A Flock Of Seagulls - Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You) (Live)

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A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS PERFORM LIVE AT 1983 US FESTIVAL (5/28/83) -Memorial Day Weekend San Bernardino California

[@richardbowman8202]

Paul Reynolds one of the most underrated guitarists ever

[@MegaBadgeman]

He was brave enough to use the E Bow live. It's that thing he's holding in his right hand, you press it against the strings it causes them to sound like there're being bowed. Like Echo and the Bunymen used on the Cutter.

[@delby66]

Definitely Richard. He was a brilliant guitarist. During this era of music, guitarists like The Edge, Johnny Marr from the Smiths, Charlie Burchill for Simple Minds etc. etc. seem to get more recognition, but Paul was right up there with them.

[@ThatOneRobloxDev]

he is classed as a singer, not a guitarist, that is why

[@trtr-bc3zl]

Maybe if he had joined a good band and played good music he might be better known. This is absolutely awful. Keyboards are shite can't actually hear the guitar and the singing is more of a monologue. Absolutely awful.

[@leew3321]

@Satanic Panic Fun and Games Tuning issues maybe? Analogue synths…

[@clifffromtoledo]

Was there 31 years ago this weekend, one of the most kickass concerts in my life, 26 bands in 3 days!

[@paulmclaughlin8038]

Imagine being at that gig. Looks like paradise.

[@ThursdayLaneNumber1Fan]

Yes

[@haro82]

Dont let this performance fool you. Lookup other early performances. These guys were great live. Every band has had a bad performance.

[@patdisaster8543]

Yes this is wow... weak ....the live performance when Paul uses a harmonica ????...for effect ....that has a strong sound.....

[@megannmuahh]

How’s this a bad performance? To be fair- On this particular day, they played for over an hour back to back songs and this was toward the end of their set so they were probably just exhausted. They always put on a great show to be so young and if you’re a true fan, you value every performance of theirs. The good and the “bad”

[@robertmarles9665]

​@@patdisaster8543Paul Reynolds is using an E Bow in this song. Bill Nelson from Be Bop Deluxe also used this a lot. I'm surprised more guitarists don't use it, makes a great sound if played properly.

[@saiyaniam]

No such thing as a bad preformance, only intresting and quirky ones. They can be just as good.

[@JohnnyNation]

We're probably hearing the monitor mix with no added effects/ likely sounded better out front !!!###

[@ultrauday]

Paul Reynolds when playing on the guitar is so mesmerizing!

[@nancyrobinson9448]

All eyes on Reno 😍

[@leegray99]

Love seeing live performance like this, no matter how good or bad.

[@poom641]

me too

[@ivanmalpass4881]

in the guitarist's defence...he left the flock soon after because of a breakdown...he had been in the band touring and what comes with touring since he was 17...

[@desmundhume]

I was there! AWESOME weekend of music!!!!

[@TheBlackDog73]

This song really comes to life when you are driving to Vegas on the 15 in the middle of the night and you have the whole road to yourself!

[@MikePeterson-nm7uv]

Was there it was SICK

[@hubbaman9885]

I think some folks fail to understand that most groups, especially synth-based bands couldn't fully replicate much of the sounds you would hear in their recordings because the technology to fully reproduce it on stage live wasn't quite around yet. Digital keyboards were largely introduced in the later half of the 70's, look up musician Larry Fast who went under the recording label "Synergy" he used allot of prototypes then. Digital keyboard on top and the bottom one was analogue here on stage. I will agree that the sound set up might have been a crappy one during this performance and they could have been nervous on stage.

[@jamespm9194]

yes because they cant' sing and use studio tricks to make the music

[@ChasD]

Digital keyboards were a rarity in the later half of the 70's. It wasn't until the DX7 of 1983 that digital synths became remotely common. Even in 1985, only Yamaha and Casio of the Japanese "Big Four" offered fully digital synths (DX series and the CZ series). Korg had the DW6000/ 8000, which was a hybrid digital/ analogue, whereas Roland offered the JX-8P (and later on the 10P), which was a DCO analogue. Some small companies also offered digital keyboards, but most were either rare or expensive (or both). It was the later part of the 80's that digital synthesis/ keyboards dominated.

[@williamwoody7607]

Well maybe,but Yes managed to keep far more complex music sounding fresh and quite frankly listenable.(Or at least recognizable).To call this flat is really most charitable.

[@ingoweinard2517]

listen to Gary Numan live in the 80's-just brilliant sound!

[@jamesgretsch4894]

Erick Hublein very true but with this performance it sounds fine.

