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highplainsdem

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Sat Jun 25, 2022, 11:41 PM Jun 2022

Golden Earring, live at Massey Hall, Toronto, April 6, 1983 (46-minute show)

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Setlist here: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/golden-earring/1983/massey-hall-toronto-on-canada-5bc7bfbc.html






I like this concert video in particular because it opens with "No For An Answer," a hit for them in the Netherlands that wasn't in any of the other concert videos I've posted. See reply 1 below for a video with the studio version.
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Golden Earring, live at Massey Hall, Toronto, April 6, 1983 (46-minute show) (Original Post) highplainsdem Jun 2022 OP
Really like that first song, "No For An Answer," which is a great live performance, highplainsdem Jun 2022 #1
Kicking for the Monday crowd, who can also use a good rock concert. highplainsdem Jun 2022 #2

highplainsdem

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1. Really like that first song, "No For An Answer," which is a great live performance,
Sun Jun 26, 2022, 01:16 AM
Jun 2022

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even though the concert video starts late, cutting off what was the first 15 seconds of the single, and the first line ("Hey, operator, get me Valerie on the phone" ). The rest of the live version is a minute longer than the studio version.

This is the studio version with the band lip-syncing for an appearance on the Dutch TV show TopPop in November 1980:




Editing to link to the AllMusic review of the album this is from, a review giving some extra attention to this track

https://www.allmusic.com/album/prisoner-of-the-night-mw0000462443

for its "muscular array of guitar riffs and a frenetic hard rock tempo with a killer singalong chorus."
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