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''Paris'' is the first live album by progressive rock band Supertramp, released in September 1980. == Overview == ''Paris'' was recorded on Supertramp's ''Breakfast in America'' tour in Paris, France, with most of the tracks taken from a 29 November 1979 show at the Pavillon de Paris, a venue which was once a slaughterhouse. The album was originally going to be called ''Roadworks''.〔 ''Paris'' reached number 8 on the ''Billboard'' 200 in late 1980 and went Gold immediately,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Searchable Database Results )〕 while the live version of "Dreamer" hit the US Top 20. ==Background and recording== According to Roger Hodgson, Supertramp had several reasons to record a live album at the time, including a desire to introduce their pre-''Breakfast in America'' works to USA listeners and a mutual sentiment that some of their songs were pulled off better live than in the studio.〔 However, he admits that the chief purpose of the album was to buy time for the band was under pressure to produce a suitable follow-up to the immense success of ''Breakfast in America'', and needed to get off the treadmill of touring and recording for a while in order to consider their direction for such an album. Taking such a breather meant the next studio album wouldn't be finished until 1981 at the earliest, and so something was needed «to fill the gap.»〔 Using the band's mobile studio, a number of shows in Canada and throughout Europe were recorded. However, when Pete Henderson and Russel Pope presented the band with unlabeled cassettes containing rough mixes of these recordings, and the members voted on their favourite tracks, the majority of votes coincidentally fell on recordings from the 29 November show at the Pavilion.〔 A few tracks were taken from other concerts during the band's stay in Paris, and studio overdubs were also added, chiefly for the vocals and John Helliwell's organ. However, Helliwell contended that the amount of overdubbing was minimal compared to most live albums of the time: «A lot of people, when they make a live album, just keep the drums and bass and redo everything else.»〔 The album's setlist contains almost all of ''Crime of the Century'' (except for "If Everyone Was Listening"), three songs from ''Crisis? What Crisis?'', two from ''Even in the Quietest Moments'', three from ''Breakfast in America'' plus "You Started Laughing", the B-side to the track "Lady" from ''Crisis? What Crisis?''. The hit "Give a Little Bit" was played on the tour but not included because, according to Hodgson, "we were shocked when we listened back to the live tapes to find how bad all the versions were. There just wasn't one version that we felt that we wanted to put on the album."〔 Other songs that were on the tour's set list but not on the album are "Goodbye Stranger", "Even in the Quietest Moments", "Downstream", "Child of Vision" and "Another Man's Woman". All of these tracks, including "Give a Little Bit", later showed up on the second live disc included in the deluxe anniversary edition of ''Breakfast in America'' and on the 2-CD/DVD set Live in Paris '79. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paris (Supertramp album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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