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Aug. 15th, 2013|02:34 pm |
Kevin Shields par 'You made me realise' dziesmas TO daļu. Nu jūs zinat par kuru. (Ja tomēr nē, tad aizejiet uz MBV koncertu)
It came from two different directions. Pretty much what it was is that we had a song in 1987 called "Claire." We would tour and play these kind of student venues and stuff. One particular place, there were these guy playing pool in the background, shouting amongst themselves and being quite loud and not paying attention. Before we played the song, I said to the band, "Let's just do it until those guys stop." There's a certain two-chord riff that goes on. After twenty or thirty minutes of that, it started getting under their skin. It was kind of fun to use music as a kind of waking up kind of thing.
We did the song "You Made Me Realize" and the middle section is more a kind of Sonic Youth-y/Beatles kind of mish-mash. It was only thirty seconds long. Then, in '89, we were in a studio which was attached to an art gallery. At night, it was an art gallery, and in the daytime, it was a empty. We pulled our amps into the large art gallery, and Colm and me basically made a huge noise for the sake of it for our own pleasure.
We just kept on doing it and doing it, and the strip lights were shaking, and the pictures were shaking, and everything was rattling and shaking. We just started giggling, and then we kept on doing it, and it was over an hour later before we stopped. We just found that something happened in that long process of sounds that took us somewhere else. We were like children, and we couldn't stop laughing and smiling.
In the meantime, the owner of the studio had been trying to get in for half an hour because he had heard the noise from half a mile away. He couldn't get in because we had locked the door, and when we finally stopped, we heard this banging noise and when we answered the door, the guy was extremely angry, but we were laughing so much and so happy that he couldn't really get angry with us. It was like we were on this crazy drug. So we started incorporating that kind of idea live, basically.
It transformed the feeling when we did it. It wasn't so much about noise; it was something that eventually put you into a sort of trance state. So we did that on tour and some of the longer versions we did forty minutes of it. Sometimes it would be about doing it until the whole room, basically, finally came in to it. It became less about that and more about how it felt on stage. Now, because it became a kind of cliché, sometimes we do only short versions. It's something that can be long, it can be short. So now it's totally free form and there's no concept behind it.
Sometimes it feels good to do it for a long time, and sometimes not. But on the other hand, it became something expected, and it became less about something transforming people and more like a spectacle, and now it's been freed up to be something that's two minutes long or whatever feels right. It's not about trying to do anything to anybody. It just is what it is on that day. Half of our songs can go to various lengths because that's how it is. |
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