💖 Beautiful song 💖Thank you ! 🙏

So cool

Derek Forbes and Michael Dempsey were without doubt the best bass players of the early 80's.. Albums like New Gold Dreams and Sulk (The Associates) both from 1982 have basslines that have stood the test of time! Just listen to both albums! Incredible!

i keep coming back to these videos of you old friend, i miss the hell out of you more and more each passing day. Hope you are eating something good up there Jorden i love you brother

Without Derek and Mick, the early Simple Minds would have never made it. Beautiful bass sounds. Derek was arguably the best bassist of that generation of musicians. Bravo Derek! 👌👏🏼👏🏼

Often a lot of the banter with Tommy is cut out which is a shame as it makes for quite a percentage of the night I reckon! Is it deliberate or just not caught on camera? Just curious btw not picking! 🙂

7:34 thats my best friend right there, I miss him greatly he was an amazing person. I love you Jorden rest easy old friend

good song

I remember enjoying the hits when Simple Minds became more of stadium band, with John Giblin was on bass, but wasn't until I was older that I really explored their back catalogue and realised just how creative and arty their earlier stuff was. I'm also a bass player and was blown away by the OG rhythm section's idiosyncratic and angular grooves. They were a completely different band after Derek left, and I prefer their older stuff now.

Would love to know exactly why the full SM reunion of 2008 didn't work out. I'm guessing Jim wanted total control with Charlie, and Derek, Mick & Brian couldn't accept that. If true, you will never see any kind of SM reunion again.

I was at this concert with my two daughters. It was so blissful it made us cry. We love you Leisure Society. My little three year old granddaughter loves your music. That's three generations. Make it four please. Keep going. Don't stop. Thank you for everything you do.

Hello😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

Big Derek is such a formidable bassist , I have heard him described as a lead guitarist fighting to get out of a bass player

Innovative genius, fantastic bass riffs, deserved far more recognition than he got.

Remember seeing him on TV playing 'The American' on his Wal MK1 in about 84.... What a song, what a bassline, what a bass player. Not the same band when he'd gone.

It was a great night!

“Sheer bloody poetry “

back when jj had a growl in his voice

Blows me away! He makes it look so simple...

absolute genius

Genius bass god

Those bass lines are iconic, Thank you Derek

7.40 Sweat in Bullet

Derek, Peter Hook and Mick Karn.

Thanks for this. Great night, I was there

The demonstration here shows the old style versions of how Simple minds sounded. Derek Forbes put in most of the innovation and creativity working with Brian McGee on drums, while Jim Kerr working on the lyrics. It shows that the best our missing from a Simple minds. Only Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill left. Missing. Derek Forbes, Mick MacNeal, Brain McGee from when they first established. Derek popping the bass and Mick amazing synths. Gave Simple minds that dynamic sound. As why die hard fans miss them so much. The sound today from Simple minds is not the same. Something seems missing. And we all know what it is!!! There is Simple minds the name and EX Simple minds. 3 other members dearly missed but not forgotten. And why they will play regardless split up. As this still all their music and creativity. 5 guys creativity was amazing. A final one off tour. Or perhaps Jim and Charlie could do an end of show encore, introduction of early songs by inviting these 3 missing members to the stage for some final songs on a tour.

I had no idea these guys were gigging again

No Derek no Simple Minds. Period!

Legend ❤ 🎸 Only downhill for the Minds when he left with Mick McNeil the final nail.

Great stuff, thanks for posting this.

Derek's one of the main reasons I started playing bass 😀😀

11:05 ... ♥♥♥

F**King awesome, genus at work.

Your my all time favourite bass player simply brilliant

Admire the genial wit and genius of Derek, the bedrock of a great band’s sound and rhythm section.

My favourite bass line of Derek's is 'Big Sleep'. His departure marked the end of the Mind's creativity in my opinion

Great Bass Player, Mr Derek Forbes , always tried to be inventive

.your..music, will always be Eternal ..😊😊😊🎉🎉🎉

What a great sense of time. So solid. Thanks for the inspiration.

Hot mine on 45 love

Simple Minds with Forbes untouchable

His bass lives were visionary, Derek stepped out of the normal and pushed boundaries for the bass guitar, innovative, versatile, and great tones, thanks for the upload.

Boss ❤️

Derek Forbes was, is and always be my Simple Minds hero. Period..where can I order the book Derek?

class...

Follow him from first SM albums, HE IS A LEGEND.His bass lines are unique masterpieces . Undoubtly Derek IS the ONLY Simple Minds bassist and after him nothing but some good work by M. Foster. Listen to all his performances even incredible these with Propaganda. Please Dereck come back with Mick Macneil joining again Simple Minds for a GREAT CELEBRATION TOUR !!🙏

What a nice guy and a legend

What effect is the big man using? Chorus?

Derek sounds so greater with P Basses than these others suckin' Shergolds....a true ballsy sound !

Could watch and listen to Derek all day. Had the pleasure of meeting him twice, chatted for ages. My, what SM could be today with DF and MM and MG back. The current Steps setup loses me Im afraid.