Albums That Should Exist: Supertramp - Reitstadion Riem, Munich, Germany, 7-23-1983

Saturday, January 25, 2025

Supertramp - Reitstadion Riem, Munich, Germany, 7-23-1983

I recently got a request to post more Supertramp music, so here you go. I very much would have liked to post a BBC concert from the last tours with Roger Hodgson, who wrote and sang the majority of the band's hits (with Rick Davies writing and singing the rest). However, I can't find any BBC concerts from those tours in 1979 and 1983, so probably they didn't happen. The 1979 tour is already well represented with the official live album "Paris." But there's no such album from the 1983 tour. So this bootleg serves that role.

Here's what Wikipedia has to say about Hodgson leaving Supertramp:

"In 1981, Hodgson moved his family from Los Angeles to northern California, where he built a home studio and began contemplating solo recordings. The rest of Supertramp remained in Los Angeles and the geographic separation created a rift between them and Hodgson; feuding was virtually non-existent, but the group harmony was lost. Hodgson felt increasingly constrained in the group context, and during the [1983 tour] he made the decision to leave Supertramp. He has denied any real problems in his relationship with Davies as speculated."

If you listen to the banter between songs in this recording, at one point Hodgson told the crowd that this was his last concert with Supertramp. That wasn't actually true, since the tour continued for a couple more months. Probably, he said something like that at every concert, meaning this was the last time people in that location would hear him with Supertramp. The rest of the band continued without him (though that's a bit like Pink Floyd continuing without Roger Waters). He never did get back with them for a reunion tour or anything like that.

The sound quality here is excellent, as good as an official live album. This is probably the best sounding bootleg from this tour. There were no problems for me to fix.

This album is an hour and 37 minutes long.

01 Crazy (Supertramp)
02 Ain't Nobody but Me (Supertramp)
03 talk (Supertramp)
04 Breakfast in America (Supertramp)
05 Bloody Well Right (Supertramp)
06 It's Raining Again (Supertramp)
07 Put on Your Old Brown Shoes (Supertramp)
08 talk (Supertramp)
09 Hide in Your Shell (Supertramp)
10 Waiting So Long (Supertramp)
11 talk (Supertramp)
12 Give a Little Bit (Supertramp)
13 From Now On (Supertramp)
14 The Logical Song (Supertramp)
15 Goodbye Stranger (Supertramp)
16 Dreamer (Supertramp)
17 Rudy (Supertramp)
18 Fool's Overture (Supertramp)
19 talk (Supertramp)
20 School (Supertramp)
21 Crime of the Century (Supertramp)