My favourite band of all time

Ron sported the old man look so early that it was a graceful transition to true old age. Rare in rock stars.

After all these years Sparks are still going strong. Futuristic, Artistic, Innovative, Creative and the list goes on and on. I don't think there's any Town big enough for Sparks.

Took me years to warm to Sparks but they just keep getting better as I get older.

@kathybensko1871

2 жыл бұрын

Same!!!!

@user-my7db3vv4q

2 жыл бұрын

@@kathybensko1871 лучшая группа в истории рока. в ссср такое в 81 году никогда бы не показали. но мы все знали их музыку и угорали от счастья

Sparks were way ahead of the curve in the 70s and still recording great music today.

Holy crap! This Town has a seriously off-kilter carousel feel to it, like manic calliope music! Crazy infectious energy, I love it. Thanks for uploading!

I’ve been a fan of Sparks since the 70’s. I lost track of them for awhile but am soooo glad to see them still doing their thing! Love those guys💞💞

@girasolegiallo6927

4 ай бұрын

Same here since the release of Propaganda, back then I’d hear them on the radio and see them in European magazines such as Musik Express, Pop, Salut les Copains etc. I’ve never heard them played on the radio in Australia, and I never understood why compared to the rubbish that is usually on. I finally saw them in 23 in Sydney and Brisbane and thanks to Spotify and KZread, I’m having such a great time catching up on their back catalog.

6:32 I love how Russ is giddy and Ron is beyond pissed

I love these guys. Saw them at the Hollywood Bowl recently. They are as good as ever.!

I love how they all look like they’re having an absolute blast during “Tips For Teens.” 🥰

OK, I’m putting my musical career on hold, pending digestion of Sparks’ entire catalogue.

This footage is a gem! Thanks for uploading.

Saw them on a video performing in '75, here '81, and just saw a video from 2015. It's amazing how their sound almost hasn't changed at all, even at almost age 70...

@annabackman3028

2 жыл бұрын

Ron turned 70 August 12 that year ( born 1945) Russell was born in October 5, 1948.

What an amazing live band! 👍🙂

Russell can sing in ,like , 12 octaves... I thought they were doing an instrumental but Russell was actually singing so high only dogs could hear him ...

@annabackman3028

2 жыл бұрын

He's a natural counter tenor, who's struggle has been to reach the lower notes. By age and lower natural voice he can stretch much lower, at the same time still reaching as high as in his younger years. It sounds different, because now his falsetto technic is on a test, but he still makes it. An amazing singer!!! I seriously doubt there is anybody with his range at that age.

@annabackman3028

Жыл бұрын

If you want to listen to someone who literally reaches dog whistle notes, try Dimash Qudaibergen/Kudaibergen. He lacks about 4-5 notes in the lower register on a regular piano, on the other side, he is one note above the high register. Try 'SOS, d'un terrien en détresse' (or just 'SOS'), from the French - Canadian rock opera 'Starmania', 1978, originally sung by the late Daniel Balavoine. Another one is 'Stranger'. Here from 2021. kzread.info/dash/bejne/nnqnpJeBhtHTg6Q.html SOS, from the Chinese TV show competition 'I'm a Singer', 2017, when the Kazakh singer was 21 years of age. His international breakthrough. kzread.info/dash/bejne/fHmuk9OAg5O6YbQ.html Don't misunderstand me here. Dimash is an unbelievable singer, one of the best ever. A voice control many singers would (almost) kill for. I'm an admirer. It's impossible to not be. HOWEVER I'm a huge Sparks fan! And Russell's voice has been in my heart since December 1975, his voice apparatus my only lasting love 😂!

@kyachdistent1301

Жыл бұрын

@@annabackman3028 SOOOO AGREEEE! AMAZING MAN VOCALLY AND THEN SOME, and I don t say that lightly as I'm a great fan of the voices of the best male vocals ever-Simon Le Bon of Duran, Morten Harket of A-ha, Marian Gold of Alphaville, Neil Finn of Crowded House; there's a few others but their voices tend to be better than the material they usually have, so I bother not to include them. What also amazes me is how he can sprint and bounce about on a stage like that with cables and speakers everywhere and barely any room.

@annabackman3028

Жыл бұрын

@@kyachdistent1301So you did listen!😃 Still I love Russell's voice, it just reaches my soul somehow.💖 Can you believe how Russell's voice could have been, if he had had the same CRAZY dedication to singing and professional training like Dimash has? I mean... yeah!?🤩🤩🤩🤩😍 Dimash is probably not from this planet, so perhaps he shouldn't be counted. In 50 years or so, someone will find his spaceship somewhere around Kazakhstan 😂😂 ("SOME"? Handsome I assume?🤣 I have seen less good looking young men, yes😂😂!)

