A Flock Of Seagulls - Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You) (Live)
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A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS PERFORM LIVE AT 1983 US FESTIVAL (5/28/83) -Memorial Day Weekend San Bernardino California
Good to see an e-bow in use!
Maravilhosos!São essas raridades que nos impulsionam a seguir. Doçura de musica.♥♥
Paul Reynolds one of the most underrated guitarists ever
He was brave enough to use the E Bow live. It's that thing he's holding in his right hand, you press it against the strings it causes them to sound like there're being bowed. Like Echo and the Bunymen used on the Cutter.
Definitely Richard. He was a brilliant guitarist. During this era of music, guitarists like The Edge, Johnny Marr from the Smiths, Charlie Burchill for Simple Minds etc. etc. seem to get more recognition, but Paul was right up there with them.
he is classed as a singer, not a guitarist, that is why
Maybe if he had joined a good band and played good music he might be better known. This is absolutely awful. Keyboards are shite can't actually hear the guitar and the singing is more of a monologue. Absolutely awful.
@Satanic Panic Fun and Games Tuning issues maybe? Analogue synths…
37 years ago today May 28th, 1983.
Wow delishcous🌏🐳🐞🐝
Brilliant guitarist and that's coming from a metalhead
In their defence 80's analogue synths were capable of massively phat gorgeous sounds but with now sound memory each one had to be set between songs to an approximation of the sound that they probably stumbled upon during the songs original recording.
Mike has a Roland TR606 drum machine which has a notoriously weedy sound and 2X Roland SH101's which are not used in the song and a Roland Juno which is the weedy higher pitched line. Throughout the 80's and wonder why bands sounded crap live compared to their records but these were the days when live just meant plugging into a PA and getting on with it. Nowadays bands have a virtual studio set-up for a live gig too.
If you think this is bad surf to Jean Michel Jarre playing his original equinoxe instruments and listen as one synth goes completely out of tune on him.
The good old days eh?
True DEVO always had trouble replicating their sound on stage when they switched to digital
juno 60s arnt weedy and they have 75 memory slots also they have digital oscilators so they dont go out of tune plus sh101's also have digital oscilators.the most likely reason this was crap was they didnt tune up and they just played bad that day- like all bands do from time to time.
Digitally CONTROLLED oscillators, aka DCO. The oscillators of the Juno 60 and SH101 were analogue, their tuning was kept in check via a digital circuit. This is why DCO synths stay in tune far better compared with older VCO (Voltage Controlled Oscillator) synths. DCO's are very different to a Digital Oscillator (DO) synth, that use logarithms and calculations to generate waveforms, and then have these digitally created waveforms fed into a digital to analogue (DA) convertor.
@@ChasD Good answer but they don't understand a word of it.
Music great
My first concert was flock of seagulls and the fixx. Saw them in 1983 at the Greek theatre in Los Angeles. I barely remember the show honestly o was so young. This performance isn’t that good and I’m disappointed. They aren’t that exciting to watch live but I still love their music.
I'm 58 makes me feel like I'm 19
Again
Sounds a lot better on spotify!
Oh my.....🙄....ok, back to studio version before I develop any memory of this
the girl in yellow
yeah great tits
ewt00b -Just what I thought,damn I can't freeze frame it!
Where they are been in that Concert?
Fałsz doskonały, aż bolą uszy :) ale kawałek fajny
The vocals were surprisingly bad in this performance compared to others. They probably had an issue with their monitors and couldn't hear themselves correctly. It happens- when your monitors aren't working right you can't tell if you're not sounding right, so you can't correct it. It can really throw you off.
again i see jealousy can we all be openminded?
I love this band in the studio. I know its suppose to be live. But its a horrible version. Props for his ironic hair doo. 😜
Was there 31 years ago this weekend, one of the most kickass concerts in my life, 26 bands in 3 days!
Dont let this performance fool you. Lookup other early performances. These guys were great live. Every band has had a bad performance.
Yes this is wow... weak ....the live performance when Paul uses a harmonica ????...for effect ....that has a strong sound.....
How’s this a bad performance? To be fair- On this particular day, they played for over an hour back to back songs and this was toward the end of their set so they were probably just exhausted. They always put on a great show to be so young and if you’re a true fan, you value every performance of theirs. The good and the “bad”
@@patdisaster8543Paul Reynolds is using an E Bow in this song. Bill Nelson from Be Bop Deluxe also used this a lot. I'm surprised more guitarists don't use it, makes a great sound if played properly.
