Minds Music Monday – Don’t You – Salle Pleyel
I might have been closer…but my phone is pretty crud. This footage is fab. Oh…it’s a loooong wait until May…
I might have been closer…but my phone is pretty crud. This footage is fab. Oh…it’s a loooong wait until May…
The loooong wait until May will be soothed, a little, by having this available. “Here comes summer”. HURRY UP! https://youtu.be/WPwo9zdvg4M
Because…this is just my new favourite thing… https://youtu.be/WRT7KsWLNko
A really nicely done clean up job of this footage. Looks braw! Date is wrong (as of my posting)…would def. be 1980 as I Travel was released as a single in Sept. 1980. The footage now looks great though…you can see just how “wasted” Jim is…FULL glassy-eye effect. Naughty boy! Ah…those “sherbet straws”, eh? 😉…
It is my favourite SM instrumental. I really don’t know why I find it such an emotional piece, but I do. There is just something I find really…tender… about that riff of Charlie’s. It’s short, repetitive loop just brings me to tears…and perhaps it is that combined with that end reel to reel tape loop…
How I started my new year…
The most venomous version of King Is White I’d ever heard Jim sing…not as angry sounding in his delivery as some of the earlier versions and he drops the “take/taking no prisoners” line – which is a big shame…but in the second refrain of the chorus he adds a “hang ’em up / sling ’em…
One of my favourite mixes… https://youtu.be/KhUbOcU6g74
Just over 12 months from their previous appearance on The Tube, Simple Minds return. It’s not the best quality footage…but it expresses the dynamism of the band. My favourite part is when Jim’s mic is obviously starting to give him problems. Instead of stopping proceedings like a lot of other performers would, he just throws…
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An oldie but a goodie. A fabbie in fact!