"You Can Run" - A Flock Of Seagulls - US Festival (1983)

[@AlexanderG-mi7ip]

There is no Flock of Seagulls without the guitar work of Paul Reynolds (sheer genius).

[@sararichmond8476]

What a performance! First time I've ever seen this. Paul Reynolds is a fuckin guitar hurricane!!!!!!🌀🌀🌀🌟🌟

[@rodase5]

Who's loving this in 2020 ? These guys were really amazing ! 80s forever ♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@stevengregory1671]

I agree a thousand percent one of my favorite bands ever

[@rockyroquelio]

Yep!! 2023

[@goldblatalex7516]

i am from 2024 and i love it!!!

[@gladysmino9081]

2024 viendo A Flock of Seagulls

[@rubendarioepulefsalas4080]

2024 y sucesivamente..... A Flock of Seagulls.

[@danielvelez4219]

Paul Reynolds guitar insane !!!! 🤗

[@heathbarker3004]

That guitar is killer. AWESOME!

[@steven5261]

Paul is a beast! What a great guitarist.

[@CAVERN1234]

Steven Garcia are you drunk he's crap

[@lisaodowd8752]

What the actual fuck...Pauls sound is haunting. He is a beast

[@walshjable]

@@CAVERN1234 dickhead

[@ShadowPriestBear]

One of the best guitarist of the 80s

[@violetgc6049]

This is the best, most exciting, high energy, live AFOS performance on KZbin currently. Intoxicating. Paul Reynolds Forever!

[@drewrosecrans9728]

Man that guitar sound of Paul it's so awesome & haunting still gives me goosebumps still today when I saw it back then& now I was 16 who saw them # the Us festival 83 🤘🤘🎸🎸🎸

[@ianhawdon3680]

Totally agree about his guitar sound unique

[@AJ17_]

@@ianhawdon3680 Agreed such a unique tone and style. No one played like Reno.

[@The.Last.Guitar.Hero.]

I thought there is no way then can do this live....and they did! Pulling guitar hero poses in front a crowd that size, what a feeling.

[@carolebarker2195]

I know! Who'd have thought it, 4 scallies from Liverpool slaying them at the US festival?!

[@johnson7483]

❤️Great band, best guitar player 👌Reynolds

[@rg2027x]

cool to see so much love for brother *Paul Reynolds* in the comments : ) He's always been one of my faves..a songwriter's guitarist, not egotistical shredder

[@liamodriscoll571]

He went about his business no ego phenomenal talent exceptional guitarist

[@ecv4587]

Paul gets down with this song! Shake it!

[@TheQ-Continuum]

I have watched many You Tube videos on AFOS, the one thing that have in common is Paul Reynolds guitar sound, it is distinctive as it is unique and it was (in my humble opinion) what bound and drove the songs along ! Am I wrong ?

[@AJ17_]

Totally not wrong. I could easily pick his guitar sound out of a lineup every time. Nobody plays like Reno. 💖

[@billmetal]

The jump/slide move Paul does at 1:16 is awesome!

[@Bobsend]

It annoys me how the edge and Johnny Marr get all the credit when it comes to innovative guitarists of the 80’s and guitarists like Paul Reynolds and Stuart Adamson of Big Country go under the radar.

[@AntwhaleNearfar]

Matthew Ashman of Bow Wow Wow and Warren Cuccurullo of Missing Persons as well.

[@deathmetaldouglas69]

Paul has OK style but he sounded like a beginner who just learned how to play some leads. Kind of a one trick pony as his rhythm playing was non-existent. People say the same about The Edge but I think he was a better player back then. Also Johnny Marr was/is far better guitarist than either of those guys. He had/has every ridiculously hard chord to play in his arsenal. He is practically a virtuoso. Start Adamson (RIP) was not virtuosic but extremely creative. Fairly technical and innovative as is his sidekick Bruce Watson who still plays Big country music to this day.

[@deathmetaldouglas69]

@@AntwhaleNearfar Ashman (RIP) was a virtuoso as is Cuccurillo (also in Duran Duran for longer stretch as well as Frank Zappa briefly). Thing is Matthew let us know how great he was almost every tune. Warren tried his best to cover up his advanced playing and was light years ahead of Andy Taylor (Duran Duran) although you wouldn't know it.

