The other day I was trying to track down a Foetus video on YouTube (which I found, but that's not important right now) and I stumbled onto the following. Which is Big Black live at CBGB in 1986. First time I've ever found video online of a show I was actually at. Subsequent searching has also turned up Live Skull from the same night. Not posted, as far as I can tell, is the very long, very lame joke that Dave Riley told to kill time while Peter Prescott was setting up his drumkit (he was filling in for Roland after the drum machine died an untimely death). So, yeah, holy blast from the past...
Got me thinking about shows I've been to that it'd be fun to see clips of. Off the top of my head, I'd say Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan @ Central Park, Pogues @ the Ritz, Cibo Matto @ Cat's Cradle, U2 @ JB Scott's, Three Johns @ the World (or whatever the hell they were calling it at that time), Minutemen @ Peppermint Lounge.
oooh, how 'bout way of the west at the ritz? or that long-ass show with the butthole surfers, antietam, and a bunch of others what i don't remember at the world? and did we see 3m3 at maxwell's together, or was that just me?
oh yeah. that's still one of the longest shows i've ever been to. false prophets, antietam, live skull, butthole surfers, dead kennedys IIRC. i may be forgetting someone. alas, i was not at that 3M3 show. also worth revisiting: the fire hazard trifecta from irving plaza: big black (set off strings of firecrackers tied to mike stands), sonic youth (roman candles), and butthole surfers (poured lighter fluid over a cymbal, set it ablaze & then gibby proceeded to beat the hell out of it w/ a drumstick)