[@hotdogsoda4717]

Good to see an e-bow in use!

[@gilbertberlanga338]

Awesome song , Awesome Band, Awesome concert🙌 🎸

[@manueldemetriocov8671]

Paul Reynolds el mejor guitarrista de A Flock of de Seagulls!!!

[@MrBlownAlky]

It was hot that day, give em a break!! It was like 103 in the shade. You have heard their studio version and it was great!

[@2true359]

Such a great song.

[@accobra4272]

My favorite tune from this band. Loved them then love them now 💚💚💚

[@kevgamble]

Something I just realized: The song they played in this set just before this one, "You Can Run", is also on KZbin. At the very end of it, Reynolds does a neck-bend on the guitar. That moment of exuberance (which was cool to hear/watch) may have put the guitar a little out of tune. Sounds like the tuning of the analog synth drifted a bit, too. Tough combination, and judging by how stacked this festival was, probably little time to pause and correct anything.

[@Elwrt455]

I love this song

[@ThursdayLaneNumber1Fan]

Two SH-101's and a TR-606. Be still my heart.

[@blackpearl1914]

My favorite part at 3:15....I love his guitar... love the beat.

[@BrianSquiers]

Too bad the guitarist was apparently having monitor/tuning issues because his E-bow solo at the end of the studio version is pretty epic.

[@DJ_Epitaph]

Great band, great song, great performance!!!!

[@RickyWright-seo-consultant]

Ricky Wright 1 second ago THIS SUX BIGTIME I LUV #FOSG LIKE #TRUMP SAYS YOURE FIRED NEVER DO THIS AGAIN FIRE THE PRODUCTER OR MGR WHO ALLOWED THE MUSIC VIDEO VERSION OF THIS SONG TO BE DONE LIVE AM A TAMA DRUMMER AND VJ OFFLINE PAST ONLINE STREAMER VJ MTV STUFF BUT I AM SAD THEY HAD TO DO THIS SONG IT RUINED THE US FESTIVAL I WOLD LEAVE - VJ @VJRADRICK FOR MTV MUSIC VIDOES BY TWEET STREAM

[@williamwoody7607]

Um maybe-most wedding bands did a better cover when this song was current.

[@rewadkurabekov1123]

Amazing 🎸

[@vinims99]

I'm from brazil i'm 12 years old I really like the flock of seagulls

[@rosangelamarinho1561]

I'm from brazil i'm 40 years old

[@matheussurvivor]

22❤️🇧🇷

[@Lee.Higginbotham]

The Flock!!! Great band.

[@itslouistmari242]

Ingles eh o caraio, fala português fi

[@erickennedy7412]

I'm from mars and I really enjoy earth beer.

[@albertalcozer7071]

I want to go back in time

[@Marcos-lq6qy]

it's very nice

[@claudiavalenzuela680]

Paul un virtuoso genial... larga vida a RENO !!!!!😍

[@nolanmotter8025]

This is the best song by this band

[@JavierGuevaraVera]

Great Band

[@vigeram6041]

Sounds for all generation to generation brilliant song. This is when you make me come alive with your songs and more loved artist

[@dominiquedefraye1124]

Altijd blij deze songs terug te horen

[@BRUTUSPLAC]

NO clue how many times i watched and listened to this video ,. US FEST .........over 35 years ago ,,,,,,,,,,,,

[@tastybrownie7448]

Studio quality recordings are so much better. He sounds like he's out of breath. He's dying to catch a breath. His voice is quivering. Its not the thundering voice you hear in the studio recording.

[@juliogutierrez7497]

All the people say that sounds terrible but i like this, they don't do playback and that's cool

[@aleksanth5362]

Στην λευκη με αγαπη αλεξανδρος 1991 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@leandrodiaz8156]

Its not the way you look, Its not the way that you smile. Although theres something to them. Its not the way you have your hair, Its not that certain style; It could be that with you. If I had a photograph of you, Its something to remind me. I wouldnt spend my life just wishing. Its not the make-up And its not the way that you dance, Its not the evening sky. Its more the way your eyes Are laughing as they glance Across the great divide. If I had a photograph of you, Its something to remind me. I wouldnt spend my life just wishing. Its not the things you say Its not the things you do It must be something more And if I feel this way for so long Tell me is it all for nothing Just dont walk out the door. If I had a photograph of you, Its something to remind me. I wouldnt spend my life just wishing.

[@ohiocaps52]

US Festival 1983, can you see me? Lol i was there pretty close to stage on right side

[@ravipeiris4388]

A great group then, a great group now.