[@AntwhaleNearfar]

@@deathmetaldouglas69 “Light years ahead”. The parts Andy created for DD were much more musically memorable and perfect for the overall sound of the band than anything Warren ever did. If you judge Paul Reynolds and Andy Taylor’s playing by how complex, fast, “mind blowing” etc they were (which it seems you are), then of course you won’t really appreciate what they did. But if you judge them based upon their ability to use a guitar to create the perfect part for a great “New Wave” tune (as I do), they were both excellent players. The irony is that people like you are why people like the OP feels people like Paul are underrated (his playing being too understated to impress those like yourself). “Difficult chords”, knowledge of music theory, technical prowess and fast leads etc are all great, but being able to play WITH and FOR a song in the perfect way is also noteworthy and something many “wow factor” guitarists didn’t and seemingly couldn’t do. Oh and PR’s rhythmic part for “Spage Age Love Song” is effin great.

[@ianhawdon3680]

Well said i totally agree

[@aprilramirez4469]

Paul is such an underrated and hot guitarist

[@georgeanthonymaloney7855]

Paul Reynolds fucking young with fantastic Skills to play that Krammer Guitar !!

[@pammyla66]

Paul Reynolds made this band what it was

[@carllouisyoung]

pammyla66 He is why this band worked for me. The moment I first heard him play, to be as young as he was no one had his sound.

[@pammyla66]

CL Louis I totally agree their sound was very unique it was truly the sound of the eighties as far as I'm concerned

[@mfc4afos]

pammyla66 true without them they kinda lost their sound as you can hear on Dream Come True. He made the band awesome

[@tamaragarrett3625]

Absolutely!

[@MarcioSilva-ssiillvvaa]

@@carllouisyoung Basically he was doing what Phil Manzanera (Roxy Music) did before.

[@donaldkoerber8327]

These dudes are. Bad ass....

[@danielamartelli2592]

There must be a parallel dimension in which Paul Reynolds still rocks so heavenly and looks ridicously hot. I want to go there when I doe like in the San Junipero episode of Black Mirror

[@izabellabusuito2092]

I love Paul Reynolds. He's an excellent guitar player and he's drop dead GORGEOUS😍😍❤️

[@AJ17_]

Oh yeah Reno was so effing hot back in the day. I'll admit I still have a major crush on him 40 years later. 😍😍💖 And funnily enough, my boyfriend reminds me of Paul in certain ways (a hell of a guitar player, has raw talent like Paul & wears kinda nerdy glasses). Yeah probably not a coincidence. LOL!

[@ghoppr71]

Cool... Never heard this song and never saw Mike Score play guitar. This is awesome !!!

[@AJ17_]

It's on their first album.

[@ghoppr71]

@@AJ17_ Haha... I know that now. I posted this a year ago and have since listened to their whole catalog. A very underrated band. They were more than just "I Ran".

[@AJ17_]

@@ghoppr71 Completely agree. They should have been much bigger than they were.

[@fh8769]

Whoa. One of my favorite songs by them. Totally underrated band. I think their name made it hard for many people to take them seriously but they wrote some incredible songs.

[@Jurgen-sx7om]

The name is awesome.We German Synth-Pop New Wave Fans of the early eighties , looooved their Band-name , cause it sounds really cool to us. But I guess you are right! 😁

[@Emgee78]

Can't take my eyes off Paul Reynolds.

[@tamaragarrett3625]

Emgee78 Yes, he stands out for sure. He’s a oxymoron. Cool but nerdy.

[@sandrabarnes7949]

And what a bod

[@seegucker0147]

It's 1983! Nerdy glasses, black Nike sneakers. What are the kids wearing today ...? A trend-setter, so much ahead of his time!

[@JDCUSA]

With those glasses he looks like he would have fit in playing guitar for Elton John.

[@auroraedwards8181]

Can't take my eyes off of Mike 🥰🥰😍🥰😍😘

[@philbo200lambretta3]

Its 2017 and I've only just realized how great Paul Reynolds is.

[@aprilramirez4469]

Philbo200 Lambretta I'm 15 and just found out about this band and I'm obsessed with them and Paul

[@reynaldosanchez8171]

SAME dude SAME Paul is always the best

[@carllouisyoung]

Philbo200 Lambretta he is why this band worked for me and for him to be so young like 15 when he joined the band and have such a sound that was uniquely his was awesome.

