The Verve Live Camden Town Hall 10 23 1992 Storm In Heaven
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- Опубліковано 12 лют 2017
- Transcendent performance by Verve at the peak of their powers
A high quality DVD of this performance is available on the recently released Storm in Heaven Deluxe 4 Disc Box Set
This entire show makes me cry. It’s just heavenly.
They make me cry all the time. I just can’t cope with the beauty.
Nick McCabe is a genius, but I think we all know that
Verve circa 1992-1993 were the coolest band of the decade. The early singles/B-sides (All in the Mind, One Way to Go, Man Called Sun, She's a Superstar, Feel, Gravity Grave, Endless Life) and Storm in Heaven are the Verve at their psychedelic peak. Nick McCabe's guitar on this version of The Sun, The Sea is absolutely mindblowing! Storm in Heaven was the high, Northern Soul and Urban Hymns were the inevitable crash.
agree, there's nothing touch 92-93 era Verve. there's still moments of greatness on A Northern Soul and Urban Hymns. but they are moments, fleeting...
RainyDayMerman No one can deny Storm in Heaven's raw perfection. But Northern Soul is littered with exceptional songwriting and an emotional honesty that cannot be ignored. Urban Hyms is a mixed bag though it's overall very well constructed (with the exception of Bittersweet Symphony which sucks). Meanwhile, Forth had some amazing moments with the likes of Columbo and Love is Noise along with a few lost tracks like Muhammad Ali. Even so, what we lost in the early nineties Verve is undeniable. They were unquestionably too good to be true.
RainyDayMerman ... no doubt!!..
Absolute Fact! but then they stopped the well moderated use of psychedelics... ego explosion, boring music about cognitive dissonance. couldnt be helped :s
It all went wrong when Nick stopped using the 335
Nick McCabe is like a guy who creates balloon animals with sound, except way more elegant and complex than that. You know what I mean? You ask him to create something and BOOM, sound sculpture. Like what he plays at the end of the first line of South Pacific 28:07 - it's the sound of one of those amazing curling waves that people surf on. Like, Ashcroft gives him a theme and he sculpts his sounds to fit the idea. He's a fucking genius and SO SO underrated. The two of them collaborating is basically the best thing ever (not to put down the rest of the band!). Ashcroft's melodies and poetry combined with McCabe's interstellar space-voyaging is heaven, to me.
I sat literally gape-jawed the first time I watched this performance, unable to believe what I was hearing/seeing. You can see the audience reacting the same way at certain points, just stunned. At their best this band made it up to a higher level of existence, and that's why they're my favourite. So much love for Verve.
(If you have the opportunity, watch this gig while stoned - your head will fall off.)
mcCabe..touched by genius.
A Rare soul.
I honestly felt like I was dying while watching this. Amazing.
The closest thing I've ever felt to my mind literally exploding
I can't believe their early stuff hasn't gotten more attention. I have never heard anything like it
@@icouch it got a lot of attention especially the whole indie, nme scene at the time, the music press thought they were God's but i know what you mean.
To make it mainstream they had to become more of simple pop band banging out 5 chord rock songs with McCabe taking more of a back seat which was criminal.
the amazing thing about ASIH, in my opinion, is the clear aural landscapes it paints. there is a LOT of things happening on each track; i could go on and on. lots of tones, effects , assorted instruments, production trickery. each track is like a painting or movie. for example : "star sail" makes me thinks of asteroids, nebulas..., "already there" sounds aquatic, with images of sea creatures, "beautiful mind" is like a fairy tale snowscape,etc....
Nick McCabe's guitar on this live version of "The Sun, The Sea" makes my jaw drop to the fuckin' floor!
This band is utterly original, a one off which will never be repeated. There is no one else like them.
man called sun...............outstanding performance. mccabe guitar on this is peak mccabe...so dreamy and beautiful x
binge watching all storm in heaven live shows , as it was a life changeing moment seeing them on their first US tour
For me too. Boston Mass. The Paradise. Mind blown. Never recovered...
cultofmara really jealous.
