Comment:
On March 1982, Scorpions toured in France and one of the higher
moment was certainly the show at the Hippodrome Pantin, Paris.
This show was recorded for RTL Radio and was broadcasted one week
(13dr of March) later. This saturday nigth, the crowd was crazy
in the hippodrome. The first song in my recording is "Don't Make No Promises",
but I think they began the show with "Blackout", not recorded by the
radio. They played with an incredible energy,
we can hear clearly each instrument, but Francis bass is awesome.
The setlist is a classic from early Blackout tour, but they didn"t
play Coast To Coast, once again maybe it was not recorded?
They kept this incredible energy on each song. We'll burn the Sky,
Lovedrive, Holiday...are just more powerfull than ever. I like this
electric version Always Somewhere. They played this song in this
version on the whole tournament.
Kalus is very happy to be back in Paris after his long "Blackout"
as he said before to play Loving you Sunday Morning.
The radio speaker is Francis Zegut, he really loves Scorpions,
just before the first encore (The Zoo), he said...
"...Here is the first encore of the Scorpions,
Scorpions is a band who can play 1000encores!!"
This show is for me a great demonstration of the power and
the rage of Scorpions in the early 80's.
There is a different recording. Longer than the other verison.
Here is not missing the end of the 'Another Piece Of Meat' and
the beginning of 'Dynamite'. Before the first song the radio
commentator says anything. Unfortunatelly I don't understand
in french so I don't know what he says. :(
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