[@MiguelRodriguez-ih5jv]

Philbo 200 en absoluto amigo

[@sandrabarnes7949]

I only remember when they were on count down a couple of times

[@nostalgiapuff438]

PAUL WHY ARE YOU SO AMAZING ON THE GUITAR

[@Bobsend]

This is one of the best intros to a song in history.

[@ginacastner9033]

Paul is so cool and adorable.

[@Landmbfan]

Paul Reynolds rocks! ❤️

[@adriannaborsalini285]

Great video, can’t take my eyes off from Reno!! He was so cute, hot and looked well groomed!!

[@mauroantonio4320]

Wanderfull sound. Pure england. The guitar men its great

[@rodmoyes80s]

I was there.

[@ShadowPriestBear]

I envy you

[@drewrosecrans9728]

Can we just say Paul Reynolds is beyond awesome 💯💯💯💯💯 that guitar 🎸 tone - sound is haunted i love it🤘🤘🤘🤘💚🖤🖤🖤🖤💚💚💚

[@builttowin1987]

I can watch this intro all day long haha! one of the best!!!

[@chrismorin7161]

God! They sound so good live!

[@wiiliewicking7606]

Saw the current FOS in Disney Florida still sounded this good without the original members 👍

[@stephenmatthias6408]

Fantastic guitar riff

[@user-by9xt8bq6t]

A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS!!! FOR EVER!!!

[@michaelmoran2022]

Scouser entertaining the world in 1983.

[@manueldemetriocov8671]

Paul Reynolds en la guitarra es lo maximo!!!

[@stonecoldpm5k]

Anyone else rockin out to this in 2018?

[@buickmonte]

2019!!!! Hell yeah!!!

[@georgep9059]

wow wish i can turn back the clock and be there

[@briandoyle6188]

Heard one of their songs being played in home bargains, stopped me in me tracks(flock of seagulls)bloody hell....reason why I'm hear....as well as the GRT music...they really could play live.....

[@jacobdaughtry4487]

Their songs other than (I ran) are underrated. They were a really interesting band

[@ElectroTiki]

Great footage. And a great track. Amazing guitar.

[@TC-zi2yp]

I loved the song before hand, but just recently i was hooked on the "I ran" music video and was very intrigued but Paul Reynolds style.

[@robertburgess2330]

The 80's ruled.

[@davidbossert4996]

Some of the best of the eighties.

[@vanessac5137]

They had a whole different vibe back then, I would have sold my soul to the devil to see one of their concerts

[@RideMyBMW]

dudes were at the top of their game in '83....the musical embodiment of the early 80s SoCal revolution (tho they were Brits)

[@samw8638]

They went downhill quickly after '83.

[@tmotorman]

Was this the Cal Jam concerts of 83 or 84? Scorpions were there too.

[@sararichmond8476]

Had to come back for more. This really cooks!!!!!!💫💫💫💫

[@HDramboDwango]

I am still in love them now! Saw Score in Houston Arena Theatre last month! The line up rocked!

[@ultrauday]

Had this song just been an instrumental one it still would've been better. Paul Reynolds is so good here!

[@buickmonte]

Bad ass!!! Flock fan from Texas!!!!

[@anakina1]

Frank Maudsley looks like his name. Paul looks like he was actually enjoying himself. This song could have been an instrumental and I would have enjoyed it just as much. Nice to see them back together.

[@anpr1984]

Must have been a magical time to be in a British group in the US in the early 80s.

[@drewrosecrans9728]

Paul Reynolds the sound of the 80s🎸🎸🎸🎸

[@ianbrown5486]

All these years still fantastic so good to hear makes me feel. Alive

[@alfredoclaudio3708]

I was at the 82 US Fest . The three days in the front camera site , with a chiiropractic from Inglewood , Ca.... Just in case someone could get hurt at the front lines . When i Heard about the May 83 US festival i meant to be there to see A Flock of Seagulls & my favorite bands.... The Clash , Men at Work , , U-2 , Stray Cats , i have photos i took with a Disk Camera ....it was Heaven ...in the same camera site..... By the way , while getting on stage , the drummer from the Clash was fighting security ....the rest of the Clash went back to help him , the incident help Jones made a political-social speech before playing....New Weavers at front mix with Punks.....New Wave sounds & shields.....fashion look was new in conservative America.....God Bless Reynolds , iconic way to dance those days just like Molly Ringwald did in the Breakfast Club....film .....

