's the bridge that is usually changed to a mustang, mastery or staytrem unit.
@@ExternalInputs Hi! You’re totally right on the hardware! (I didn’t remember this post...3 years ago! 😄😄). I still love my Bass VI. Yet, even 3 years after 😀, I still notice tuning issues when my vibrato is on and I want to use it (even slightly). As my English is poor, when I wrote vibrato issue, for sure I’m considering the whole system, vibrato+plate+bridge. Yet, my bass VI is a Fender pawn shop I’ve bought the year they reissued it and this could be due to the model. As I use my FVI as a bass (as I play bass), removing the vibrato is not a real issue for my use. I mainly use my FVI for recordings as it is really well balanced in a mix (for bass lines). As said 3 years ago, and this is still true 😄, when you’re playing live with 2 loud guitarists, it’s hard for me to use it, and I’m using one of my active 5 strings instead! 😉 Are you using it for guitar lines? Do you enjoy it too?
I'm reading all the posts on here debating about Kilbey's bass. It's just that: a bass guitar. A Fender VI six string bass. www2.fender.com/experience/tech-talk/the-bass-vi-bass-or-baritone-guitar/
The Church's music is addictive, sensual, and hypnotic... A most wonderful and healthy obsession. May they never retire!
how you feel about the hypnogogue? i got to see The Church perform it live. it was incredible
Priest=Aura is such a masterpiece of a record. It's like a vast spiritual journey. In a way, it feels like the sequel to their ealier record Seance. But replace the gothic elements with a desertous wash of hues. Simply brilliant, as are all their records!!!
1000000%
The Church's music is mystifying and out of this world! I love their music! 🎵🎶
I am SO grateful that these shows were recorded. The audio is un fucking believable. When this gets released, it's going on the "epic" shelf, right next to Pink Floyd; Live at Pompeii.
Buckle Like a Wreck in the Cold Grey Sea
To me this the best effort from their library of many great songs.
Uno dei più affascinanti e potenti brani di psichedelia di sempre.
Never heard of this band until today. Really good discovery !
They are an experience..a journey..and an adventure..
FSBass Well they’ve only been around for about 35 years.
Welcome
FSBass, have you discovered some of their other great gems? Every album has a completely different atmosphere and some of their songs, in my opinion, should have been left on the shelf. However, Kilbey is one of the most prolific song writers ever, if not THE MOST. I recommend the songs "Locust", "Block", and "Belle in Mid-Air" for some other stuff you may not be familiar with, although "Belle" is not the Church.
I grew up listening them in Brazil, they are Notorious!
This video has 3 things I really really like :
1) A great song
2) A Bass VI in action
3) The set list written in sharpie on a tom skin :D
A Bass VI in burgandy mist, no less!
Amazing symphony. I adore.
Love the cordination between guitars...exellent
...at the end, a solo made up entirely of harmonics - awesome!!
Yeah and on a fender bass vi. With plenty of whammy bar action. Very unique.
that's a good point and I didn't realize it until I read your post. Since The Church is beyond all space and time, we may never know. I think I'll watch 'Aura' again and see who is playing what.
Fucken hell, that was amazing!
IMPECABLE!!
Yeah I think I was there at that one it reminds me of those big jams that used to do done usually one or two songs during a the gig where they just trailed out from one number into another partly improvised neo-psychedelic jam .but what I noticed was and I think I do remember that being there because of what a little twist it was that Steve was playing guitar not bass and Marty change from the Rickenbacker back to the jaguar big squalling wall of sound exit from another transcendental experience
Yeah, it's a six-string bass. Kilbey played one on the entire Priest=Aura album.
That is a interesting Bass. Seems like it has small string spacings.
@@richardroberson2564 It's a Fender Bass VI. It has a shorter scale length, 30 inch down from 34 on most basses and is usually tuned the same as a conventional guitar tuning, EADGBE, but an octave down and with thicker strings. Robert Smith from The Cure uses one, but more as a guitar.
@@ExternalInputs Robert Smith is who comes to mind when i think about artists who use VI's.. i never knew kilbey used one on P=A until now !
too good!
Nice jam!
Chrom, the Church does indeed transcend time & space. Long after you and I are taking dirt naps the chords of Ripple will linger on ... And, moreover, it ultimately matters not who is playing what ... but whether I am I aware.
Undeniably stratospherically orgeastique
oh yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Looks fucking incredible live!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wish I lived in Australia and had no job other than to follow The Church, Kilbey, and listen to great music. BYW: I love Isidore's album, where are those musicians from?
