12/05/81 - NYC, NY @ Stillwende

Date: Saturday, December 5th, 1981
City: New York City, New York, USA
Venue: Stillwende

SET LIST	NOTES


The Burning Spear	This show was previously listed as July 1981, as it discussed in Confusion is Next as if it was during the band's summer trio era, before Richard Edson rejoined. However, new information suggests that the only Stillwende performance was on December 5th, and while the band definitely played as a trio, it's possible that Edson was simply unavailable. The bill was cluttered and they only had time for one song in a roughly ten-minute slot. Thurston's comments from Confusion is Next: "I beat the shit out of this drum and played my guitar with a drumstick. And Kim was holding down this bass figure and Lee was going off on the drill, and I screamed out the lyrics and it came to this crashing finale." Thurston threw the mic stand into the audience afterwards. OTHER PERFORMERS unknown... Have any information on this show? E-mail me!
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