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Minor Threat 03/08/1981

SHOWID 224343

Set I

Out Of Step
Guilty Of Being White
Stand Up
Dont Wanna Hear It
Bottled Violence
12xu
Filler
Straight Edge
Stepping Stone
Small Man, Big Mouth
Seeing Red
In My Eyes
Screaming At A Wall
Minor Threat

Set II

 

Set III

 

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From Michael Azerrad's "Our Band Could Be Your Life":

"Mackaye's pen pal Corey Rusk of the Necros arranged for the band to stay at his parents' house in Ohio, then they continued on to Chicago, where they had a gig at the seminal punk club O'Banion's. O'Banion's management almost canceled the show when they realized the band was under twenty-one, but Mackaye talked them into it, agreeing to make their young pals stay outside. 'we're all set up and right next to me was the exit to the street,' Mackaye recalls. 'we had already made a plan with everybody. we set up and I said 'good evening, we're Minor Threat from Washington, D.C.' and then I kicked the door open and everyone just ran in.'"

"local punk mainstay Santiago Durango did sound for that show. 'they played and there were about five people there, but, boy, they blew the roof off that club,' says Durango, who later joined Big Black. 'I thought, 'whoa, what energy, what...everything.' I thought, 'holy shit, what am I doing playing music - these guys are just awesome!' they were very tight-knit - they brought their own little fans. at one point they thought that somebody had said something to them, so they all banded together and started chasing some phantoms down the street."

Collectors With This Show

User (active/rating) Media / # Show Sound Details DB Source User Source
afterdinnermint (5/5) CDR / 1 A- View  
Notes: This was traded to me as 08/03/81, so I don't know which is accurate. Ferocious show, but frought with sound problems. Soundboard recording, but there are mix adjustments through almost the entire show. Still, a really great listen. All songs on one long track. Shares a disc with another Minor Threat show, date unknown (not the 04/29/82 show, which commonly circulates with this). The extra show is a B audience recording with 7 songs (I Don't Wanna Hear It, Bottled Violence, Small Man Big Mouth, Filler, Straight Edge, In My Eyes, and Screaming At A Wall).
WalterO (5/5) / 1 View  
Chris Bct (5/5) cdr / 1 View  
Notes: I could have seen them twice, in their only San Diego show at King's Road, but didn't go for only time ever due to worry about gig violence. Dumb. Missed next night at Chatsworth Rollerrink in, well, Chattsworth. One of only 2 times in 29 years of punking that the wife said, "Uh, honey, don't go. We've got somethin' goin'" I didn't argue. Considering how flexible she's been w/ my punk indulgence over these decades, twernt nuttin' considering she's way softer, still, than any punking I ever did. Least my 2 friends went.
Marcos Hassan (5/5) cd-r / 1 A C+ View   AUD tape
Notes: High pitched/too fast, can try and correct this. From their very first, aborted tour.
Joshua Turner (5/4.4) CDR / 1 A A- View  
krastian (4/0) / 0 View  
Jenn (4/4.9) CDR / 1 A B+ View   SBD
Notes: on same disc with 4/29/82 show.
Michael Piper (4/4.8) CDR / 1 View  
Notes: This show came to me labelled as 08/31/1981 but according to threatbase, the only show ever played at O'Banion's was 03/08/1981.
Scoots (4/5) CD / 1 A B+ View   ?gen cassette->wav->sound forge 4.5 [normalization, noise reduction]->cd wave [splits]->flac>wav
Notes: On same disc as 4/29/82
Dan Stone (3/0) CDR / 1 View   SBD
Eric Simpson (3/4.9) cd-r / 1 A- View  
Notes: (sbd?/aud?/cass) if this is an audience recording, it is awesome. *mine all one(1) track + ??D.C. filler (14 min. worth)
Riley (3/5) CD-R / 1 A A- View  
Notes: (SBD) Great early soundboard. Instruments are a bit quiet, but that's my only complaint.
funkyratchet (3/5) CDR / 1 B- B View   SBD
Notes: Same disc as 04.29.82.
terabyte23 (2/5) FLAC / 1 View   SBD > ?gen cassette > wav > sound forge 4.5 [normalization, noise reduction] > cd...
chris hather (2/5) FLAC / 1 View  
Zack Stillings (2/0) CDR / 1 View  
Preston Klingler (1/4.9) FLAC / 1 A- View   Unknown Rec. Equipment Gen: CASS(?) > Silver 27 Songs Live > FLAC
Notes: Good show. There are glitches throughout this show and also some track glitches. On the same disc as 4/29/82.
Brian C (1/4.7) FLAC / 1 A B+ View   ?gen cassette->wav->sound forge 4.5 [normalization, noise reduction]->cd wave...
Notes: w/ab 7/24/89 flac
David Backus (1/5) DVD+R/FLAC / 1 View   SBD
Jake Balfour (1/5) FLAC / 1 View   ?gen cassette->wav->sound forge 4.5 [normalization, noise reduction]->cd wave...
Notes: 23:20 Sbd? t12 is cut.
Paramnesiac (1/4.7) CD / 1 View   cassette (Unknown Gen) > wav > sound forge 4.5 [normalization, noise reduction] > cd...
Notes: Cassette purchased from former trader in 1988 or 1989. Cassette itself looks to be from 1982 or 1983. One of the last shows of the first minor threat tour.
steve zooski (1/5) CDR / 1 A- B+ View   SBD
Notes: Also on same disc w/ 4/29/82 9:30 Club D.C. which is A/A show
Andy Rampage (1/0) Flac / 1 a-b -b- View  
RockCD (0/0) CD / 1 View  
Notes: SB
Ron Broman (0/5) FLAC / 1 View  
Notes: soundboard unknown gen cassette>Audition>CDWav>flac
Marcelo (0/0) CDR / 1 B+ View