Thursday, January 2, 2014

November 4, 1984, Al’s Bar, Los Angeles, CA

01. I’m In Trouble
02. Hayday
03. Left In The Dark (Vertebrats)
04. Can’t Hardly Wait
05. Take Me Down To The Hospital
06. 20th Century Boy (T. Rex)
07. I Will Dare
08. Marine Corps Hymn (Phillips)
09. Johnny’s Gonna Die
10. Shut Up
11. Color Me Impressed
12. Unsatisfied
13. Mr. Whirly
14. unknown
15. Maybellene (Chuck Berry)
16. Black Diamond
17. I Hate Music
18. Sixteen Blue
19. God Damn Job
20. Run It
21. Gimme Noise
22. Nowhere Is My Home
23. White And Lazy
24. Kids Don’t Follow
25. No More The Moon Shines On Loreena (Carter Family/Alex Chilton)
26. Hitchin A Ride (Vanity Fair)
27. Answering Machine
28. Rock Around The Clock (Bill Haley)

Johnny always takes,
More than he needs...


Notes: There are at least source two sources for this performance - this being the better sounding and most complete

Recording: Audience

4 comments:

  1. I was there. They definitely played "Sugar Sugar" by the Archies. Best version of it I ever heard. (Must be #14 "Unknown") Awesome show.I remember Tommy (pretty sure)falling over and taking out part of the drum kit. Paul, Tommy & Bob would huddle up and decide which song to play next. One time Bob or Tommy suggested a song and Paul said "No, I'm too drunk to do the chords."

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  2. I was there as well.. Lived upstairs at the time. Took the day off from galloping racehorses at Hollywood Park to wait for these dudes to arrive. There was no sound check but lots of beer drinking and those guys were super nice to me for buying them a couple of rounds..

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  3. I was there and played pool with Paul and Tommy before the set. I was from the Twin Cities and had seen them open for Killing Joke at Duffy's a few years before and we talked about it. They were focused on scoring blow. I got too drunk to remember the show specifics, but it was PACKED, and they played an absolute killer set. This was the Replacements at the height of their power.

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    1. Another thing about that show. my friends and I spent days listening to Let It Be, and people who went to Al's Bar were real, not posers or there for hype or spectacle or to be seen (that was more Cathay or Lingerie or the Whiskey). Praise from the crowd there was about the music. Also, Bob was not the drunkest or the one looking for drugs....

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