Artist: Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians
Recording date: 1991 April 21
Location: Bogart's, Long Beach, CA
Source: audience

Setlist:

01 Oceanside
02 Ultra Unbelievable Love
03 Birds in Perspex
04 Freeze
05 Lysander
06 If You Go Away
07 talk
08 So You Think You're in Love
09 talk
10 Dark Green Energy
11 talk
12 Somewhere Apart
13 Airscape
14 Watch Your Intelligence
15 A Globe of Frogs
16 audience
17 Child of the Universe
18 The Man With the Lightbulb Head
19 talk
20 Ted, Woody, and Junior
21 audience
22 Listening to the Higsons

Lineage: Aiwa mics -> Aiwa deck -> cassette -> Nak DR-1 (azimuth adj) -> Audigy 5/Rx -> Audacity -> FLAC export -> FLAC 1.3 -> you

Notes, rambles, etc.:

I probably dubbed this once or twice for friends. Other than that, I think this is new to circulation.

What can I say about this elixir? I got to see RH with The Egyptians eight times and this is likely my 2nd fave show after the ‘88 tour, but you always romanticize your first.

This is the debut performance for several songs from Perspex Island, a perfect power pop record IMO, especially when you include the b-sides. One in particular, “Watch Your Intelligence” is a personal fave. Interesting to note the lyrics are quite different from the released version, and the performance has enough bile to be practically punk. My band probably performed it more times than they ever did, though never as well, of course.

Side one of the tape ran out fortuitously just after the end of ‘Airscape.’ The opening riff(s) to ‘Intelligence’ didn’t get recorded, but the capture starts before the first verse, so not much was missed.

Dig the altered lyrics in the bridge of ‘Lightbulb Head’!
“WHAT THE FUCK IS HE DOING HERE?!?!”

Peace,

Phideaux3