Echo & The Bunnymen // Pop Carnival 26 Aug 1982

[@Auto2112Rush]

I remember this night as if it was yesterday..I was 17 on 23th Aug 82 i'd drank 2 bottles of cider 2x3litre I was off my head totally gone to the wind...but I do remember quite a lot about the night...I met Ian afterwards and then went to my girlfriends who I met on my birthday and i'm still with her today......Wonderful times.

[@Makado14]

You lucky dog. Can I ask you, what is Ian like?

[@TheMerseyBoy]

Good days. Wedge haircuts, Adidas and The Bunnymen.

[@rockerbybabyasmr9669]

One of the top bands of all time!

[@mrsymoore1041]

I watched this on tv at the time. I was 15. ❤❤❤

[@MichaelBurrows-o4l]

What an amazing show. I never realized they had a violin player with them. I saw they in 1984 at Ynion College in Schenectady NY. They were mesmerizing.

[@madmackets]

I was 17, heldenbrau superstrength! We had mushies and danced in the lake! SHIT! I'm goin on 50 now!

[@versioncity1]

this was the first gig I ever went to, I was 12 and then about 2 weeks later went to see The Jam on their final tour at Liverpool royal court. After that I was hooked on music.

[@catherinebonanno6545]

What an amazing way to start off.

[@lebonvirusofpopcultureradio]

i was 14

[@mooville32]

Got to see them for the first time in 86' in Boston at The Wang. A night I'll never forget!

[@chuffa1130]

I was at the show as well as a teenager, trying to remember if it was 85 or '86 but it was the Wang center 86, I remember being kind of cold as well was it the winter?

[@mooville32]

@@chuffa1130 That was the one! Yeah it was in October. COOOL! We went to Spit afterwards and then the whole band showed up to a party near Symphony Hall (Guy who owned the place, his name was Rick Wang but no relation to the venue) we were at & everyone including the band did a ton of blow all night and I was sitting at a huge dining room table, just me and Ian, and I asked him what he thought of the coke and he replied, "Better then the rubbish in our country." They invited a bunch of us to travel with them to Montreal the next morning to go the next show but I chickened out, I think we all did.

[@chuffa1130]

Wow that's very cool that you got to hang out with them after the show! Sounds like they were pretty cool and not too pretentious,

[@mooville32]

Not all, they were all wicked friendly and up for partying with everyone! Ian was a very pleasant guy. I think they had a last minute fill in drummer if you recall? It was this black guy cuz I think Pete went awol and this fill in guy was having a blast!

[@chuffa1130]

I don't think I noticed that Pete wasn't drumming, also I think I was up in the balcony if I recall at the Wang center if that sounds right? Great place for them to play way better than the orpheum, I definitely was sad when Pete passed away thinking a motorcycle accident back in the '89 or something

[@marcelostemposki9002]

The great band ! Love it Echo and the Bunnymen 4 ever!!!!

[@NicBunnymen]

+Marcelo Stemposki TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU MATE.....ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN ARE THE GREATEST. TAKE CARE .

[@LaughingboyMox]

11 months later, I saw them at the Albert Hall.

[@royferguson3909]

I was there too , my virtual friend

[@christopherbrookfield4785]

Best live British group of the eighties. No question. I am an alien octupus.👾

[@theointhebeanie7008]

Them and the chameleons

[@fernandomartinez-mq9bx]

pete de freitas best drumer 80's

[@JorgeMunoz-bl6oc]

Recuerdos de los 80. Estamos viejos!

[@pressureworks]

Dear Mr Echo; 3 people have trouble hearing, bad eyesight and poor eye hand co-ordination, resulting in selecting the wrong thumb. Or perhaps they were the 3 people who fell into the water on this night.

[@LaughingboyMox]

I was 17 on this night. Big Teardrop fan. but i didnt even know about The Bunnymen. Shame on me. Wish they had stayed small like this

[@paulhopkinson9406]

yeah they were awesome in the early days

[@maryburke5423]

Yes, very glad I saw them in 81. Love those first 2 albums with all my heart.

