Thursday, September 5, 2013

December 5, 1985, Astor Park, Seattle, WA

01. I’m In Trouble
02. Dose Of Thunder
03. Favorite Thing
04. Yummy Yummy Yummy (Ohio Express)
05. Kiss Me On The Bus
06. I Will Dare
07. Unsatisfied
08. Black Diamond (Kiss)
09. Left Of The Dial
10. Answering Machine
11. Lay It Down Clown
12. Color Me Impressed
13. Can’t Hardly Wait
14. Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out
15. 20th Century Boy (T. Rex)
16. Bastards Of Young
17. Hayday
18. All My Rowdy Friends (Hank Williams Jr.)
19. Takin A Ride
20. God Damn Job
21. Gimme Noise
22. Take Me Down To The Hospital
23. Kids Don’t Follow
24. Detroit Rock City (Kiss)
25. Borstal Breakout (Sham 69)
26. Hootenanny
27. Do The Clam (Elvis Presley)
28. Kansas City Star (Roger Miller)
29. Yeah Yeah (Revillos)

It beats pickin' cotton,
Or waitin' to be forgotten...

Notes: Strong performance by The Mats. Most songs hold together really well and are played all the way through. ‘Yummy Yummy Yummy’ actually rocks. An early performance of Kiss’ ‘Detroit Rock City’ is played straight and hard. You can hear Bob enjoying this one.

Recording: Audience

4 comments:

  1. Forgot to (try to) post Google StreetView of the approximate place the picture in the post is from: https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6143324,-122.3406889,3a,75y,106.52h,85.01t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s1SBPI6Lk-DmwbGJ6UxlhQQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

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  2. Hm - and comments are out of order :/ I was curious so I looked up Astor Park and found that it was a club on the corner of 5th and Lenora until it was closed in 1987 and demolished in the 90's.

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  3. U2 played there on the Boy tour.

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  4. Was at this show -- would really love to hear the recording!

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