02/21/93 - Osaka, Japan @ Festival Hall

Date: Sunday, February 21st, 1993
City: Osaka, Japan
Venue: Festival Hall
SET LIST NOTES
Tom Violence 
Dirty Boots 
Kool Thing 
Theresa's Soundworld 
100% 
Swimsuit Issue 
Drunken Butterfly 
I Love Her All The Time 
Genetic 
JC 
Sugar Kane 
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Shoot 
Schizophrenia 
White Cross 
Nic Fit 

  • Yamutsuka Eye from the Boredoms joined for "Nic Fit".
  • Last known performance of "Nic Fit".

    QUOTES

    K: "[???]" (speaking in Japanese)
    T: "I'd like to dedicate this song, to one of my favorite Osaka poets from the Kansai district, Yamutsuka Eye. This is called 'Tom Violence'."
    - Tom Violence
    T: "Thank you. I'd like to send this song out to all the Kansai women. This is called 'Dirty Boots'."
    - Dirty Boots [last chord drones noise for almost 2 minutes as a segue into "Kool Thing"]
    - Kool Thing [w. Death Valley tease in intro] [tape cuts during 2nd verse]
    L: "The last time we played in Osaka, there was a near riot at the gig. I don't know if any of you were here. That wasn't a lot of fun."
    - Theresa's Sound-World
    - 100%
    T: "Thank you very much. ["hard rock" tape starts playing] Oh yeah!"
    [keyboard drum sounds]
    K: "This song is for all the girls in the audience. It's called 'Swimsuit Issue'."
    - Swimsuit Issue
    [piano tapes play]
    T: "This is a nice club. Do many bands play here? [laughs] This is for all you sake freaks, this is called 'Drunken Butterfly'."
    - Drunken Butterfly
    K: "Thank you."
    [keyboard drum sounds]
    T: "Did you say Pussy Galore? Oh, Tipper Gore. Tipper Gore probably does still suck but none of us really know."
    K: "She doesn't suck us."
    - I Love Her All The Time
    L: "This next song is called 'Genetic'." [said slowly in a weird voice, might be T?]
    - Genetic
    T: "'JC'."
    - JC
    T: "Tokyo [?] Osaka [???] This is called 'Sugar Kane'." (speaking in Japanese)
    - Sugar Kane
    T: "Thanks a lot, goodnight, thanks for coming, we'll seeya next time, bye..."
    [encore break]
    - Shoot
    T: "Thanks. Thanks. [??] This is called 'Schizophrenia'."
    - Schizophrenia
    [there is a tape cut here and it starts during the first verse of "White Kross"]
    - White Kross [w. extended noise ending]
    T: [during "White Kross" noise outro] "Okay ladies and gentlemen, before we fucking split. We'd like to bring a friend of ours out [??]. Ladies and gentlemen. This is a fucking Jethro Tull gig here. Just fuckin' [?] on this microphone [?]. Goddammit, Yamatsuka Eye! Get the fuck out here baby! Yo! Eye time! Eye time! Yo! Where the fuck did he go man? He went home or some shit? He bailed, right? I think the dude was running a temperature and shit. Alright! About fucking time, we've been waiting for your fucking lazy ass! Let's get it together baby! It's a tight rope. It's a tight rope [?]"
    Yamatsuka Eye: "[???]"
    T: "It's a tight fucking rope! Yeah!! Okay..."
    YE: "Thank you!"
    T: "This is a song written in 1982 in Washington DC by a group called...do you remember the name of this group bro?"
    YE: "Untouchables."
    T: "Yeah that's right! This is called 'Nic Fit'. Hey!"
    - Nic Fit [w. Yamatsuka Eye on vocals] [dissolves into a noisy jam]
    T: [over the noisy end of "Nic Fit"] "Ooooh shit. Alright ladies and gentlemen, we'll see you next time! Peace! Peace! Peace! Okay, goodnight!" [Eye is screaming through all of this]
    ?: "Domo!"

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