No such thing as a bad preformance, only intresting and quirky ones. They can be just as good.
We're probably hearing the monitor mix with no added effects/ likely sounded better out front !!!###
I think some folks fail to understand that most groups, especially synth-based bands couldn't fully replicate much of the sounds you would hear in their recordings because the technology to fully reproduce it on stage live wasn't quite around yet. Digital keyboards were largely introduced in the later half of the 70's, look up musician Larry Fast who went under the recording label "Synergy" he used allot of prototypes then. Digital keyboard on top and the bottom one was analogue here on stage. I will agree that the sound set up might have been a crappy one during this performance and they could have been nervous on stage.
yes because they cant' sing and use studio tricks to make the music
Digital keyboards were a rarity in the later half of the 70's. It wasn't until the DX7 of 1983 that digital synths became remotely common. Even in 1985, only Yamaha and Casio of the Japanese "Big Four" offered fully digital synths (DX series and the CZ series). Korg had the DW6000/ 8000, which was a hybrid digital/ analogue, whereas Roland offered the JX-8P (and later on the 10P), which was a DCO analogue. Some small companies also offered digital keyboards, but most were either rare or expensive (or both). It was the later part of the 80's that digital synthesis/ keyboards dominated.
Well maybe,but Yes managed to keep far more complex music sounding fresh and quite frankly listenable.(Or at least recognizable).To call this flat is really most charitable.
listen to Gary Numan live in the 80's-just brilliant sound!
Erick Hublein very true but with this performance it sounds fine.
in the guitarist's defence...he left the flock soon after because of a breakdown...he had been in the band touring and what comes with touring since he was 17...
Too bad the guitarist was apparently having monitor/tuning issues because his E-bow solo at the end of the studio version is pretty epic.
To be fair, the mixing engineer here was shit. This was California in 1983, so the soundman was probably coming from a background of mixing soft rock crap. Also, there are just some bands who are good at recording in the studio when mixed by a great engineer, and other bands who excel at playing live. Also, a lot of early new wave bands were used to playing in tiny, dark, dank basement clubs late at night on jacked up sound systems. Take these bands out of the basement and put them out on a huge stage out in the California sun (these guys are British remember- they get probably 3 sunny days all year) where they are basically withering from the exposure to direct sunlight, in front of a huge California crowd of suntanned bros and bimbos. I would be nervous as hell, too. Plus, the sound was shit. Way too quiet and the mixing was horrible. It's actually very hard to play when the sound is like this because the music doesn't meld together into a cohesive whole. Every instrument sounds isolated and disconnected from the whole, and the players end up focusing too much on their own part rather then the song itself and the band as a single unit. This excessive attention to each part causes overly self conscious players to screw up. These guys come off as pretty frail, nerdy self conscious types, so go figure. I've seen this happen often. Take the same band and let a competent engineer mix their rig and give it force and momentum and the band will respond by playing as a single unit with a singular drive. A good mixing engineer should work with each individual bands strengths and weaknesses to get the best possible sound, using completely different methods each time. This is the work of a one-size-fits-all amateur soundman.
The guitarist was drunk. that's all.
+Nacht Schreck You got a problem with California? I' a Californian, punk.
Yo. Don't be dissin California.
+DoodeWarrior He's hating the American's
when you can't sing and you have limited talent a mixer isn't going to fix it.
Something I just realized: The song they played in this set just before this one, "You Can Run", is also on UA-cam. At the very end of it, Reynolds does a neck-bend on the guitar. That moment of exuberance (which was cool to hear/watch) may have put the guitar a little out of tune. Sounds like the tuning of the analog synth drifted a bit, too. Tough combination, and judging by how stacked this festival was, probably little time to pause and correct anything.
This has nothing to do with his playing! It's a Kramer!! With mine the tuning was always unstable until the neck warmed up. The sound was alright, but the temperature was always an issue, especially when playing outdoor gigs like these. So yeah, the neck is terrible, unstable the reason why these aluminum neck guitars never caught on. As for the keyboards they're all analog going through Roland Space Echo boxes! Real tape... this is a real band my friends don't be fooled by the sound here. I know the monitoring was absolute shite at this actual gig, Paul couldn't hear anything on stage very well. It's still an awesome set no matter what. Peace, Lx
The guitarist was drunk. that's all.
leesimeone I love the Ebow part. Too bad Paul Reynolds sold off that Kramer.
