IGGY POP

 

artist: IGGY & THE STOOGES (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA)
venue: Bimbo's
location: San Francisco, California, USA
date: 1976 (probably 1974)
length: 33 minutes

HERE
The internet tells me this recording is probably from 1974.

THE VIBRATORS

artist: THE VIBRATORS (London, ENGLAND)
venue: BBC, 100 Club
location: London, ENGLAND
date: 1976, 1977, 1978
length: 50 minutes

HERE
A full 1978 set from 'BBC in Concert' with bonus bits from a 'Peel Session' in '77 and two burners captured at London's 100 Club in 1976. Some bands are considered essential for a reason.

KRASS KEPALA

artist: KRASS KEPALA (Bandung, West Java, INDONESIA)
venue: Klub Racun
location: Bandung, West Java, INDONESIA
date: ??

length: 11 minutes

HERE

MUDHONEY

artist: MUDHONEY (Seattle, Washington, USA)
venue: Little John's Farm
location: Reading, ENGLAND
date: 27 August 1995
length: 21 minutes

HERE
This recording is well distributed and easy to find, but damn this band is worth your attention. You think you know....and listening to this version of "Touch Me I'm Sick" that's 30 years old now (but was already a "classic" then) is like getting your ass handed to you on a platter. An interview with Arm popped onto my social media feed today and he was asked what single recording would embody "punk" to the social anthropologists one hundred years from now and he said he didn't give a shit. I love that. I saw them just once - Tulsa in 1992 with SUPERSUCKERS and EUGENIUS.....it was incredible. 

STOOGES

artist: STOOGES (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA)
venue: Max's Kansas City
location New York City, New York, USA
date: 19 May 1973
length: 41 minutes

HERE

IGGY POP

artist: IGGY POP (Michigan, USA)
venue: Phoenix Festival
location: London, ENGLAND
date: 17 July 1994
length: 50 minutes

HERE
32 years ago today (tomorrow) a legend gave a performance. These STOOGES tracks were 20+ years old then - old but not yet old enough to be timeless...yet. 

YANKEE WUSS

artist: YANKEE WUSS (Portland, Oregon, USA)
venue: ??
location: ??
date: ??
length: 27 minutes

HERE
I forget how damn good this band was. 

THE CONTROL

artist: THE CONTROL (Buffalo, New York, USA)
venue: Mission Records
location: San Francisco, California, USA
date: 12 January 2002
length: 24 minutes

HERE
I posted this set ten years ago but I stumbled across the last five minutes a few days ago, tacked onto the ass end of a different set by a different band. So here's the whole thing. 

DORY TOURETTE

artist: DORY TOURETTE (San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA)
venue: Mission Records
location: San Francisco, California, USA
date: ??
length: 10 minutes

HERE
Complicated and problematic? 
Yes.
It was a time and a place. 

CRITIC EYES

 

artist: CRITIC EYES (San Luis Obispo, California, USA)
venue: Grange Hall
location: San Luis Obispo, California, USA
date: 26 April 1986
length: 62 minutes

HERE

1332

artist: EL DOPA, aka 1332 (Oakland, California, USA)
venue: 924 Gilman Street
location: Berkeley, California, USA
date: ??
length: 40 minutes

HERE

STEP ONE // CRITIC EYES

 

artists: STEP ONE // CRITIC EYES (San Luis Obispo, California, USA)
venue: The Grange; aka Grange Hall

location: San Luis Obispo, California, USA
date: 22 July 1986

length: 34 minutes (STEP ONE) // 39 minutes (CRITIC EYES)

HERE
Wild mid-decade hardcore punk from both bands, including a 17-minute interview from STEP ONE. Never heard anything from either before this tape...recording is rough, but you take what you can get with you're unearthing history.  

CLEFT FLY

artist: CLEFT FLY (probably from California)
venue: (maybe a rehearsal?)
location: (I'm guessing California?)

date: (late '80s or early '90s...that's a guess too)
length: 65 minutes

HERE

I know nothing. 

These songs are pretty cool, but I know nothing. 

Do your thing, internet....

UPRIGHT CITIZENS

artist: UPRIGHT CITIZENS (Bottrop, GERMANY)
venue: Ruthie's Inn
location: Berkeley, California, USA
date: 12 August 1985
length: 49 minutes

HERE

THE MUTANTS

 

artist: THE MUTANTS (San Francisco, California, USA)
venue: I-Beam

location: San Francisco, California, USA
date: 11 April 1983
length: 54 minutes

HERE

ASEXUALS

artist: ASEXUALS (Montreal, Quebec, CANADA)
venue: Ruthie's Inn
location: Berkeley, California, USA
date: 12 August 1985
length: 13 minutes

HERE
Just four songs, when it starts with the title track from 1985's 'Contemporary World' and then sneaking in a faster version of "Contra Rebels" from the first LP, four is just enough to leave you hungry. Those first two records are flawless, and this recording captures their melodic fury at their height.