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ok maybe you're right, but I find strange to hear such distinctive french voices in a dutch audience, at a time it wasn't so easy to travel than today.
that said, I am talking only about PB, but not the rest of the concert, I have to check it out, because I don't remember this tulip in amsterdam song.
2 other clues :
1) I remember reading in an itw that Mark was very self-involved in the MFN comp, for example, he did the TR and Twisting remixes. So I would guess that the information on the booklet is "correct" and "true"
2) To me, this recording labelled as paris 22-06-83 always sounded "soundboard" to me, not "audience". all instruments are clearly audibles. If so, that would mean that this recording comes from a pro recording made by the band, and it would fit with the fact that gigs in june were recorded, a month before hammersmsith nights, in order to release the forthcomming Alchemy album next year. Thus, the Paris recording and the version in MFN comp would came from the same original source.
anyway thanks for your investigations
this PB version is my all time fav one, and if one day you find the exact date (with proof
) it will make may day for sure
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There is no information in the booklet of the LP or the CD of the MFN collection, informing the place where this recording of Portobello Belle was made, the only information is this: (June 1983), nothing more!
Sorry for the frankness, but the French voices in the dutch audience is an irrelevant aspect, since it could be merely a tourist fan, or someone who knows how to speak French and could be with other French.
Another point, you are focusing only on the song Portobello Belle, is leaving aside a general analysis of bootleg, especially the facts that I highlighted as the format of the introduction of Twisting by the Poll with Terry and the presence of the song, Tulpen uit Amsterdam, in the End of the show, this in itself discards the possibility of this show being in Paris.
I even agree that the fact that gigs in june were recorded, a month before hammersmsith nights, in order to release the forthcomming Alchemy album next year, but the recording of Portobello Belle present in the 1988 compilation is not in Paris due to the facts above Which I pointed out, was certainly in the Netherlands, just look at the facts I pointed out.
The fact that all instruments are clearly audible in this bootleg is an interesting aspect, but there are others of audience bootlegs with excellent recording quality, Live in Vienna 1983- 18.05.83 is a great example.
Anyway, I have no doubt that this bootleg that contains this version of Portobello Belle is one of the nights in Holland and I wonder if some of these shows in June 1983 was filmed would be very shocking if one day something like that is released, at least , The Alchemy in full, no cuts would be glorious!
