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ABB Paris 09/27/1980 French TV Show

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hbtoulouse
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Setlist:

Mystery Woman
Right To Be Wrong
Try It One More Time
Stateboro Blues
Jessica
Angeline
Ramblin' Man

Enjoy !


 
Posted : February 23, 2015 7:43 am
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Thanks for the link, listening to this right now. "Try it one more time" was always a song I thought could have survived into the 90s, nice ABB feel to it. This was an odd period for the band, "Right to be wrong" not only has the same slide licks from "California Blues", "Out to get me" & "Crazy Love" but in a strange way is kinda of like Lynyrd Skynyrd....I remember being at some of these shows in 1980 & 81' and thinking... "WTF"?... All in all, a nice look back.
Cool


 
Posted : February 23, 2015 12:16 pm
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Saw them a month later in Gainesville. Thanks for the link.

I hear a re work of Crazy Love in Right To Be Wrong.

They sure did play fast back then....

[Edited on 2/23/2015 by fanfrom-71]


 
Posted : February 23, 2015 1:33 pm
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This is great ! Thank you very much for posting !! Smile
Couldn't believe to find a TV/video recording of this tour !
The ABB in the eighties usualy is not "highly recommended" ...
... but this was my first opportunity to see the ABB live ...
They played in Ruesselsheim, Germany, a few days earlier
before this concert in Paris !!!
Was it Hippodrome or Palais de Sports ???

Here is the link to setlists of September 1980:
http://www.allmanbros.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Calendar&file=showCalendarMonth&tapers=1&year=1980&month=09&day=01&type=listevents&showsetlists=1&search=quick&searcharg=Sep%201980


 
Posted : February 27, 2015 4:52 am
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This is really a great and nice surprise.
I saw them on 15 September in Sindelfingen. This was the frist time a saw them It was PHANTASTIC, I was just back from my first visiit in the USA and longed for seeing them there. Second time 11years later in Cologne, third time 22 years later in Jones Beach. Too bad they did not make it more often to Europe!

There is no set list up from the 15 September 1980 concert.
They played about 2 1/2 hours, the guitar player of the supporting act (the British "Blues Band") and their singer Paul Jones joined for some of the titles.
The set started with "Don't Want You No More/Not My Cross to Bear". I do not recall the sequence of the other songs, but I had noted: Blues Sky, Statesboro Blues, Whipping Post, From the Madnes of the West, Angelina, I Got a Right ot Be Wrong, Jessica, IMOER, Need Your Love So Bad, Can't Take It When You Go, Try It One More Time, One Way Out (not sure whether they also played Mystery Woman).
First encore: Pegasus (around 30 minutes, with drums and kettle drums)
Second encore: Ramblin' Man
Third encore: Southband (with Mountain Jam tease)


 
Posted : February 28, 2015 7:37 am
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..... the guitar player of the supporting act (the British "Blues Band") ....

Dave Kelly, presumably.


 
Posted : February 28, 2015 9:02 am
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Now I've had time to watch the video and I must say, I like it ... or is it only memories of me 35 years younger???
I think it is a lot better than the "Brothers of the Road"-Video, although they play everything as fast as on BofR (even with Jaimoe on board) ...
I like "Mystery Woman" - actually I've got a Single of it - and I'm happy that Jaimoe is with them (although I like Frankie Toler and his work for GAB, it was not his fault that Jaimoe was fired by Dickey btw ...)
and that Mike Lawler is not using his keytar 😉


 
Posted : March 4, 2015 11:18 pm
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This is really a great and nice surprise.
I saw them on 15 September in Sindelfingen. This was the frist time a saw them It was PHANTASTIC, I was just back from my first visiit in the USA and longed for seeing them there. Second time 11years later in Cologne, third time 22 years later in Jones Beach. Too bad they did not make it more often to Europe!

Hey Shorty, i was at that Cologne show too (1991, 4th of july, E-Werk)! Now, that was a killer show! Even more high energy than the show that was broadcasted on German television from that same short European Tour (their last 🙁 ). Warren & Dickey were on fire and the whole band was firing on all cilinders. My all time favorite concert only to be matched by another ABB show i saw in Ashville NC in 2008. Best live band since the invention of electricity!


 
Posted : March 5, 2015 9:06 am
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Was it Hippodrome or Palais de Sports ???

It was the Hippodrome de la Porte de Pantin aka Hippodrome de Paris


 
Posted : March 9, 2015 9:24 am
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Thank you for the clarification hbtoulouse !
The setlist at the ABB-Live Show Database said "Palais des Sports" and had the note: "Fan who was there says was at Hippodrome de Paris not Palais des Sports" !
http://www.allmanbros.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Calendar&file=showCalendarMonth&tapers=1&year=1980&month=09&day=01&type=listevents&showsetlists=1&search=quick&searcharg=Sep%201980So when I watched the video and read "Porte de Pantin" I was really confused ... 😉 Didn't know that Porte de Pantin and Hippdrome is actually the same place ...
Thank you again for posting the video ! I think it is the only one of this era !


 
Posted : March 9, 2015 11:40 pm
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PS ... found something in the internet on "Hippodrome de Pantin" ... sounds like this place closed in 1983:
https://en.wiki2.org/wiki/Hippodrome_de_Pantin
Hippodrome de Pantin, also called the Nouvel Hippodrome de Paris, was a permanent circus-style tent venue located in the Parc?de?la?Villette near the Porte?de?Pantin?Métro stop in north-eastern Paris. It was constructed in 1974[1] as the Paris home of the Jean Richard Circus, and in that period, was known as the Nouvel Hippodrome de Paris.[2] The Hippodrome featured a faux neo-classical front and a yellow and blue big-top canopy.[3] It could seat approximately 3,500 people.[2] In 1980 subsequent to the closing of the nearby Pavillon?de?Paris, the Hippodrome also hosted numerous musical performances, especially touring rock bands. In 1982, the Jean Richard Circus ceased operations, and the Hippodrome was demolished in order to be replaced on the same site by a larger, concert-specific space. The new concert venue, the Zenith?de?Paris, opened in 1983.
Performance chronology

1977: Chicago (4 Feb)
1979: Status?Quo (17 Feb), Scorpions (28 Mar)
1980: The?Allman?Brothers?Band and KISS (27 Sep)
1981: Stray?Cats (date unknown), James?Brown (26 Jan), Johnny?Hallyday (24 Mar), The?Clash (8 May), Status?Quo (18 May), Grateful?Dead(17 Oct) Genesis (19-20 Oct), Sean?Tyla and Pat?Benatar (25 Oct)
1982: Roxy?Music (date unknown), Stray?Cats (7 Feb), Frank?Zappa (19 May), Téléphone (4 Nov), New York City Rap (special touring ensemble of rap artists) (27 Nov), Rainbow (28 Nov)
1983: Eric?Clapton (24 Apr)


 
Posted : March 10, 2015 6:56 am
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