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CJ's Collection

They Might Be Giants   09/23/1988

The Knitting Factory, New York, NY
Media audio/FLAC   20 discs
Tech Notes They Might Be Giants
The Knitting Factory
New York, New York

Total Time: 44:59
AUD -> FLAC

From a user on Dime:

After a long, hard slog out in the backyard shed, I've ferreted out some master cassettes of these shows. It's really a miracle I still have them, been homeless three different times since these were originally recorded. Thanx to all the good friends who let me store my stuff in their crawl spaces.

I got the master of THIS show. I think the date is wrong on this torrent, because the master specifically says "Wed., Sept. 28, 1988." Perhaps the "8" was mistaken as a "3" somewhere along the line. This was the last of a month-long "Wednesdays" night at the Knitting Factory, which was written up at the time in either the Village Voice or the NY Free Press.

The story about this show, is that Road Movie To Berlin was cut from the beginning due to technical issues. Part of this track is on my master tape. The "intro" is really interstistial talking between Road Movie & Maybe I Know. Purple Toupee is the first song of the second set. Everything before that is acoustic warm-up "Count Drinkalot," everything after that is electric TMBG. This is probably the first performance of Racist Friend, if it is, then Flansburgh says so on the tape. If not, then it was the week before (which I still can't find).

So I missed the first Wednesday, attended the 2nd (which had a great Ana Ng), then brought my deck down to tape shows 3 (Sept. 21) and 4 (Sept. 28). NOSAJ56 who is posting these torrents, has a TMBG trade list on etree.org, he has a show from a year earlier marked "Lower East Side," that venue is most probably also Knitting Factory, since it was located at 47 E. Houston St. back then, which certainly qualifies as "Lower East Side."

Anyway MY copy of this show is the master tape, 1st generation. The sound is very very good. If THIS torrent sounds similar in fuzziness to Bottom Line show, then you might want to get the better copy, a significant improvement.
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Owned by CJ · Last Updated May 23, 2023