InvisbleCaller maybe. He did have an affair with alcohol.
No way,a bassist Ionce worked with had one and it was fine on tuning,a little heavy but never went out of tune.Lovely looking thing too.It was an ex-bass of Trevor Boulder of The Spiders From Mars.Wish I had it now.
@@InvisbleCaller Only someone who doesn't know anything about guitar, or hasn't watched any other clips from this show, would say that.
Paul Reynolds el mejor guitarrista de A Flock of de Seagulls!!!
Aww poor Paul. I feel bad for him, I would have been so embarrassed
Dirty Dancer-I bet he still is!
@2000jago you saw that humming of the guitar was not to leave that way look at the difference by the clip
mike's vocals never did it for me anyway but poor paul, he needed to get his shit together :-/
Can’t argue with that. Dude is a legend
THE80SPOSTS definitely, he deserved better
The guitar was painfully outta tune. Felt so bad for Paul because you can tell he was doing his best with it.
And I wouldn't say that he was drunk, people mess up, it a part of life. Give him a break. It was probably very hot considering it was in Cali and he must have been nervous.
Izabella's Profile YES BELLA YES
Dirty Dancer-And he might have had a head full of China beforehand and been really overtaken by other thoughts when he clocked the girl in yellow in front of him.!
Other performance they did during the performance there, they were energetic. This one was terrible
He didn't mess up. The guitar was out of tune, which in a setting like this is almost never the guitarist's job (they usually have teams of people setting each band up and then hauling them out). He was stuck with a choice of either trying to bend notes toward correct pitch (which is what he chose) or dropping out of the song entirely for 30 seconds or more to tune or switch guitars (assuming one was available and didn't require changing a lot of settings), which in a sparse band like this would have been painful. I feel for him - he must have had an "oh crap" moment when he realized it was out of tune and he was stuck.
@Darius Beaumont chances are the reason Paul sounds subpar is a mix of both. shitty tuning ain't his fault, but due to how much touring (and partying) the band was doing at the time they sound wrung out in quite a few concerts. Mike's voice here shows that. But a large part of it was probably the heat also. Mike and Ali both look very red in the face so chances are the intensity of the heat was getting to them and their instruments
Its not the way you look,
Its not the way that you smile.
Although theres something to them.
Its not the way you have your hair,
Its not that certain style;
It could be that with you.
If I had a photograph of you,
Its something to remind me.
I wouldnt spend my life just wishing.
Its not the make-up
And its not the way that you dance,
Its not the evening sky.
Its more the way your eyes
Are laughing as they glance
Across the great divide.
If I had a photograph of you,
Its something to remind me.
I wouldnt spend my life just wishing.
Its not the things you say
Its not the things you do
It must be something more
And if I feel this way for so long
Tell me is it all for nothing
Just dont walk out the door.
If I had a photograph of you,
Its something to remind me.
I wouldnt spend my life just wishing.
It was hot that day, give em a break!! It was like 103 in the shade. You have heard their studio version and it was great!
Not the best recording. Not the best venue.
Some live performances just don't turn out right, things go wrong, still a great song though.
Awesome song , Awesome Band, Awesome concert🙌 🎸
Just think.. this was the year the Soviet Union shot down Korean Airlines then almost nuked us twice due to the Able Archer exercises and then a false detection of their early warning system. 1983 was brutal and here's people dancing in their blue jeans :)
Paul Reynolds when playing on the guitar is so mesmerizing!
All eyes on Reno 😍
Imagine being at that gig. Looks like paradise.
Yes
this is no fuckin good
I was there! AWESOME weekend of music!!!!
Holy out-of-tune, Batman. Even his clapping was way off lol.
One of my favorite bands. Saw them at City Gardens in Trenton NJ. Sounded much better than this performance! Sounds like the recording is warped.
My God, these guys sound awful, and the singer is lame. However, they were popular at one time in the world of music so that's more than I can claim.
shut up kid...u dont know anything
I hope the crowd had been drinking to soften the blow.
Such a great song.