@kyachdistent1301

Жыл бұрын

@@annabackman3028 I think Russell DOES have dedication-the man's not only so crazily busy that for many years he and his brother knocked out whole albums of tunes every year, plus a promotional schedule that they fill again and again with live shows that seem not to decrease with age, but he also sings astoundingly great for a man his age. Above all he has an all-round perfect voice, and inhabits every song he sings; this is not something your average singer can do (and many ARE average) and even more are just shit. This Dimash is a little singing child, and will probably NOT be singing like that for long, as there's no evidence as yet he'll use it for pop/rock purposes, always supposing he could. Russell is even BETTER as he doesn't even HAVE that so-called training. But there are amazing people out there that don't NEED it as they've an absolute aptitude for the job they do. Not quite sure the meaning behind what Russ's voice "could have been". It IS. What it COULD have been is only what it IS. Now if they were to churn out bad records like everybody else...I mean George Michael has a great great voice, but it's utterly wasted on the boring, sappy, old-man drivel he bangs out. Brilliant voice = wasted. But Russell, like Simon. Morten, Andy McC, Marian, Neil F do excellent music and albums = perfect voice for the job and utterly NOT wasted. When Dimash knocks out even one album half as good as the weakest Duran/A-ha/Sparks etc. album out there, THEN and only THEN may he be considered an actual contender, but then that's only voice-wise, and I'm not sure I'd want to hear that style of singing often. There are many pleasanter vocals out there from the 80s I simply get singles from even if not albums. I don't like showy, over-egged voices for the sake of it, or poncy ones. That goes for the women either, from plastic auto-tuned barbies to all the gross caterwauling, shrieking old fishwives of pointlessness like Adele or drill-through-the-ear-grind through your nose Diarhianna, Knowles, Lopez slags.

Maravillosas melodias y una propuesta muy personal..los arreglos vocales..todo muy pristino..genial..de una epoca unica e irrepetible...❤❤❤❤🎼🎸🥁❤❤

Ich liebe Sparks😊

YOU ARE LITERALY AMAZING FOR THIS

@incubuskills3608

3 жыл бұрын

you're incredible i owe you my life i do really

I love ❤ 😍 Sparks since kid and I love this starts with Whack Whack Whack Whack Whacky woooomen!Lol 😆

This band has an amazing discography

@kyachdistent1301

Жыл бұрын

Yes, but sadly barely anyone seems to realise they truly smashed it with the 80s dawning. The 70s (despite their breakthrough) was so not their best period, it wasn't for anyone really, bar ABBA. Once their awesome 1979 album was created, THEN they became the Sparks I know and love (granted some singles throughout the 70s & odd album track) and they've just been hitting it ever since. Still are!!

@zachjohnson637

2 ай бұрын

@@kyachdistent1301The 70s wasn’t the best for anyone? That’s the most insane comment I’ve ever read.

@kyachdistent1301

Ай бұрын

@@zachjohnson637 Let me clarify dear. What I mean is, regarding the 70s, the few acts I'd buy singles or albums by, I meant their 80s output was generally better-i.e. Roxy Music to Bryan Ferry. Same with Sparks, David Bowie, obviously he's fine before, but it's the 80s sound and atmosphere that gets me every time. As far as "most insane comment EVER read"-clearly you don't read much AT ALL! Clearly, in a world of insanity, most of them will be under slagdonna videos-actually PRAISING the talentless pointless c*nt from hell!

Peter Hammill sings with The Sparks on the same stage in one concert.... Now I have seen everything 🙂 Wonderful gig -- in every way! Thanks for the awesome upload. I'll definitely wanna return here and watch it again. So great!

this concert was b4 Angst, the album that would put Sparks on the map

@xeroid69

Ай бұрын

Whomp That Sucker era. 🙃 KROQ had Upstairs, Tips for Teens, I Married a Martian & Funny Face in heavy rotation when Whomp came out so Sparks were definitely on the map in Southern California before Angst. 🎶🫶

Fantastic

Ron conducting at the end of tips for teens....so good! thanks for upload

@misterdavid5400

3 жыл бұрын

Ron wrote it all so he's the maestro

Oh i love it Thanks for sharing 🙏❤️

Thank you for sharing some great music.

pure Gold, always and still, saw them in Wash DC live in March

"Get in the Swing" was one of my favorite songs back in school days (1975) but it never seems to get played amongst their revived catalogue.

@user-qh9to4fy9b

2 жыл бұрын

They played it at the 2022 US & European tour 😎🙌🏼

Ok. This rules. Upstairs. Tips for Teens. Holy shit! But that ending jam with give peace a chance while Ron banged bananas had me snorting laughing crying. Holy WTF BAND MUTINY.

Some REAL "München wisdom";-) Thanks for sharing!

Wacky Women is fantastic, quite Devo-esque.

Wow.

Great concert but amazing how much better live and creative they have gotten over the years! Cheers

@kyachdistent1301

Жыл бұрын

Yes and for me, their songs and albums only started becoming truly important from 1979 when they discovered electronica and found it a perfect fit for their approach, which also coincided with much better writing, as Ron's skilled wordplay and outrageously witty, hilarious and caustic lines began mounting up like a colossal tidal wave. Still growing today!

