01/17/85 - Los Angeles, CA @ Anti Club

SET LIST NOTES
Halloween
Death Valley '69
Society Is A Hole
Brave Men Run
I Love Her All The Time
Ghost Bitch
Brother James
Flower
The Burning Spear ?

[possibly incomplete]
  • Thanks to Dave Childs from Lawndale for the poster!

    QUOTES

    T: "Hello! Hi we're Sonic Youth. We'll be starting pretty soon."
    L: "Yeah give us a minute."
    T: "Lee has to do some stuff. All of us have, like, really bad flus so try not to let us breathe on you too hard."
    - Halloween [segue into "Death Valley '69"]
    - Death Valley '69 [w. Lee singing Lydia's part]
    ["Metal Machine Music" tape segue into "Society is a Hole"]
    - Society is a Hole
    K: "Thanks. This next song is called [??]"
    - Intro
    T: "Lee! You ready?"
    L: "I'm ready!"
    T: "1 2 3 4!"
    - Brave Men Run
    ["Not Right" tape plays]
    - I Love Her All The Time [segue into "Ghost Bitch"]
    K: "Are the guitars loud enough?"
    - Ghost Bitch
    ["I'm Insane" tape loops play while band tunes]
    K: "This next song is called 'Brother James'."
    L: "1 2 3 4!"
    - Brother James
    K: "Thanks a lot. What? Sorry we don't know any Velvets covers."
    L: "What Carla? What do you want to say?"
    Carla?: "Uh, I think you should cover some covers. But I..."
    ?: "Yeah forget it, we don't do Teenage Lovedoll!"
    L: "This next song is called 'Flower of Love' and it's by a band called Redd Kross. Kim, start it!"
    - Flower
    [Scream Tape begins playing]

    CIRCULATING TAPE CUTS DURING "SCREAM TAPE", THEY PROBABLY PLAYED "THE BURNING SPEAR" - DO YOU HAVE A LONGER TAPE?

    OTHER PERFORMERS

  • Lawndale
  • Jack Skelley

    MEMORABILIA

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