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Minutemen Live at The Rat on 1985-10-23

by Minutemen

Publication date: 1985-10-23 ( check for other copies)

Topics: Hardcore, Indie, Punk

Collection: Minutemen

Band/Artist: Minutemen

CD 1
1) >intro<
2) Courage
3) Anxious Mofo
4) Toadies
5) The Big Foist
6) Retreat
7) Corona
8) Fake Contest
9) Beacon Sighted through Fog
10) The Only Minority
11) Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want the Truth?
12) Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing
13) Badges
14) I Felt Like a Gringo
15) Jesus & Tequila
16) Love Dance
17) King of the Hill
18) Hey Lawdy Mama
19) Big Stick
20) Political Nightmare
21) What Is It?
22) Stories
23) Bermuda
24) One Reporter’s Opinion

CD 2
01) Dream Told by Moto
02) No One
03) Mr. Robot’s Holy Orders
04) Don’t Look Now
05) God Bows to Math
06) Please Don’t Be Gentle with Me
07) Theatre Is the Life of You
08) Search
09) Cut
10) Tour Spiel
11) Ack Ack Ack
12) Ain’t Talkin’ ‘bout Love
13) This Ain’t No Picnic
14) History Lesson Pt II
15) Cohesion
16) The Red and the Black
17) Green River

Notes

Minutemen
The Rat,
Boston, MA
October 23, 1985 (late show)

Source \ lineage: Aiwa CM70>Sony WM D6c(master)>Analog(1st gen)>Onkyo TA-RW344 w\ azimuth correction>Cooledit Pro 2.0>.wav>CD>EAC>flac (level 8)

Taper: Harrison Merims

Here is another installment of transfers from Harrisons master (1st Gen) recordings.

Liberating a completely uncirculated Minutemen show is truly an honor. After 22+ years, this one is seeing a digital transfer fer the first time! Im completely blown away. Pretty sure yer gonna be too.

The band sounds great. Watt and George break into a Love Dance while D. deals with some guitar issues. Watt pulls some nice vamps out during that. He also breaks into a brief Like a Virgin during the intro to Mr. Robots Holy Orders. A nice inclusion of Cohesion, a great No One, Theatre is the Life of You, as well as a pretty chatty Watt all make this one amazingand ya cant beat their Green Rivereven better than the original!...

I have been addicted to this show fer the last couple of days. After pulling the transfer I thought it was a short setthe time just flew byturns out its 82 minutes and 40 songs!...something I began to realize halfway through tracking it ;))

Please note. Most of the master cassettes were lost, given away or taped over in lieu of 1st gen copies which cut out the gaps and made each more listener friendly. These are the lowest known gens still in existence!

Enjoy, but PLEASE:

Do Not Sell!!
Do Not Disseminate in MP3 Format!!
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Transferred by notsaved

Addeddate: 2008-06-28 20:16:56

Identifier: minutemen1985-10-23..late.flacf

Lineage: Analog(1st gen)>Onkyo TA-RW344 w\ azimuth correction>Cooledit Pro 2.0>.wav>CD>EAC>flac (level 8)

Location: Boston, MA

Source: Aiwa CM70>Sony WM D6c(master)

Taped by: Harrison Merims

Transferred by: notsaved

Type: sound

Venue: The Rat

Year: 1985

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Reviewer: Bendy - - July 28, 2009
Subject: There were two shows that night

Here's the flyer

http://www.songkick.com/concerts/2239826-minutemen-at-rat/images/75081

I was 17 and at the all-ages show at 6PM. I'm positive that they did an encore of "Substitute". So I this is surely the other show. Brother A-West was a hilarious pseudo-Evangalist who provoked all the punks. U-Men were the first Seattle sound band I'd ever heard, but they didn't do much for me on that night. Expando Brain did a great one-chord solo for their climax. And the Minutemen were incomparable- the best show I'd ever seen up to that point, and with d. boon gone just a few months later, it quickly became a precious memory. This recording certainly add to that, even if it's a few hours later.

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