1984-02-29  Paris, France, Omnisports De Bercy

 

Setlist:

Coming Home
Blackout
Bad Boys Running Wild
Loving You Sunday Morning
Make It Real
Big City Nights
Coast To Coast
Always Somewhere
Holiday
Rock You Like A Hurricane
Can't Live Without You
Drums Solo
Don't Make No Promises
Dynamite
The Zoo
Another Piece Of Meat
Can't Get Enough

Line up:

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

Total time: 79 minutes

Comment:

It' one of my favorite show of the LAFS tour even if sound quality is poor. During February the french trucks stopped traffic on the road and I remember Journalist saying "In France only the Scorpions trucks are travelling from town to town", nothing could stop'em. Scorpions was the very first band to play in the Palais Omnisport Bercy, inaugurated on 1984/02/20. Concert was sold out ( I can't remember how many people were there but I think about 10.000). Mama's boys opened the show and then Scorpions came, the crowd went crazy. Great setlist and great moments. There is a little bit different starting in 'Coming Home'. A the begining of 'Make It Real', Klaus asked the audiece to keep cool cause the stage was shivering because of the pressure of people on it. During 'Always Somewhere' Klaus lost his voice (a night without you...) but all the audience kept on singing until the end the song, awesome and very emotional feeling. Few minutes later Klaus came back on stage and says "Voulez-vous chanter avec moi??" and then here is 'Holiday', and 'Rock You Like a Hurricane', Klaus has very strong voice. Klaus' microphone should had been a problem in the beginning of 'Don't Make No Promises' because we can hear his sing from the second verse only. (Thanks to Christian for the interesting infos!)

Quality:

Not great but we can hear all the instruments, bass is too loud, sometimes sound is a little saturated. Good sound on the ballads, especially during Always Somewhere, we ca hear the audience singing. The end of 'Rock You Like A Hurricane' is cut in my version, probably tape flip.