May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
I started listening to this gig last night. First thing that hits you is that Capital City is not quite Capital City. From what I can tell, this is its debut outing and the song at this point is just referred to as “Pulse”. There are different words to it, there’s no “city that we…
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ERMEAGEERRRRRRD! IMMA GONNA CRY! I am ssssoooo happy this is up there. But I am sssooooo scared it’ll get taken away. PLEASE stay up there until morning, so I can make sure I can copy it for my own personal collection. Jim is just off his tits glorious in this performance. I mean…he really is…
Taken to YouTube for something and this appeared on my homepage. It had been a while, so I had to watch it. Geez he’s mesmerising! I know these days when I watch these early performances that he’s most likely off his tits…but it doesn’t make it any less fascinating. Each time I view one of…
Another killer Dan bassline. It’s a simple bassline but carries the song. The beginning of it and further along in the song when the bass is up front…there’s almost the sound of Aboriginal clap sticks. Don’t know if it’s my imagination…or there’s some other percussive instrument Brian’s using? I read on Dream Giver Redux…
Lyric of the day Song: Capital City Album: Empires And Dance Year of release: 1980 Words: Jim Kerr
Appalling quality audio and video but I love the live early stuff. The energy is not lost and Jim is wonderfully mesmerising, as ever :-))
It’s 1980 – so the quality of this video is not the best – but WOW! Just wow! I loooooooooooove early Simple Minds so much! Capital City just slowly pulses (That ‘PULSE!’ vocal couldn’t be more apt! Well played, Jim!), with such a great bassline from Derek, almost pizzicato guitar bits by Charlie, and as…
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