North Korean All Female Band performance. Excellent and yet disturbing.

I enjoyed that. Kinda creepy, though.
 
EDIT: did I say "kinda" creepy. That was an all-out creepfest. 
 
Some of their song titles:
    Fighter's Way
    Proximal Unit Proud Song
    My Country is the Best
    Long Live the Worker's Party of Korea
    We Have Nothing to Envy in the World
 

Earth is an early planet. They are now making strong suppositions that earth maybe the only place in the entire big universe in which life as we know it exists. The girls are all pretty and appear to be very healthy. I suspect the bass player looks like someone Ellen Degenorus might be fond of.

Nice of them to use Japanese keyboards.
 
I loved the guitar solo by Edie Van Ha Lin.
 
creep factor 9, would have been a ten were it not for the minidresses. Very tasteful and classy!
 
cheers,
-Tom

Maybe their band name should be "Moronbang" instead of "Moranbong?"
 

Sorry, all punned out for the moment. 
 
I will say I was more impressed with the main violinist than the guitar player though. 

That was AWWWWWWWWFUL
 
 
The guitar tone, that is.

Hi,
 
Seen a lot of this over the years and in various countries.
 
In Portugal, during the dictator days, there would be a lot of guitar folks asking for money in every corner and many of them would wait for the police to go around the corner and then switch songs to anything that was ... you got it! It was almost like clockwork, and even Luis Bunuel made fun of it in "Le Phantome de la Liberte" (The phantom of liberty), and I imagine that this was also popular in Spain during their Civil War.
 
In Brazil, there is a very large and successful amount of popular/folk music that is stronger in some areas and not in others. But in 1963/1964 (can I rmember that far?) Maria Betania belted out a vicious song ... "Carcara" ... and I was surprised that they did not thrown her in jail forever. The song had historical connections, so, its appearance was "safer" in some ways.
 
And then coming to America, it was hilarious and funny, hearing my first album in America on October 16th, 1965 ... Blonde on Blonde ... and the sarcasm, was insane ... you didn't have to know the lyrics to get it.
 
In Germany, on Guru Guru's "Tango Fango" album there is a satire about the music in the Eastern Block, and in some ways, the end kinda said ... rock'n'roll is out idol/god! Not many folks can even listen to that as it is very weird but it is hilarious. Let me play for you la bouchokaya! It kinda made a joke that the music on the East side of the wall was street marching band music, where as on this side of the wall, we had REAL MUSIC. GG was known to be at a lot of political things, but Mani always stuck to the fun side of it, and the like and you can check Daggelbert's Birthday (spelling) on "Dance of the Flames" to get an idea, but even then, he is already taking on greed and consumerism, so something about the music business had already changed and corrupted the German scene. (well known via AshRa/Klaus Schulze and such).

Moshkito
... so something about the music business had already changed and corrupted the German scene. (well known via AshRa/Klaus Schulze and such).

When I was in Augsburg ('71-'72), the choice was between Bayerische Blaskapellen, Schlager and Amon Düül. EASY choice there. I'd left my '63 Fender J bass and amp back in the States, so had to go with OPM (Other People's Music) instead. I bought a reel-to-reel tape deck and stereo and started collecting tapes from Munich. What those would be worth now, historically if not monetarily, if I still had them? Priceless. To me, anyway.
 
Sad to think of what I've left behind as flotsam and jetsam in my wake.

It gets worse... https://www.facebook.com/MoranbongBand I seems to actually be a North Korean propaganda B page, just using the band as a vehicle.
 
Down the page is a photo of Mickey and Minnie Mouse onstage with them. I KNEW IT... I KNEW Disney was behind this!! LOL...
 
Apparently this band was created by the little dictator, no surprise there. This is classic old school communist state propaganda, just better done. I have tried but I haven't yet found what they are saying in this song. They have lots of songs.
 
This whole thing is interesting, at least to me. More: http://sinonk.com/2014/03/04/rock-gospels-analyzing-the-artistic-style-of-moranbong-band/
Also from Wikipedia: Favorable views of North Korea among Chinese people appear to be receding as well. According to a 2014 BBC World Service Poll, 20% of Chinese people view North Korea's influence positively, with 46% expressing a negative view.[3]
 
Interesting...
 
J

I wonder if the audience realizes that their leaders aren't telling them the truth about technology
 
EJECT BEFORE THE LOCK!
 

TheMaartian

Moshkito
... so something about the music business had already changed and corrupted the German scene. (well known via AshRa/Klaus Schulze and such).

When I was in Augsburg ('71-'72), the choice was between Bayerische Blaskapellen, Schlager and Amon Düül. EASY choice there. I'd left my '63 Fender J bass and amp back in the States, so had to go with OPM (Other People's Music) instead. I bought a reel-to-reel tape deck and stereo and started collecting tapes from Munich. What those would be worth now, historically if not monetarily, if I still had them? Priceless. To me, anyway.
 
Sad to think of what I've left behind as flotsam and jetsam in my wake.

Amon Duul 2 live, that I have heard, is only really good on "Live in London". Just about anything else they have released is loose, unrehearsed and sometimes off kilter, like Renate going crazy, but at least Janis was taken off Woodstock, but not Renate. But on album, they are usually very good, and my thoughts are that they are probably too lazy to rehearse and put something together that is valuable and worth a live album. 
 
Would love to hear some of that stuff, although so much of it is being released these days, though I find it strange that Ash Ra Tempel, Klaus and others, were not shown live, though the Cosmic Courier stuff always came across as live material, at least in the studio, ripped or not. 
 
My guess is that there also is a lot of material on the electronic side from the clubs, specially around the hardcore electronic scene. 

TheMaartian
...When I was in Augsburg ('71-'72)... 

I once played for the troops in Augsburg, would have been in '70 or '71. Maybe you were there. We did a 30-minute version of Inna-Gadda-da-Vida.

I just rewatched the video. Again. Love trainwrecks! But this time through was different. All I could see was that scene in Beneath The Planet Of The Apes where the underground human survivors took off their "masks" to worship the bomb. [shudder]
 

Funny thing is the only thing at that event made in North Korea is the audience... Rousing the masses into destroying the West with finely crafted instruments from Japan, Germany, probably America too. I noticed a shot of Kim speaking into what seemed like a Beyer M160 ribbon mic too. The irony is ... well.. ironic.