complete genius on guitar rowland was. Rest In Peace Crowned Prince of the Crying Jag.

Oh how I miss the old Berlin. It almost feels like an entire world has faded away. It disappeared, leaving behind only an empty shell - and the imprint it left on me. These days, when I'm in the Oranienstraße, it's getting increasingly hard to remember how things looked back in the day. The now much shinier, renovated, upmarket facades, both of buildings and people, intrude and superimpose themselves over the memories that I still have of the area. As if they want to steal those memories from me. At least we still have those films. KZread is, in a way, the closest thing we have to a time machine.

RIP Tracy!!!

How beautiful Rowland looks here, and how beautiful Blixa looks too...strange and shocking to see them in the same studio together. At the time this video was made, they were the old guitar-doll and the new guitar-doll, and Blixa was on his way up and Rowland was on his way down.

Tracy Pews bass is so raw and menacing

Roland schooling Nick on Jennifer's veil is priceless.

@LardGargantuus

3 жыл бұрын

Writing the song in the studio hahaha, those days are long gone

@equalitygreen79

3 жыл бұрын

@@LardGargantuus Really?

@christophervan9634

2 жыл бұрын

@@equalitygreen79 an actual studio, yeah WAY to expensive, good thing everyone has one in their home now.

@MalMotorDedo

Жыл бұрын

Nick: ??? Rowland: LISTEN

Swamplands vocal performance is insane! I can’t imagine the pain he went through singing that, Nick really gave his all.

First time viewing this. Amazing. Wish I could travel back in time. RIP BEAUTIFUL Rowland.

Love those Fender Jaguars that Roland S used, the perfect guitar imho.

@nickfanzo

4 жыл бұрын

terrypussypower I need one

@equalitygreen79

3 жыл бұрын

He only used one.

@terrypussypower

3 жыл бұрын

@@equalitygreen79 You don’t say! I was sure he used two....one on each shoulder!

Aaah the pain of the end of the Birthday Party. ..end of an era!

@elizabethhann4028

4 жыл бұрын

Don'tc'cha just know it. [Rowland singing to Nick, or at any rate singing about him]: "The thrill is gone, the thrill is gone away..."

@Bavodekat

9 ай бұрын

And i was at the funeral of en and the bp..i thought i was not good blixa and nick...together..things where awesome in 1982..en+ bp best live bands .cramps and swans too

Wow! Swampland! The Birthday Party eps have to be close to the greatest ever recorded...

Watching this at 3am in the midst of a depression episode is a bad idea but at leAST NICK IS ENTERTAINING

@PolarBear-rc4ks

3 жыл бұрын

Hey hope you're doing better now?

@fulanderson

3 жыл бұрын

Devotees unite in a secret cult at 3am to see nick messing around

@browncringe

2 жыл бұрын

what the fuck, in the same exact situation as of the moment,.. hope you are okay

@missyjordan909

Ай бұрын

Same but 3 years later and it’s only 11 pm

RIP Rowland! what a fuckin genius

Wonderful document.... brings back the rawness, the times and the people that were so integral to my love of this era...Thanx

Crikey!! Thank you for downloading this....The BP in '83 were as good as any band I've ever seen!!....Respect due from this Old Goth

Poor Rowland

@cazzin_

9 жыл бұрын

junquecousteau Ye know it, man

@elizabethhann4028

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed. Blixa Bargeld - "all wrapped up in his black rubber and seat-belts like a beauty-queen from another planet..." as Genevieve McGuckin said - had crashed into Nick's life, and would soon enough replace Rowland in Nick's affections.

The song is "Jennifer's Veil", the band is BIRTHDAY PARTY, the record they are making ended up being called "Mutiny!".

I love mutiny in heaven, love the harrowing scream at the beginning! Genius working... Thanks for this.

The idea of the song is expressed so clearly that you don't need the master take to be moved by the documentary.

I'm still in love with this band over 30 years later. I didn't find out about them until 4 years after the demise. Would have really loved to have seen em live.

@Bavodekat

9 ай бұрын

I followed them on tour when i was 16😊

@ItsaDaPope-a

9 ай бұрын

@@Bavodekat very nice! If they were around when I was 16, I would have done the same thing!

@Bavodekat

8 ай бұрын

@@ItsaDaPope-a believe me the bad seeds are plain boring compared to the Bp on tour😃

Woah, what a treat this video is. Thank you!

I love it at 2:05 when Tracy gets on the drum kit. What is it that all the kids say these days..?...'like a boss'...? He just grooves effortlessly right from the start.

Imagine how much more interesting the world of music would be if more bands split up in their prime. The Birthday Party are a shining example of this. A truly unique band. Heroin and in-band tensions really have created some amazing music. Not that I'm condoning them in any way.

