MARIANNE FAITHFULL IN INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA, October 30th 1999
Marianne Faithfull Autumn Tour 1999
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"Wow, the setlist !" was Marianne's comment at this autograph
very surprised that there were chairs - quite unusual
After she started with "Broken English" (unfortunately she skipped "After The Ceasefire" on the setlist !), she
welcomed Innsbruck very warmely
Then she started "File It Under Fun" which she brought very exactly, with much Betonung on exact voice. She
suffered a little from the Scheinwerfer, above her after the song she asked to dämmern them
a ventilator was also brought in front of stage
Then she told a great story from 1964:
"...in 1964, Jimmy Page and Jackie xxx were having a really 'hot' love affair in the hotel room
next to me. I had a cold, I had flu, I have been on the road, you know..., and I was sick and
they were next door having an 'extremely' hot love affair. And they - I didn't know exactly, but I
knew Jimmy very well, he played all my early songs and they wrote a song for me in these view(?)
days when I was next door to them. I don't know, where they found the time, I must say, but they wrote
this song, which I am going to sing for you now and became one of my big hits and it's called
"Come and Stay With Me"
stay with me
no comment zur nächsten Nummer
Brain Drain
startet mit Hüsteln und Lachen die nächste Nummer
"Working Class Hero"
sehr sauberes Bass Thema, typische Stimme, sehr rhytmische Nummer, guter Takt, sehr guter cry !!
super Stimmen-Umfang !!!
viel Applaus
then introduces with much smile:" and now come with us to the 'Wilder Shores of Love'..."
Wilder shores of love
"Thank you very much - And you should know - when I shot my eyes and concentrate, I don't feel
you (?) but I have to do that as I have to concentrate
When I was raising my autobiography, it was very hard and painful and humililating and to
get me through I played a lot of John Prime.
Does anybody in here know Johne Prime ? - No ? - Oh - one, one person !
OK, this is your homework:
When you go out, get the complete works of John Prime and the song I am going to sing
is from the album "The Missing Years", it is not about anybody or anything in particular
for me, it is just, it helped me to get through the whole damn thing, you know what I mean,
and it's called "All The Best" - Are you all OK ?
All the Best
"Thank you ! No one get's out to get John Prime now ?
In 1976, I, Marianne Faithfull, had a number One record...Applaus...in Ireland...only in
Ireland. It is a small country, about the size of Austria, and it was number One for seven
weeks, thank you, and I only ever played it in Ireland. Berry and I went out with our band
(Tang ???) while working on 'Broken English' and we were drinking a lot and doing a lot of mushrooms
- puh. We thought that bad. Trying to do a gig on mushrooms - puh. But, so, we decided to bring
this lovely song in the repertoire into the big world, yeah, in Innsbruck !
...and it also gives me the chance to do my plat-Pepsi-Klein-immitation(?), which I like
doing, but I can't necessarily do very well. A beautiful song:"
Drewaming my Dreams
wunderbarer Country song, mit wunderbarer Stimme
"Where are those people running accross ? They don't are leaving ?"
-> audience calls -> No ! -> "They are going where" -> Audience ->
"for Beer" oder "they are thirsty"
Marianne smiles ...
"So, I would now like to intoduce you to this wonderful band:
On guitar, my best friend Normy Redoff(?) -> Applaus ->
On drums, from New York City, the wonderful, cool, handsome Courtney Williams,
-> applaus -> on keyboards, young and beautiful, extremely elegant, mostly personality(?),
Glen Porter -> Applaus -> on bass, handsome, extremely batterly(?), completely barking(?) mad,
Christopher Thomas ->viel Applaus
And there is you and me and this spotlight (pouinting at the hot lights above her head)
Guilt
"Thank you very much ! The first song, I wrote for this CD, was, (pause...), 'Vagabond Ways'.
The first song, I collected:
I went down to see Roger Waters and Mrs and little Jack Waters. And we went for dinner. And all
the way down, I was thinking 'Oh, my God - I have to ask him for a song - I AM going to ask
him for a song ! He might say NO !
There is no word, I dislike more than NO - none.
I knew, cause I know mysel a little bit now, that I might have an actual PANTRUM(???), if he said no,
as it has been then to happen. You know that. We got down there, had a beautiful bottle of
"Mercaeau" for dinner, then we had a wonderful dinner and then xxxx, oh Roger, 'got a song ?'
He said "NO !" But I got through, I kept talking, laughing, eating, drinking my wine, like a little soldier,
which I am of course xxx at the end of dinner, he got up, and he is very tall, a lot of frightening and xxx,
xxx, there is a song , which I wrote in 1968, didn't gave it to anybody, I never gave it to the band, a band
beeing of course "Pink Floyd", but you might be able to do something with it. He played it for me and I said
to myself, well, I think I do something with that... - and now, I can play it for you, it's called
"Incarceration of a flower child"
bester song !!! unforgettable !!! superb !!! Stimme !!! Gefühle !!!
Riesenapplaus !!! lange !!!
Thanks for scan Lizzy
Innsbruck, Im Hafen Dock
Attendance: ca. 600
Setlist:
- Broken English
- Vagabond Ways
- File it under fun
- Come & stay with me
- Brain Drain
- Working Class Hero
- Wilder shores of love
- Electra
- All the best
- Dreaming My Dreams
- Guilt
- Incarceration of a flower child
- Tower of song
- As tears go by
- Ballad of Lucy Jordan
- Why did you do it
Press report in local paper 'Tiroler Tageszeitung', November, 2nd, 1999
'Tante Marianne auf Besuch' by Roman Polak
Full-text in german and english (translation to come)
Press report in local paper 'Kurier', November, 2nd, 1999
'Schönheit, Hingabe und bedingungsloses Leben' by Bernhard Aichner
Full-text in german and english (translation to come)
Some Records by Marianne Faithful:
A Perfect Stranger
The Island Anthology
2 CD, spanning 17 years of recordings, 35 songs
1998, Island Records, 524 579-2
20th Century Blues
CD, signed
includes songs of Kurt Weill, Noell Coward & F.Hollaender
1996, RCA records 74321 386562
A Secret Life
CD
1995, Island records 524 096-2
Faithfull
CD, compilation
1994, Island records 74321 22864 2
Broken English
LP, 1979, Island records, 201 018-320
CD, Island records, 842 355-2
The World of Marianne Faithfull
LP, 1969, Decca records, SPA 17
Marianne Faithfull
LP, Mono, 1965, London records, LL 3423
Important to mention: "Love Is Teasin'" on: The Chieftains: "The Long Black Veil", with Marianne Faithfull
(one of the author's favorite songs)
RCA records 74321 25167 2
Internet Link:
Marianne Faithfull International Website
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