Michael Gira wants it louder

Taken from the excellent Pitchfork documentary 'The Seer'.

[averytruman]

This has the energy of Not quite my tempo

[UntitledKirk]

I like Gira's pissed off, impatient look. He's a man you do NOT want to piss off.

[diegosebastian]

This is crucial to their live sound, the volume without the extraneous frequencies.

[wanneske]

I've known Swans since 1989 and have seen them the first time live in 1995. I wondered why there was nobody standing on the front rowes and everybody was 5 meters from the stage, until they started playing ... I had a tweeting sound in my ears for a week.

[steveroberts]

Dude’s a fucking boss. I want to hear an album of just him and dulcimers

[shitpostmortem]

not even wearing earplugs holy shit man

[JonathanNelsonOfficial]

The vitality of swans' loudness is to insulate the soul from the noise that influences the mind. The irony is the genius.

[AS_SO]

just realized he doesn't have eyebrows

[beno]

This is gonna be banging hard when the album comes out

[aimageminterior]

The Beggar Lover : much longer, much longer.

[Tandle]

Cool technique, they literally crank until it feedback then remove the resonating frequency, basically turning the instrument acoustically immune to resonance in that space. Which means he has to do that for every single venue which sucks lol

[anfrankogezamartincic]

I had a privilege to see and hear the Swans alive (in Rijeka, Croatia) it was brutal, loud an hypnotic, everything i expected, even better

[johnwoolveridge]

I've seen Swans twice and before I saw them I didn't think I would ever see a band that plays louder than Mogwai. Boy was I wrong

[debonaire_nerd]

YouTube directed me here after watching "Peaceful Easy Feeling" by The Eagles.

[jossecoupe]

Who is screaming at the end lol, thought this was them during production of the album? This isnt live right?

[tarkenton]

Saw them at Arctangent this year whilst still incredibly stoned from some previous set I'd watched. I can say I've never felt so much dread eating mac and cheese as when I was watching this band. Nuts.

[VULGARxRM]

As a professional live music engineer, I love Michael Gira

[grazynajabonka]

Mzyk z prawdziwego zdarzenia i podobny do lidera King Crimson ...Oni cały czas tworzá mimo swojego wieku i szukają dźwięku ❤❤

[albert]

How this man still has any hearing at all is baffling to me

[rcklbstr]

Got the chance to see them live at the Metro. This video does not prepare you for how loud their live shows are. It's like being wrapped in a blanket made of sound.