@nikita70

6 жыл бұрын

Haha, that's so true. One of these hard to deny but quite controversial, ambigous things that, I believe, many fans is able to catch a glimpse about, but still not to be ready to conclude/agree it openly.

2 жыл бұрын

We should be glad they didn't have a broader appeal.

@eirik.loevhaug

Жыл бұрын

Why not condone it? Great art has been done on heroin. Run and buy kids!

@Bavodekat

8 ай бұрын

In fact .when blixa joined the BP .AND EN .KIND OF DIED .I REMEMBER IT WAS LIKE 2 FUNERALS AND NEITHER EN OR THE BAD SEEDS HAVE EVER BEEN AS GOOD. 1981/1983..WERE JUST INCREDIBLE

@Bavodekat

8 ай бұрын

Btw the birthday party were more speed and booze..band so was En..the bad seeds where heroine band. Wich is never good..see johnny thunders ect

Great riff! Fantastic atmospheric guitar work!

Oh my fucking god I can't believe this exists!

I didn't know this existed. thank you for posting it, it's made my week

Fascinating historical doc on the band's final days. Too bad the rest of the songs weren't featured; it would have been nice to see how "Mutiny in Heaven" came to life.

@TylerSmithPunksOnPizza

2 жыл бұрын

Hey there! I actually interviewed Heiner the director of this documentary. I am in the midst of editing it but i have the entire scoop AND some. Stay posted ;)

@twentyarms

Жыл бұрын

@@TylerSmithPunksOnPizza You said that a year ago. What's up?

@benquacker392

5 ай бұрын

Where’s it at?

Love it.... Danke das du ihn hochgeladen.

Awesome, I am so hooked!!!

Rowland S Howard 🎸⚡️

Wow what a rare find! Raw and intimate, priceless! Great days indeed

didnt see the birthday party but saw bad seeds in 85 at selinas then a gain at the tivoli sydney. still the best ive seen

@Bavodekat

9 ай бұрын

And nowhere as good as the birthday party .i ..thought even the cavemen gigs where dull compared to the BP....bp was danger..bad seeds..?..never felt any danger there

thank you for uploading

Sehr schöne Doku, danke dafür. Nick Cave ist ein großer Musiker.

Thank you.

sacre document... merveilleux

Dem Birthday Party Blues...

Far away and long ago....

It also helps when you can do that in one of the cooles studios ever

Love it!

A BRILLIANT UPLOAD, YOU SIR AND/OR MADAM ARE A GOD AMONG GROVELLING SHIT STAINS

❤❤❤❤

Same here Michael, seen clips before, but not the whole thing, cheers.

WHAAAAAAAAAAAT!!!!!!!!! Where the fuck did this come from! Good job, Mr. Bar-Hen. Wow.

RIP Nick Cave's hairline

@finvandewall2445

8 жыл бұрын

+Adhesive Boi it will be missed

@JackFromBeatStrings

8 жыл бұрын

+Adhesive Boi HAHA! Aww!.. He had the coolest goth hair ever!

@beefheart1410

7 жыл бұрын

JackFromBeatStrings It cheapens Cave and The Birthday Party per-se to label them "Goth"! They certainly weren't anything as banal as a "Goth" band. "Goth" was crap like Alien Sex Fiend, Sisters Of Mercy, The Mission and Sex Gang Children et al. In opposition to this rubbish, bands like The Birthday Party were, - along with Bauhaus, The Cure and Siouxsie And The Banshees, - more accurately, Post Punk bands. Yes, they appealed to "Goths" and we're appropriated and adopted by them but all of these bands existed way prior to "Goth" and never identified themselves as "Goth". "Goth" was a one dimensional, naff, cartoon style developed by London trendies in a way similar way to the New Romantics. It was embarrassing and produced nothing of worth.

@JackFromBeatStrings

7 жыл бұрын

Beefheart1 I didn't say they were goth, I said he had cool goth hair. If I say The Ramones had cool leather jackets, it doesn't mean they were a "leather band." But yeah, I agree with what you're saying.

@elizabethhann4028

7 жыл бұрын

I think you're right.

Amazing! Well I jumped...

Awesome !

1:57 and that is a wrap Ladies and Gentlemen.

@thunder_heads

10 күн бұрын

What do you mean

I wonder how many times in this session Nick had to remind himself that he is not meant to sound like Morrison .

@mickefranklin

3 жыл бұрын

Not once i guess

@Lobelt108

2 жыл бұрын

🎯

The sound of a band breaking up.

@tryfishin9

7 жыл бұрын

oh yeah... and drugs!

