the Jesus Lizard; July 1st 1997 ,9:30 Club; Washington Dc

Live audience recording of a band that needs no introduction.

the jesus Lizard
July 1st 1997
9:30 Club
Washington,DC

1. Puss
2. Destroy Before Reading
3. Cold Water
4. Glamorous
5. Thumbscrews
6. Fly on the Wall
7. Until It Stopped to Die
8. Killer McHann
9. Mailman
10. Boilermaker
11. Blue Shot
12. I Can Learn
13. Wheelchair Epidemic (The Dicks)
14. Gladiator
15. Then Comes Dudley
16. Blockbuster
17. Happy Snakes
18. Nub (cut)
19. Postcoital Glow
20. Shut Up (The Stranglers)
21. Monkey Trick
22. Seasick
23. ???

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Uzeda 06-12-1998 the Black Cat Washington DC

Another audience recording of another Touch And Go band.
This time it's an Italian flavor.
from Wikipedia:
Uzeda is a Sicilian math rock group founded in 1987, consisting of lead singer Giovanna Cacciola, guitarists Agostino Tilotta and Giovanni Nicosia, bassist Raffaele Gulisano and drummer Davide Oliveri. Producer Steve Albini recorded three of their records, and significantly contributed to the evolution of their sound: fiery, nervous, sludgy, and unpredictable, with sudden time changes and wild dynamics. Giovanni Nicosia left the band in 1995.

After the live tour promoting Different Section Wires, the band went on a lengthy hiatus, and Giovanna Cacciola and Agostino Tilotta subsequently formed Bellini, along with drummer Damon Che from Don Caballero. During this period, Davide Oliveri and Raffaele Gulisano recorded the 2001 album Aria with Gianna Nannini, as well as music for Enzo D' Alò's animated cartoon Momo alla conquista del tempo.

In 2006, Uzeda came back with a new album, Stella.

Uzeda
06/12/98
The Black Cat
Washington, DC

first song cuts in

01. ....Big Lies (incomplete)
02. Sleep Deeper
03. Right Seeds
04. Needle House
05. Stomp
06. Ten Stars
07. Suaviter
08. Steel Man
09. Nico and His Cats

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Chrome Cranks 06-28-1997 Fletcher's; Baltimore, MD

Trashed out NYC scuzz from Chrome Cranks ,live @ Baltimore's Fletcher's, home of Natty Bo in a bathtub.

the Chrome Cranks
06-28-1997
Fletcher's
Baltimore, MD

01. Subway Man
02. Big Rip-off
03. Desperate
04. More Than Alrite
05. Safe From Blade
06. Down For Hit
07. Draghouse
08. Hot Blonde
09. No. 1 Girl
10. Pin Tied
11. Doll In A Dress

this is the line up for this show:

Chrome Cranks #5:
(1994-1998, 2nd album and everything after)
Peter Aaron: vocals, guitar
William Weber: guitar
Jerry Teel: bass
Bob Bert: drums

Teel played in Honeymoon Killers and with Boss Hog.
Bert with Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore, Bos Hog

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Various Artists - God's Favorite Dog (Touch & G0 TGLP11 1986)

Why this is Out Of Print is a mystery to me. Only "clunkers" on here are the Hose tracks and those aren't even that bad. This was crucial.

God's Favorite Dog
Tracks

1. "Eindhoven Chicken Masque" by Butthole Surfers
2. "Sweet Home Alabama" by Killdozer
3. "The Final Kiss" by Scratch Acid
4. "Down By the River" by Hose
5. "Colors in the Rain" by Happy Flowers
6. "Every Man for Himself" by Big Black
7. "Crack Up" by Big Black
8. "All I Got Were Clothes for Christmas" by Happy Flowers
9. "How Many More Times" by Hose
10. "Holes" by Scratch Acid
11. "Sonnet" by Killdozer
12. "The Legless Eye" by Butthole Surfers

Release Date: 1986
Format: LP


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Girls Against Boys, 01-24-1997 ; Washington ,DC

Nice high quality audience recording of Washington DC based Touch And Go recording artist Girls Against Boys from a Positive Force Benefit at the Black Cat.



Girls Against Boys
01-24-1997
Black Cat
Washington, DC

01. Tune Up
02. Park Avenue
03. Super-Fire
04. Click Click
05. Kill The Sexplayer
06. Distracted (RVS #7)
07. Disco Six Six Six
08. (I) Don't Got A Place
09. Black Leather
10. TheKindaMzkYouLike
11. Sexy Sam
12. Do It Like Diamonds
13. Keep Yer Pants On
14. Veracruz
15. Crash 17 (X-Rated Car)


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Brainiac 02-15-1997 Stache's ; Dayton, Ohio

A rare live recording from Dayton Ohio's Brianiac. This recording is very listenable.

