Duran Duran performing Secret Oktober live at the house of blues in Chicago IL DD: Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, Warren Cuccurullo with Joe Travers and Wes Wehmiller
I was there! About 6 bodies back. Maybe 4th DD concert.. won a ticket through a fan contest! Felt so blessed to see them again. Met Wes Wehmiller out in the hallways after the show.. :( 🙏 Warren really did add so much musicality to their range of style and songwriting through those years: methinks he got far from enough credit for his contributions, even from me, back in those times, and since. Most of all, of course they hadn't likely played this song live before (or at least not that I'd seen), so this was an Extra-Cosmic Treat. THANK YOU DD, and thanks to scorpion09 for the post!!
The recorded version of Secret Oktober is by far the finest single piece of music that Duran Duran ever made. It's not debatable. It's just a fact. Period. Regarding this video, there are many live versions from the 3 tours in 1997-2001( Ultra Chrome Latex and Steel, Let It Flow, and Pop Trash) but for me this is bar far the best. So simple, so pure.
It's an interesting song and it may be "the finest single piece of music that Duran Duran ever made" for you but definitely not for me. A song put together in a hurry to become the B side of _Union of the Snake_ , with Nick Rhodes firing up a drum machine plus some sequencers and Simon Le Bon improvising a melody on top. It's a song with no hook, musically childish with 3 chords and with nothing innovative into it. Compared to wonderfully written, performed and produced songs such as The Reflex, Union Of The Snake, Shadows On Your Side, Vertigo, Downtown and What Happens Tomorrow this appears just what it is: a song made to fill a place.
When I ran into bassist John Taylor whilst doing auditing work in Hollywood, I explained to him how much I enjoy THIS song! John is my favourite DD member but ironically my fav DD song is Secret Oktober - which doesn't have any basslines!
for me, this has been a signature song ... I don't know what Simon's relationship is to this lyric, to the song .... but I've always fancied that it's personal for him, simply since his birthday is an October one, as mine is ... it's been this dreamy sort of anthem that's been there as a Stillness throughout my life. Thank you all yet again, Simon, John, Nick, Roger and Andy and your various partners in musical expression .... what a gift for us all
These are the moments that make DD concerts the best... when they dont play over played songs like Hungry Like the Wolf and Girls on Film. My favorite moments are when they pull the rare or obscure stuff for the true fans, not the ones who just know the first 3 albums singles. Thats what I didnt like about their current 2016/17 tour. It was just a greatest hits tour.
What I like about the mini tour they did this year in the states is that they pulled some out of the closet (Seventh Stranger, Chauffer, Friends of Mine)
Meno male che sono tornati ad essere al meno in 4 della formazione originale...vedere questi video in cui ci sono solo Simon e Nick ricorda un periodo triste
I have had this mp3 forever - had no idea there was a matching video!!! You take the best sex of your life, mix it with a hazy and perfect breeze and you have this song.
Wise on a birthday party In a world Full of surprising fireworks And sudden silence Lies on a stranger's bed The new day breaks Like a speeding train On an old friend Ever expected, But never knocking Holding your own In a battered car All night parties Cocktail bars And smile When the butterfly escapes The killing jar
They made this totally Pop Trash...one would never know it was Seven and the Ragged Tiger ...unless, of course ,you knew it was from the extra on the 12 inch of Union of the Snake...weird for me to hear it in this context. I saw them for this tour.. they didn't perform it. An extra lyric...pretty cool guys...pretty fuckin cool!
Warren and AT so much better than current guitarist!!!!!!!!!!! Warren was best to me.....he must have come up with the idea of the effects he's using on the guitar - totally different to the original recording. Sounds like flanger effect?
hmmm. I wondered that as well. I always thought Warren was saying; "wait for it, wait". but - I could be totally wrong. I was there that night of this show - but it was so long ago - I couldn't recall. you just may be right about him saying something about the lights. also - thanks so much for uploading this video. this brings back so many happy memories for me. plus - I always LOVED this version of Secret Oktober. well - i love the original - but prefer this version. it's so beautiful.
He left the band a couple of years before this and didn't return again until the original line up re-united for the reunion concerts that preceded the Astronaut album.