[@oxid71]

mike looks beautiful:)

[@Jaguarwarrior5]

amazing

[@stephenlopiano1599]

I attended this Us festival 83 day 1 and 2, saw this performance. Their first three studio recordings were incredible yet did not come across that well in this live performance.

[@taharbenseddik5607]

I love this song ! As a human being at high school. Amazing.

[@IssuesWithMyTissues]

37 years ago today May 28th, 1983.

[@watch677]

i like it. wish i was there playing with them or just there to see them play live.

[@datrahardaway3347]

How cool if I ever move to California San Bernardino area is the area I would like to live they were actually there

[@fionacook8508]

i wish the original line up of seagulls would get back together again because they were so good , Mike being the the way he is now who knows.

[@graham2sexy955]

They have

[@claudiavalenzuela680]

POR CULPA DEL EGO DE MIKE se separaron y sobretodo harto a Paul que era el unico gran talento de la banda. fin

[@AJ17_]

They reunited in 2003 for the VH1 Bands Reunited episode & then did a brief reunion tour in the fall of 2004 (but it imploded after a handful of shows because they stared fighting again). They did reunite on record for the Ascension & String Theory orchestral albums, but they all recorded their parts separately & sent them in to be mixed. I don’t think we’ll ever see another reunion of the original lineup though. Mike prefers his touring band. Also Paul sadly suffered a stroke in early 2020 he’s been recovering from. He’s doing ok but I’ve heard he can’t play guitar anymore. 😢

[@The53rrc]

God man. GEORGE HARRISON said keep an eye on them. I think they were underrated. The first 3 lps should be in the history books, along with all the rest. The 4yh was alright. Worth listening.

[@DagmarSantos-ey7iw]

Maravilhosos!São essas raridades que nos impulsionam a seguir. Doçura de musica.♥♥

[@izabellabusuito2092]

Aww poor Paul. I feel bad for him, I would have been so embarrassed

[@darrenparker4897]

Dirty Dancer-I bet he still is!

[@JoaoVitor72890]

@2000jago you saw that humming of the guitar was not to leave that way look at the difference by the clip

[@aprilramirez4469]

I admit as a fan this wasn't the best performance but check out the " You can run " from the us festival it's really great!

[@leesimeone]

This has nothing to do with his playing! It's a Kramer!! With mine the tuning was always unstable until the neck warmed up. The sound was alright, but the temperature was always an issue, especially when playing outdoor gigs like these. So yeah, the neck is terrible, unstable the reason why these aluminum neck guitars never caught on. As for the keyboards they're all analog going through Roland Space Echo boxes! Real tape... this is a real band my friends don't be fooled by the sound here. I know the monitoring was absolute shite at this actual gig, Paul couldn't hear anything on stage very well. It's still an awesome set no matter what. Peace, Lx

[@InvisbleCaller]

The guitarist was drunk. that's all.

[@jamesgretsch4894]

leesimeone I love the Ebow part. Too bad Paul Reynolds sold off that Kramer.

[@jamesgretsch4894]

InvisbleCaller maybe. He did have an affair with alcohol.

[@darrenparker4897]

No way,a bassist Ionce worked with had one and it was fine on tuning,a little heavy but never went out of tune.Lovely looking thing too.It was an ex-bass of Trevor Boulder of The Spiders From Mars.Wish I had it now.

[@kevgamble]

@@InvisbleCaller Only someone who doesn't know anything about guitar, or hasn't watched any other clips from this show, would say that.

[@chrispaneesh5475]

We need more US Festival`s!

[@guymorris1963]

A Flock of Seagulls are back together and touring the US !!

[@claudiavalenzuela680]

si los impostores, sin PAUL REYNOLDS NUNCA SERA IGUAL

[@calamusquill116]

Yeah, I can agree that monitor and equipment issues likely affected this performance. The Regal Theatre 1983 performance is much more solid, for example.

[@AJ17_]

It was a very hot day which can cause equipment like that to go haywire.

[@sirjellybeans6653]

Unreal Performance from an excellent Band! That drumming is Tight

[@Christina-yq7xg]

Love this song I don't like today music I only listen to older especially 70s and 80s love it

[@paularnold1641]

excellent song-writers-singer-musicians=well done flock of seagulls=Trinity bless everyone with good safe healthy days

[@robinwhitman8840]

Wow delishcous🌏🐳🐞🐝

[@ceciliaorcconpfuno5283]

ahi sta la musica de los buenos tiempos peruuuu

[@andrewhurd6829]

Brilliant guitarist and that's coming from a metalhead

[@kristinetrubisky9696]

My mom went to the us festival in 83 but didnt see flock of seaguls though .

