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Someone has kindly uploaded a Rats gig from Feb 1981, Oslo, to YouTube. Haven't really had time to listen ,but it starts with a live version of Mood Mambo so it a a Mondo Bongo era gig. Crowd seems quite enthusiastic.
Will stick it on a usb and listen through the stereo and report when I have more time. Sound is pretty good though a little glitch on side 2 early on?
Listened to part 1. Great quality - and easy to forget just how faithful to studio versions the Rats could be without backing tracks and all the other curses of some 21st century 'live' acts. Good to hear a couple of tracks that had limited live lifespan too.
Listened to part 1. Great quality - and easy to forget just how faithful to studio versions the Rats could be without backing tracks and all the other curses of some 21st century 'live' acts. Good to hear a couple of tracks that had limited live lifespan too.
Glad you enjoyed it Suss. I had a listen to the full concert and got it over with in time to see Chelsea go out of the Champions League.
First thing, it is so 'fresh' after the release of Mondo Bongo so that's quite interesting. Mood Mambo sounds like it was live from the jungle, all those bongos and shrieks and little flourishes. Geldof changing some of the lyrics like ' don't go f***** with me, instead of 'messing'.
Great to hear a live version of straight Up, one of the best tracks on Mondo Bongo and pretty faithful to the recorded version.
Eva Braun and Howard Hughes both sounded brilliant, particularly the latter, on of the best live versions of it I've heard.
Bob seemed to be having a problem with crowd control and spends two or three minutes getting 'the kids' to make sure the avoid a crush.'Do what I f***** say' he tells them at one stage.
Side Two has a good version of Banana Republic, Elephants Graveyard (in which Bob gets two people to get up on stage to dance). Wind Chill Factor is good and it ends with Someones Looking at You, preceded by Mondays and Having My Picture Taken. During 'Picture' the band goes on so odd a departure that I was unsure if was a new song or something.
Good banter from Geldof throughout though some of it is hard to make out.To be honest I had very few live Rats tapes before and I find it great to finally hear some of the more 'hard to get' once.
I might say, controversially or not that I would prefer to collect live mp3/4s , cd's etc that keep buying the same records over and over just because the have a different cover. A live gig is always unique in some way, and Geldof is always good value with his on stage banter,
I might say, controversially or not that I would prefer to collect live mp3/4s , cd's etc than keep buying the same records over and over just because the have a different cover. A live gig is always unique in some way, and Geldof is always good value with his on stage banter,
Nothing controversial about that. All I really want nowadays as far as the Rats are concerned, and I have a fair number lurking around. They can stick their compilations...
Someone has kindly uploaded a Rats gig from Feb 1981, Oslo, to YouTube. Haven't really had time to listen ,but it starts with a live version of Mood Mambo so it a a Mondo Bongo era gig. Crowd seems quite enthusiastic.
Will stick it on a usb and listen through the stereo and report when I have more time. Sound is pretty good though a little glitch on side 2 early on?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmcPgwx1DPg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCh-LmiI6_A
I have a similar concert to this on cd Noel, which I think Derek did from me. It a Bongo Over Europe gig in Germany.
It's so nice when a good quality live recording is discovered from way back, something that with bands nowadays is so easy to get hold of. If only we had You Tube in the 70's and 80's!
Thanks for pointing this out Noel. Love the variation on Guilty where the Shame shames stop to reveal an instrumental break and the endpoint is instrumentally punctuated unlike the single/album version which is vocally punctuated with shimmy shame.