My favorite part at 3:15....I love his guitar... love the beat.
Those Simmons electric drums are good for a 'munitions dump'...good song but not on this day...(my two-bit opinion)...
I prefer the Flock of Seagulls version.
This IS a flock of seagulls silly
God man. GEORGE HARRISON said keep an eye on them. I think they were underrated. The first 3 lps should be in the history books, along with all the rest. The 4yh was alright. Worth listening.
Yikes! This was horrible...they should have stayed in the studio where a producer can save/salvage their music! This really sucked..vocally, musically, and performance as well!
Yeah! CRAP! out of pitch, the voice is not estable.. the keyboards are not playing..fully is a record playing as a playback and just moving little fingers.. : ( what happen here?!!
Studio quality recordings are so much better. He sounds like he's out of breath. He's dying to catch a breath. His voice is quivering. Its not the thundering voice you hear in the studio recording.
Did they lip sinc this shit ... like one of them modernday boy bands?!! NO!
Stoli Cartmanburg SYNC:S-Y-N-C.
God that sounds terrible. Out of tune singing and awful guitar playing....
Great song, bad performance of it..
Some songs don't have to be played live
I admit as a fan this wasn't the best performance but check out the " You can run " from the us festival it's really great!
There must be over 40 000 people there and none of them had any vegetables to throw at them!
This song really comes to life when you are driving to Vegas on the 15 in the middle of the night and you have the whole road to yourself!
Great band, great song, great performance!!!!
Ricky Wright
1 second ago
THIS SUX BIGTIME I LUV #FOSG LIKE #TRUMP SAYS YOURE FIRED NEVER DO THIS AGAIN FIRE THE PRODUCTER OR MGR WHO ALLOWED THE MUSIC VIDEO VERSION OF THIS SONG TO BE DONE LIVE AM A TAMA DRUMMER AND VJ OFFLINE PAST ONLINE STREAMER VJ MTV STUFF BUT I AM SAD THEY HAD TO DO THIS SONG IT RUINED THE US FESTIVAL I WOLD LEAVE - VJ @VJRADRICK FOR MTV MUSIC VIDOES BY TWEET STREAM
Um maybe-most wedding bands did a better cover when this song was current.
Love seeing live performance like this, no matter how good or bad.
me too
Yeah, I can agree that monitor and equipment issues likely affected this performance. The Regal Theatre 1983 performance is much more solid, for example.
It was a very hot day which can cause equipment like that to go haywire.
I can tell most people critiquing this here don't know how to recognize an out-of-tune instrument (as opposed to poor playing) and don't understand the sonic difference between a direct signal and an ambient recording. It's fine to not like the sound of it, but most people here don't understand what they're disliking or why. Understanding the things I just listed explains every sonic aspect of this recorded performance.
All the people say that sounds terrible but i like this, they don't do playback and that's cool
Besides the harsh comments of everyone else, I honestly think that this performance was still amazing. The synth was beautiful and somewhat lengthy in echo with the guitar's streak of sound complimenting it. The singing was good; decent, not trying hard to please the crowd. I listen to both this version of "Wishing" and the original. Both sound great, but I kinda like this one better.
Nicoletta Bates A Flock of Seagulls was an amazing studio band but I only wish they were a bit better live.
+Nicoletta Bates It's not really "harsh" to say the singing was terrible, because it obviously was. And the guitar solo is only 4 notes, and he manages to play the wrong ones, then gives up and stays on the same note...hardly a "compliment" to the weak and wobbly synth. I agree that they weren't trying hard to please the audience, though.....
Nicoletta Bates-What? you're obviously very easily pleased!
I saw them live a couple of times in the early 80's but they never sounded bad like this
Nicoletta Bates-Its bloody terrible,you pay out good money to see a band and you get this,c'mon?Paul Reynolds forgot the most important guitar piece,all televised!
Mike literally could have kept that body composure til today and his hair as well. Idk y he shaved his head and gotten fat
Gotta love cocaine. Screwed up 75% of the 80's bands. Evident here.
