Supertramp - Paris (Live) (1980)

Supertramp - Paris (Live) (1980)

Tracklist front / back album covers

Side one

1. "School"   5:41

2. "Ain't Nobody But Me"   5:24

3. "The Logical Song"   3:56

4. "Bloody Well Right"   3:42

Side two

1. "Breakfast in America"   2:57

2. "You Started Laughing"   4:02

3. "Hide in Your Shell"   6:54

4. "From Now On"   7:06

Side three

1. "Dreamer"   3:44

2. "Rudy"   7:08

3. "A Soapbox Opera"   4:51

4. "Asylum"   6:51

Side four

1. "Take the Long Way Home"   4:57

2. "Fool's Overture"   10:57

3. "Two of Us"   1:25

4. "Crime of the Century"   6:32

Supertramp Band Members / Musicians

Rick Davies – lead and backing vocals, acoustic and Wurlitzer pianos, Hammond Organ, ARP Omni 2 Elka and Oberheim synthesizers, Hohner Clavinet, harmonica, tambourine;

Roger Hodgson – lead and backing vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, pianos, synthesizers, bells;

John Helliwell – saxophones, clarinet, synthesizers, on "Goodbye Stranger", percussion, backing vocals, spoken intros;

Dougie Thomson – bass guitars, backing vocals on "Bloody Well Right", "Fool's Overture" and "Two of Us", organ on "School", additional synthesizer on "Fools Overture";

Bob Siebenberg (as Bob C. Benberg) – drums, percussion, backing vocals on "Two of Us".

 

Producers: Peter Henderson, Russel Pope

Engineers: Bernie Grundman, Peter Henderson, Russel Pope

Mixing: Bernie Grundman

Mastering: Bernie Grundman

Re-mastering: Greg Calbi, Jay Messina

Production manager: "Spy" Matthews

Lighting: Ken Allardyce, Tony Shepherd

Monitors: Ian Lloyd "Biggles" Bigsley

Sound System: Norman Hall, David Farmiloe, Mick Berg, Chris "Smoother" Smyth

Lighting System: Patrick O'Doherty, Roger Grose, Tam Smith

Stage System: Patrick Ampe, Van Annonson, Steve Dabbs

Piano technician: Edd Kolakowski

Projection: Gus Thomson

Rigging: George Packer, Jade Dearling

Art direction: Mike Doud

Design: Mike Fink

Cover illustration: Cindy Marsh

Photography: Mark Hanauer, Steve Smith

Liner notes: David Margereson

2002 A&M reissue:

The 2002 A&M Records reissue was mastered from the original master tapes by Greg Calbi and Jay Messina at Sterling Sound, New York, 2002. The reissue was supervised by Bill Levenson with art direction by Vartan and design by Mike Diehl, with production coordination by Beth Stempel.

Paris is a live album by the English rock band Supertramp, released in 1980. It was recorded on Supertramp's Breakfast in America tour in Paris, France, with most of the tracks taken from a 29 November 1979 show at the Pavillon de Paris, a venue which was once a slaughterhouse. The album was originally going to be called Roadworks. Paris reached number 8 on the Billboard 200 in late 1980 and went Gold immediately, while the live version of "Dreamer" hit the US Top 20.

According to Roger Hodgson, Supertramp had several reasons to record a live album at the time, including a desire to introduce their pre-Breakfast in America works to USA listeners and a mutual sentiment that some of their songs were pulled off better live than in the studio. However, he admits that the chief purpose of the album was to buy time; the band was under pressure to produce a suitable follow-up to the immense success of Breakfast in America, and needed to get off the treadmill of touring and recording for a while in order to consider their direction for such an album. Taking such a breather meant the next studio album wouldn't be finished until 1981 at the earliest, and so something was needed "to fill the gap."