I always wondered what the Docklands Concert would have sounded like had the rain not resulted in Health and Safety insisting all instruments were turned off and everything mimed
I assume there was an initial intention to play some parts live, judging by the enormous amount of Roland D50 and D550 synths on stage ( Revolutions largely made of sounds from these synths ). If only some old footage of rehearsals existed other than the tiny bit on the making of film
You can always tell a mimed concert and a fully live one. China for instance was played entirely live as can be heard on the radio broadcasts but what we here on the album and on the video is largely studio work. I don't think Perrier's Moog Liberation solo at the end of Magnetic Fields 2 has ever been played live as it is heard on the China and Docklands albums for instance - these are studio recordings. Radio broadcasts of Lyon also have differences with solos reworked in the studio.
The recent Oxygen live was entirely different to the album again
Thoughts?