04/28/95 - Amherst, MA @ Amherst College

QUOTES

T: "Hello hello hello hello hello. Ready? This song is called 'Self-Obsessed'."
- Self-Obsessed and Sexxee
T: "Hey thanks. This song is called 'Bull in the Heather'."
- Bull in the Heather
- Starfield Road
[unknown tape plays]
T: "Hey we're gonna play a bunch of new songs. This one's new. This is called 'New Wave Bass Line'. Just hold it!"
- Panty Lies [very different lyrics]
L: "Thanks."
T: "Thanks a lot. So, is this place a gymnasium? Is this a gym? Has anybody ever been here before? [crowd shouts "NO!"] So..[laughs] Don't they have basketball games here? A friend of mine saw Taj Mahal here in 1975, he said it was a really good concert. Uh, this is another new song, this is for Jim Carroll, that f...He asked us to do a song for his movie and we did and uh, the Hollywood, the Hollywood movie people sent the song back cuz they thought it sucked and instead they used a song by Pearl Jam."
K: "But this song, the lyrics have nothing to do with Jim Carroll. So fuck him!"
T: "Yeah and fuck Hollywood! Take it away!"
L: "Fuck poets."
T: "Yeah fuck poetry man, just take it, let's go!"
- Becuz [no coda]
T: "Hey get off that kid's head man! That's very rude. How did you get up there in the first place? Check your hormones brother! Hey it's another new song, and it has no name."
L: "This one's called 'Thumb', actually. And this one's for J."
- Saucer-Like [Lee vox, very different lyrics]
T: "Hey hey hey hey, this is another new song, and this one's called 'Kim'."
- Washing Machine [some different lyrics]
T: "Hey thanks. Thank you very much. Hey can I have some more light on stage so I can see? Just for this song, thanks, cuz I like to see what's going on. This song is called 'Unwind'. It's about the band Unwind. It's Jack Nicholson's birthday today, and it's Ann-Margret's birthday, and it's Kim's too. Happy birthday. Hey start the fucking song!"
- Unwind
T: "Thank you. Hey I have a technical request to Luc. This low end feedback coming through the monitor is kind of fucking with our brain. I know it's not your fault. We're not pointing fingers at you for making mistakes or anything. It's just, you know, it's the nature of the beast. [someone imitates hum] You hear that? I personally think it sounds fucking cool. [someone shouts "where's Coco?"] Coco? She's in North Hadley. For all you North Hadley hardcore scenesters."
K: "She's having a sleepover at a friend's. She didn't wanna hang out in the men's bathroom while we uh, while we're in here."
T: "With Mascis. Um, this song is called 'Junkie's Promise'."
- Junkie's Promise
T: "Hey this next song is for Dorothy Allison, and a little girl named 'Bone'."
- Bone
[tape plays "Tapestry" and "I Feel The Earth Move" by Carole King]
T: "Hey ladies and gentlemen, we'd like to thank you all for coming out tonight. I realize Southside Johnny and the Raspberry Dukes are playing across town, and they know really how to get it on. What does that say, 'Dr Feelgood'? What possessed you to write that? Is that a drug reference? Do I want some pot? Is it homegrown? I like trying local. Yeah I mean if you have any, just throw it on stage, I'll disseminate it to all the pot smokers. This song is called - we're gonna do another song and then we're gonna split - this song is called 'Candle'."
- Candle
T: "That's it! Seeya."

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