Split Enz - One Step Ahead

This was a performance featured on Tom Snyder's "Tomorrow" interview show on NBC. This video might be included on the DVD that came out featuring many of Snyder's interviews with the emerging Punk and New Wave bands of the early '80s. Neil starts off WAY off key but gets it back pretty quickly.

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Music

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• Split Enz
• One Step Ahead
• Tomorrow
• Tom Snyder

[bendistraw]

Ohhhhh, I have been waiting to see this again ever since the night it was shown. Thank you so much!! Do you have the interview as well? I remember Tom Snyder seeming amazed that they spoke English! I also remember wearing a Maori necklace and Tom asking about it.

[morrisonAV]

I'm pretty sure that the only thing I have is the music. Sorry, I wish I had kept it all. Hindsight, 'ya know? ;-)

Dave

[morrisonAV]

I didn't discover them until "True Colors" hit the states. I tried to catch up with all their work after the fact. The NZ radio documentary about them was outstanding but it took almost a year after it aired before I could hear it here in the US. Love these guys.

[JLIV461]

I miss when MTV played Music.

[Oregonduck2008]

playing live no lipsynch ..lost art

[Hot80s]

Oh my God how i miss this song on the radio.

[pearvodka]

Oh man, the facial expressions! BOYS! So ridiculously young (now I feel old).

[darklingfish]

I definitely wouldn't say that Neil started WAY off key, I think that's a bit of a harsh thing to write... He probably just couldn't properly hear the music when it was quiet in the beginning and thus he was slightly flat. Not too bad, really. He is pitch perfect 99.9% of the time of his long and illustrious career, and I doubt he's EVER been way off key.

[unitiss1]

nice different music but voice without backing vocals...

[anvilofcrom]

Brilliant.

[jackrebel601]

Shouldn't this be considered to be "very rare" as for as a Split Enz performance for that song? I remember the "Tomorrow Show" with Tom Snyder. With Carson on a 10:30 - 12 cst, Snyder did his thing 'til 1:30, until they both backed up to an hour!

[jackrebel601]

@JLIV461 I can't pass up the to respond to that! As the saying goes now MTV stands for Moron TV!

[DuranieCrowdie4Life]

I can play an improvised jazz version of this song on my trumpet...lol. :-)