Sugar - Live 1994 12 13, La Luna, Portland, OR

Sugar
La Luna, Portland, OR
1994-12-13

TRACK LISTING
01 Gift
02 Company Book
03 Hoover Dam
04 After All The Roads Have Led To Nowhere
05 Where Diamonds Are Halos
06 The Act We Act
07 Granny Cool
08 Going Home
09 Come Around
10 Titled
11 Frustration
12 Changes
13 A Good Idea
14 Running Out Of Time
15 In The Eyes Of My Friends
16 Gee Angel
17 encore break
18 If I Can't Change Your Mind

19 Mind Is An Island
20 encore break
21 Your Favorite Thing
22 The Beer Commercial
23 Man On The Moon

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SOURCE
unknown aud gen received in trade -> Maxell XL II-S90 cassette tape -> Denon DRM-510 -> Audacity -> wav -> flac

REVIEW
Probably received this as part of a tape tree in 90s from the Sugar list, sugar@vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu. Credit goes to the orignial taper. Info included with the cassette is below. There is a slight pause in The Beer Commercial that is present in the cassette.

La Luna, formerly the Pine Street Theatre, is an interesting venue. The acoustics are *strange*; there is no bass in the balcony, and the sound in the bar area at the back of the main room is severely compressed. The board is an old one, and the PA consisted of what Bill Rahmy described as "possibly the worst sounding boxes you'll ever hear." Still, he did an great job with what he had; apart from some harshness in the vocals, the sound was amazing.
Magnapop played to a house that packed up fairly quickly; word is that the show (the club's rated capacity is 1100) was sold out. Although Shannon Mulvaney wasn't feeling well at all, he, and the rest of the band, delivered an energetic, buoyant set to an appreciative audience.
Soundman Ricky Martocci did very well with what he had to work with, and Magnapop sounded very good tonight. Sugar exploded onto the stage in a burst of buoyant energy that had the crowd worked into a frenzy in no time at all. Crowd surfing was virutally non-stop, and in a fashion fitting for what the house sound engineer described as "the stage-diving capital of the world," the surfers thrashed and threw themselves over the crowd the whole time they were airborne. The band-audience interaction was particularly strong and dynamic tonight; the crowd was both enthusiastic and attentive, exploding into sheer frenzy at all the right moments, and crowd surfing continued right up until the last song of the last encore.
Bob was in an incredibly good mood and grinned broadly throughout much of the set; he remarked afterwards that he didn't know *what* happened, but his playing felt effortless. Malcolm and David were in fine form tonight as well. Malcolm's playing was particularly aggressive and powerful, at times threatening to reduce his kit to rubble, and David's bass was rock solid and fairly seething with energy.
Vocals were once again over the top. The call-and-response of "After All The Roads Have Led To Nowhere," "Gee Angel," and "Mind Is An Island" were especially good, as was the harmonizing on "In The Eyes Of My Friends" and "If I Can't Change Your Mind." The tandem vocals on "Your Favorite Thing" and the bridge and final chorus of "Man On The Moon" were stunning Highlights: a blistering "The Act We Act," the triple whammy of "Come Around," "Tilted," and "Frustration," a pedal-to-the-metal "Running Out Of Time," the segue from "In The Eyes Of My Friends" into "Gee Angel," and the segue from the feedback-drenched noisecore coda of "The Beer Commercial" into a glowing "Man On The Moon." Overall, this was an *incredibly* upbeat, absolutely *amazing* show, and one of the best on this tour.
* Set time: 58 minutes; with encores, one hour, twenty minutes.

CREDITS:
Original DAT Recording and Review by SCREWBALL
Cover sleeve by Garrett

NOTICE: This recording was made with the permission of Bob Mould, Malcolm Travis, and David Barbe, under the express condition that it be traded freely, and not for profit. Any distribution for profit of any kind is prohibitied by federal law, violates our trust with SUGAR and is rude.