01/28/93 - Sydney, Australia @ Sydney University

Date: Thursday, January 28th, 1993
City: Sydney, Australia
Venue: Sydney University
SET LIST NOTES
Shoot 
100% 
Kool Thing 
Dirty Boots 
Eric's Trip 
Theresa's Sound-World 
Tom Violence 
Sugar Kane 
I Love Her All The Time 
Swimsuit Issue 
Drunken Butterfly 
Schizophrenia 
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Expressway 

  • "No Part II" was previously listed as the final song, but upon listening it is just a continuation of the noise at the end of "Expressway" with some screaming - there is no drum intro to signal the beginning of "No Part II" like 1992 performances.

    QUOTES

    L: "Howdy."
    - Shoot
    - 100%
    - Kool Thing
    K: "By the way, some guy lost his wallet down in front. If anyone finds a wallet, um, I guess uh...take it up to the t-shirt booth, up there."
    - Dirty Boots
    T: "Ah thank you very much ladies and gentlemen."
    L: "Some of you might remember this from the last time we were here. This is 'Eric's Trip'."
    - Eric's Trip
    [tapes play]
    - Theresa's Sound-world
    T: "Oh [??]. Are these bouncers bothering you? This is called 'Tom Violence'."
    - Tom Violence
    T: "I think my amplifier is dying a slow death. Either that or my fucking ears are."
    K: [in response to crowd request] "I have a sprained ankle, I don't think we can play 'White Kross'. But you could probably play 'White Kross'."
    T: "I'm sorry, I'm losing my mind. [laughs] This song is called 'Sugar Kane'."
    - Sugar Kane
    - I Love Her All The Time
    T: "Hey I saw Ted Nugent today. What the fuck is Ted Nugent doing in Sydney? Is he playing somewhere? The Nuge! Ted Nugent! What is he doing here? I saw him in King's Cross today. Is he on the, the G'N'Fucking R tour? Anyway. He looked like a nice guy. Some uh, some girl was kissing him and he was saying "thank you". I thought that was very, very gentlemanly. You okay? Hey uh, Mudhoney sprained Kim's ankle last night or the night before at the Big Day Out. At least three members of Mudhoney gang jumped on Kim in front of 25000 people and sprained her ankle. I think..."
    K: "I think they were trying to sabotage our set, I don't know."
    T: "Alright, this is for Ted Nugent and Mudhoney, this is called 'Swimsuit Issue'."
    - Swimsuit Issue
    K: "Anyone go see [?] last night?"
    T: "Alright, this is called 'Drunken Butterfly'."
    - Drunken Butterfly
    K: "We just have to tune a little bit. Sorry. How many people are going to see Guns n Roses?"
    T: "Why?"
    K: "I can't think of any [???] Okay."
    [tapes play]
    K: "[voice noises] [?] sucks. [voice noises] FUCK!"
    T: "Sorry bout that. This song is called 'Schizophrenia'."
    - Schizophrenia [false start]
    L: "After all that time, just give me a minute." [starts retuning]
    K: "We're really influenced by a lot of the new bands, like new bands like Pavement. And when they come and play here they're gonna do a lot of this on stage. [laughs] But they're much more charming about it than we are."
    T: "Lee! Give it to me, I'll tune it."
    L: "A?"
    T: "Oh yeah."
    K: "See, if you went to see Guns n Roses you wouldn't see 'em do this. But you know, if you went to see Nick Cave you wouldn't see him do this either."
    - Schizophrenia
    T: "Thank you, goodnight."
    [encore break]
    L: "Alright, we'll try and stumble through one more."
    T: "Well my amplifier obviously, I think it really got fried halfway through that set and um..."
    L: "It's Nugent!"
    T: "I'd like to apologize for my lame amplifier. It kinda made me lame, you know? It's connected to it, it's like a tail, like a monkey. [laughs] Well maybe I should buy another one. Are there any good Australian amps?"
    [tapes play]
    - Expressway [15'00] [w. tapes + screaming at end]
    T: "Thank you, goodnight! Peace."

    OTHER PERFORMERS

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