Magazine : Live at Rockpalast 1980

[@bluescortina6242]

Barry Adamson’s bass playing is the absolute pinnacle of Magazine. Brilliant.

[@JJONNYREPP]

Magazine : Live at Rockpalast 1980 7.3.23 1341pm you do sound like you cant be arsed at times. and i know punk was, seemingly, about that kindda schtick, to some degree... but magazine weren't punk. at all. the sound system lets you down, here. it's same with the tube's sound system - as though it only had one setting. which it probably did. if you listen to rockpalast gigs you find the same settings are given over to the instruments akin to peel session Maida vale studio settings. maybe where albino got his idea for the more bass in the drum monitor settings refer to his rapeman oeuvre and shellac compositions... on a more important note, a question to ask a loved one after yerv just mekken love, perhaps... so, when do you think we'll lose our fifth toe?

[@evangangstad5537]

​@@JJONNYREPPwho the fuck are you talking to

[@sal-1337]

@@JJONNYREPP brainrot

[@JJONNYREPP]

@@sal-1337 Comments on ‘Magazine : Live at Rockpalast 1980’ 12.3.24 0014AM sweetheart contract.... i allus wanted one of those. as for brain rot. it's, no doubt, the new single by rottenwwolf(??) hhaha... i just visited some relation... got home, after walking a few mile after gettin' off bus, and stood for hours baking myself a loaf and making a couple of quiches. nice. just eaten a bit of the laf even though i know to leave it a few hours to taste... i mean that's the kindda banal b.s people chat about. there's no act. probably why i like the mild mannered theatricality of his irksome nibs, devoto.

[@sal-1337]

@@JJONNYREPP didnt read that kid lol

[@SoulStylistJukeBox]

Barry Adamson's bass playing is EVERYTHING

[@earinsound]

HA...absolutely

[@rahman020264]

SoulStylistJukeBox Moss Side Story....

[@craigdamage]

Every British bassist in UK copied his heavily modulated bass tone in the 80s. By the mid 80s virtually every amplifier manufacturer included a "chorus" effect circuit in their bass amps because this sound became so popular.

[@Ronno4691]

Listen to the live tracks on the Be Bop Deluxe Axe Victim album, the bass player has the same sound as Barry Adamson's bass but it sounds weedier and less upfront. Barry perfected that sound, no question. Bebop Deluxe are a little known but massive influence on Punk Rock and New wave in the 1970s.

[@baronsaturday2103]

*Don't forget the amazing guitar playing!*

[@stymoms]

Memories! Saw Magazine supported by Bauhaus at the Ajanta Cinema Derby 8th May 1980. Venue was shocking (urine flowing down the aisles), concert was 2 hours late starting, but it was all worth it. Bauhaus, dazed us with blinding lights and a powerful set. Devoto and crew blew them away with the best concert I ever saw at a time when they were at the peak of their powers. Unique and inspirational.

[@r1b0schma]

Barry Adamson's bass playing is EVERYTHING. Great band, great musicians, great music. I love it since 1978.

[@diskochimp]

Name one band who are creating music as great as this nowadays - Magazine were frighteningly good.

[@pangloss9]

Devoto was at the height of lyrical genius around this time. Franz Kafka with a sense of humor.

[@pangloss9]

Agreed but when I first read Kafka's work, in my early twenties, I didn't see it as readily as I do now. Conversely, I recognized Devoto's black sense of humor immediately...way back then.

[@georgesmiley4680]

Aye

[@richieroma]

Don't be lazy - there's plenty of great bands out there today making wonderful music - some of my own favourites - Parquet Courts, Radiohead, War on Drugs, Mogwai, The National, Wilco, etc. etc. Don't disparage the present by eulogizing the past.

[@diskochimp]

@@richieroma Most of those bands have been around for a decade or more.

[@billyscott7026]

Permafrost still gives me a dark spark up the spine, i've always thought magazine sounded like a nightmare circus or something descending in a downward spiral but i think their great

[@Warrogue1]

I think REM and many other bands took lessons from them.

[@tabathastaples7884]

Shepherd's Chapel Network !!!!!!! Pastor Murray is an Anointed Servant of GOD who teaches the Word of GOD with Authority!!!!!!!

[@wayne44ful]

most wonderful band to ever walk this earth

[@fh8769]

Wow! Magazine was such an incredible live band. They sound amazing.

[@davidreid5830]

41 years on and seldom bettered. Howard Devoto doesn't get anything like the recognition he deserves.

[@JJONNYREPP]

Magazine : Live at Rockpalast 1980 1407pm 7.3.23 41 years on and seldom battered. maybe if they do a magazine tribute album they can call it that?

