Butthole Surfers
May 1, 1987
The Ritz,
NYC

Butthole Surfers live in NYC at The Ritz, May 1, 1987
From first generation, Maxell XLII cassette, unknown tape machine
Destroyed guitars right off the bat, then U.S.S.R.
Tape was flipped during Sweat Loaf.


[destroying instruments]
U.S.S.A.
Roky
Graveyard
Mark Says Alright
100 Million Dead
To Parter
Psychedelic Jam
Johnny Smoke
Sweat Loaf [interrupted to flip the tape]
Sweat Loaf [continued]
No Rule
[encore:]
Julio Iglesias
Pittsburgh to Lebanon
Jimi

Show report from Ray Brazen's blog
"What a night. Redd Kross were the openers, at the height of their "Neurotica" success. Before the show started I saw Debbie Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie just casually milling about the club, and when I casually waved "Hi" to them, they came right over and greeted me like a long lost friend. By this time the Buttholes had expanded their show to include autopsy footage screened on the stage wall behind them and a topless dancer named Kathleen Lynch -- who I would later meet once at a private party I was lucky enough to crash a year later -- dancing on a raised platform in front of it. They didn't take the stage until 2 AM (oh, the days when headlining bands rarely went on before then!) and promptly rewarded us for waiting up more than half the fucking night for them by playing their deranged noisefest "The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey's Grave" as their opening number... for ten whole minutes. In the process they became the first, last, and only band I know of ever to smash their instruments at the BEGINNING of their set! The other Buttholes shows I saw were generally charming affairs, but this show, by contrast, was deep, dark and brooding, the most chilling music I've ever heard them make."
https://raybrazen.blogspot.com/2015/07/butthole-surfers-1984-1987.html