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Trouble - Simple Mind Condition 

ARTiST..[ Trouble 

TiTLE...[ Simple Mind Condition 

GENRE...[ Metal GRABBER.[ EAC 

LABEL...[ escapi music (edel) ENCODER.[ Lame 3.97 

YEAR....[ 2007 QUALiTY.[ avg. 221kbps 

SOURCE..[ CDDA MODE....[ Joint-Stereo 

PLAYTIME[ 46:11 min REL.DATE[ 06.22.2007 

TRACKS..[ 11 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA 

SiZE....[ 75,2 MB SUPPLiER[ TEAM OMA 

NR. TRACK. TiME. 

01 Goin' Home 04:02 

02 Mindbender 03:50 

03 Seven 04:58 

04 Pictures Of Life 03:54 

05 After The Rain 05:31 

06 Trouble Maker 04:07 

07 Arthur Brown's Whiskey Bar 04:23 

08 Simple Mind Condition 03:42 

09 Ride The Sky 02:46 

10 If I Only Had A Reason 04:18 

11 The Beginning Of Sorrows 04:40 

TOTAL: 46:11 

the year of our lord 2006 a.d. is looking to be a 

busy one for drastic doom legends trouble. is it a 

coincidence that the bands swedish doppelganger 

candlemass reunited torrid and triumphant with one of 

the top records of 05? did, perchance, this 

happenstance push the notoriously patient and slow to 

rile trouble cabal into some sort of competitive 

conflagration? for indeed, it has been trouble and it 

has been candlemass, since well on nigh into the 

early 80s, that have together defined fine grinding 

doom in the rooted and rested sabbatherian style. ok 

then, is it a coincidence that trouble, on their 

skull-frying new live dvd live in stockholm, is 

interviewed by none other than candlemass bulkhead 

leif edling? no, it is not leif, of course, knows 

his doom like no other, he knows he is sitting down 

with a band certainly equal to his in stature and 

stateliness, and he knows that there is a certain 

power chord poetry to the band traversing half the 

world to deliver their sermon on the mount, here in 

the land of candlemass. 

for those who need a funereal refresher, trouble 

arrived at this esteemed spot on metals map through 

what is now nearly three decades of following their 

own frightening, psychedelic-damaged muse of 

morbidity. in 1983, metal blades brian slagel liked 

what he heard, put their stone-carved monolith the 

last judgement on metal massacre 4, and then signed 

them to a record deal. trouble bought a van and drove 

west. there they crafted a record of singular power 

and persuasion called psalm 9. the incendiary 

wall-of-guitar madness promulgated by rick wartell 

and bruce franklin was a thing of terrible beauty. 

but still, somehow, over this seemingly endless red 

tide of axe-mad heroics, a voice cried out and was 

heard, eric wagner in possession of that voice, one 

that could cut down unbelievers, or at least stop 

them stunned in the tracks of their tears. 

but unbelievers in what? well, the astonishing thing 

about trouble through those early years, on records 

like 84s psalm 9, 85s the skull and 87s run to 

the light, was that eric was railing, near 

feverishly, about the pain reigning down from a 

savage and unmerciful christianity. for lack of 

understanding and for expediency, label hype deemed 

these sermons white metal. and i suppose thats 

what it was, even if fans of barren cross and 

bee-bonnet rockers stryper wouldnt last a flaming 

moths minute at the smothering wake of guitar mass 

that was a trouble concert. 

mere earthly concerns such as drummer, label and 

management hassles would consume the band for three 

years as they readied their masterful self-titled 

record for 1990, trouble landing themselves on def 

american with rick rubin at the production helm. rick 

turned the band into a finely tuned, stingingly 

metallic machine so heady of heavy highs that trouble 

would become the band other bands spoke of in hushed 

tones. solid sales figures and even mtv exposure 

ensued as the band went from strength to strength, 

turning in, for 1992, what the guys themselves 

consider their masterpiece, manic frustration. 

nuances of erics near obsessive love for the beatles 

blessed and finessed the record, as did more of a 

psychedelic predilection. but through it all, the 

frazzled and freaky guitar dementia shooting from the 

hands of franklin and wartell soaked the album in a 

boiling, acidic wash of pure metal. 

again shackled by drummer, management and label 

wranglings, trouble would emerge in 1995 with plastic 

green head, their most recent - but now tortuously 

temporally distant - studio album (now 11 years on, 

they are finally readying another). plastic green 

head proved that this band, given their steady eye on 

quality and an attendant defiance at the pressures of 

time and the travails of the business, could do no 

wrong.s 

in fact, they have done no wrong. as leif edling, on 

live in stockholm, so knowledgably acknowledges, the 

bands tight catalogue of six studio albums is a 

canon beyond reproach. fortunately for the viewer, 

edling gets the band to talk intelligently and at 

length about each and every one of these records 

(erics recollections of writing the skull are 

particularly poignant), as well as early influences 

and plans for the future, which included, at the time 

of the talk, the dvd at hand, an acoustic ep, and the 

bands long-awaited new studio album. 

and if theres any cause to doubt the bands mastery 

come that new record, the root reason for this dvd to 

exist should explode those doubts like so much acrid 

gunpowder. live in stockholm, unsurprisingly, 

captures the band live in stockholm, delivering an 

insanely hi-fidelity set in front of 700 discerning 

and demanding doom fans. the bands current lineup 

(and the one that set down in sweden that fateful 

day), is frightening when witnessed in a live 

setting. joining eric, bruce and rick, is returning, 

original drummer jeff oly olsen and on bass, 

longtime trouble compatriot chuck robinson. chuck 

joined the trouble camp over a decade ago as bruce 

and ricks guitar tech and now holds the legendary 

bottom end like no fat-stringer that came before. 

indeed, preparations for the show saw chuck 

rehearsing, sometimes two times a day, with olsen, 

just to get the crucial drum and bass rhythm section 

duality crushingly perfect. this all took place at 

erics house and summarily drove him crazy, but 

thats a story for another time 

the blood and sweat of chucks and olys toil, along 

with the jubilant caterwaul of what happens when 

eric, bruce and rick join the coven (cigarettes and 

flying vs mandatory), can be heard as the band 

carves deep grooves through classics like r.i.p., 

run to the light, come touch the sky, fear and 

psychotic reaction, along with shocking rarities 

like the skull and vengeful closer the tempter. 

elsewhere, the misery shows (act ii) and memorys 

garden demonstrate troubles near scientific ability 

to harness all that electricity and deliver 

claustrophobic eulogies with somber efficiency. eric 

is resplendent and untouchably cool in his shades, 

bruce looks like a time-traveler from san francisco 

circa 69, and the others are all business, laying 

down the grim metal magic with the precision and heft 

one has come to expect from troubles very 

expensive-sounding show. 

ultimately, live in stockholm is irrefutably proof, 

as if any was needed, that trouble exist in a sort of 

metal music void, away from trend, away from concern 

for the business, away from timelines, away from any 

sort of influence save for the complex tangle of 

inspirations osmosed and injested in the early 70s 

as troubled kids in a troubled america. live in 

stockholm is, quite possibly, a capable capture of 

one of rocks greatest live bands operating at near 

peak condition. it is certainly a recording that 

captures the greatest lineup the band has ever put on 

offer, and it is certainly a celebration of all that 

can be crushing and torridly emotional about metal 

music. bathing yourself in its light will certainly 

be your salvation from those who pose and oppose. 

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