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Poll Question: Which of Can's archive releases is best?
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    Posted: June 02 2025 at 04:45
It looks like Can won't be releasing any more archival live recordings, although plenty of bootlegs exist in the blogosphere. Anyway, which of the stand alone live releases is your favourite?

I haven't included The Lost Tapes, the Tago Mago reissue with bonus live material or The Peel Sessions in this poll because they aren't fully Live albums.
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Despite being a fan, I have only heard two of these, namely the first two. I like the Stuttgart one better. Happy to see recommendations out of the later five.
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I only own and know the Stuttgart concert - which is pretty awesome when I'm in the right mood.
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I have Stuttgart and Brighton and was disappointed with both. Voted for Box Music. The one I want to get though is the Paris concert from 1973.

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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Despite being a fan, I have only heard two of these, namely the first two. I like the Stuttgart one better. Happy to see recommendations out of the later five.


They're all worth hearing, but having spent a lot of time with them my approximate ranking is as follows:

If you like Stuttgart, then you will like Brighton 1975 as well.

Paris 1973 is 90 minutes of Damo Suzuki freakery, but the sound quality is less than pristine.

Keele 1977 is a decent slice of Saw Delight era Can with Rosko but not Rebop and is actually pretty good.

Aston 1977 is also from the same tour as Keele and is a single album's worth of similar fare to Keele.

Cuxhaven 1976 is the core quartet circa Flow Motion. It's pretty good, but the 30 minute playing time may leave you feeling short changed.

As I metioned, it doesn't look like there's anything else in the pipeline. I don't suppose there are any useable live bootlegs from the Malcolm Mooney era, which has been well documented on Delay 1968 and The Lost Tapes. It could be interesting to hear the 6 piece iteration with Rebop on percussion for the sake of completeness, but I doubt that Can's vault holds any more unheard treasures.

Edited by Syzygy - June 03 2025 at 03:25
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Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:


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It could be interesting to hear the 6 piece iteration with Rebop on percussion for the sake of completeness, but I doubt that Can's vault holds any more unheard treasures.


Hi,

There might be more stuff, but the issue might be, how does it fit, and how are folks going to react to it.

With this emphasis on the live stuff, it kinda states that the rest of the stuff is not going to be shown, YET, because there is no interest for it ... as an example, Holger stated that TAGO MAGO came from some 20 hours of material, and you take away the hour and a half for the album, there would still be some 18 hours of stuff, some of which might not be interesting at all ... but then, somehow some stuff in TAGO MAGO made it through and was cool ... but I think that the sentiment of the time and place and the way of the market, prevents the experimental stuff from being released or shown to anyone ...

I think we would find CAN to be a much more interesting band if that stuff that was not "live" was shown, but I'm not sure they want to release something that only 5 fans would appreciate! BUT, seeing more stuff that goes with the 2 long cuts on TAGO MAGO, would do a serious number on a lot of fans for the band.

My take is that there is a lot more neat and far out stuff in there, but the folks in charge, do not have a feel for it, and certainly not a Holger mindset for exploring and doing something outside of the regular, and popular, stuff! I would think that it is just like a Picasso in music ... but even in PA, I'm not sure that is going to fly very far.

Edited by moshkito - June 03 2025 at 06:15
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