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Live and Loud! began as a fortnightly internet radio show in 2012 taking old unreleased live concert recordings I could find and working to repair and improve them - fixing tape hiss, noise, tape drop out, clicks, speed variations, defects - before improving the sound quality by EQing the sound to bring out the instruments as clearly as possible. These are now made directly available to download for free to reach as many fans of the music as possible.

Depending on the quality of the original recording, these can often be made to sound almost like commercial recordings - but of course I can't guarantee that for every show. What I can guarantee is it will sound far better than the original files available which have been floating around the internet and on bootleg recordings for many years.

Almost all are either "soundboard" recordings (taken directly from the mixing desk used at the gig on the night) or old FM radio recordings. A few gigs, if they are of special historical importance, make an appearance even if they were recorded from the audience - these can also be made to sound better than ever.

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Tuesday, 17 January 2017

Show 90: Duran Duran - Capitaine Video Club Paris - 8 September 1981



This time its Duran Duran from their very first trip into Europe, after the release of their debut album. The recording is unfortunately quite short, from a French FM broadcast, and in common with several other French FM broadcasts I have, the presenters do like to talk in between songs quite a bit!  I guess to stop home taping - thankfully though, someone saved this for posterity. The story is that with it being recorded for broadcast, apparently EMI paid for Duran fans from Birmingham to be ferried over to Paris for this gig, to ensure there was a crowd!

The recording was at the wrong speed (Fame was scooting along at warp speed...) so I've slowed it down a bit. After some hiss reduction and EQ to even out the sound and put some space between the instruments, it was done.

There will no doubt be a 3rd Duran Duran show up on the site in a few months. In the meantime, the show is now available to download exclusively for free here as 1 MP3 file.

Or, if you would like to have separate tagged MP3s, or even lossless files in FLAC format, head on over to the Donations tab to see how you can obtain these for a very small donation towards the site costs.

Setlist
Anyone Out There?
Fame
Night Boat
Planet Earth
Sound Of Thunder
Girls On Film

 

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5 comments:

  1. Anonymous19 January 2017 at 02:29

    Many thanks for this one Flip, much appreciated.

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  2. Anonymous22 January 2017 at 08:02

    Fantastic !!!!!! So very nice to hear This "old" Versions of pure classy tunes..Now I Looking for more older Duran Duran Recordings from same period 1981 , 1982,

    Regards

    Tomas

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    1. Flip Martian23 January 2017 at 13:47

      Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. 1 more DD show on this site from that period also - hope you enjoy that too

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  3. Anonymous24 November 2017 at 17:53

    Fantastic!!! Tks for share��⭐

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