First Shot Live

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First Shot Live
Warm Guns - First Shot Live album cover.jpg
Live album / Mini-albumby Warm Guns
Released 1979
Recorded Recorded by Genlyd's Mobile Studio, 26 December 1978 at Århus Musikteater.
Mixed at Werner Studio by Muhl, Werner Scherrer & Per Stan, 21 May 1979
Genre Rock, New Wave, Power Pop
Length26:04
Label Smash Records
Warm Guns chronology
First Shot Live
(1979)		 Instant Schlager
(1980)

First Shot Live is a 1979 live mini-album by Danish rock band Warm Guns. It was the band's first release, recorded at their first-ever live performance. [1]

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Warm Guns

Warm Guns were a Danish band formed in Aarhus in 1978 by Lars Muhl. Influenced by punk and new wave in the late seventies, the band was often compared to artists like Elvis Costello. Among the band's more well-known songs were "The Young Go First" and "Wonderkids".

Contents

At the concert, Warm Guns supported Danish punk band Lost Kids, whose female vocalist, Pussi Punk, guested on the song "Invisible Man". [2] Per Møller left Warm Guns in 1979 [3] and later recorded "Killing For Fun" with Anne Linnet Band on the album Cha Cha Cha (1982). Lars Muhl recorded "Elevator" on his solo album When Angels Fall (1991).

Anne Linnet Danish musician

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Lars Muhl

Lars Muhl is a Danish writer, mystic and musician, born in Aarhus, Denmark in 1950.

Track listing

All songs by Lars Muhl, except "Killing For Fun" by Per Møller

Side 1

  1. Hip Shot – 2:36
  2. Killing For Fun – 3:47
  3. Elevator – 3:16
  4. Never Lose Your Heart In The City – 3:37

Side 2

  1. Talk To Me – 4:46
  2. Invisible Man – 5:21
  3. Run 'N' Hide – 2:38

Personnel

Additional musicians

Notes

  1. ↑ Bille (1997) p. 308
  2. ↑ Muhl (1993) p. 139.
  3. ↑ Bille (1997) p. 309

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