Total time: 66 minutes

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 few days 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 taper or 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'lll burn the Sky, Lovedrive, Holiday...are just more powerfull than ever. 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. (Thanks to Christian!)

Quality:

Sound is good from beginning to Another Piece Of Meat, Rudolf guitar is a little too saturated and Francis Bass is a little too loud, Mathias lead is perfect. After Another Piece Of Meat I think the taper had changed his tape and we can hear a little tape hiss, but the sound is still good. The end of Another Piece of Meat and the begining of Dynamite are missing because of the tape changing. There are some comments of the speaker between some songs, but most of comments had been cut.