[@plushtoyorgy6664]

Ian was such a great singer back then. He can still sound really good but it's a shame what damage the smoking has done

[@rhmcvay]

They hit it at the 16' mark. Wonderful!

[@flemoaus1]

I was in the water boss night

[@paulfleming9752]

wouldnt mind but me french teacher at school,was smokin a spliff behind us ,there you go,liberalism xx,she was lovelly too

[@Simplesimple123]

So good back then

[@GiantPinhead]

Holy cow. So good!

[@Makado14]

Ian Mcculloch and the Bunnymen should have been as hot as U2 and other great bands from that time, they should have come to the US sooner. But it's never too late! Please come back!

[@patrickhoulihan7210]

There are far more interesting than U 2 who are over rated

[@maryburke5423]

Pretty sure they toured the USA in 1981. For those of us who loved them then they were huge.

[@Makado14]

@@maryburke5423 I am aware of that, but it was too little, too late. They were here last year, but Ian got sick, he had Covid and his back was killing him. He didn't have a pleasant time. But he tried to carry on . when they came to where I live, I had Covid and couldn't attend! They are coming to CA in May, but I don't live in California...☹️

[@pressureworks]

They toured every album, as soon as it was released, back in the day. That's what music groups do.

[@Makado14]

@@pressureworks please be quiet, im trying to get them over here to Colorado....🙂

[@paulfleming9752]

was there it was them at there peakish

[@chuffa1130]

Not to get geeky on the guitar stuff, but it's so cool to see Will Sargent playing a fender Jaguar, especially back in 1982

[@jeremyshaw5329]

Always time to be geeky about guitar stuff! I'm impressed he has a humbucker in the bridge position; That had to have been a crazy mod at the time for whomever did it.

[@МихайлоНіколів]

0:52 Pete de Freitas R.I.P

[@porterhall27]

I was there..16 years old

[@wardhilgers3607]

L. Shankar on violin.

[@GaryWilliamsLondon]

Amazing!

[@NicBunnymen]

You said it Gary......AMAZING.

[@joerosaticollective]

Great share! Love this

[@slaymakerc]

like a skinny british jim morrison

[@royferguson3909]

yeah

[@royferguson3909]

so what, .... your point is ? your a prick , but it is of no consequence to anyone . Where is your video?

[@Sainttmargaery]

IAN IS MY LOVE

[@dommccaffry3802]

Pete was a MONSTER drummer

[@nunofranco7095]

I saw part of this concert on a Tv program called "Rockline".

[@adamhare04]

Ah, really good!

[@МихайлоНіколів]

3:41 love play guitar Will Sergeant, and play drums Pete de Freitas

[@LaughingboyMox]

wilder tour still amazing though Steve. Am afraid Teardrops will always be my band. the bass section always got me. saw the cope last year at The Village Underground. amazing. like being a teenager again.

[@carloscasillero4422]

The teardrops couldn't touch the bunnymen live, and I've seen them on the same bill more than once. cope is no mac hence the bitterness. Greatest band ever!

[@LaughingboyMox]

@@carloscasillero4422 yeah but who lasted longer and had the most prolific output ever. He grew and grew as a solo artist and became a great charismatic performers ever. Cope was erratic as a frontman that's what made him so colourful. i was a big bunnymen fan. even met them. they were great. But Cope waa always me number 1

[@royferguson3909]

@@carloscasillero4422 True Fact thank you Sir

I love S2 !!!

[@gjg8766]

At that time they were practically unknown in the USA.

[@МихайлоНіколів]

2:25 Fender jaguar 🤟

[@Makado14]

Wow

[@womblemartin]

Who remembers Bow Wow Wow or even more epic Haircut 100? Ha.

[@jackal59]

It really helps to have a rhythm section that can swing, doesn't it?

[@darylcumming7119]

The early eighties.

[@gregakad707]

Didn’t realize Barack Obama was a fan 10 sec in

[@МихайлоНіколів]

5:18 What is the name of this technique of playing the guitar?

[@marcosdasilvamartins9929]

Quem ver agora estão tudo velhos

[@LaughingboyMox]

Not bass. brass.

[@hankhanson7832]

Worst sound ever....so sad

[@maryburke5423]

There’s better KZbin sets from this era.