Monster Magnet meddelar att de åker ut på turné och spelar deras första fullängdsalbum Spine Of God från 1991 i sin helhet. Förra året gjorde de fem Sverigekonserter då de spelade albumet Dopes To Infinity i sin helhet. Nu är det Linköpings och Gardens tur då de den 19 november alltså spelar hela Spine Of God tillsammans med sina största hits. Biljetterna släpps i morgon tisdag.
Vi låter Monster Magnets förgrundsfigur Dave Wyndorfs uttalande om turnén nedan tala för sig själv. Som support ser vi de progressiva tyskarna i My Sleeping Karma.
Linköping, vi ses i november!
”I’m happy to announce that Monster Magnet will be performing Spine of God in it’s entirety on tour this coming November.
“Spine was our first full length album and a big learning experience for us. What I recall most, though was the subject matter. I was a teenager in the early 70’s and my experiences and impressions of that time had stayed strong within me well into my mid twenties. Like anyone, I would tell stories of my childhood days to new friends and acquaintances but for some reason I could never really relate the almost mystical effect those days had on my adolescent mind.
To me, the late 60’s/early 70’s were colorful, sexy, scary and WEIRD..but like, cool-weird, y’know? Biker movies, Acid Rock, Jim Steranko comics, the first Black Sabbath albums, The Stooges, Hawkwind, black light posters, full frontal nudity, dope culture, muscle cars, the Manson murder trial, Hunter S Thompson ,Tom Wolfe, the Vietnam war and much, much more.
I had some pretty strange adventures back then…hung out with some pretty strange characters as well. 60’s Flower Power was dying, giving way to a hard bitten, burned out new age. Yeah, the psychedelic imagery was still there.. better than ever in fact. The drugs were there too…MORE than ever, in fact. But the bottom line had changed…There was no political agenda with the New Jersey dirt bag-freak crowd I hung out with…no “peace and love”. The whole point of the early 70’s (it seemed to us) was to get as stoned as possible and blow our minds by any means necessary. And that’s what we did.
And I’m damned lucky to have kept my brain.
In the late 80’s I began to write songs about my crazy teen-hood..it seemed to be the only way I could even adequately attempt to describe it… and when I joined Monster Magnet those songs became the foundation of the album, Spine Of God. It’s a distorted memoir of a time I thought would last forever but in reality was over before I could even understand it.
Played in it’s entirety, Spine is a noisy affair..fuzz boxes set on maximum, echo machines and phaze shifters morphing that distortion and carrying the stories of earth bound, Jersey burn-out culture into another dimension altogether. And, hey..if you listen close enough I swear you’ll feel the paranoid shivers of that bad acid kicking in.
This is going to be FUN, motherfuckers.. Bring your earplugs!”
– Dave Wyndorf
Datum:
19/11 Linköping, Garden.
Biljetter kostar 255kr och kan köpas via LiveNation samt Ticnet.