[@yamesw5613]

Oh My God! Quintessential Magazine, at their best!! My former partner, now gone since 1992, was Barry Adamson's sound man when he toured Europe with the Bad Seeds.

[@jamesgerrardbrown5169]

" I'd have been Raskolnikov but mother nature ripped me off " ...+/- 20 years after the lyric, I was reading Dostoevsky and the mystery was solved... I almost dropped the book 💫🕉☮

[@mrpbody44]

I saw Magazine 3 times back in these days and they have been some of the best concerts I have ever been too.

[@dimitrispapadimitriou5622]

This is awesome! The songs, the musicians... Barry Adamson's bass playing is a pleasure to listen. His later personal albums were great too.

[@stephenbenyunes6521]

Without any doubt one of the best bands ever. Ample proof on show here.

[@justincase4812]

OHhh my what a bass player's wet dream this show is. Thank you Barry.

[@carlosgustavo3496]

Increíble show !!!

[@oblistr]

The bass player is earning his money for sure.

[@tincase57]

Saw them in the late seventies at the Danforth Music Hall in Toronto and they opened the show with Permafrost and it went up from there. Still Awesome to watch!

[@ezmereldaglutz9151]

Also came to Australia 1980, saw them at my local pub!

[@PaulB-it4jw]

MEO 245 supported them in Melbourne. Memorable gigs!

[@tmyawtb]

I got to see Magazine & Pere Ubu together in 1980. I think they were opening for The Police but I went for the first two bands. Watch this show and you'll see why.

[@earinsound]

Wow!!!

[@lextual]

Wow indeed.

[@jacksonfritts2988]

Lucky!

[@JJONNYREPP]

Magazine : Live at Rockpalast 1980 7.3.23 1403pm i couldn't do that walk out after seeing a band and there were others to listen to...

[@finnkdy]

when support bands were the BOMB.

[@manuvre7999]

I saw them live in '81 or just after, Lyceum, London. Little did I know, the genius before my eyes!

[@yPhil]

Fantastic performance ; Those guys had something to GIVE, evidently.

[@newellgirl]

Any video showing John Doyle playing drums for Magazine is excellent..Barry Adamson's bass is amazing..I saw them a month earlier at the legendary Festival Hall gig of 1980..Magazine were an education musically for me..

[@markcolonna6874]

Loved magazine from the first. Sensational band but this performance is outstanding... Thanks for posting Also loved reading other posts here esp re guitarists. Mcgeoch was amazing but interesting to note robin Simon who's playing with ultravox on systems of romance helps turn that album into an all time great - at least for me. Go listen

[@notchroberts9121]

Great band they have such cool songwriting & Howards voice What a classic live performance.. thanks for posting this.

[@oblistr]

So nice I had to comment twice! This show is the bomb.

[@wayne44ful]

Always will be the best band that walked this planet.

[@jabberthebut]

Loved Magazine from their first single, thanks for posting this video, its been a real joy watching it all the way through. I saw them at Bristol during the Second Hand Daylight tour when I was a young man!

[@philippechasset704]

Howard devoto was so great

[@uglycustard4488]

Barry Adamson brilliant bass player and of course in later years showing just what bass players can really do with there ears....:)

[@m.plotzek3307]

Play. Magazine. 20(x 2,1) Years Ago! I wanna thank you faGIVinME EVERYTHING!!! The Light (still) Pours Out of ME ... 🤩

[@zararity]

00:01 Feed The Enemy 04:13 Give Me Everything 08:46 Stuck 12:53 I'm A Party 16:30 A Song Under The Floorboards 20:57 The Great Beautician In The Sky 26:25 Permafrost 31:25 The Light Pours Out Of Me 36:16 Model Worker 39:21 Parade 45:44 Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) 49:55 Because You're Frightened 53:47 I Love You You Big Dummy

[@fvazquez64]

Dave Formula on keyboards!!! a genious...

[@Shadowbannddiscourse]

Francisco Vazquez yes he is and nice guy too

[@JJONNYREPP]

Magazine : Live at Rockpalast 1980 1023am 23.9.23 farquar fazegezz... well he told me the band was crazy throwing moogs outta hotel bedrooms... in fact i'd go so far as to say: this performance is spoilt by the funking ad campaigns littering it's duration. shame on shaggers,i say...

[@pontypoolcleaning8730]

Magazine 1000% John McG Is amazing in every band I’ve seen him in.especially guitar on Spellbound ❤

[@LaughingStock_]

Dave Formula is just phenomenal - like a drug-dog greeting the Stones at Heathrow, he's every fucking where!

[@oblistr]

That "drug-dog greeting the Stones at Heathrow" analogy is too much.

[@ericrhodes5174]

Howard on guitar! Such a rare sight.

[@buggulugs]

I haven't seen this in years. And it's still so good! The axiom is; if you want to be a great band, then get a great bass player.