[@middleclassic]

Woohoo! I was there!!! The lineup for that day was The Clash (Headlining!), then Men at Work, Stray Cats, English Beat, Flock of Seagulls, Oingo Boingo, Wall of Voodoo, INXS, Divinyls. Even though I was there I must admit I remember nothing of seeing A Flock of Seagulls :-/ And that is how A Flock of Seagulls was for me and everybody I knew. Nobody I knew could get past what they wore and Paul's glasses. I know that all looks like iconic New Wave swag now, but in the early '80s they looked plain goofy to us. I just remember having no desire to see The Divinyls, probably INXS because they were so new at the time, Oingo Boingo, because every jock who wanted to jump on the "Punk Rock New Wave" band wagon was going to see Oingo Boingo. And that just ruined them for me because going to one of their shows was like going to a football game with an audience filled with chowder heads .... it sucked! And Men at Work, no explanation needed I hope, they just suck ... period. Otherwise they are all great bands! This recording has to have come from the sound board because it sounds great! Whereas this place was HUGE for those days and seemed hastily thrown together. Within an hour all the grass was trampled to dirt and dust was flying everywhere!!! I know I have pictures of us just covered in dirt and there are pictures I took specifically to show how much dirt was being kicked about. I did have a blast but it was far from an ideal environment and didn't sound that good either. Plus I saw The Clash, Stray Cats, English Beat, Oingo Boingo, all in much smaller venues here in Los Angeles. One of my most vivid memories from that day because it was so shocking was when we first walked over the hill into the venue were these 3 black dudes all spread out about 100 yards from the other yelling out "ACID! OPIUM! ACID! OPIUM!" over and over!!! I couldn't believe my ears or eyes!!! And no, I did not take them up on their offers. I drank beer.

[@stampscapes]

I was at this concert. A couple friends and I took the "US Bus" (US Festival chartered bus) from UC Santa Barbara. It was so unorganized that the bus driver didn't know when he was supposed to leave Santa Barbara so we (as kids) had to go find a payphone and call the US Festival hotline to see if we could get that info for him. There was supposed to be a bus leaving every 15 minutes for 2 hours from that location but there was only us 3 and 3 other girls. It was so empty that we made a stop in Pasadena to pick up more people from that pick up zone. Because of that delay we showed up at the Festival two bands into it with the Divinyls already having played and INXS on the stage. By the time we got in the amphitheater they were probably off stage. It was probably 85-90 degrees and you could see this layer of smog between us and the stage and I got this raging headache after a few hours that, luckily, went away. On the way back to Santa Barbara (after making a drop at Pasadena again) we were the only passengers on this full sized coach and the driver didn't even know where UCSB was or where he was supposed to drop us off. I think he flagged down a police and asked where a certain lot was or something like that. I seem to recall getting back when the sun was up so we probably left around 8am the previous day and got back around 7am the next day. It was quite an adventure for us high school kids. I think that festival lost a lot of money and if there were similar issues like chartering a bus from Santa Barbara to San Bernadino with only 3 kids in it, I could see how that would happen. It was a full bus from Pasadena but still.

[@LoveMyBoys3]

It's a crying shame they broke up. They all pulled their own weight in this band. Mike Score is an excellent songwriter, Ali is a fantastic drummer, Frank on his bass is awesome and Paul on that guitar! Had they not fell victim to Mike's enormous ego, they might have been still around like Depeche and U2. What a complete shame. I miss them.

[@AJ17_]

Paul said on VH1 Bands Reunited they could've been the biggest band in the world. Sadly it didn't work out that way thanks to Mike's ego and his bullying/control freak ways & putting his bandmates through mental hell.

[@lisaodowd8752]

One of my favs..jammed to this song so many times

[@philbo200lambretta3]

AJ17. Good to know you are watching.

[@ignacioperezsalinas3251]

El guitarrista era genial 🎸

[@drewrosecrans9728]

The sound of the 80s glad i was a part of it to see it@ be @ the us festival 83 🤘🤘🤘

[@briandoyle6188]

Only found out the other day they played this festival....the amount of bands their what a mix....all you lucky people who were there....