[@kramerbassplayer]

I like it! It's raw!

[@steffenfischer1673]

Great 👍

[@andrewbabcock7879]

I just saw them today at Ribfest in Mn....they sound the same as this pretty much

[@rosangelamarinho1561]

Flock Of Seagulls in festival US Los Angeles in May 28 1983

[@rodmoyes80s]

San Bernardino. Which is neither in or particularly near Los Angeles.

[@ubhatti17]

I want a Red shirt like that ❤

[@luisespinoza1760]

Exelente grupo.. desde Perú..

[@thadschaeffer2563]

Mike Score's hair was like that accidentally once when he had to go on stage to perform. People thought the style was cool and that became his signature trademark.

[@claudiavalenzuela680]

HORRIBLE

[@davidfarrall]

This excellent pop song seems to be about Eric Cantona’s philosophical quip “When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they want something!”.

[@AJ17_]

Ummmm… the song was inspired by a girl Mike Score had met right before the band went to America on their first tour there. He asked her for a photo & she said “No you’re just going to become famous & forget about me.” He never saw her again.

[@davidfarrall]

@@AJ17_ more fool her………

[@kevgamble]

I can tell most people critiquing this here don't know how to recognize an out-of-tune instrument (as opposed to poor playing) and don't understand the sonic difference between a direct signal and an ambient recording. It's fine to not like the sound of it, but most people here don't understand what they're disliking or why. Understanding the things I just listed explains every sonic aspect of this recorded performance.

[@NachtSchreck13]

To be fair, the mixing engineer here was shit. This was California in 1983, so the soundman was probably coming from a background of mixing soft rock crap. Also, there are just some bands who are good at recording in the studio when mixed by a great engineer, and other bands who excel at playing live. Also, a lot of early new wave bands were used to playing in tiny, dark, dank basement clubs late at night on jacked up sound systems. Take these bands out of the basement and put them out on a huge stage out in the California sun (these guys are British remember- they get probably 3 sunny days all year) where they are basically withering from the exposure to direct sunlight, in front of a huge California crowd of suntanned bros and bimbos. I would be nervous as hell, too. Plus, the sound was shit. Way too quiet and the mixing was horrible. It's actually very hard to play when the sound is like this because the music doesn't meld together into a cohesive whole. Every instrument sounds isolated and disconnected from the whole, and the players end up focusing too much on their own part rather then the song itself and the band as a single unit. This excessive attention to each part causes overly self conscious players to screw up. These guys come off as pretty frail, nerdy self conscious types, so go figure. I've seen this happen often. Take the same band and let a competent engineer mix their rig and give it force and momentum and the band will respond by playing as a single unit with a singular drive. A good mixing engineer should work with each individual bands strengths and weaknesses to get the best possible sound, using completely different methods each time. This is the work of a one-size-fits-all amateur soundman.

[@InvisbleCaller]

The guitarist was drunk. that's all.

[@adminning8843]

+Nacht Schreck You got a problem with California? I' a Californian, punk.

[@2degucitas]

Yo. Don't be dissin California.

[@InvisbleCaller]

+DoodeWarrior He's hating the American's

[@jamespm9194]

when you can't sing and you have limited talent a mixer isn't going to fix it.

[@BrianSATX79]

Some live performances just don't turn out right, things go wrong, still a great song though.

[@ggera4260]

The best song ever♡

[@Legendarychannel3]

와~~~~

[@albertalcozer7071]

I'm 58 makes me feel like I'm 19 Again

[@djphineart]

In their defence 80's analogue synths were capable of massively phat gorgeous sounds but with now sound memory each one had to be set between songs to an approximation of the sound that they probably stumbled upon during the songs original recording. Mike has a Roland TR606 drum machine which has a notoriously weedy sound and 2X Roland SH101's which are not used in the song and a Roland Juno which is the weedy higher pitched line. Throughout the 80's and wonder why bands sounded crap live compared to their records but these were the days when live just meant plugging into a PA and getting on with it. Nowadays bands have a virtual studio set-up for a live gig too. If you think this is bad surf to Jean Michel Jarre playing his original equinoxe instruments and listen as one synth goes completely out of tune on him. The good old days eh?

[@DiabolicShape]

True DEVO always had trouble replicating their sound on stage when they switched to digital

[@johnk6312]

juno 60s arnt weedy and they have 75 memory slots also they have digital oscilators so they dont go out of tune plus sh101's also have digital oscilators.the most likely reason this was crap was they didnt tune up and they just played bad that day- like all bands do from time to time.