+chromiumveins Isidore is Steve's side project with Jeffrey Cain (formerly of Remy Zero).
not Jonathan Cain from Journey?? ha, ha. Thanks, dude!
J.Cain from America ...think Georgia or Alabama
Massive
Why is Steve Kilbey playing the guitar -- who is playing the bass? But this an awesome tune and well played! Thank you for posting. A mere ripple ...
Steve is playing a Fender VI, a 6 string bass actually
@@earjwee Fender don't make a "regular guitar" with that body shape, three straight set, single coil pickups, a Jazzmaster/Jaguar vibrato and a long neck with a Fender VI decal on the tuning head. It's a short scale 6 string bass they first marketed in the early 60s.
Steve is playing a regular 6 string guitar through a midi to make it a bass sound for this song as he did on the album. He had been trying that out at the time and wanted to make the sound the same for the live performance
It's not a "regular 6 string guitar" - it's Fender Bass VI
And he's been using the Bass VI since 1984 - on most albums for melodies and some bass lines. P=A was the first (and only to my knowledge) album he used it as the exclusive bass instrument for all songs.
It's basically a short scale bass tuned one octave higher than a standard bass - which suites Steve's playing fine since he usually plays in the mid to high registers anyway.
But yeah - it's still a bass. Check Robert Smith of the Cure for another famous user. Particularly Pictures of You (lead melody) and lullaby - but there are heaps of others.
Hi! Fender Bass VI is not tuned one octave higher. It is tuned...as a bass (i.e one octave lower than a guitar) The low E of a guitar is on the 12th fret of the low E on a Fender VI (...at least mine is tuned that way!) 😉
This is a real bass guitar, the only frustration you can have with it is that you will miss some low end (not the best bass to use when you are playîng in a band with guitar players using a lot of drive/distorsion) and you can't slap it (even if I was always surprised to achieve hard popping on the low E string)... Moreover, the vibrato was a good idea... but is unfortunately nothing but a gadget (removed from mine as it was a huge root cause for undesired detuning...😩 now it is removed, bridge is working well...)
Yet and despite these small issues, it's one of the bass that I prefer in my collection (sound and quality) even if it is hard to use it for a whole set for mix or dynamics purposes
(a bass preamp is highly recommanded ... I will not perform any advert here but the one packaged in a black box with a tube, 2 green and yellow leds and a sounding French name is a good friend of the FVI 😉!!).
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NB: I've just discovered this band because I was looking for samples of FVI use...and this band is just an hidden treasure!! I've just bought the p=a album after watching the Aura video! Amazing and inspiring band!! 😛👍🏻
@@olivierroquelle8007 The vibrato used on the Bass VI is the same as is used on the Jazzmaster/Jaguar, which were the go to surf guitars because of their vibrato. I'm not sure why you think it's useless. It's the bridge that is usually changed to a mustang, mastery or staytrem unit.
@@ExternalInputs Hi! You’re totally right on the hardware! (I didn’t remember this post...3 years ago! 😄😄). I still love my Bass VI.
Yet, even 3 years after 😀, I still notice tuning issues when my vibrato is on and I want to use it (even slightly).
As my English is poor, when I wrote vibrato issue, for sure I’m considering the whole system, vibrato+plate+bridge. Yet, my bass VI is a Fender pawn shop I’ve bought the year they reissued it and this could be due to the model.
As I use my FVI as a bass (as I play bass), removing the vibrato is not a real issue for my use.
I mainly use my FVI for recordings as it is really well balanced in a mix (for bass lines). As said 3 years ago, and this is still true 😄, when you’re playing live with 2 loud guitarists, it’s hard for me to use it, and I’m using one of my active 5 strings instead! 😉
Are you using it for guitar lines? Do you enjoy it too?
Who is the youngest man? Minute 4:06
Craig Wilson
@@bodgertime Thanks :)
Woof!!
it's either a 6 string bass or his guitar is playing through a bass effects pedal.that's my guess but he is 4 sure playing the bass lines.
I cant tell
why isn't Steve playing bass?
It is a bass--six string.
I'm reading all the posts on here debating about Kilbey's bass. It's just that: a bass guitar. A Fender VI six string bass. www2.fender.com/experience/tech-talk/the-bass-vi-bass-or-baritone-guitar/
that explains it! Cool. thanks for correcting me
WHAT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hey that homeless dude sure can play the guitar!
Woof!!!