and so once more, look you see. if today is November 5th, then i am merrily going about whatever it is i do with my life (assuming i am still around; this is written in advance), listening to Tin Machine whilst recalling how fortunate i was to be able to see them in concert.
there is possibly not a great deal more i can say on the subject that i have not said before. except, and i would confess this is long overdue, to give a "shout out" to the person who went with me. if they are out there in the universe still and for some reason have stumbled on this, hi, hope all is groovy.
everything and anything i have said about Tin Machine before is, in all fairness, worth saying again and again. however, instead, here's a still from the bootleg video of the very gig i was at. my great thanks again to the kind soul who passed on this bootleg.
indeed, that is the rather splendid, or at the very least in better condition than mine, chest of Hunt Sales in the background, just behind that David fellow.
which song were they doing at the point i took that still? since you ask, it was during Baby Universal. that was one of two singles from Tin Machine II, with the other (the first, as i recall) being You Belong In Rock N Roll. both excellent tracks off of an excellent album.
how about a nice bit of video from the gig i was at then? of course, yes, good idea. in this instance, then, why not - behold the performance of Baby Universal, from quite late on in the set.
my obligatory apologies for the somewhat poor quality of the video clip. the bootleg was, well, a bootleg to begin with - the mind boggles as to how someone got away with smuggling in an early 90s size camcorder at the Newcastle Mayfair. i have also had to compress it a bit to meet the size limitations of video place on this blog. but, hopefully it gives you an idea of what it was like, if for some reason you were looking for such a sense.
oh, yes, absolutely, in those crowd noises you can probably hear me shouting and screaming and doing my version of singing along. although much of my memory is of being stood in a stunned silence, not quite understanding how it was possible to be so close to the band.
well, anyway, probably a quite similar post to this shall be done for this time next year. should i be around, if i remember and on the assumption i shall have something to say.
be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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