Timbuk 3
Paradise Rock Club
Boston, Mass.
November 8, 1989
performance quality: A
recording quality: B+
source: master audience tape
runtime: 89:16
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setlist:
01: B-side of life
02: national holiday
03: waves of grain
04: Rev. Jack & His Roamin' Cadillac Church
05: count to ten
06: facts about cats
07: dance fever
08: standard white Jesus
09: looking for work
10: dirty dirty rice
11: third rail
12: you are my government
13: a story
14: easy
15: life is hard
16: the future's so bright I gotta wear shades
17: grand old party
18: Eden Alley
19: assholes on parade
20: WW III blues
21: not fade away
22: hairstyles and attitudes
comments:
Does anybody remember when the future was so bright you had to wear shades? This band's popularity
lasted about as long as a Texas tornado. I think this was their 2nd tour (Eden Alley) and they already
had to relearn future's so bright... but they do it a little differently than the first time. This is
their complete show (Young Fresh Fellows opened, I didn't record them). Timbuk 3 is a trio, 2 guys
and a woman, kinda like an Arlo Guthrie for the next generation. I thought these guys were good,
both for the music and political slant, I think they only played 2 shows in Boston, the 1st just a
few months (maybe as much as a year) before this and after they had that 1st big hit, "the future's so bright..."
The recording came out well, no cut songs, and everything is clear, no hiss or problems, this torrent
comes from the original master cassette. I guess this would have to be listed as folk music, but I
don't know what to call it. Most "folk music" bores me, but not this music. They have conscience and
imagination in their songs and a pretty good sense of where the world was at in the late 80's. Don't
know if they ever toured again (maybe in the midwest, I think they're from Cleveland, Ohio area.).
There are several opportune places to break for burning to disc where there is no music or talk going on.
Do not sell this recording.
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