03/25/89 - Gent, BE @ Vooruit

QUOTES

L: "Except I don't have a set list so I'm gonna use Mudhoney's."
T: "Hey we just came back from England and if you're smart, you'll never go there. You guys [?] there? When are you going back? Alright, well...live it up! [laughs] Actually I liked the north. Okay. I like, need a little more [?]. This is [?]. What?"
L: "Yes it is a good day for music."
T: "[?] There any Catholics in the audience? [laughs] Are you really that...are you really that serious? [?]"
K: "Is Madonna here?"
T: "This guy flipped me the bird when I said that. [laughs]"
K: "Someone saw her drinking a Pepsi."
T: "It's not a, not a political question. It's just uh...sometimes there's no control over it. Are we underground? Is this club underground? [??]"
K: "Some technical difficulty."
T: "Are we below sea level? [???]"
L: "Let's all cool down."
T: "[?] I'm gonna be bashin' over here."
L: "Do you want blue hair?"
T: "I gotta move my shit around."
L: "Did you find your shit? We just did, I just did an interview and the gentleman asked me how come we don't use the word 'fuck' anymore in our lyrics. And so I would, I would just like to say the word 'fuck' a couple of times to put him at ease."
T: "You ready?"
L: "Fuck fuck fuck."
T: "This song is called 'White Fucking Kross'."
- White Kross
T: "Hey thanks. I think we're gonna do another one. We got a few more songs."
L: "We have a winner!"
T: "We're gonna do another song about, about going to church. I know this really bums you out..."
L: "Being Presbyterian and all."
T: "I don't know if you ever lit a candle in church but [?]"
- Candle
- Kissability
["Close To You" by the Carpenters plays]
- The Sprawl
- 'Cross the Breeze
[Thurston starts playing the proper intro to "Teen Age Riot"]
T: "This guitar is an East German guitar, and we bought it in Hollywood. And it has a built-in, a built-in fuzzbox. Which I never use. What? Japanese [?] Why are you flipping the bird? Oh you're flipping it to him? [laughs] Oh. Tell him to fuck off, oh. Okay. You look like Kramer, you know Kramer? You look like him."
L: "Which guy?"
T: "[?]"
L: "All of em."
T: "All of em! I look like Goofy? You know that um, my father was Goofy. This is uh, what time is it? I don't have a watch, not on this hand at least."
L: "It's on the other hand, man."
T: "Are you ready Donald? Mickey? Griselda? [laughs] This song is called 'Teenage Riot'."
- Teen Age Riot [no intro]
T: [over delay drone at end of "Teenage Riot"] "Oh yeah. Oh yeah, you just got outta work and you're ready to go out shining. Oh yeah. You just got out of work, it's Friday night, and you're ready to go out shining. You walk up to your lady, you say 'mama, I've got a hot rod'."
- Hey Joni
["Superstar" by the Carpenters plays]
L: "Alright, this next song is called 'Eric's Trip'. And it's uh, that's just what it's about. It takes place in Texas, which is the largest state. Goofy!"
T: "You can call me Doctor Goofy."
L: "Doctor Goofy Jesus. Wow!"
- Eric's Trip
L: [before third verse of "Eric's Trip"] "A little fuck up there."
T: [tape flip, cuts in during Thurston talking] "- a little faster."
K: "Why don't you just climb inside a washing machine?"
T: "[?]"
K: "This is not [?]"
T: "We were really fast in '82. When we were 15 years old, we were like really fast. This song is called 'The Wonder'."
- The Wonder [segue into "Hyperstation"]
- Hyperstation
- Eliminator Jr
K: "Goodnight."
T: "Alright thanks. Thanks a lot, we're gonna go! Seeya, bye, goodnight!"
[encore break]
["Providence" tape plays through encore break]
T: [over "Providence"] "[????]"
L: "[??]"
T: "Is that too loud?"
L: "[??]"
T: "Is my guitar too loud? Aw that's really cute, somebody threw a paper airplane on stage for you, Lee. 'Dear Lee...'"
L: "It's a love letter. Can you dig it? I'll save this for later. Thanks a lot though!"
T: "Who's the lucky fellow? This song is for my good friend Andy Warhol, it's called 'Silver Rocket'."
- Silver Rocket [final chord becomes 8-minute noise drone] ["We've Only Just Begun" by the Carpenters plays during noise midsection and noise outro]

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