WHAT AN ARTIST HOLLY JOHNSON WAS AND STILL IS AS PERFORMING TO HIS GREAT STANDARDS WHEN HE PERFORM HIS BEST HITS FROM HIS FRANKIE AND SOLO DAYS AT THE 80S REWIND FESTIVAL IN HENLEY ON THAMES UK OVER THE PAST WEEKEND .THAT NOW IS BEING COMPLIMENTED WITH HIS NEW ALBUM OF REMIXES OF ALBUM TRACKS OLD & NEW SOULSTREAM OUT SEPT 26TH
yes. look up their live preformances of this here on YT and you'll see that they were even better at 100% live... anyway, you might want to consider yourself lucky to have watched this...
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At first it's live but from 1'31", we switch to semi playback with just the voice of the singer live then full playback from 1'49". I know these songs by heart and from 1'49", there is no difference with the studio version, something impossible to do in public. During Wariiors of the wasteland, Holly sings a little live at certain times.
I remember this, and it was awesome! There was controversy at the time, because up to that point, Montreux had been a ***live*** music extravaganza (I have the DVD of Mike Oldfield's 1979 concert, and it's also awesome)., but that year, they went to playback for purposes of TV - specifically MTV. One could only imagine the "anti-yankee-TV" sentiment felt there, until Frankie expressed it by smashing their s*** before the tape ended. :-D
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It was complete playback indeed and as a band they did not quite like the fact that it was imposed. That is why they deliberately show it is a fake gig and are going wild at the end destroying their instruments and setup to show that they were useless for this theatrics.
They were miming to the tracks. No need for a session keyboard player - especially since they wanted to show their disgust at having to mime in what had hitherto been a live show, by trashing their gear before the tape finished. Classic Frankie attitude and, as miming goes, you won’t find a better front man than Holly Johnson.
Trashing the gear before out of disgust of having to mime, is not the reason they did it. It was decided between them after seeing the other acts and they thought, :“How can we top them?“. Thats the reason why. Not the Miming. A fun fact might be that, the Bass Mark shredded was a Levinson Bass that he was asked to use by Gary Levinson backstage just before the show. And when they got off, Levinson shouted at Mark : „You f#%king A-hole, thats a $1500 Bass, I‘ll sue you, you Motherf#% ker“. Read Brian Nashs Book, thats where I got the story from. It’s a cool book to read and the reason I just watched this to see what went down.