[@Shadowbannddiscourse]

One of my fave bands hands down

[@MrManJezza]

Thanks for posting this. I was fortunate enough to see Magazine on this tour in Melbourne Australia which was immortalised on 'Play' still one of my favourite live albums. They are playing with XTC on the Australian leg so it was quite the double bill. At the time I went to see XTC but have since come to appreciate the dark charms of Magazine. Great songwriting and great musicianship. So good to see that my memories of the band stand up 40 years later.

[@Dekompozycja]

Thank you for this recording

[@zararity]

The discordant noises created by Robin Simon on "Systems of Romance", especially "Slow Motion", were what first attracted me to discovering early-Ultravox. I had no idea they'd been such a good band before it all went "Vienna" and "Dancing With Tears In My Eyes"... ;)

[@avenarius2580]

Dave Formula what a player.

[@marksplendidtv]

the keyboards! song from under the floorboards!!!

[@TheOwl]

Loved his pallet of sounds and textures! ❤

[@rooman66]

WOW - shame this was post McGeoch - but Simon was a Ultravox substitute of note :) AND most importantly - Thank you vdgg for posting!!

[@MartinBlack]

Completely awesome, thanks for posting, a very,very enjoyable 57.57 minutes : )

[@arthurgoldstaub9571]

Wow! This is great!!! Thank you for uploading!

[@Tinxtin100]

We Punks from 77 love Magazine.

[@am-df4cc]

thank you so much for this I must be in heaven !

[@Postpunk-cx1ph]

Such a great band. I managed to catch their Hop Farm set in 2011 sadly without McGeoch or Adamson. Really enjoyed it, but would have loved to have seen them at their prime!

[@MadderMel]

Robin Simon looks a cool dude on guitar !

[@andreaprodan5616]

Is that Robin Simon on guitar? McGeoch was a phenomenon, but Simon was also special. His work on some Ultravox! albums (Systems of Romance) was exquisite and exiting!

[@X-OR_]

I was just surfing around and found this... So Cool !!!!

[@CatoMinor]

Technically more, more, more than a rude punk band. Excellent musicians executing very complicated melodies between rock, funky, jazz....Howard Devoto has not a great voice, but he's very involved in what he sings and he results so credible. Bassplayer and keyboard player are both sensational! Robin Simon ex Ultravox does not make regret John McGeogh.

[@JJONNYREPP]

Magazine : Live at Rockpalast 1980 7.3.23 1345pm rock goes to college... or rock school... rock's cool. devoto's joke or template for a word play joke. probably Gogol inspired. i know, i'm a scream.

[@christopherwelch136]

“I love you ya dummy.” RIP Pete Shelley.

[@alistairhouston4655]

Such an imaginative band all round. Proper ARTISTS

[@roberttheobald7767]

Each. Member BRLLIANT. INNOVATIVE. HOWARD CERTAINLY PERSONAFIED. A SCENE. TO. THE OTHERS SOUNDTRACK ALL. DESERVES A SECOND AND CLOSER LISTENING MAGAZINE

[@philippechasset704]

I love so this band

[@RemiPut]

Thanks for uploading , I used to have this concert on Betamax.

[@stevelancaster2508]

My first gig. Magazine - Keele University, 1978

[@justincase4812]

I would love to ask Barry about his distortion on Give Me Everything, it seems the growl plays into his timing. Superb funk he is generating oh my godd.

[@christopherwelch136]

Can’t. Simply brilliant.

[@4LBB1]

OMG that bass!!!

[@elneilo8360]

What a fucking brilliant performance. the bass is so compressed (or is it flanged?) that I wonder the speakers can take it. Superb playing.

[@noddyholder79]

Howard is iconic this night

[@dropagemonem]

Most interesting and productive way music can be used.

[@sasquatchgeoff]

I miss McGeogh in this clip - but Simon will do for now. Doyle has to be my all-time favorite post-punk drummer

[@WatermelonDan]

Love the bass guitar!

[@juliearch1]

Underrated fantastic band...great lyrics, all fantastic musicians the only other bassist to challenge Barry Adams is Mick Karn (Japan) I think some of these great people were missed by huge record companies..Talk Talk were also brill...some very great times..Buzzcocks of course..Sex Pistols PiL just amazing times x get those buds in... tune in... turn on ...drop out ...thanks Howard and Magazine for enlightening me all those years xx RIP John McGeoch Earlier Magazine (then went onto Siouxie and the Banshees)x there is not a single song Magazine has done I don't like xxx

[@juliearch1]

the bass is FANTASTIC x

[@JJONNYREPP]

Magazine : Live at Rockpalast 1980 7.3.23 1358pm aye... the albums are cool. even the compilation which did elicit a frown after i realized o, it's a compilation album, is worth the listen... i think they were selling the entire back catalogue in our price, manchester, for 4.99.... once over. many years ago. so i got 'em. cheap.!!! as you do. as you see fit. and then... you realize these kids from punk bands weren't shifting as many units as you thought or they thought. the fall dragnet album must have taken years to shift... ie: we realized in HMV that the Dragnet album which came out in the late 70's was still being sold in the mid to late 80's... the emphasis is cheap, here, sir...

