Just obtained the ’80 Paris Palais du Sport concert in .mpg format (that’s sound and image). Of course the tune renditions are great, but the addition of imagery adds an intrigueging dimension to the whole thing. For instance, in this particular venue, Ike Willis looks like a mutant StarWars extra from the planet Zorb, Ray White wears glasses so terminally uncool that fashion designers will surely dub them the next big craze. And FZ, well, he’s just cool as ever, as guitarplayer, as conductor (note the baton!), as MC. Oh, and did you know Ray White doesn’t use plectrums, instead relying on thumb strumming technique?
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Saw this line-up a few days later at Wembley – at which point Ike appeared to be wearing a sort of crocheted-doily-type-thingy draped over his napper.
I never realised that Ray played without a plectrum. Doesn’t really matter what they’re wearing though – FZ wore some f***ing awful outfits – they still produced fantastic music and live shows.
I have the Rotterdam show from this year – strange, that this band is so small. But the great experience for me is Arthur Barrow: he brings the whole show on his back, he’s great. I wonder how they might have played Pound For a Brown?…
Barry, will this be available some time?
Not on this website, no. But there are other ways of course…
Barry, would you mind elaborating?
Elaboration is my middle name! Actually, Mario, Balint: drop me an email if you want, I promise I’ll elaborate in response. :-)