Brainiac
02-15-1997
Stache's
Dayton Ohio

unknown sourced audience recording

01. Fresh New Eyes
02. Hot Metal Dobermans
03. To The Baby Counter >
04. Beekeepers maxim
05. Go Freaks Go
06. Sexual Frustration
07. ?
08. Flash Ram
09. Vincent Come On Down
10. Mr Fingers
11. You Wrecked My Hair
12. Flypaper
13. I Am A Cracked Machine
14. Dragg

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From Touch And Go's Website:
Brainiac began in 1992 as the basement experiments of Dayton, OH natives Tim Taylor (vocals, synth), and Juan Monasterio (bass), who first met playing cello in fifth grade. Upon completing the lineup with Michelle Bodine (guitar) and Tyler Trent (drums), they released two full-lengths and toured vigorously, establishing themselves as the latest peg in Ohio’s diverse musical timeline. In 1994, Michelle left the band and was replaced by John Schmersal. After recording a 7” with Steve Albini for Sup Pop, the band recorded a handful of songs with Kim Deal (of The Pixies), which became their Touch and Go debut single Internationale.

1996 saw the release of their Touch and Go full-length debut, Hissing Prigs in Static Couture. Like their two previous full-lengths, this was also produced by Eli Janney, and saw the band use less Moog and more random electronic gadgets and noisemakers. Jim O’Rourke produced 1997’s Electroshock for President EP, in which Brainiac continued their transition into a more electronic rock band. They began to receive serious interest from major labels. On May 23 1997, however, only weeks after the EP’s release and the band’s return from a European tour supporting Beck, Tim lost his life in a car accident in his hometown of Dayton, Ohio. He was 28. Guitarist John Schmersal went on to form Enon.

US Maple 11-19-1997 Workhorse ; Baltimore, MD

Another live recording. This is from a cold late night in a Baltimore warehouse with a great Chicago Band.
This is prime line up US Maple recorded in the twilight of their Skin Graft days.
In a few short months they would head across town to Drag City, where they became even stranger.


us maple
1997-11-19
the Workhorse
Baltimore,MD


01. Through With Six Six Six
02. Songs That Have No Making Out
03. Letter To Zz Top
04. Mountain Top
05. +
06. La Click
07. Missouri Twist
08. Aplomado
09. The State Is Bad
10. Coming Back To Damnit
11. Home It's O.k.

Al Johnson - Vocals
Mark Shippy - Guitar
Todd Rittman - Guitar
Pat Samson - Drums

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the Cows 04-20-1997 the Black Cat ; Washington, DC

A live audience recording of Minneapolis band The Cows. This tour was pimping 1996's WHORN on Amphetamine Reptile records.

the cows
1997-04-20
the black cat
washington, dc

edit: now have a setlist, thanks Bruno
. No, I'm Not Coming Out
. Cow Island
. Four Things
. Hitting The Wall
. Organized Meat
. The Warden
. Sexy Pee Story
. A Oven
. Massa Peel
. Heave Ho
. Divorcee' Moore
. Memorial
. Death In The Tall Weeds
. Shitbeard
. Baby Love

wikipedia:
The band was notorious for their raucous live performances. Acts the band have performed onstage include kicking people in the front row, spitting on the stage, throwing the microphone stand into the crowd, throwing food at the crowd, drawing on themselves, among others. Lead singer Shannon Selberg's trademark is that he has a tattoo illustrating the game Hangman on his body that reads "F_CK" and another tattoo of an anchor with the word "DAD" on top of it. One reviewer wrote about the band's shows, "I have no doubt that The Cows know how to play their instruments. What I don't understand is why they refuse to tune them."

They have a star on what is probably the most famous venue in the area, First Avenue. Their singer, Shannon Selberg, has gone on with music, fronting the Heroine Sheiks.
(updated 11/18/12)
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Phantom Tollboth - Power Toy( 1988 Homestead Records)

Great album relased on the Homestead label. These guys always struck me as ahead of their time in their sound and never really got the notice they deserved.


01 Extinction Plus 3:09
02 Criticize the Critters 5:39
03 Billie Holiday's Nightmare 3:38
04 Paper House 3:43
05 Barracuda 3:47
06 Why I See Why 1:39
07 Down by the Gowanus 3:01
08 Over the Pipes 1:59
09 Circus of Wolves 8:04
10 Blockbuster Bomb 1:51

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from wikipedia:
Phantom Tollbooth was a post punk band from New York City. Purveyors of psychedelic/jazzcore damage, PT played from 1984 to 1988, releasing albums on Homestead Records. In 2003, Guided by Voices frontman Robert Pollard created new lyrics and melodies for Phantom Tollbooth's 1988 album Power Toy. The resulting work was released as Beard of Lightning.

