1984-01-23  Birmingham, England, Odeon

 

Setlist:

Coming Home
Don't Make No Promises
Bad Boys Running Wild
Loving You Sunday Morning
Make It Real
I'm Leaving You
Rock You Like A Hurricane
Coast To Coast
Always Somewhere
Still Loving You
The Zoo
No One Like You
Can't Live Without You
The Same Thrill
Can't Get Enough
Blackout
Another Piece Of Meat
Dynamite

Line up:

Klaus Meine - vocals
Rudolf Schenker - rhythm guitars
Matthias Jabs - lead guitars
Francis Buchholz - bass
Herman Rarebell - drums

Total time: 80 minutes

Comment:

This is the very first date and place of the Love At First Sting Tour. The band began their tournament in the United Kingdom and they hadn't stopped till about 200 stations!!! The Scorpions was in top in that period. Maybe the most popular hard/heary band in the world. They were the headliner in festivals and toured all around the world. The played near full-houses. This opening station of the brittish tour has a great performance. The Scorps played so rare songs what they deleted from thier setlist after that few stations...like 'I'm Leaving You' and 'The Same Thrill'. The latter song is very unique to hear in live version because they played it only in two UK and just some french stations. Not a real popular and live song. They didn't play their bic slow-classic 'Holiday'. The band prefered 'Always Somewhere' instead of 'Holiday' in the UK places and they put it in the french stations into the tracklists. An other curiosity is the final song of the show. They didn't play 'Can't Get Enough' as a last one. They thought the 'Dynamite' is a better termination of a concert.

Quality:

This a recording what the recorder made it with a dictaphone. The instruments are audibled well. Klaus has clear sound. The quality is not bad but I have some much better materials of the LAFS Tour in my collection.