[@ChasD]

Digitally CONTROLLED oscillators, aka DCO. The oscillators of the Juno 60 and SH101 were analogue, their tuning was kept in check via a digital circuit. This is why DCO synths stay in tune far better compared with older VCO (Voltage Controlled Oscillator) synths. DCO's are very different to a Digital Oscillator (DO) synth, that use logarithms and calculations to generate waveforms, and then have these digitally created waveforms fed into a digital to analogue (DA) convertor.

[@Reggie-The-Dog]

@@ChasD Good answer but they don't understand a word of it.

[@mimiskemimiske4055]

J'ai pas de mots!🙆‍♂️🤷‍♂️😂🤝💘

[@seanhansen5641]

Check out their other live clips. This isn't the only one where the singer sounds nervous. Either that or he just had a hard time focusing on his voice and keys at the same time.

[@izabellabusuito2092]

And I wouldn't say that he was drunk, people mess up, it a part of life. Give him a break. It was probably very hot considering it was in Cali and he must have been nervous.

[@nostalgiapuff438]

Izabella's Profile YES BELLA YES

[@darrenparker4897]

Dirty Dancer-And he might have had a head full of China beforehand and been really overtaken by other thoughts when he clocked the girl in yellow in front of him.!

[@makypine4829]

Other performance they did during the performance there, they were energetic. This one was terrible

[@kevgamble]

He didn't mess up. The guitar was out of tune, which in a setting like this is almost never the guitarist's job (they usually have teams of people setting each band up and then hauling them out). He was stuck with a choice of either trying to bend notes toward correct pitch (which is what he chose) or dropping out of the song entirely for 30 seconds or more to tune or switch guitars (assuming one was available and didn't require changing a lot of settings), which in a sparse band like this would have been painful. I feel for him - he must have had an "oh crap" moment when he realized it was out of tune and he was stuck.

[@segasonic23]

@Darius Beaumont chances are the reason Paul sounds subpar is a mix of both. shitty tuning ain't his fault, but due to how much touring (and partying) the band was doing at the time they sound wrung out in quite a few concerts. Mike's voice here shows that. But a large part of it was probably the heat also. Mike and Ali both look very red in the face so chances are the intensity of the heat was getting to them and their instruments

[@josephstuhr6608]

Saw them in Philly (JFK Stadium) and sounded good. Must of had sound issues with this one in CA

[@celiaayneto9232]

Wow ❤️

[@Makado14]

Not their best sound here, but don't hold it against them. A flock of Seagulls is one of the best bands ever, and this song is a classic. You have to give them credit for having the guts to go on, knowing that they are not sounding great. ❤

[@sheepheadfilms]

Jesus H. Christ.....I feel so damn old.....

[@albertalcozer7071]

Awesome

[@brigettat.6265]

Across the great divide

[@KramlDesignTV]

One of my favorite bands. Saw them at City Gardens in Trenton NJ. Sounded much better than this performance! Sounds like the recording is warped.

[@deviantmonkey1]

There must be over 40 000 people there and none of them had any vegetables to throw at them!

[@seattlescofflaws]

Memories

[@davidgarris2513]

WOW!!

[@Trebz50]

I hope the crowd had been drinking to soften the blow.

[@jaydenp4975]

My first concert was flock of seagulls and the fixx. Saw them in 1983 at the Greek theatre in Los Angeles. I barely remember the show honestly o was so young. This performance isn’t that good and I’m disappointed. They aren’t that exciting to watch live but I still love their music.

[@damircid6666]

Joya!

[@jamescarrascocampana8761]

Music great

[@14h44m]

mike's vocals never did it for me anyway but poor paul, he needed to get his shit together :-/

[@nostalgiapuff438]

Can’t argue with that. Dude is a legend

[@14h44m]

THE80SPOSTS definitely, he deserved better

[@JWF78]

The guitar was painfully outta tune. Felt so bad for Paul because you can tell he was doing his best with it.

[@klausbielawa8363]

einfach genial,von CD klingt natürlich wesentlich besser. Ein Welthit.

[@ebenezerscrooge9524]

I prefer the Flock of Seagulls version.

[@vanessac5137]

This IS a flock of seagulls silly

[@suzannel8926]

That's a clear picture for the age.

[@moran68]

The lead singer is gorgeous who is she ? 😁

[@MatthewSuffidy]

Hope that is just a recording glitch, ouch... AFOS is in the archive...