They Might Be Giants
"Re-Unified Germany Show"
Knitting Factory
47 East Houston St.,
New York City, New York USA
October 02, 1990
1990-10-19
audience tape and 2006 seed by (unknown)

February 2016 reseed:
Sector-boundary errors repaired, no other alterations made.

64:15 minutes

tracklist:

01 intro 1:32
02 Hi, We're the Replacements 1:54
03 Racist Friend 2:57
04 Lie Still, Little Bottle 4:11
05 Someone Keeps Moving My Chair 2:31
06 Lucky Ball & Chain 2:37
07 Kiss Me, Son of God 2:22
08 Stale Pot Smoke 1:15
09 Particle Man 1:52
10 Hearing Aid 3:05
11 Whistling in the Dark 2:37
12 Snowball in Hell 2:43
13 Ana Ang 2:53
14 Chess Piece Face 2:04
15 She's an Angel 2:42
16 Cowtown 3:02
17 Istanbul (Not Constantinople) 2:30
18 Birdhouse in Your Soul 3:07
19 Everyone Gets a Free Coaster 1:21
20 32 Footsteps 2:04
21 Road Movie to Berlin 2:32
22 Twistin in the Wind 2:08
23 Don't Let's Start 3:57
24 Shoe Horn With Teeth 1:38
25 Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes 2:15
26 The Famous Polka 2:04


original taper's notes:
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This recording is a direct 16-bit,
44.1 MHz sample of the original master audience cassette.

Lineage: Aiwa 1-point Stereo mike -->SONY WMD6C -->Fuji DRII-90 chrome
--> Pioneer CT-S609R --> Sound Forge 8.0b --> FLAC --> You

The recorder deck Sony D6 was set to chrome bias,
but the playback deck Pioneer CT-S609R
was set to normal bias for brighter playback.

Please enjoy.

RESIST THE METRIC SYSTEM!!

The knitting factory was a small, rectangular space near the Lower East Side,
just inside the northern boundary of SoHo, in Manhattan.
It was the best place to see TMBG (after Quiet Life, of course).
There wasn't really a stage, just a platform at one end
maybe topping off at one foot high.
So,the band would have their heads very close to the ceiling,
and the place would get rather hot & stuffy inside.
Back around the time of this show, the Knitting Factory was a taper's wetdream,
because there was no frisking bouncers, or metal detector.
The tight space, combined with crowded bodies, made for very good sound acoustics.
This audience tape sounds better than certain FM broadcasts of TMBG, in my opinion.

Except for two shows in 1994, I'm pretty sure this show's the last gig
that TMBG played at the old Knitting Factory location.
That would mark the end of THEIR "vintage" era,
since THEY switched record labels around the time of Flood,
finally hitting the big-time. I remember seeing THEM in 1991,
with a backup band, which disappointed me enough to lose interest in this group.

What makes this performance interesting is that THEY usually opened up shows
at the Knitting Factory with an acoustic set as "Count Drinkalot."
This show is all-electric. Also, the opening song is called
"Hi, We're the Replacements," which at the time was pretty rare.
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Lineage:
Aiwa 1-point Stereo mike --> SONY WMD6C --> Fuji DRII-90 chrome -->
Pioneer CT-S609R --> Sound Forge 8.0b --> FLAC --> 2006 seed

reseed:
Sector-boundary errors repaired and files renamed,
no other alterations made;
new FLAC-8 files and checksum files created
and this info file revised;
original info file included.

Thanks again to the taper for this recording.

a zootype reseed February 2016
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