The Chameleons - Don't Fall [German TV '84]

Cheesy playback performance @ WDR "Musik Convoy", Alsdorf, Germany, June 25, 1984

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• chameleons
• mark
• burgess
• alan
• bangs

[Moko117]

Weird... Why didn't they just actually play? Anyone know what the story behind this is?

[MMAlign]

@Moko117

There's no story behind this, it's just a playback show like top of the tops.

But it's always quite amusing to see serious bands posing to canned music.

[Moko117]

@MMAlign I was just wondering because I know they didn't like to do playbacks. and here's what Mark Burgess himself said about it on Facebook today: "We told 'em we'd be happy to do their show - Music Convey - providing we could play live. They said, "Ja Ja, est es live, alles klar". We get there and there's no PA. We say, "Hey? What, Herman? I thought we were doing it live?" They say, "Ja, ja, live playback". Ummm! So we did it anyway because we were all in such a good mood."

[MMAlign]

@Moko117

Hahaha, thanks for sharing this story. "Live playback"...alles klar.

[MMAlign]

2:15 epic...

[charlie123abc360]

Haha I love how mark is making a mokery of the lipsynching, some point not playing the bass and not being anywhere near the mic lol

[ferencowa]

@tgodd lol, looks like it

[tgodd]

is he doin a hitler stash at 3:07

[ML199252]

This is worse then the lip syncing you'd see on Top Of The Pops lol.