Simple Minds – Absolutely Live

here is the info file from Dime

Band: Simple MInds

Bootleg: “Absolutely Live”

Date: 1983-03-08 (08th of March 1983)

Venue: Mutualité, Paris, France

Source: Audience

Rating: 3,25 Stars

Duration: 42:44:201

Lineage: Vinyl Rip from my Technics Turntable SL-BD20 > Cool Record Edit Pro > WAV > Nero StartSmart > WAV > Trader’s Little Helper > FLAC8

A1. I travel 05:26:970

A2. Celebrate 07:06:140

A3. Colours fly and Catherine wheel 05:50:980

B1. Hunter and the hunted 05:58:240

B2. Someone somewhere (In summertime) 05:56:430

B3. Promised you a miracle 05:32:210

B4. Big sleep 06:53:230

On the 8th March 1983, the “New Gold Tour” reached France and the band could be found at La Salle Mutualité in Paris.

The setlist had settled down and the band was comfortable with the tracks and their arrangements.

“Absolutely Live” is a slice of this concert, chopping the opening tracks (“King Is White And In The Crowd” and “Glittering Prize”),

and truncating the finale (“New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84)”, “Love Song” and “Sweat In Bullet”).

What remains is the poorly recorded centre portion of the performance with fluctuating volumes, clipped high tones and varying degrees of clarity.

As I was in the vault (See my previous torrent), here is a fresh rip of a bootleg well known by the Simple Minds community.

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