But for the most part, except for the occasional solo, the songs stay very close to the studio versions even the solos often reproduce what’s on the original albums. Ain’t Nobody But Me is full of life, superior to the original version, and Bloody Well Right has a great edge to it, and the same sort of thing can be said for most of the tracks here. But it’s hard to top the opening and buildup of School to start a concert. It’s interesting that several albums after the release of Crime of the Centry, Supertramp’s first live album begins and ends there, and includes almost every other song from that album. Oh, and 4 years later I saw the band in Philly and sat right in the center about 15 rows back so I got the full band and video experience that night. I have the Blu-ray too and eventually edited together a complete 1979 concert set using the LP, CD, Blu-ray (audio) and the Milwaukee '79 audience recording for completeness and the goofy between song banter from the MC, Helliwell. Love the rocking ending of "Aint nobody but Me". It represented well, if not completely my first concert experience so that was very cool. Like Breakfast in America, I bought the Paris LP set as soon as it was released and still have that copy. That was kind of a bummer!īesides that, the show was pretty great even if the outdoor sound was somewhat distant compared to the pristine album productions. We realized this at the end of the concert when we made our way back toward the exit behind homeplate and then saw the screen displaying the bars from the CotC cover getting closer and closer. Being so far off center meant we did not even know there was a video screen raised up behind the band. This, in retrospect was not a great decision. To do so meant we veered towards rightfield and away from the center of the stage. Jean luc Ponty was the opening act and we got down to the field (no seats) and tried to get as close to the stage as we could among the mass of humanity parked on the infield and outfield. There were about 30-35,000 at each show I believe. We went to the 1st night of the 2 concerts at the old Expos ballpark, Parc Jarry. I drove up with 3 high school friend from Essex Jct, Vermont and we were pretty blown away by the spectacle. They obviously had other recordings from the tour as we know from the deluxe CD edition of BIA. That led to them arranging the Paris recordings 5 months later near the end of their world tour.
My bother said the band admitted that they recorded the Montreal concerts for the live album release but that they were not happy with the recordings. I missed this interview as I had moved away from VT in 1982. My brother was listening to a Supertramp interview in the early 80s on CHOM-FM, which was a great station we picked up in VT. "Paris" was possibly going to be "Montreal" and Supertramp in Montreal in 1979 was my very first concert.
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