Simple Minds - Celebrate/The American/Premonition (Studio Gabriel, French TV 1982) (Remastered)

Noticed these great early Simply Minds videos uploaded to KZbin... but the sound... where was the bass?! Did my best to improve upon the original uploads for your enjoyment!
00:00 Celebrate
06:18 The American
12:08 Premonition
(04:33 - "Yeah, I'm done with this bloody tambourine...")
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Here are the original uploads if you wish to compare and contrast ;) Credit to Robert Ahiquist for uploading these at all:
• Simple Minds - Celebra... - Celebrate
• Simple Minds - The Ame... - The American
• Simple Minds - Premoni... - Premonition

[@toinevandersanden1778]

this was the best area of Simple Minds

[@davidtollefson8411]

When they were one of the best bands on the planet.

[@garymcghee2249]

With Sister and Sons they became THE best band on the planet.

[@barbaranelson4804]

They are the best, now the Grateful Dead are in history, with the Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, Traffic, Quiksilver.

[@stephenconnor1232]

Still are

[@barbaranelson4804]

Still touring and putting out stellar music 41 years later. I wouldn't walk across the street to see any of the bands/ performers selling tickets today.

[@drsteele4749]

Birchill was terrific here. Splendid rhythm and counterpoint. Super cool cold war desperation.

[@FortNada]

_September 2023_ Thanks from Germany for uploading this jewel and also for improving the sound quality!

[@robmccann9844]

No backing tracks in those days,just honest instruments being played,charlie,Derek and mick were on a different level,loved Jim's lyrics as well,his writing was excellent and the songs had a mystery and magic about them up to sparkle in the rain

[@witchdoctorgaz]

Here's the Simple Minds I loved then and now, pre Sparkle in the Rain Minds. My interest in them waned progressively after New Gold Dream.

[@gentillygirl545]

Yes in all honesty me too.

[@angiepanjie]

Same. I mean I still like a lot the did after that time but it didn’t feel it as deep anymore.

[@glamnesianouveaux2039]

Absolutely.

[@djphineart]

They were so cool at this point. Influences from German bands like neu! Informing the sound and adding jims lyrics and Charlie's ego-less guitar it seem other worldly, vital and leaving contemporary rock for dead. Oh how they blew it by moving into bombastic ROCK tedium

[@zararity]

+djphineart From "Cacophony" to "New Gold Dream" they were really quite special! Special mention for Derek Forbes' perfect basslines, they helped the music transcend another level.

[@davidmarshall1094]

Stinks. After 1985 they just lost me, but at least we have these older recordings.

[@krasteff]

This one is 50/50 Tangerine Dream and Vangelis.

[@jasonblitz7454]

@@davidmarshall1094 ABSOLUTELY!

[@jasonblitz7454]

Oh, how I know. Such a pity that they went Stadium Rock as Simple Minds really were THE most unique and creative of bands!

[@MikeOfAmerica]

Sounds great

[@michaelflanagan6499]

I saw them 6 months before this at the Market Street Cinema in San Francisco. And yes, they were just this good, if not better, live. They opened for New Order, who got trapped at SFO dealing with visa issues. New Order didn't show up till midnight, and they they played an amazing set as well. What a show!

[@HDIrwin]

The chorus to The American is still one of the best tongue twisters of all time :-)

[@SirSneakerPimp]

?

[@drsteele4749]

Ya, for a Murcan. English speakers enunciate just fine.

[@ramonasubs5072]

best time of Simple Minds!!!

[@duloupascal9865]

Je me souviens de ce moment à la télé, j'étais complétement subjugué par la puissance et la présence scénique du groupe, surtout Jim Kerr. Je n'arrivais pas à imaginer autre musique, si moderne et esthétique. Le groupe pop rock (électro) parfait. Le sommet de la branchitude ! avant gardisme et subjectivité délicieuse du moment ! Merci à Simple Minds

[@hervestrub848]

J'ai vu le concert en entier toujours aux studios Gabriel.Le choc de ma vie!

[@dazibaodazibao2538]

@@hervestrub848 j'y étais aussi. C'était exceptionnel, probablement la meilleure période de leur carrière !