@darrellminx5459

Жыл бұрын

@@kyachdistent1301 I Agree they evolve on they're own terms.

When I Compare sparks with another group I can think of The sensational Alex Harvey Band Vander Graf Generator although different to sparks another one of my absolute favourite bands so unique and different, Family roger chapman, SLAPP HAPPY WITH DAGMAR KRAUSE . I need to eat soon im getting hungry .Sad to say the only live concert I ever been to was Pink Floyds in London earls Court think it was in the early eighties great memories.

@henkjones

Жыл бұрын

Sparks are coming to Europe in june 2023 😉

This is still the most bizarre gig ever.....Just noticed Ron playing the bananas! I don't think I've seen the whole clip before. It reminds me of Jacques Tati's "Parade."

@oenthusiast

2 жыл бұрын

I couldn't hear Ron's part at all. I think he would have gotten a better percussive effect if he'd switched to green plantains.

@Mounutt

2 жыл бұрын

Just another "normal" gig in Germany in the eighties. Except this is Sparks.

21.54 The most coolest shot of Morris Pert I've ever seen.

This is so f*chin' great...

Yes, it´s my time. 🙂

This is lovely upload, but got to say once Sparks left the stage after finishing their set, my interest sapped.

Truly bizarro moment! I love E. Schoener (How many nights have I fallen to sleep with Sky Music). I'm a H U G E Peter Hammill fan (I can sing the entirety of 'Flight'). And I just saw Sparks at the Hollywood Bowl! (Happy Me).. but all three on one stage.. together.. I might need therapy. Lol

Thanks very much for this. Do you by any chance also have the other songs Peter Hammill performed that night (My Room and This Side of the Looking Glass)?

@Ebut191

Жыл бұрын

This would have been an excellent gig. Peter Hammill and Sparks. Pity PH was not there with VDGG.

I rediscovered the sparks 20 odd years ago. Been a kid 1st hearing tips for teens I loathed it thus never listening to them again One night in a bar This Town ain’t big enough for the both of us and I was memorised. Fan ever since. Still hate Tips for teens though 😊

Питер Хэммил там тоже, вот это да!

On the beginning there is a few seconds the part of the TANGERINE DREAM performance. Is ist possible to release this as a standalone video? Your VHS transfer is the best I have ever seen of this show. Absolutely great work!

That guy singing the finale looks like Greg Lake.

Who are the guys playing on time square and give peace a chance? I can recognise Peter Hammill

@vadimt9317

2 жыл бұрын

Mel Collins, Mike Rutherford. The rest guys is interesting as well.

@user-my7db3vv4q

2 жыл бұрын

тайм сквер исполняет эберхард шенер. там же написано

@flytomars

2 жыл бұрын

Also Morris Pert on drums and kongas, John Miles on guitar, Mel Collins on sax, and I think I spotted Edgar Froese standing behind (TD were also performing that day)

@user-ux9bx8kc5y

5 ай бұрын

H​@@flytomars It seems that good old Morris was in every band everywhere.

Since when was Greg Lake a member of the Sparks backing band?

Очень похожи на нашу группу АукцЫон 😂

Russell looked pissed off at Ron at 6:38.

@ronanhughes3861

3 жыл бұрын

I think they were having some tuning issues there.

@CircuitBird

3 жыл бұрын

@@ronanhughes3861 That too, but it looked like Ron nudged him.

@adamtaylor31

3 жыл бұрын

I think they were goofing around.

@CircuitBird

3 жыл бұрын

@@tonyrutgershauer7947 That's a fair point. I've come across issues when performing, myself. Worst case was when my mixer gave up and began receiving low quality radio station signals. I had to use someone else's and threw mine straight in the skip. It was old and beaten up!

@synchromystici5m

2 жыл бұрын

One of the synths is very obviously out of tune

Peter Hamill, Mel Collins and who else?😍

@user-ux9bx8kc5y

3 ай бұрын

Morris Pert from Brand X.

@morusalba1518

3 ай бұрын

@@user-ux9bx8kc5y thank you ☀️

Hallo, cool... bei dieser Klassik Rock Nacht waren auch INFORMATION mit Joachim Kühn und George Kochbeck dabei. Haste davon Aufnahmen ? Beste Grüße

If DEVO and OINGO BOINGO had a baby ...

@CapitalQ

3 жыл бұрын

Then Sparks would still be older!

@whipsmartchris

3 жыл бұрын

@@CapitalQ Heh?

@hurdygurdyguy1

3 жыл бұрын

@@whipsmartchris Sparks predates Devo and Oingo Boingo by a number of years..

@adamtaylor31

3 жыл бұрын

These two started this project in 1967...still going today.

@rogerpatton5604

3 жыл бұрын

The drummer in this video became the drummer for Devo in the late 80s.

Ace many thanks for upload 100