40 Year Itch: Can Performs at the Bataclan

 

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We didn’t like to create music like everybody else. We’re anarchists.
    Damo Suzuki



 On March 22, 1973 the classic Can lineup performs at the Paris club Bataclan, which is still home to concerts, spectacles and soirees. Bassist Holger Czukay and drummer Jaki Leibezeit found a replacement for original vocalist Malcolm Mooney in a Japanese street musician named Damo Suzuki.
The footage below begins in the middle of "Sing Swan Song" from 1972's Ege Bamyasi. It is a mesmerizing performance with Michael Karoli taking a long solo on guitar. About 5 minutes in there's a shift. And keyboardist Irmin Schmidt stands up to play. Then it's a barrage of improvised noise and feedback. The show is over.





After the release of  and the Edinburgh International Festival in August of 1973, 23 year old Damo Suzuki moves back to Japan to be a Jehovah's Witness.

40 Year Itch: Genesis Plays the Bataclan

On January 10, 1973 Genesis performed six songs at Le Club Bataclan in Paris for a French television program. Gabriel dressed up the fox on the cover of Foxtrot , the band's most recent release. Genesis was at the height of its powers. A live album, recorded the following month, would be their first album to enter the Top 10, and another magnificent album, Selling England By The Pound, would be recorded in August. It would be a few more years before Gabriel's theatricality would drive him out of the band and Phil Collins would take on singing duties.

 

 The sequence:

 1 The Musical Box
2 Supper's Ready ( a generous excerpt)
3 Interview
4 The Return of the Giant Hogweed
5 The Knife