[@brunomaille9715]

@@dazibaodazibao2538 Je les ai vu au Rockstore Odéon, à Montpellier, en février 83, pendant la tournée New Gold Dream. Je me souviens de la version quasi stoogienne qu'ils avaient faite de I travel. Ils avaient quelque chose de magique, de raffiné et de brutal à la fois, et ils étaient en avance sur leur temps. J'ai arrêté après Sparkle in the rain, qui était pourtant un bon disque, mais j'écoute encore real to real et empires and dance, que j'adore.

[@James-hd6ez]

​@@brunomaille9715Good Post, you are so lucky to have witnessed Simple Minds before the pomp rock period which is when I started going to their gigs 1986 onwards although I started listening to them around 1980-81 "Real to Real " "Empires and Dance " "Sons and fascination " "Sister Feelings call " and in 1982 the newly released "New Gold Dream " they were absolutely brilliant 79-82 but sadly can only imagine what it must have been like in those early years, in the late 1990s I was speaking to the manager of a concert theatre in Liverpool and I asked him what the best gig he had seen in all the years he had been there? He said without thinking " that's easy Simple Minds in 1981" and even though I am from Liverpool I was too young in 1981 sadly,thank God for youtube!

[@dondiegodelavega9461]

Et bien ! Vous ne devez pas être tout jeune ! Tout comme moi car je m’en souviens aussi.

[@alexandregenereux5024]

A Great Epic Sonic freshness time travel from my unforgettable Youth!

[@joostvandenbogaerde1221]

Never seen this before, amazing sound and video, long live KZbin and the people who upload all this stuff !!! Back in time.

[@James-hd6ez]

Just realised watching again Jim Kerr prancing around the stage during "Celebrate " reminds of Julian Cope when he was with the "Tear drop explodes " and shortly afterwards, i would love to see them both having a dance off in2023,Julian would trip over his long beard and Jim would split his keks just like PJ Proby!😅

[@JohnInDaHouse2015]

Happy Birthday 64 Charles Burchill (born 27 November 1959) is a Scottish musician and composer, best known as the guitarist of Simple Minds. He is one of the founders of the S.M.

[@PeterWesleyBastone]

bass sounds pretty good on this end derek rocks

[@soulminer]

Forbsey one of the greatest bass players from the post Punk era.

[@jean-louisfau6036]

Wonderful , brilliant !

[@tonimasson7057]

still the best band ever in the universe

[@soulminer]

They were one of the great bands out of the early 1980s. But after New Gold Dream ? Forget it man.

[@flugsven]

@@soulminer Agree, but we all have a different taste, and that's lucky for Kerr, Burchill and Co.

[@xanaxddu71]

​@@soulminersound and technology changes, and they changed, that's all they continued to explore how they could be in the mainstream rock. It remained rock. Sparkle Once upon and the rest... They played great live performances on those tour you cannot ask to 1981/1982 to remain forever. That is antithetic to your own aesthetic, dude... Bye

[@stephenanderson1554]

Simple minds are fabulous

[@zararity]

Yes they were!

[@psakbar]

@@zararity Yes they ARE!

[@user-xb3oy3vk7v]

Simple minds at their brilliant best

[@emcash7042]

I love the sound of the keyboards on Premonition… am I the only one who doesn’t quite like how brittle and organ-like they sound on the original recording? I normally never criticize Mick MacNeil lol 💙

[@gonetoheaven7478]

innovators,happy anniversary

[@willswanson1]

Cheers. PYAM was clearly fresh off the press here as Kenny Hyslop is drumming and he left in January 1982. It'll be great to have a listenable version of it at last!

[@zararity]

+Will Swanson Well, it's not perfect, but here it is... Enjoy! kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5DOo6qYmKuBoc0

[@andydalton7837]

2 out of 3 last night in Leeds . 40 odd years later!

[@alainledonge9592]

I missed that show on french TV....sucks 😥

[@kimdawcatgirl]

Love Premonition! Charlie's guitar! Damn!

[@andreagazziero5774]

semplicemente UNICI

[@biggnafron28]

Forbes!!!!

