Concrete Blonde
1992-09-25
Avalon Ballroom
Boston MA

taper: psycherelics

Believed he used a Sony recorder on this.

Setlist

00 intro (William S. Burroughs - Thanksgiving Prayer) [1:58]
01 Walking In London [7:37]
02 Ghost Of A Texas Ladies Man [3:34]
03 Why Don't You See Me? [4:04]
04 Someday [3:38]
05 Long Time Ago [2:29]
06 Joey [4:14]
07 Days And Days [4:29]
08 Bloodletting [7:49]
09 God Is A Bullet [4:18]
10 Everybody Knows [Leonard Cohen] [6:05]
11 Little Conversations [4:03]
12 Carry Me Away [4:08]
13 Castles Made Of Sand [Jimi Hendrix] [4:35]
14 Run, Run, Run [4:30]
15 Still In Hollywood [2:49]
16 Roses Grow [6:21]

17 All Fools Day (with Chris Bailey) [5:04]
18 Tomorrow Wendy [6:05]

Total 1:27:58

NOTES

Thanks to psycherelics for supplying. He ended up being good friends with members
of Concrete Blonde, so he was naturally wanting to hear this.

Tape is a Sony UZ-Pro 90, pictured. Dubbed with a Nakamichi Dragon, which had some
trouble tracking it, as the Dragon uses NAAC (auto-azimuth correction), and when it
has trouble it starts clicking like mad. It mostly sounds fine. I think Sony tapes
may give my unit trouble.

Tape flip is between tracks 09 and 10.

Songs 10-11 and the start of 12 are played on acoustic guitar, as well as the
encore tracks.

There are a lot of small dropouts on some of these tracks which I've patched.

There's significant right channel distortion during "Everybody Knows" from about
4:04 to 4:16 probably due to tape issues that I couldn't repair, however. The good
news is the dropouts mostly stop after this. We're talking about a 25 year old
cassette after all...

Run, Run, Run (belying the song title and the other covers on here) is actually a
Concrete Blonde original.

The end of 'Roses Grow' has a tease that sounds not dissimilar to something
psycherelic's old band would have cooked up.

Chris Bailey of the Saints duets with Johnette on first encore track "All Fools Day".
He sadly passed away in April 2013.

Here's an article about the band written at the time they started touring Bloodletting:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-09-03-9203200346-story.html

In perhaps the most jarring incident, after the end of "Walking In London", Johnette
asks a guy in an orange jacket on a *cel phone* to leave. I had to do a double-take,
as this was *1992*, but indeed that was the first year portable models were coming
out on the market, see here:
https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/05/the-evolution-of-cell-phone-design-between-1983-2009/

I'm not sure how 2019 would fare, but I can't ever remember seeing somebody having a
phone conversation at a show, at least in a way to annoy a performer. Sheesh.

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