Echo & The Bunnymen - Going Up - 5 Mar 83 (1 of 18)
ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN Zeche Bochum 5 MAR 1983
Personnel:
Ian McCulloch: voc, g Will Sergeant: g Les Pattinson: b Pete De Freitas: d
Set:
01 Going Up 02 With A Hip 03 Gods Will Be Gods 04 Show Of Strength 05 Zimbo 06 The Cutter 07 Rescue 08 My White Devil 09 Porcupine 10 Crocodiles 11 All That Jazz 12 Back Of Love 13 Heads Will Roll 14 Heaven Up Here 15 Over The Wall 16 Do It Clean 17 Villiers Terrace 18 No Dark Things
Lorelei, about 400 feet above the eastern bank of the Rhine, near St. Goarshausen, Germany. Filmed six months after the release of U2's third LP, WAR, on February 28, 1983.
Beautifully filmed by at least a half dozen cameras.
Of interest: All songs are from U2's first three LPs. The band performed six of the ten songs on WAR, six of the eleven songs on BOY, and only one song (Gloria) from OCTOBER.
Personnel:
Bono (Paul Hewson) -v The Edge (Dave Evans) - g, k Adam Clayton - b Larry Mullen, Jr. - d
Set:
Out of Control Twilight An Cat Dubh Into The Heart Surrender Two Hearts Beat as One Seconds Sunday Bloody Sunday The Electric Co.
Gloria I Threw A Brick A Day Without Me (Dear Prudence) Bono Talk An Cat Dubh Into The Heart New Year's Day Surrender Two Hearts Beat As One Sunday Bloody Sunday (Let's Twist Again) The Cry - Electric Co.
The Smiths Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany May 4, 1984
This is one of the best complete live shows of the Smiths ever captured on film or video. Together just five years, they produced only four studio LPs (and assorted collections) that mark them as one of a handful of the most influential and important bands of the alternative-rock, post-punk era. Had they not broken up before the release of their fourth and final studio LP, they would surely be mentioned in the same breath as R.E.M. and U2.
Note Morrissey's attire, typical for 1984:
- Large blouse held together by one button - NHS specs - Flowers in the back pocket - Attitude to burn
Also note the dazzlingly original and subtle guitar work of Johnny Marr.
Recorded in Hamburg, Germany, less than three months after their debut album, THE SMITHS, was released (20 Feb 1984).
Personnel:
Morrissey (Steven) - v Johnny Marr - g Andy Rourke - b Mike Joyce - dr
Setlist:
01. Hand In Glove 02. Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now 03 Girl Afraid 04 This Charming Man I 05 Pretty Girls Make Graves 06 Still Ill 07 Crack On The Head I 08 This Night Has Opened My Eyes 09 Miserable Lie 10 You've Got Everything Now 11 Handsome Devil 12 What Difference Does It Make
Encore 1: 13 These Things Take Time 14 This Charming Man II
Encore 2: 15 Hand In Glove II
Encore 3: 16 Crack On The Head II (Crack On The Head = Barbarism Begins At Home)
"all-original, postmodern, mystical American folk"
(check out twoodburn's channel for more Dave & Tracy)
For those of us who love Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer, this is the Dave and Tracy we saw first, fresh from recording "When I Go" and winning songwriting contests throughout the folk world (Kerrville, Napa Valley, Wildflower). The world was theirs and we heard genius instantly. I know I did; it was a beautiful and wholly unexpected experience when I saw Dave and Tracy for the first time, and this is the closest you'll get to seeing Dave and Tracy the way I and so many others saw them: on a simple raised stage with absolutely no theatrics. It felt like discovering a gem that no one else had even named. It was a thunderclap.
My parents had Bob Dylan -- and though I love Dylan with all my heart, he wasn't (and isn't) mine. Dave's mine.
I can't tell you how sad I was when he died. It's not often that you listen to a song or an artist, and that artist or song becomes yours: not in any sort of ownership sense, but as a piece of your viscera, your best heart. Dave was mine -- in that way, at least.
If you like what you hear, I encourage you to check out Tracy's solo work, which is superlative, along with the four amazing albums recorded by this remarkable duo:
WHEN I GO (1998) TANGLEWOOD TREE (2000) DRUM HAT BUDDHA (2001) SEVEN IS THE NUMBER (2006). Note: This is essentially the duo's re-recording of Dave's debut album SNAKE-HANDLIN' MAN (1995), which Dave released before he met Tracy. I believe they were working on this at the time of Dave's death, with all tracks recorded, and the collection was subsequently mixed and mastered over the intervening three or four years following Dave's passing. It's a gem of an album (as is Dave's debut, which is, sadly, out of print).
Please visit TracyGrammer dot com for more information. (I'm not affiliated with her in any way. Just a huge fan.)
Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.
- S.J. Perelman (1904-1979)
In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declared by the nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood who had taken a lively interest in me several months before there was any possibility of our becoming personally acquainted, first, that I was destined to be unlucky in life, and secondly, that I was privileged to see ghosts and spirits: both these gifts inevitably attaching, as they believed, to all unlucky infants of either gender born towards the small hours on a Friday night.
- David Copperfield
Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.
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