Paris (Supertramp-Album)
Occupation
See below
Studios
- Chateau recorder ( N. Hollywood)
- A & M Recording Studio ( Hollywood)
Paris is the first live album by British Pop-/Rockband Supertramp. It was recorded during the tour, " Breakfast in America ", which was named after the published in 1979, the same studio LP, on 29 November 1979 in Paris ( France). As with this last album the group acted in concert, and thus when recording the double album in its classic lineup - for the fifth time in the band's career. The record was released in September 1980 and sold in Europe and the United States very well.
Description
The live album Paris results from the Tour " Breakfast in America ", during the Super Tramp gave 108 concerts. The band appeared in their classic line-up - Rick Davies, John Helliwell, Roger Hodgson, Bob Siebenberg and Dougie Thomson - including those States: France, Austria, Spain and USA.
Paris was recorded at the first of three concerts ( 29 and 30 November and 1 December 1979 ), the Supertramp were in the 1975 to 1983 existing concert hall Pavillon de Paris, a former slaughterhouse in the district of La Villette in the French capital Paris.
Meanwhile presented Supertramp many songs from their classic period of 1974 until 1979. All songs were written by Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson, who sang their works each self. There the entire concert was recorded, but the case played songs Give a Little Bit, Goodbye Stranger, Even in the Quietest Moments ..., downstream, Just a Normal Day and Another Man 's Woman were not integrated in Paris to the concert on a to be able to press double LP. Thus are on the live album with the exception of If Everyone Was Listening all the songs of the plate Crime of the Century (1974 ), three of the album Crisis? What Crisis? (1975 ), two of the plate even in the Quietest Moments ... (1977 ), three of the album Breakfast in America (1979) and also the song You Started Laughing. This piece was originally the B-side of the Single Lady (from the 1975 feature - plate Crisis? What Crisis? ) Published.
Video republishing
The impressive to Paris captured concert atmosphere with many Supertramp classics - including a live version of the orchestral Fool 's Overture - Helliwell as master of ceremonies and the euphoric concert audience at that time was also recorded on 16mm film. However, the film remained in the archives of the band. The Paris film was later lost for many years, until 2006 a copy in the barn of Supertramp drummer Bob Siebenberg was found in Northern California. The film roles were in a disastrous state and were partly contaminated with cow dung. The tapes were sent to the digital restoration and backup to the company ' Cups ' N Strings (studios ) " in Santa Monica, California. Under the supervision of Supertramp's sound engineer Russell Pope, the recordings could be successfully processed. Then the film came to London, where Peter Henderson took over the mixing of audio tracks. The video material was sent to Peter Clifton, director of the Led Zeppelin concert film The Song Remains the Same ( 1973) to New Zealand for further processing. On August 24, 2012, the film finally appeared on DVD and Blu -ray titled Live In Paris '79.
The release of the DVD was done solely at the instigation of Supertramp musician Dougie Thomson, Bob Berg and John Helliwell Seven and without the consent of the song writers Davies and Hodgson, as last reported in an open letter on his website. Hodgson, the envisioned a better quality presentation of the Paris - concert talks, based on the appearance of the DVD of " deception " and of " illegal and immoral methods " of his three former band members who are not " records agreements " to his view and had fought for the publication with legal tricks.
Song list
The live album Paris ( Original: double LP " A & M 396702-1 " ) contains 16 songs. The indicated lengths refer to a CD version (double CD " A & M 396702-2 ") of the album, which is a total of 90:24 minutes. On the original vinyl record (LP) are located on the LP 1 and LP 2 are the songs 1-4 on the A- side and 5 to 8 on the B-side. All songs, except the five songs with appropriate vocal note ( " G. " ) were sung by the authors mentioned in their main voice of "()".
CD 1 ( Running Time 43:42 )
CD 2 (running time 46:42 )
DVD (running time 133 min )
Bonus Tracks (running time 24 min )
Occupation
- Rick Davies - keyboards, harmonica, vocals
- John Helliwell - saxophones, woodwinds, keyboards, vocals, master of ceremonies
- Roger Hodgson - guitars, keyboards, vocals
- Bob Siebenberg (as Bob C. Benberg ) - drums, percussion
- Dougie Thomson - bass, backing vocals
Recording
The live album was recorded during the Paris Supertramp tour " Breakfast in America " at a concert on 29 November 1979 at the Pavillon de Paris in Paris ( France) with the " Mobile 1 Remote". Remixed it was at Chateau Recorders, North Hollywood (Los Angeles, California, USA) and mastered at A & M Recording Studio of Hollywood (also: Los Angeles ).
Production
- Producers: Peter Henderson, Russel Pope
- Sound engineers: Peter Henderson, Russel Pope, Bernie Grundman ( concert )
- Mix: Bernie Grundman (Chateau recorder )
- Mastering: Bernie Grundman (A & M Recording Studio )
- Sound: Russell Pope
- Sound System: Mick Berg, David Farmiloe, Norman Hall, Chris " Smoother " Smyth
- Light: Ken Allardyce, Tony Shepard, Tamy Smith
- Projection: Gus Thomson
- Artistic Director: Mike Doud
- Cover Design: Mike Fink
- Cover illustration: Cindy Marsh
- Authors: Mark Hanauer, Reed Hutchinson, Steve Smith
- Liner Notes: David Margereson
- Management: David Margereson
Charts
Album: The double LP reached Paris in 1980 in the pop album charts digit places in Germany, Great Britain, Austria and the USA ( Billboard ) and quickly gained Gold status.
Singles: From Paris three live singles were in the same year coupled: Dreamer From Now On the second song, which reached number 15 on the Billboard pop singles chart in the U.S., Breakfast in America with You Started Laughing as the second song and Take the Long Way Home by From Now On the second song, both obtained no significant chart positions.
Republication
On 30 July 2002 was also released from the label " A & M Records " a revised edition of Paris, whose photograph was taken from the original master tapes. The book is inspired by the album artwork of the original CD.
Recording and production:
- Remastering - Sterling Sound (Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA) - Greg Calbi and Jay Messina
- Remastering Supervisor - Bill Levenson
- Artistic director - Vartan
- Cover design - Mike Diehl
- Production coordinator - Beth stamp