[@acecriss9326]

Actually this was a kick ass song. Even though I wasn't a fan they had a lot of catchy tunes.

[@makypine4829]

2:33 damnn Paul's voice.

[@ivanaaass]

Is it really his voice?

[@kimdawcatgirl]

Yes, deep voice.

[@rtphotos4691]

@@ivanaaass - yes, look up Paul Reynolds interview and you'll hear it. It is really deep.

[@joaquinjimenez1771]

Not is frank Maudsley

[@auroraedwards8181]

@@joaquinjimenez1771 It's Paul Reynolds and Frank Maudsley

[@ast-og-losta]

killer guitars!

[@victorrodriguez5765]

My favorite A Flock of Seagulls song ................ greetings of Perú ...

[@fionacook8508]

Frank Maudsley has nice vocals

[@angie_68]

I would of loved to go to this concert back in the day, but sadly I was in 7th grade lol...no way I would of been allowed to go.

[@dannyhamlett9196]

I had the opportunity to work both us festivals Union Stage hand 614 San Bernardino and met a lot of the band members and Mr We started from the ground up what you see we put up and yes it had to come down being part of something that big is something to look back on and yes a lot younger ❤

[@groovepyre1186]

Cool story! Thanks for sharing!

[@brendakrieger7000]

Excellent

[@TheLeocure92]

its so rare for me to see mike playing guitar and not his synths hahaha

[@Mudge07]

Early live work split Mike’s keyboard and guitar work down the middle, and always lead vocals. There’s a later clip of him playing a sunburst, Yamaha SG2000 but his earlier gigs were with a classic, Gibson SG; those bat-wing cut-outs always looked retro, space-age , a bit like his Explorer in this song.

[@jungerock83]

I was only 43 days old at the date of this gig.

[@pammyla66]

Charly Buitrago I was 17yrs old

[@user-dt3rz2lz7q]

Batphink2655 Is that why they were up on that stage and sold so many records and you were not and didn't? I think Ali, Mike, Paul and Frank would all say... Flock you!

[@bizchazlien]

GOLD!!!!!!!! :)

[@martinromer8304]

MUY BUENA BANDA IMPRESIONANTE!!!!

[@kevincreed3648]

❤

[@aleksanth5362]

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

[@paularnold1641]

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

[@sakimike]

Paul Reynolds あなたのギターが大好きです

[@fionacook8508]

oh yeah and Ali Mike big brother is a damn grummer

[@leebrown3848]

God Paul Reynolds can play guitar

[@kienergiaeterna]

AGUANTE A Flock Of Seagulls SALUDOS DESDE ARGENTINA!!!!

[@kevincreed3648]

X2 pero soy de chile xd

[@ivairjunior2408]

2020.... E ainda ouvindo ....

[@miguelangelrodrigueztorres9127]

excelente grupazo de rock que sonido de guitarra ochentero

[@PACbelltech1]

Wow. Great!!!

[@donaldkoerber8327]

This us festival was cool.

[@qnaokwegijig1985]

This will be apart of my town, song

[@switxelswit5710]

Is there a full version of this? Thanks Love Paul!!

[@margretpfeifer7515]

Einmaliger Song♥

[@fuzzcous]

Aria Pro II ZZ Deluxe Blueburst. One sweet sweet axe.

[@douglas-hughes]

The US Festival in September of 1982 was the biggest bargain in music history. The US Festival in late May - early June 1983 was the second biggest. Of course, Woodstock was the mother of all festivals and was epic but I still think the US festivals eclipse it.

[@danfuerthgillis4483]

Damn look at all those Roland JC120’s!!!

[@donaldkoerber8327]

82 and 83. Rules .

[@FHSBlackSwarm]

Fucking rad

[@eugenioramirezcruz4763]

Buenas tardes from Perú y rededor del mundo unos 1banda mejor80

[@kevincreed3648]

Unos crack's los a flock Of seagulls xD

[@mamothcar1]

Paul Reynolds is better on guitar than U2's Edge.

[@trentrez6643]

Paul has a great sound, but he is definitely no Edge

[@richardjoslin8064]

Trent Rez Paul Reynolds is better

[@Gorenjaa]

Rich Santoro great joke

[@StevieDInVegas]

Agreed. Incredible shredder. So underrated. :)

[@jupedaveauditor301]

Edge is not great at all. Reynolds is way better.