[@NicBunnymen]

LOVE THIS BAND.

[@cherrydabomb]

Thank you for this! It's so delicious!. Happy birthday to Howard Devoto!

[@priyaxo8116]

Robin in fine form here.

[@christopherwelch136]

Adamson is the bestest bass player. :)

[@vampirrecs]

Here's my live audio radio broadcast from 1980 as well:MAGAZINE Live Fox Warfield 8:15:80 (Bill Graham's URGH #1 Complete Show)

[@carolrobertson3975]

I disagree with the comment about Howard devoto voice there would be no magazine without him

[@MrBridgemania]

I really agree. The same with Bernard Sumner in New Order.

[@stevetoth7467]

What ever happened to Robin Simon - very under rated

[@catherinezetareticuli9003]

veers into Howard Moonesque jazz fusion territory

[@davebantz274]

Didn't like the way Howard deviated from the original , but I guess it's allowed live... But Barry Adamson!!! WOW, JUST WOW..

[@JJONNYREPP]

Magazine : Live at Rockpalast 1980 1408pm 7.3.23 i insist most folk deviate from the original. especially if yer doin a cover version. thankyouforlettinmebemyselfagain is worth the listen in that respect. i enjoy what i enjoy - and that was dead reassuring to her who cannot be named for legal reasons. my slipped disc has slipped. kindda tedious irritant.

[@Takac1979]

Fantastic this!

[@nickcraigs7719]

Possibly the most lovely song ever written

[@gregallan2464]

Getting old and teary, but they were the best at whatever it was they done. Can't define it but sounded fucking malevolent.

[@SoulStylistJukeBox]

Roxy Music + Captain Beefheart + The Stooges = Magazine.

[@kurtsweeney8711]

+ Dostojevsky+ Nietzsche.

[@baronsaturday2103]

It's so hard to pin them down, (ifyouwantto) sounds a little like disco/funk (bass) + some Bowie/Roxy mixed with a very tight Contortions.. (hohoho) *But like many bands of that era, they had a style of their own, the postpunk period/bands where amazingly diverse!*

[@dumpygoodness4086]

when i heard their early albums, i thought "SEX PISTOLS.....MEETS YES??!!"

[@tmsphere]

Dont forget the Eno influence.

[@lucienlodger]

i'd kill to see them live, one of the best bands of all time

[@miahunny]

Perfection! Would love to have been there!

[@teriakamoto]

excellent crew

[@wayne1445]

Still the best band ever ❤️

[@klinkerkk]

Barry's mic was off 'till 25:52, just to let him sing the very last part of his vocals.

[@Steven_A_Lomas]

4:34 Barry Adamson looking and sounding the bollocks.

[@joechiro]

Better than studio version

[@Kkidzz]

Robin Simon ripping down walls.

[@lplvr70]

Big, meaty bass. Would've loved hearing more of the Secondhand Daylight album.

[@MadderMel]

Very compelling !

[@ButterflyRoseX]

Thanks :)

[@rahman020264]

Howard Trafford - the Brian Eno of post-punk .....looks quite 'otherworldly' here...

[@archbishoprobert]

That. Rubbery Bass. So very. Cool

[@Chewligan1]

Pure genius and The Fall.

[@chuckdrum]

Great performance! Awesome ripping bass from Barry Adamson, i just wonder why he had to use the flanger/chorus effect on his bass the entire concert? And in my opinion Robin Simon is just as good as MacGeoch, they just have different styles! And Howard may not be a great singer, but i'd much rather listen to him than Bruce Springsteen, or Mick Jagger or Bob Dylan...they can't sing either !

[@christopherwelch136]

I got tired of counting on these blessings. Then I just got tired.

[@oufmalade9703]

Excellent

[@jrmarrero96]

If you mean Jonny Greenwood, then yes. He has mentioned John Mcgeoch in numerous interviews as being a strong influence on his guitar playing.

[@philippechasset704]

I was in love with Howard devotto

[@drgreyhound]

You loved him so much, you couldn't spell his name.

[@BarbieChaite]

i didn't know howard was playing guitar too :)

[@mikeroby1313]

I made a lot of money in college betting people they couldn't guess the tune. Also: Aztec camera's 'Jump', Husker Du on 'Love is all around' bka theme from Mary Tyler Moore.