For me it would have come close to being the best weekend ever..... that is if I were about five years older and I happened to be in the San Francisco area over 13th to 15th November 1980. That weekend saw the band play three consecutive nights in San Francisco and the Bay area. Looking at the combined venue flyer, good music in the locale was the order of the day for a month or two. It would be The Stranglers, Stiff Little Fingers, XTC, The Slits and the Young Marble Giants for me... maybe The Go Go's at a push.
But anyway, here are The Stranglers from their Keystone gig in the Palo Alto area, with another of those short, but perfectly formed sets.Were the lengths of the sets that the band played on those early '80s US tours dictated by stage times, did bands playing these club venues come on very late? Two thirds of the way through this ill-fated tour, the band here seem to have got to grips with using hired equipment, a necessity after someone made away with all their equipment in New York three weeks earlier.
Not only have I not posted this gig before, but this version, provided to me last month by DomP is a significant upgrade on the version that has been sitting in my collection. I am not technical enough to state just how the sound has been improved, suffice to say that it just sounds much better (he did say that on top of the general remastering some channel balancing was corrected during 'The Raven'). Cheers Dom!!
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-mcz1hkSWzn
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