Sparks Ron Mael's speech after the show at Los Angeles El Rey Theatre

10/14/2017 El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles

[@Looking1231]

Sparks is a band that actually connects to an audience. When you see them, it is like you are seeing two people who you can go have drinks with at the bar and they would actually be happy to see you and want to talk to you. May they always be at the top of their game and continue to take each of us to Cool Places!

[@johnmitchelljr]

Thank you. Musicians with a brain and a heart. What a concept.

[@grantmcgowan8399]

I think it was 1974 when as a boy of 8 years old I was first introduced to SPARKS...... I have loved them ever since..... truly unique and everlasting...... keep making music my friends...... I love you!

[@regaltip8A]

Lets cherish them while they are still performing as their like will NEVER be seen again in music

[@Mounutt]

Sparks is the best reflection of LA ever! Such a shame I didn't realise that when I lived there. Then it would have been a so much more cheerful city for me!

[@cycologist7069]

Ron can speak and smile and he has a sense of humor.

[@dave11061]

I know right! It seems like such a rarity just to hear Ron speak! There are so few short clips of him speaking in interviews on youtube.

[@cycologist7069]

@@dave11061 True there are very few but when you come across one, Ron really comes off as a pretty grounded normal guy apart from his stage character.

[@KevinHallSurfing]

@@cycologist7069 Walking off stage after a live show I was smiling ear to ear and cheering, looking at Ron and he smiled back! Thought I'd done something wrong! Hahaha

[@51scouser]

and has the best dress sense of anyone

[@kevmac1230]

Sparks rocks!

Sparks forever!

[@richardward3005]

Has Sparks ever done a bad show? I've seen them over 30 times and always they were great.

[@TheTod777]

Can I borrow your memory storage, Sir? :)

[@Munichmarty1]

Many years ago in Munich , the saddest moment when there was a concert and the concerhall was half empty 😭😭😭 But the concert was amazing, as always ❤️❤️❤️

[@2wheels6strings]

I've seen them a good number of times. I'll say that the Big Beat tour was a nadir.

[@paulahunt5621]

Wow, making me jealous, I still hope to see them once.

[@markkelly940]

Top guys well done Russ and Ron................

[@rokit430]

I am a British alien Ron..who loves you and your bros music so much! No Really Britain loves you, as you know!❤❤ Go Sparks 4ever❤❤

[@JagBetty]

‘Ronald’ instead of Roland.....cool stuff😎👍

[@jimlal1467]

The Gilbert and George of Rock and Rolllllllllllllll. just love them!

[@girlfromgermany]

I don't know why they're compared to Gilbert and George, they're brothers, not a gay couple.

[@L0REN0R2Z0RR0]

@@girlfromgermany I always thought Siegfried and Roy were both.

[@robertpowell6003]

They made it in England,USA didn’t want to know them so stuff the sentiment, seen them in 1974 in Liverpool ,great artists ,a good English band,although not by birth,so never turn your back on Mother Earth.

[@KevinHallSurfing]

Sparks were huge in Australia too! Same with ABBA, Slade and to a point Black Sabbath and Uriah Heep and many others with awful reviews (including Led Zeppelin when Vol 1 came out) in Rolling Stone mag.

[@garrystubbs4891]

Robert Powell Hey Robert, I went to the same show you did in Liverpool back at the Empire Theatre in 1974 too ! I was 14 and it was the first concert I ever went to, although you couldn’t stop me after that. I had the Kimono My House album and soon after I went to Rushworth and Drapers music store and ordered Sparks first two albums ‘Sparks’ and ‘ A Woofer In Tweeters Clothing’ My musical life was never the same again !

[@СергейЖидов-ж9р]

устроенная овация -заслуженная

[@vertxxgg]

just like going back to Hotel Lido Venezia with doctor Aschembach,Tadzio von Moltke,Luchino Visconti....Death in Venice ...Thomas Mann...literary sensations