04/02/89 - Hamburg, Germany @ Markthalle

Date: Sunday, April 2nd, 1989
City: Hamburg, Germany
Venue: Markthalle
SET LIST NOTES
White Cross 
Candle 
Kissability 
Silver Rocket 
Eric's Trip 
The Sprawl 
Cross the Breeze 
Teenage Riot 
Hey Joni 
The Wonder 
Hyperstation 
Eliminator Jr
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The World Looks Red
Brother James
  • "Teenage Riot" appears on the "Warpower" 7" bootleg.
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    QUOTES

    [opening noise]
    T: "I forgot to tell Steve what song we were gonna play. Also Terry, you might wanna know this, we've changed the set list...oh, Lee already told you? After that dramatic introduction, 1 2 3 4!"
    - White Kross
    T: "Thanks. What's the next song? Just call em out, man! What? [laughs] Yeah. He said let's take off our fuckin' clothes!"
    L: "You first, man!"
    T: "I'm ready. K this is a song Bluebird wrote."
    - Candle
    - Kissability
    T: "Thanks! Silver Disaster, this song is for Andy Warhol."
    - Silver Rocket
    L: "This is called 'Eric's Trip'."
    - Eric's Trip
    ["Close To You" by the Carpenters plays]
    - The Sprawl
    - 'Cross the Breeze
    T: "Alright, we're gonna play another song. We can either play a song or we can do some mime. Something we've been getting into. My fucking what? A fucking what?! Nice?"
    K: "Play some fucking noise!"
    T: "Oh noise! Oh yeah! Okay! You wanna hear noise? You wanna hear a noise rock classic? This song is called 'Roll Over [?]', it goes like this."
    - Teen Age Riot [no intro]
    L: "This is called 'Hey Joni'."
    - Hey Joni
    T: "Thanks. I'll take my time. That was a lead solo by Lee Ranaldo. This song is called 'The Wonder'! Hey!"
    - The Wonder [segue into "Hyperstation"]
    - Hyperstation [segue into "Eliminator Jr"]
    - Eliminator Jr
    T: "Thanks a lot! We're gonna go. Seeya. Goodbye! Thanks for coming and seeing us. Bye!"
    [encore break]
    ["Providence" tape plays through encore break]
    T: "Hey thanks! This is sperming, spermy(?). I'm gonna give this, I'm gonna give this to Kim. I don't know what to do. Are we gonna do..."
    K: "It's the man of my dreams."
    T: "The bridge? Beat the bridge? That's not us. Spermy! Spermy! Uh I guess I should um [?]. What are we doing first? Oh. What? Americans are funny? Really? So this is more like a stand-up comedy gig for you right?"
    - The World Looks Red [T stops singing after "the memory drained the life from the doll, I can't hear bass!"]
    T: "Yeah okay."
    L: "Wicked version!"
    T: "That's what we used to sound like. We're so different? You sound French! Are you? Are you? Maybe not. Hamburg! [?] You know, we wrote a song about Hamburg. It was called 'Hi! Everybody'. That one too. What? Alright, I got a request to play you some music by Karen, this girl Karen? Hold on. You'll really like it!"
    ["We've Only Just Begun" by the Carpenters plays]
    T: "Check this out, we discovered this chick in Hollywood last month. Tell us if you like it."
    T: "Goodnight! This is the last song and then we're gonna go kill pigs. 1 2 3 4!"
    - Brother James
    T: "Thanks."
    ["We've Only Just Begun" by the Carpenters plays]

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