0:00 - Slide Away
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6:37 - All in the Mind.
10:51 - She's a Superstar.
17:41 - Untitled/Staring Stranger.
21:37 - A Man Called Sun.
27:22 - South Pacific.
30:44 - Already There.
35:37 - The Sun, The Sea.
44:01 - Gravity Grave.
❤
The real beauty of this and their 92 performances is that they were still trying to find their feet and develop their tracks, so the compositions of the tracks changed every performance and were more improvised. Once they recorded the tracks for the album, the composition of the tracks remained the same for live performances, resulting in less improvisations overall.
I like this period of The Verve much more than what they became later!
I remember seeing Verve in Detroit 1992 a few times. Those live shows blue my freaking mind!....
Transindental. Outstanding by far. Talent at it's finest. Mesmorizing. Affixating. A pure trip. ☄🌠
Sounds great on headphones. cheers!
The best band of the 90's
best ever!!!!
@@stephenmccartney1606 !
This is my favorite concert the Verve ever did! My favorite song...Already There! I freaking love it! I am feeling Richard Ashcroft that night myself! Nick & Simon both created that special aura only the Verve could do when Richard was jamming & they filled in. They belong together! PEACE & LOVE! I totally dig this!
I was there and discovering this footage has made me so happy. Every single song is incredible and the quality of the sound is amazing.
Can’t believe it’s *almost* 30 years old. Love it so much
A lost classic of a concert!
this should be in a museum of the greatest ever. thanks boys !
I love your words man, makes me glad to know others hear this EXACTLY as me x
The verve + psilocybin = god
Esto es un verdadero tesoro, muchísimas gracias 🌹🌷🌺🌸🌻🌼💮
The girl with the gorgeous hair playing flute on "Gravity Grave" is Yvette Lacey. This concert was late October 1992. During December 1992 - January 1993, Verve recorded Storm in Heaven. Yvette Lacey played flute on "Virtual World".
Fucking great, best quality of this show you can find, the best show of the band ever.
The best quality is the DVD release of this show which was included with last year's A Storm in Heaven boxset.
The only downside is that they cut "Staring Stranger" out, but still, the audio and video quality is excellent.
Transport me back to the nineties. Great times
Mmm, memories half remembered in a dream
Verve is awesome! Amazing performance! Great concert lighting too!
_SIR MCcabe SERIOUSLY ROCKS 🎩_
They were stupendous. Just another level. Early 90's was the 2nd coming of the 60's. Not sure it's ever coming back again.
I think it certainly can. What was the common element between these two eras? Entheogens: acid and weed in the 60s, and acid, weed, and ecstasy in the late 80s/early 90s. Psychedelics are good for the brain, and for creativity especially. Give artists access to them and better art results, as we've seen. Legalisation is coming... it's happening here where I live and will spread, and a huge boom of creativity will result.
The whole band in this vid are almost certainly tripping hard on acid (and probably some other things), and the results are pretty amazing!
@@WyldeRatttz LOFL. Apparently you've never tried to play music in front of a crowd while on acid. It's EXTREMELY difficult. The fact that they have kept the song structures intact means they CLEARLY are *not* on acid. Definitely some good weed likely, though.
@@takecareofyourshoess Sounds like it's extremely difficult for *you*, certainly.
@@WyldeRatttz I'm talking about *real* acid....not the half-fake shit you are probably used to taking. 90% of the "acid" out there these days isn't LSD at all.
Already there is EPIC
Excellent Verve from their best era. Thanks for the upload.
38:15 shows how people were schoked & completely lost in the ocean of the enigmatic performance.
Watching in isolation 2020
I just want to say, that girl on Gravity Grave has some amazing hair
This is quite simply the best live performance by any band. Unbelievable.