Here you see how great blixa and nick and the BP..where

Rowland's tone.......

OH MY WHAT JOY

Amazing document.. had no idea it existed!

Good to see Tracey at his proficient best :)

Wow

The kings.

How's the tension between Rowland and Nick…

@crose7412

2 жыл бұрын

He's already told him!

Blixa at the controls 16:57. I put to 11 Jah ?

The best Art always arises out of conflict, ho ho.

@KeyboredCoward

8 жыл бұрын

+Squarey Square And as always where there is too much tension or conflict bands fall apart, very quickly, like a few bands I was in, in the past.

@squareysquare3150

8 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah it's a razor edge we creatives walk. That's where part of the dramatic tension comes in; watching to see if the artist crashes and burns or if they some how succeed against the incredible odds! But first a word from our sponsor..

@KeyboredCoward

8 жыл бұрын

+Squarey Square Who's the sponsor? A skilled and talented musician or singer have small egos. Compare a Jazz or Opera singer with a rock singer, the latter always have big egos, the former are content with making their voice their ego. I stopped walking a razors edge years ago, I am scarred from tough events. I am content to age gracefully with perfect skin.

@danozism

6 жыл бұрын

you're a waste of space then.

@nikita70

6 жыл бұрын

Haha, Nick Cave has a perfect skin, the way worse shit happened to his hairline, as mentioned somewhere above. Still, I do understand your mindtrack, in some way. Kinda. Walking on the razor edge might be impressive looking/feeling as watching from outside, still this is impossible for those who involved in to hang in there, as it's just a side effect, hence every situation like that is mutually contradicted or how it calls. I mean paradoxically. It could be doing like'hey, let's do it for our fans'. Ok, lost my plot, rest my case.😊

Which I told you before.

_All of us were better looking when we were younger..._

And I still have never heard Tracey speak before

@jefrey5578

4 жыл бұрын

I have, in a pub... Him speaking quite alot actually, lol..

@mehhhhist

3 жыл бұрын

I realised this too recently, and may want to keep it this way

@davidrathbone4029

9 ай бұрын

@@jefrey5578 Where was it? What was he saying? Tell all ! As far as I know, there's no recorded interview with him -- just one article in Rolling Stone Australia (April 6, 2021) about him called "The Transverberation of Tracy Pew" -- plus the two songs he wrote for TheBP: The Plague ( kzread.info/dash/bejne/aKqYk5qBf8mXgtI.html ) and She's Hit ( kzread.info/dash/bejne/n35l0qyzmta2k9I.html ).

What I wanna know is what is that box Rowland is fiddling with on top of his amp at 4:27?

@GlasgowSkate

4 жыл бұрын

looks like maybe a speaker soak to drive the amp more without the volume...

If those walls could talk...

Being in a band really is this boring, even The Birthday Party

@pressureworks

2 жыл бұрын

How stupits are you ??? This is exactly how most recording sessions go.

How many of Nick's ah fuck made it on the record ?

chingón!!

Blimey, the drugs kinda got in the way. To me it's their best release, but f### this is pretty painful to watch xxx

Wuts the first song called?

@Demindrial

9 жыл бұрын

Don't know if you've found it by now, but it's Jennifer's Veil.

The wonders of heroin!!

@phoneymalony

5 жыл бұрын

VS speed?

i hate blixa, he killed this band, kinda like yoko & the beatles

@mattwilesmith2083

8 жыл бұрын

+david moon How wrong you are

@tryfishin9

8 жыл бұрын

+david moon 100% wrong. Blixa was there because Neubauten recorded at Hansa Studios as well and The Birthday Party when moving to Berlin became friends with E.N and people like Die Haut and Malaria. Nick and Blixa became close in a time that Rowland, Mick and Tracy were falling apart. He just saw a new potential in what Blixa brings to the table. Rowland is my personal hero but at this time songs like Say a Spell didn't quite fit the band. Like The Beatles..they broke up like any other band brakes up. Clashes, money, drugs, personal ideas. The Beatles were fighting even before Yoko met John. So go study your rock n roll info.

@emilyoshiro

8 жыл бұрын

i know, i'm justa wankin geezer. the Birthday Party are tops n me book, no substitutes 4 me. you kids can like everything & everything, i just miss Rowland.

@tryfishin9

8 жыл бұрын

I miss him alot

@Durriti66

6 жыл бұрын

Funnily enough the minute I saw him I thought 'piss off Blixa, you don't belong there'. Nothing against him but it was a Birthday Party session. But the band was imploding anyway, but sad that Rowland didn't even complete the final recording sessions ie. Mutiny In Heaven