Nico with The Blue Orchids - Clutch Cargos, Detroit, USA - 06.07.1982 (Flac)

Excellent soundboard. Thanks to kingrue for sharing in TTD.

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In 1946, Nico and her mother relocated to downtown Berlin, where Nico worked as a seamstress. She attended school until the age 13, and began selling lingerie in

the department store KaDeWe, eventually getting modeling jobs in Berlin. At five feet ten inches and with chiseled features and porcelain skin, Nico rose to

prominence as a fashion model as a teenager.   Nico was discovered at 16 by the photographer Herbert Tobias while both were working at a KaDeWe fashion show in Berlin.

He gave her the name Nico after her ex-boyfriend, Through her travels, she learned to speak English, Spanish, and French. 

After appearing in several television advertisements, Nico got a small role in Alberto Lattuada's film La Tempesta (1958).

She also appeared in Rudolph Maté's For the First Time, with Mario Lanza, later that year.  In 1959, she was invited to the set of Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita,

where she attracted the attention of the acclaimed director, who gave her a minor role in the film as herself.

By this time, she was living in New York and taking acting classes.

Nico's first performances as a singer took place in December 1963 at New York's Blue Angel nightclub, where she sang standards such as "My Funny Valentine".

In 1965, Nico met the Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones and recorded her first single, "I'm Not Sayin'" with the B-side "The Last Mile".

After being introduced by Brian Jones, she began working in New York with Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey on their experimental films,

In 1967, Nico's tenure with the Velvet Underground was marked by personal and musical difficulties. Violist and bassist John Cale has written that Nico's long preparations in the

dressing room and pre-performance good luck ritual (burning a candle) would often hold up a performance, which especially irritated band member Lou Reed.

Nico's partial deafness also would sometimes cause her to veer off key, for which she was ridiculed by other band members.

Between 1970 and 1979, Nico made about seven films with French director Philippe Garrel.

Nico returned to New York in 1979 where her comeback concert at CBGB.  Around this time, Nico was often cited as an influence on the gothic rock scene.

Echo & the Bunnymen,  invited Blue Orchids to be the opening act for their 1981 UK tour.  She recorded her final solo album, Camera Obscura, in 1985.

Nico recorded her last concert June 6, 1988 at the Planetarium in West Berlin, Germany.

On July 18, 1988, while on vacation in Ibiza with her son Ari, Nico had a heart attack while riding a bicycle, and she hit her head as she fell. 

Causing a brain hemorrhage that ended her life at the age of 49.

I'm unsure who's playing bass guitar,  so I listed both possible players.

Personnel:
Nico - vocals, harmonium

with The Blue Orchids:
Martin Bramah - guitar, backing vocals
Una Baines - keyboards, vocals
Steve Garvey - bass, backing vocals
Rick Goldstraw - bass guitar (1979–82)
Phillip Toby Toman (aka Toby Tomanov) - drums (1981–82)


Set list:
01 One More Chance
02 Saeta
03 60-40
04 Vegas
05 The Sphinx
06 Janitor of Lunacy
07 Secret Side
08 No One Is There
09 The End -- tape flip @ 5:19 --
10 All Tomorrow's Parties
11 Femme Fatale
12 I'm Waiting For The Man (ending cuts off)

Total Time = 59:49 min

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