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Summary: Still a unique sound
Comment: Paris is a very unique and special live album of one of the great bands of late seventies and eighties. The combination of Rick Davies and Roger Hudson deliveres that special Supertramp sound, which was already unique on the studio albums.
This live albums contains the successes on the first CD and has some of the best and most beautiful songs of Supertramp on the second CD.
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Summary: Supertramp's first live album is still, as the French say, magnifique 25 plus years on
Comment: Supertramp's seventh album entitled Paris was released in October of 1980.
The album was recorded in November of 1979 in Paris, France at the Pavillion on the final night of the band's Breakfast in America European tour. Paris is a wonderful live set, capturing the band at the peak of their popularity when co-leader/guitarist/singer/keyboard player/songwriter Roger Hodgson was still with the group. When you consider that the possibility of Hodgson returning to Supertramp these days very doubtful, Paris becomes an extremely important live document of the classic lineup of the band, indeed.
Many great Supertramp classics are included in this live two disc set, such as most of 1974's grand breakthrough Crime of the Century (the spirited opener "School", a slightly extended "Bloody Well Right", an excellent "Hide in Your Shell", a superb "Asylum', the Top 20 hit "Dreamer", a uperb "Rudy" and the closing "Crime of the Century" which closes this live album), two songs from 1975's highly underrated followup Crisis? What Crisis? ("Ain't Nobody But Me' and "A Soapbox Opera" both superior to studio versions), two from 1977's Gold selling US breakthrough Even in the Quietest Moments ("From Now On" and the best version of "Fool's Overture" ever), and three from the #1 Multi-Platinum selling Breakfast in America (the monster hit "The Logical Song", the title cut and the Top 20 smash "Take The Long Way Home") plus one exclusive song called You Started Laughing which was not found anywhere else save the B-side to a song called Lady from Crisis?.
Hodgson and co-leader/keyboardist/singer/songwriter Rick Davies sing their hearts out and play their respective keyboards with great passion, and Hodgson also serves up some incredible fretwork on the guitar. Co-horts John Helliwell on saxophones/clarinets/occasional keyboards and additional backing vocals, drummer Bob C. Benberg and bass player Dougie Thomson have terrific interplay with Hodgson and Davies, helping to bring the band's great melodic music to life in tremendous fashion. Just like on their studio albums, the band totally cook live in concert, too. The songs on here rival their studio counterparts, especially on Rudy which is sped at faster speed than the studio version on the Roger/Rick vocal duel section.
Commercially, Paris did well peaking at #8 on the album charts and is one of my Top 10 favorite live rock albums ever, especially with the remastering on this album.
Highly recommended!
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Summary: Enrico review for Supertramp CDs
Comment: The 2 CDs "Paris" by Supertramp are fantastic! Just like I desire; in perfect conditions, considering the long distance for the delivery.
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Summary: Sound the same
Comment: Personally I like when a band uses the live version to make variations on the theme. But listening to PARIS is like listen to the studio recording versions. No jamming no variation. I am a little bit disappoint it about the album. Great songs like School are a perfect replica of the studio version I was expecting that the solo piano will fly a little bit more but no.
For those who don't like variations in songs this is a great CD.
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Summary: Ahh the memories...
Comment: Supertramp. The very name still gives me goosebumps. My sister had this live performance on audio cassette. I practically wore it out when I was a kid. Everything about this performance is perfection. I can imagine being in the audience when I close my eyes while I listen to it. I actually prefer this live album to all of their studio sessions. I bought the double cd a couple years ago and began to breathe in the nostalgia. The only annoying thing about the cd is the duration of the concert was long enough to prevent it from being recorded to only one side of a cd just like the audio cassette. other than that there is nothing to say but, perfection.
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