Tom Tom Club
1992-11-14
The Sting
New Britain, CT
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Source: Soundcraft 800B > Sony D-10 PRO (16/44.1) > MDAT
Lineage : MDAT > Tascam DA-20 > Digital S/PDIF Out >Scarlett 18i20 > Mac Pro > Adobe Audition > WAV (16/48)
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Recorded By Ted Dralle
Edited & Tracked By Rich Lemire
Transferred & Mastered By Scott Medeiros
From the Collection Belonging to Toni Fishman, Scott Medeiros, Bill Hoy
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Maxell 120

One set

01 intro
02 Genius Of Love
03 Dark Sneak Love Action
04 Who Wants An Ugly Girl?
05 Wordy Rappinhood
06 banter/tuning
07 My Mama Told Me
08 Suboceana
09 Love Wave
10 Sunshine And Ectasy
11 Say I Am
12 You Sexy Thing
13 encore break
Encore 1
14 Irresistible Party Dip
15 Dogs In The Trash
16 Psycho Killer
17 encore break

Encore 2

18 You Sexy Thing
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Tom Tom Club
Chris Frantz - drums, percussion
Tina Weymouth - vocals, bass, synthesizer
Victoria Clamp - vocals
Bruce Martin - keyboards, percussion
Mark Roule - guitar
Steven Scales - percussion
Susan Tobacman - keyboards, vocals


Setlist from : https://guestpectacular.com/artists/tom-tom-club/events/1992-11-14/united-states/new-britain/the-sting



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Concert Review by:
By ROGER CATLIN; Courant Rock Critic
THE HARTFORD COURANT
November 16, 1992
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TOM TOM CLUB SHARPENS ITS BEAT
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Shut out of a four-band gig at the Sting in New Britain last month, the Tom Tom Club got its due Saturday night with a headlining show there.
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After a month of touring with the Soup Dragons, James and the Black Sheep, the group, led by Fairfield's Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, were used to packing their punch into short shows. And although Saturday's show was longer than the sets they played in the package tour, it still left a healthy-sized, dance-happy crowd wanting more.
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Touring has sharpened the band into its most effective unit yet. The darker, more austere rock band from their last album has been widened with the kind of sing-songy vocalists and heavy percussion that first made the offshoot band sell more records than Frantz and Weymouth's better-known main band, the Talking Heads.
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Accordingly, the seven-piece band began the 70-minute set with its best-known songs from the 1981 debut, "Genius of Love" and "Wordy Rappinghood," before settling into the similar grooves of its fine, generally ignored new album "Dark Sneak Love Action."
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Weymouth's lyrics are as simple and cosmic as ever. Brandishing the bass that inspired a hundred other female musicians, she showed off her svelte form with a gravity-defying pair of hip-hugging jeans that she also neglected to button. The two fellow singers not only resembled her sisters, who frequently joined her on Tom Tom Club albums, but sounded like them as well.
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Frantz banged out a steady beat from atop the drum set and, affixed with a headset microphone, added some key raps in tunes such as "Sunshine and Ecstasy," in a mix of music that truly blends hip-hop spirit with rock 'n' roll and dance-floor propulsion.
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The hidden glue of the band, however, may be Mark Roule's guitar, which consistently provides the right accent -- from a twangy scene-setter in "Love Wave" and a rock power-chord man doing the Kinks' "You Really Got Me" riff in "Sunshine and Ecstasy," to funk restorer in the band's remake of Hot Chocolate's "You Sexy Thing."
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The similarities to the Talking Heads sound was compounded by
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the addition of New Haven percussionist Steven Scales, who has made such a big splash with the Heads since the days of "Stop Making Sense."
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The band surprised the crowd with one Talking Heads cover -- the perennial "Psycho Killer" -- in one of the three encores. It was performed with a long intro, as if to emphasisze the groove that Frantz and Weymouth originally gave to the song, and Weymouth's vocals were as striking in their off-kilter way as David Byrne's were in the original.
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As one of four bands on a tour, the Tom Tom Club may have learned to make its point succinctly, but it hasn't rehearsed enough material to fill a headlining gig. They had to resort to that old single-plugging trick of repeating in an encore their current release, "You Sexy Thing," in a version that segues quite slyly into Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side."
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Caught up in the groove, nobody complained