Ricky Wright
1 second ago
THIS SUX BIGTIME I LUV #FOSG LIKE #TRUMP SAYS YOURE FIRED NEVER DO THIS AGAIN FIRE THE PRODUCTER OR MGR WHO ALLOWED THE MUSIC VIDEO VERSION OF THIS SONG TO BE DONE LIVE AM A TAMA DRUMMER AND VJ OFFLINE PAST ONLINE STREAMER VJ MTV STUFF BUT I AM SAD THEY HAD TO DO THIS SONG IT RUINED THE US FESTIVAL I WOLD LEAVE - VJ @VJRADRICK FOR MTV MUSIC VIDOES BY TWEET STREAM
Ok. Who here had a cut up shirt like that? I did.
I love this song
I love this band and performance, but that shit was out of tune...they pulled it together at the very end though
what keyboard is he using here ...or what patch coz it sounds mickey mouse shit synth
Think it's made by spam
Wow cool to see this tho the mixing could have been better and the guitar in tune (this DOES happen outdoors) seems this band gave it their all! Kudos for uploading this!
Too late to fix this ....but hey you, yes you the drummer..you used to be so great in the videos...wake up and smash it..do not autopilot it. You are on high there and right in the centre like a wick in the candle, just burn or just die. PS. after reading the comments here it is obvious there was something wrong going on within the band already. So sad.
it's very nice
Great Band
This excellent pop song seems to be about Eric Cantona’s philosophical quip “When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they want something!”.
Ummmm… the song was inspired by a girl Mike Score had met right before the band went to America on their first tour there. He asked her for a photo & she said “No you’re just going to become famous & forget about me.” He never saw her again.
@@AJ17_ more fool her………
mike looks beautiful:)
Chorused bass. Simmons drums. Cheesy analog synths. Out of tune vocals. Bum note ebow guitar? Quality!
I like this band but this performance sucked
Hottie in the beginning.
Love this song I don't like today music I only listen to older especially 70s and 80s love it
Paul un virtuoso genial... larga vida a RENO !!!!!😍
Not their best sound here, but don't hold it against them. A flock of Seagulls is one of the best bands ever, and this song is a classic. You have to give them credit for having the guts to go on, knowing that they are not sounding great. ❤
US Festival 1983, can you see me? Lol i was there pretty close to stage on right side
It's just a bad venue. This song works better in a smaller venue, like The Tube.
If I need to bitch bout anything... what happened to their hair? Ish too TAMED!!
The lady in yellow that is
00:18 - 00:20 ... 02:15 - 02:26 bella
My favorite tune from this band.
Loved them then love them now 💚💚💚
The girl at 0:17 please reveal yourself if you are among people commenting.
Sounds for all generation to generation brilliant song. This is when you make me come alive with your songs and more loved artist
quality live .... takes balls to repeat studio sound
Mike Score's hair was like that accidentally once when he had to go on stage to perform. People thought the style was cool and that became his signature trademark.
HORRIBLE
Two SH-101's and a TR-606. Be still my heart.
ahi sta la musica de los buenos tiempos peruuuu
poor Paul, piss poor playing! he was far better than this!
The guitar was out of tune. He was working constantly through the song to bend notes back into tune as he played. That's really hard to do.
This is the best song by this band
i wish the original line up of seagulls would get back together again because they were so good , Mike being the the way he is now who knows.
They have
POR CULPA DEL EGO DE MIKE se separaron y sobretodo harto a Paul que era el unico gran talento de la banda. fin
They reunited in 2003 for the VH1 Bands Reunited episode & then did a brief reunion tour in the fall of 2004 (but it imploded after a handful of shows because they stared fighting again). They did reunite on record for the Ascension & String Theory orchestral albums, but they all recorded their parts separately & sent them in to be mixed. I don’t think we’ll ever see another reunion of the original lineup though. Mike prefers his touring band. Also Paul sadly suffered a stroke in early 2020 he’s been recovering from. He’s doing ok but I’ve heard he can’t play guitar anymore. 😢
I'm from brazil i'm 12 years old I really like the flock of seagulls
I'm from brazil i'm 40 years old
22❤️🇧🇷
The Flock!!! Great band.
Ingles eh o caraio, fala português fi
I'm from mars and I really enjoy earth beer.
I attended this Us festival 83 day 1 and 2, saw this performance. Their first three studio recordings were incredible yet did not come across that well in this live performance.
so life-less. I guess some songs are not made to be played live. No energy here whatsoever
It was a 103 in the shade that day. You would be lifeless too.
Sounds like a group of cats in the middle of a hot summer night.