From the first show of 1984, also the twentieth anniversary special, here's another piece of kit rearrangement as a spectacularly pissed Rick Parfitt walks into, mounts and eventually brings crashing over Pete Kircher's drumkit. Quite the job he does on it too, the whole thing from floor tom to allegedly weighted down bass drum right off the riser in one move. Listen to the appreciation his handiwork gets. Before that is plenty of old school rock and roll showbiz, not counting 0:56 when Rossi spots his mike has fallen out of its stand. Also note Jim Lea of Slade on bass as Alan Lancaster hated the song (or his wife was pregnant, depending on which piece of self-mythologising you believe) and left the band shortly after.
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the quo shark-jumping moment for me was "rockin' all over the world", but alan lancaster was right to hate this! up to that moment by far the most dire thing they had done... although even worse was to come with "you're in the army now"! however, francis rossi would probably argue that without making their no-nonsense non-stop heads-down hard-driving boogie sound more commercial they would be firmly in the "where are they now" category rather than the legends they are these days...
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