[@robmccann9844]

Would have loved to see them at this point they were so good

[@drsteele4749]

You just did.

[@g-plan9future204]

Act of love is a luxury

[@carlosdossantos6257]

Música de grande estilo ...Maravilha do SIMPLE MINDS

[@willswanson1]

Thanks for this.

[@urbanlegendsandtrivia2023]

One person hit 'dislike' and prefers complex minds.

[@stephaniedutin9803]

Merveilleux 💯💯😻👍❤🖤🖤🖤🖤

[@soulminer]

It all went wrong after the Breakfast Club bullshit and that's when I saw them live in Australia 1986.The U2 bull shit can best be forgotten I missed their peak in the early 80s they were the best band out of Scotland back then.

[@gentillygirl545]

Yeah, it's a shame that America commercialism is a two-edged sword. I was 16 in 1980. The bands I loved and which more or less formed me were not heard other than on college/underground radio stations and through word of mouth. It was brilliant that having an American hit brought them more needed recognition and finances. But a death knell when a formerly tremendous band thought they had to change their entire raison d'etre to maintain it. For me, it went downhill after 1985, or 1986 at the latest.

[@daryljackson3430]

Jim Kerr didn’t want to do Don’t you forget about me. The fans enjoy it at their concerts so it’s not all bad

[@angiepanjie]

I remember at a 1979 concert girls screaming for Jim😁 One of my first concerts and I didn’t think he was that cute then but what a performer.

[@emcash7042]

He was cute but imo Charlie and Mick were cuter… I mean Jim did call Mick “the best cheek bones in history” lol

[@angiepanjie]

@@emcash7042 lol. It’s weird how who you’re attracted to changes over time isn’t it. I always loved Charlie’s cutie pie smile. I really didn’t get the Jim thing at the time though. First time I saw them was right up front at Tiffany’s. I could practically touch them. I remember being mesmerized with Jim’s performing. So exciting for a teenager it was.

[@emcash7042]

@@angiepanjie oh I bet it was mesmerizing for sure! And you’re right, Charlie did have that adorable smile ☺️

[@kramerbassplayer]

Jim said in an interview that they were jealous of Derek cause he got all the girls. Or at least he was.

[@kimdawcatgirl]

Charlie by far the cutest! That smile!

[@RobinParmar]

"Celebrate the American premonition" actually makes a sentence.

[@BarbieChaite]

respect for the "live" use of drum machine pads qhile drumming (on premonition) !!

[@JohnInDaHouse2015]

This is S.M. i remember their unique pop sound very new in the music scene then.

[@stephaniedutin9803]

👍👍👍👍💯💯💯💯💯

[@sirjellybeans6653]

Jim Kerr was made for the role of Frontman in the band

[@LambertSteve]

rare Kenny Hyslop footage! nice

[@zararity]

Wish there was more!

[@user-li6nf5py6b]

Still the best 👌

[@user-li6nf5py6b]

Fuck, real old school takes me back....think I'm 12 agian❤

[@pamtufnell6751]

Love dark sm

[@neilclarendon3615]

There best lineup

[@Premonition64]

1982

[@Silvia-rm4uy]

Braviiiiiii in celebrate Jim is very sexy, beautiful post

[@oscarsarmiento8361]

❤💃🕺💜

[@ericlebrun1640]

brian mc Gee or kenny hislop on drums? i think is kenny but i 'm not sure...

[@GvWeir]

It's Kenny Hyslop...

[@jopepetersson996]

I guess Jim Kerr had the same coreographer as Bono..

[@ivorbiggun710]

Foreshadowing the sad direction this band would take later on, perhaps.

[@fuckamericanidiot]

@@ivorbiggun710 He was always a poser.

[@Utuber-hk9xj]

He must have had some help, fascinating to watch! Better than Bono...also the same priest hidden in his closet 😉

[@drsteele4749]

Do you mean the bladder-infection, hyper-caffeinated ballet-dancer-without-rythm sauve-iness?

[@angiepanjie]

You think so? I think his performing style was quite unique to him. I’d never seen anything like it at their concert at 16. I saw early U2 as well. Lots of jumping up and down fists in the air at U2. Jim was more of a stealth attacker😁