03/11/90 - Boston, MA @ Paradise Club

QUOTES

EARLY SHOW

T: "K, we're gonna start out with a couple of new songs we wrote. It's from our new record, a new record? I think it's a record. In May? Late May? This is on our own label, it's called "Goo". This song is called 'Dirty Boots'."
- Dirty Boots
T: "Thank you! This next song is called 'Cinderella's Big Score'."
- Cinderella's Big Score
- Silver Rocket [contains "i never thought i'd be the one to say it but you gotta try it before you try to break it" alternate line in first verse, and whole alternate second verse: "j mascis making out with edie, me n izzy you know that she's a sweetie, i got a date with a girl named cher, we'll go see cats, i hope to seeya there"]
[tape of carpenters 'yesterday once more' plays]
- Stereo Sanctity
L: "This is called 'The Eye-mote'."
- Mote
- Catholic Block
T: "This next song is called 'Mary-Christ'. It's about his mom. Steve, if you're hot, just take your shirt off!"
- Mary-Christ
- Kool Thing
T: "This next song is called 'Flower'."
K: "This is for the PMRC."
- Flower
T: "Thanks! What? the Cher..? Hey you know, I got a tape. I have a tape of the new Cher single. Are you into that? She's a labelmate of ours..."
[cher 'if i could turn back time' tape plays]
T: "This song is called 'Titanium Expose'. Whoa! What? Is that the main light? We didn't pilot that, somebody else did..."
- Titanium Expose
T: "This song is the last song, it's called 'White Kross'."
- White Kross > noise tapes thru encore break
T: "This song is called 'My Friend Goo'."
K: "It's for the boys over there."
T: "It's about a chick who hangs out in front of--"
K: "Party on, dudes."
- My Friend Goo
T: "You're welcome. We're gonna do one more and then uhh... I'd like to dedicate this song to my friend Raymond Pettibon, it's called 'The Wonder'."
- The Wonder

LATE SHOW

- Stereo Sanctity
- The Wonder
[tape of The Carpenters' 'Yesterday Once More' plays]
T: "This is a new song from a new album that call, have, called Goo. The album is called Goo. It's named after this chick named Goo. This song is called 'Cinderella's Big Score'."
- Cinderella's Big Score
K: "I get a lot of shock on this mic, should I turn it around [?]"
T: "Now in New Jersey they have this law, this rule at all the clubs. You're not a wear, you're not allowed to wear Doc Martens. So we're here to fight that. And this song is called 'Dirty Boots'."
- Dirty Boots
L: "This next song is called 'The Eye-mote'. It's my tune."
- Mote
T: "Are you into it when band's do new songs? Do you like it when bands do new songs that you've never heard? This next song is called 'Titanium Expose'. It was written by J Mascis and Don Fleming in the fall of 1989. But they just wrote the title, we wrote the music. Okay?"
- Titanium Expose
T: "Thank you."
K: "I'm still getting a shock from this."
T: "What do you wanna do? Some oldies? What's up man? Um, you wanna hear Cher's new single? I don't know how to play it though."
[tape of Cher's 'If I Could Turn Back Time' plays]
- Catholic Block
L: "This is another new one."
T: "This song is called 'I Am Animal, The Fuck Priest'. Okay, I'll hold on a sec. Actually the title is 'Mary-Christ', it's the...the mom. [laughs]"
K: "That's the independent part."
T: "That's the corporate part."
- Mary-Christ
- Kool Thing
- Flower
T: "This song is called 'White Kross'."
- White Kross
[tape cuts immediately after WX to start of encore, sounds like lee and T loosely jamming "be yr dog"]
T: "Did someone just really say 'Johnny B. Goode'? I can't finger that. This song-"
K: [in unison with thurston] "This song-"
T: "Ah fuck! Bass player gets shocked. Ah! Ah!"
K: "I just can't imagine all these professional men in the audience and no one can fix a little shock."
T: "We're not man enough to fix."
K: "Well! He said it not me. Actually they're very [?]"
T: "We're men. [?] men."
K: "Anyway, this song is for all the girls named Goo in the audience."
T: "'My Friend Goo'."
- My Friend Goo
T: "This is the last song."
- Silver Rocket [same lyric changes as early show] [extended amp noise outro]

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