Canâs Live Shows Will Be Heard at Last, Thanks to a Bootlegger in Big Pants
A series of concert albums by the influential German band were made possible by Andrew Hall, a fan who followed the group around in the 1970s with a Sony cassette recorder hidden in his trousers.
From left: Holger Czukay, Jaki Liebezeit, Irmin Schmidt and Michael Karoli of Can. Later this month, Mute Records will release âLive in Stuttgart 1975,â the first in a series of restored and remastered live albums.Credit.via Spoon
By Mike Rubin
May 11, 2021
In February 1972, following the surprise success of the single âSpoon,â the experimental rock group Can staged a massive free concert in its Cologne, West Germany, hometown. To better entertain the crowd, it punctuated the music with a slapdash circus, including a juggler, a singing saw player and a team of acrobats.