01/22/89 - Melbourne, OZ @ Corner Hotel

QUOTES

L: "Check."
T: "Check! Check! Check! You guys ready?"
Crowd member: "Fuck me up the ass til my nose bleeds!"
T: "That makes no sense. Stand up! This is a song about teenagers standing up for the battle against fascism. It's called 'Teenage Riot'."
- Teen Age Riot [no intro]
T: "Hey! Hey!"
L: "This is called 'Hey Joni'. It has very little to do with teenagers fighting fascism."
- Hey Joni
["Secret Girl" piano tape plays]
T: "This song is called 'Cotton Crown'."
- Cotton Crown
T: "Ready?"
- The Wonder [segue into "Hyperstation"]
- Hyperstation [drum segue into "Cross the Breeze"]
- 'Cross the Breeze [no outro]
- The Sprawl
- Candle [intro]
K: "Are you as hot as we are? It's fuckin' hot."
T: "You ready Hitler?"
L: "I'm ready Mussolini!"
T: "This is our...our...adult-oriented, anti-racist song. Takes...you don't even to think about it! It requires no thought."
K: "All you have to do is pee in your pants."
T: "What does that mean?"
L: "What the fuck does that mean? Thurston, did you pee in your pants?"
T: "What? Politricks. Let's hit it Nixon!"
L: "Go Gorbachev!"
- Candle [no intro]
T: "Hey man I don't know how many people saw the Rollins Band when they were here, but it fuckin' smoked! If you missed it, extinguish immediately. This song is for uh, Henry. It's called 'You Got Twistability'."
- Kissability
T: "Thanks!"
["Secret Girl" piano tape plays]
L: "This is called 'Eric's Trip'."
T: "Please, just stay seated!"
L: "Space heater? 1234!"
- Eric's Trip
T: "'World Looks Red'! New York is red hot..."
- The World Looks Red
["Secret Girl" piano tape plays]
L: "One more!"
- Expressway
T: "Thanks a lot! We'll see you next winter."
["Providence" tape plays through encore break]
T: "Thanks! [over 'Providence' tape] Watt here. Did you find your shit?"
L: "Come in Mike! He's calling from Pedro. That's our good buddy Mike Watt. He's on the phone, somebody better answer it!"
T: "Hey uh, there's a curfew here so we gotta sorta hurry up! Otherwise they'll beat us up."
K: "Hello, uh, Detroit!"
T: "Felix? This is for the Rollins Band!"
- Silver Rocket
T: "Thanks!"
K: "Thanks a lot!"

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