I have great memories of being surprised by all the new songs and songs I had never heard live before like La Dolly Vita, which grooved so hard with the audience singing along.

This show has a notable moment of band-implosion drama: Billy messed-up in the middle of Dross. D'arcy looked super annoyed and made a massive shrug. James laughed. I had the impression that this had been happening a lot in rehearsals. But D'arcy unplugged and walked off stage before finishing the song like she was fed-up and ready to quit the band. Billy apologizes for being unprofessional and heads off stage to get her. At about 4:36 you hear her plug-in her bass again and she comments that she had acted unprofessionally too and makes a joke. She looked like she didn't want to be there for the rest of the set. But everything seemed to be patched-up for the encores.

My memory might be faulty, but this is how I told the story to friends later. On that night, my friends and I were pretty sure that she was going to quit the band. Indeed, she played her last show with SP exactly seven days later at the Roxy in Hollywood.

Best Version of Wound and the precursors to the defunct Machina. I think had the label supported it well, they would not have disbanded. Virex is a gem.

crowd noise is a little issue, but not too bad. band performance is great. most of the Machina I/II songs sounds better here than on record. And when the band messes up during Dross it is hysterical.