Depeche Mode - 101 (Vinyl)

Depeche Mode: Martin Gore (vocals, guitar, keyboards, synthesizers); David Gahan (vocals); Alan Wilder, Andrew Fletcher (keyboards, synthesizers, background vocals).Recorded live at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California on June 18, 1988. This 2 CD set comes with an elaborate booklet.101 was reissued in Europe under the title TOTAL LIVE.As an event, Depeche Mode's huge (attendance around 60,000) Los Angeles Rose Bowl concert in 1988 remains legendary; no single artist show had totally sold out the venue since eight years beforehand, while the film documentary done by Dylan-filmer D.A. Pennebaker based around the show clearly demonstrated fans' intense commitment to a near-decade-old band most mainstream critics continued to stupidly portray as a flash-in-the-pan synth pop effort. This start-to-final-encore record of the concert showcases a band perfectly able to carry its music from studio to stage as well as any other combo worth its salt should be able to do. Understandably focused on