The Church - 1988-06-09 - New York City, NY (pre-FM/FLAC)

(pre-FM FLAC)

The (OLD) Ritz, NYC USA

Pre FM/WNEW feed

CDR containing contents below > EAC > TLH

Rating - EXCELLENT TO THE MOST INCREDIBLE THING *I'VE EVER HEARD!

Steve Kilbey - Larynx, Bass
Peter Koppes - Guitars (one of Mart's Rics at one point), Vocals
Marty Willson-Piper - Guitars, Vocals
Richard (The Starfish) Ploog - DRUMS and PROPULSION 

Disc 1
01. When You Were Mine    [0:06:13.59]
02. North South East West    [0:04:45.13]
03. Blood Money    [0:04:36.30]
04. Columbus    [0:03:51.08]
05. Constant In Opal    [0:04:46.70]
06. Destination    [0:05:44.26]
07. A New Season    [0:03:11.31]
08. Almost With You    [0:03:57.16]
09. Fly    [0:02:19.46]
10. A Month Of Sundays    [0:04:03.66]
11. Under The Milky Way    [0:05:29.54]
12. Spark    [0:03:36.66]
13. Shadow Cabinet    [0:03:49.20]
14. Reptile    [0:05:33.00]
15. Hotel Womb    [0:05:46.59]
16. Tantalized    [0:06:10.21]

Disc 2
01. An Interlude    [0:06:14.63]
02. Is This Where You Live    [0:07:52.58]
03. Audience    [0:03:30.16]
04. Myrrh    [0:03:41.03]
05. You Took    [0:16:18.31]

Filler ...if you must ...

Steve Kilbey - Disc Two Filler - Radio Three Spot
01. An Interlude    [0:06:14.63]
02. Is This Where You Live    [0:07:52.58]
03. Audience    [0:03:30.16]
04. Myrrh    [0:03:41.03]
05. You Took    [0:16:18.31]
06. Interview    [0:03:49.05]
07. The Jabberwock    [0:01:06.68]
08. Don't Look Back    [0:01:57.02]
09. Int.    [0:02:20.44]
10. Fly    [0:01:36.24]
11. Int.    [0:01:39.15]
12. This Asphalt Eden    [0:03:04.62]
13. Interview    [0:01:53.72]
14. One Inch Rock    [0:01:42.10]
15. Int.    [0:01:44.53]
16. A Month Of Sundays    [0:03:14.42]
17. Interview    [0:00:43.37]

I almost didn't make this show, won tix on a local college (WUSB Stony Brook) radio station that afternoon as a matter of fact.  We were seeing them all over the place from April of that year right through to the upcoming fall ... so this being a WNEW radio broadcast I thought we'd pass as it woulda' most definitely be a massive mobfest, it was, but anyway ...THAT woulda' been one of the largest mistakes o'my life!  This was the best Church show ...only eclipsed by my first Church show and maybe NYC 04... I ever attended!  This is the pre FM feed of this boys and girls. I as well have the actual on air broadcast w/all the on air bastard radio jock complete idiocy and utter nonsense and a couple ads thrown in for good measure, NO comparison to this, kids ...at one point one of the dual jackasses on mic that night referred to Mart as "Marty Willson the piper" ...I rest my case.  Anyway ...Peter's rig and Stratocasters somehow petered out during the encores, he got so frustrated he just grabbed one of Mart's Rics and commenced on w/the standard feedback/sonic noise maelstrom these lot ended every show with back in the day.  These guys were ratcheted up to nice comfortable 11 PLUS this night ...Ploog, man ...there's just not enough I can say about Dick Ploog ...the guy was just MASTERFUL in keeping the entire show just soldiering forth, as he always did, the guy was just a fluid MACHINE of a drummer ...and then there's sheer wizardry o'those guitars and Kilbey's always velvet larynxicals ...even in the midst of a MILKY WAY candy bar bombardment ...damned good aim too, bleeding thing his Kilbo's microphone, listen and you'll see when ... DEAR LORD, what a template and UTTERLY perfect Church show this was ...even that melt-down/near disaster in the encores, that just added to the tense brilliance yr always in store for concerning these guys. That alone woulda derailed most other bands ...not these lot!  So.  I hope you dig this.  It's about the best Church recording around!
Archaic and way overdue thanks to Noisemasters ninkaasi and nowandzen ...my Choichy comrades in arms for about a decade now ... I absolutely love you two guys!