03/18/89 - Glasgow, Scotland @ Strathclyde University

QUOTES

L: "Hello. For our next number..."
T: "Heeeyy. I just woke up. Okay! You ready? Do you think we're Sham 69? We always wanted to be a sham. Cuz people think we are a sham."
L: "And they know best."
T: "I'm gonna count to four! 1! 2! 3!" [drums start early] "4!"
- Brother James
["Heroes and Villains" by the Beach Boys plays]
T: "Alright, this song is called...it's called 'The Wonder'."
- The Wonder [segue into "Hyperstation"]
- Hyperstation
["Heroes and Villains" by the Beach Boys plays]
L: "Does this barricade bum you out? Does this barricade bum you out? Yeah. This is called 'Eric's Trip'."
- Eric's Trip
["Heroes and Villains" by the Beach Boys plays]
- Candle
T: "Yo man I've got a belly full of onion bhaji right now."
L: "And it's coming up [????]"
T: "[??]"
K: "This song is called 'Kissability'. It's for Mudhoney."
T: "Ow! (singing) Fat Johnny stupid(?)"
- Kissability
["Heroes and Villains" by the Beach Boys plays]
- The Sprawl
- 'Cross the Breeze [the tape cuts during the outro of the song directly to thurston's speech]
T: "-velvet rocket? Hey is there anything open tomorrow? Is anything open on Sunday? Should we go to a movie tomorrow? Oh wait, we're playing! What's a good movie to go see? What? What do you recommend? I got a new amp. I can't figure out how to work it now"
L: "After all these years you should be ashamed."
T: "Alright, tomorrow..."
L: "Maybe that's the secret!"
T: "Let's all go see that movie Scandal tomorrow. You wanna go? Man, did you take your shirt off? Are you bare chested? Chuck Berry? I kissed..."
L: "I have just been informed that Jimi Hendrix is dead! I'm sorry to bum you all out."
T: "Lee's amplifier is his casket. Okay [?] This song is for Ian Mackaye. And his brother Alec. And uh, all the guys in Fugazi. Hey did they play here? Did they play Glasgow? Where everybody gets [?] You fuckin' ready? This song's called 'Teenage Riot'."
- Teen Age Riot [no intro]
L: "Alright, this is called 'Hey Joni'."
- Hey Joni
["Heroes and Villains" by the Beach Boys plays]
T: "Well, what do you wanna hear? 'Shake yr Booty'? 'Shake yr Boot'?"
K: "'Shaking Hell'."
T: "Chewing gum?"
L: "[??]"
T: "K this song's about, uh, kissing the feet of the black priest. This song's called 'White Kross'. We're playing it tonight cuz Kim's wearing this KISS t-shirt. It's written about, I don't know if you had 'white cross', they were like little tablets of speed in the 19..in the 70s that you used to take before you used to go see KISS. At least, we used to go! Just pretend you're 15 years old, just pretend we're 15 years old. [laughs] This song is called 'I Feel Like Grandpa, But Goddam...'"
- White Kross
K: "Don't applaud, that was really horrible."
T: "It wasn't done yet. We're gonna play one more, and then I really gotta go, um, I really gotta go throw up. I got a stomach ache. I got a really bad stomach ache. [?] I'm really not feeling well. [laughs] [?] I feel like I'm gonna...I feel like I'm gonna be blowing chunks. You know what that means? If everybody will just hold on one minute, I'll tune my guitar, okay? I know that's not a normal...Alright, I'm done."
- Eliminator Jr.
K: "Thanks a lot!"
T: "Alright, seeya!"
[encore break]
["Providence" tape plays through encore break]
- Silver Rocket
T: "Thank you. Thank you, that's it! We quit. We're gonna quit. This is our last gig, thank you, goodbye! It was fun, it was a good, good eight years. All the fans, and all the critics, and all the crew people, it was a really great eight years. It was nice having our last gig in Glasgow. Thanks! Thanks for the parting gift. Goddammit, I hate to leave! Thank you!"

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