My friend, you need to acquaint yourself with Phish’s Big Cypress festival. 2 days - 12/30 and 12/31/99 where they did 3 sets the first day, and 2 the 2nd. But the 2nd set on 12/31/99 went from 11:35pm to sunrise. Non stop.
I love this show and it’s fucking awesome but Big Cypress is objectively the greatest concert ever. The band’s quality through the whole weekend is unprecedented. Basically all my favorite versions of songs come from that festival.
I suggest you start with the 12/30/99 Tweezer because the jam becomes a celestial space wash groove just like these guys :)
Thanks for uploading this man...
Merci pour cette merveille
WOW BIG THANKS FOR SHARING THIS!!!
The sun the sea ……the guitar from another dimension
@30:45 Already There...my favorite...
Outstanding.
I only ever got to catch them twice on their last tour when the majority of the tracks were from the later releases.
Would have loved to have caught Verve back then. Can you imagine seeing stage diving at a Ashcroft gig now?!
First port of call when i get my time machine up and running
@@mrtnpope Joining ya
_27:23__ .. SOUTH PACIFIC ..NIC McCabe !_
amazing!
Stephen Mccartney - I couldn’t agree more :)
Great. Thank you 🙏
I know that people in the know rate him, but McCabe should be up there with Squire, Marr etc
Man called Sun ☀️
great 😮
i want to hear nick do a ten minute solo....
well, u can see a band that really works hard.
shit man, I didn't even know they started in the early 90s.
still best bass line ever written
which one, mate?
slide away..:)
This version of She's A Superstar is what God listens to after he's had a bad day.
A great concert mix: "A Storm In Heaven" and "No come down". Am I wrong? I have never seen this show completely. Only bits ... So, you just have "killed" me, "Moon"!
What did they do to "The Sun The Sea" on the album....how come it's nowhere near as melodic as this version. This version is outstanding.
I felt the same about South Pacific.
The interviews for the "A Storm In Heaven" box set, the band discuss how they had trouble capturing their live sound on a record.
@@sjhdfbasndf986 I saw an interview with John Leckie who said the record company wanted them to have more structure and shorter songs, he said it would have been better to just let them play and record it. I was at this gig it was incredible.
Ol nick "Spacewhaleisms"
It's such a shame Star Sail wasn't in there.
It hadn’t been written at that time but Staring Stranger sounds similar, especially the intro
Oohhh
仙女跳大神
Slide Away
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All in the Mind
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She's a Superstar
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Staring Stranger
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A Man Called Sun
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South Pacific
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Already There
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The Sun, the Sea
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Gravity Grave
McCabe sounds like he is riding a dragon LOL!!!!!
Indeed he does. As a long time fan of all of these guys it simply isn't as transcendent an experience witnessed live without Nick McCabe on guitar...
they had a flute player for this show? or was it for a bunch of shows?
God, i love psychedelic improvisation. Improv and jamming is the heart of music for me.
i gave nick his first walkings copycat
Its 2023, are there any bands out there that sound remotely like Verve at the height of their creative powers?!?!?
Not that I know of sadly
@@kinggeedorah9228majesty crush is very similar to the Verve
The Verve at their best Amazing indeed !
Buen concierto para fumar porros y beber chelas 3 dias!!! Viva el R&R!
LSD
Is "Verve" not "the verve"
Do we have any info on the guitar rig for this? I’d love to know how these sounds are getting made
Sounds like just a delay and fuzz
@@jamesrodriguez8155 i mean..... yeah obviously lol but I'm curious what specific pedals.
@@Gumbo72203 try looking up his gear in their early career. Aside from that specific pedals really arent all that important
@@Gumbo72203 if you can get the sound pretty close, thats as good as gettin it exact which is a waste of time and money
@@jamesrodriguez8155 thats selling it very short. There's a lot of flanger and chorus also.
01. Slide Away
02. All In the Mind
03. She's a Superstar
04. untitled (Staring Stranger)
05. A Man Called Sun
06. South Pacific
07. Already There
08. The Sun, The Sea
09. Gravity Grave
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