From Insound:
In 2002, Robert Pollard of Guided By Voices wished aloud for a chance to sing for Phantom Tollbooth, one of his favorite bands (he refers to them as "the band that would have ruled the world"). The next thing anyone knew, the former members of Phantom Tollbooth revisited their 1988 swansong album "Power Toy" (which All Music Guide gave four stars), erased all the vocals, and presented it to Pollard, who then created new vocal melody lines and lyrics.

Named after a popular children's book, Phantom Tollbooth was a strongly art-rock-influenced variation on the raging-yet-eclectic post-hardcore of Hüsker Dü and the Minutemen, incorporating quick tempo changes, noise experiments, and bits of jazz. The group was formed in 1984 in New York by guitarist Dave Rick -- formerly of Yo La Tengo and a frequent collaborator with Bongwater, B.A.L.L., and King Missile -- along with Gerald Smith and Jon Coats. The band put out three crazed records on Homestead before breaking up -- like all good bands do -- in 1988.

Members

* Dave Rick (guitar/vocals), formerly a member of Yo La Tengo, Bongwater, and King Missile; currently with Wide Right, the Martinets, and his own Overcat project.

* Gerard Smith (bass/vocals), recently recorded with Ben Miller and his band Third Border on the album "Sun of Water, Sea of Light". Produced by Roger Miller (Mission of Burma) and Laurence Miller (ex Destroy All Monsters), the album was a Grammy Award candidate for "Best Alternative Music Album of 2006".

* Jon Coats (drums), currently of Canartic and proprietor of dank disk records.

Corrosion Of Conformity 12-15-1996 9:30 Club, Washington DC

Here's a little metal to warm you on these cold winter days,Raleigh NC's Corrosion of Conformity. This show is from their later era and they had gone full Sabbath worship. While alienating their early Hard Core fans the later stuff holds up pretty well in the Stoner Metal category. These guys are still around today minus Reed.
www.COC.com

Corrosion Of Conformity
12-15-1996
9:30 Club
Washington, DC

01. Intro >
02. Fuel
03. Wiseblood
04. Albatross
05. Hungry Child
06. Drowning In A Daydream
07.
08. King OF Rotten
09. Seven Days
10. Senor Limpio
11. Vote With A Bullet
12. Long Whip/Big America
13.
14. Clean My Wounds
15. Bottom Feeder


* Pepper Keenan – guitar, vocals
* Woody Weatherman – guitar
* Mike Dean – bass, vocals
* Reed Mullin – drums

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the Monorchid ; Trinity Lutheran Church ; Washington DC 04-19-1997

A live recording of one of the best bands out of DC since Void imo.
Snotty and loud with intertwining dual guitars and chunky angular bass lines.


the Monorchid
04-19-1997
Trinity Lutheran Church
Washington,DC

01. The Warmers
02. X Marks The Spot
03. Controversial Trousers
04. Bitch Test
05. A Was For Anarchy
06. Sink The West Coast
07. Chompers
08. New Tricks
09. Red Meat
10. This Jazz Ain't Free
11. Distortion
12. Oral Fixation Anonymous
13. Beard Of Bees

The Monorchid - [ Touch and Go Records ]
musicians:
Chris Thompson (vocals)
Andy Coronado (guitar)
Chris Hamley (guitar)
Andy Cone (guitar)
Tom Allnut (drums)


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from epitonic.com:
A few years after the demise of the seminal Dischord punk band Circus Lupus, members Chris Thompson and Chris Hamley reconvened to launch Monorchid. Hamley's cutting guitar lines again joined with Thompson's patented sneering no-bullshit vocals. This time however, Andy Cone provided a second guitar, adding to the intensity. Live shows were gloriously deafening, with Andy Coronado and Tom Allnut holding everything together rhythmically. After debuting with a few seven-inch singles in 1996, Monorchid released the debut album Let Them Eat...The Monorchid on Lovitt Records and the soon began to develop a strong underground following. Touch and Go Records released their sophomore release, Who Put The Fire Out, as the band was breaking up in 1998.

After Monorchid, Chris Thompson promptly started Skull Kontrol, with Andy Coronado moving to lead guitar, and friends Kim Thompson (ex-Delta 72 and Cupid Car Club) joining on bass and Brooks Headly (ex-Universal Order Of Armageddon) on drums.
Justin Sinkovich