Date : 09.09.95 [Saturday](Show 10)
Location : Phil's Pub, Sioux Falls SD
Source Recording : Tascam Porta One 4-Track
Other Bands : None. We played three sets.

This recording is a bit drum-heavy and lacking on the vocals, but it seems to get better as it goes on. It sounds like we had somewhat of an audience for the first set, but they eventually dwindled away until we were playing for Skip the bartender and Aric's girlfriend Gwen. The best thing that happened this night was that at the very end a couple of random guys wandered in off the street and went absolutely ape-shit bonkers when one of them requested KISS and we supplied it. The one guy was near-psychotic with glee. Probably the most intense reaction we ever got at any show...and all for playing KISS covers.

Set One
01 Kick Out The Jams (MC5)
02 Red Eye (Devo)
03 Find it
04 Mom's Dead
05 If I Was A Carpenter
06 Love Under
07 I Felt Like We Lived By The Ocean
08 Got Religion
09 Eugene V. Debs
10 I Don't Know
11 Let Me Know (Kiss)
12 Hey You (The Guioteens)
13 This Is My Life

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Set Two
01 Pretty Vacant (Sex Pistols)
02 Why Can't I Touch It? (Buzzcocks)
03 Wake Up
04 My Leg Hurts
06 Arlo Is Here To Stay
07 Bouncing Off The Walls
08 Going Against
09 Hotel Room
10 Perry (Butthole Surfers)
11 Gary Floyd (Butthole Surfers)
12 Fearless (Pink Floyd)
13 The Pirate Song
14 Fight Fire With Fire

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Set Three
01 Satisfaction (Rolling Stones)
02 Already Dead
03 Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight (Earl Vince & The Valiants)
04 (Down In The) Basement
05 Midnight At The Guantanamo Room (M.O.T.O.)
06 I'm Anti-You
07 Jerry Lee (The Didjits)
08 My Baby Works At Burger King
09 Beanstalk
10 Boy Crazy
11 One More Dose Of Your Love
12 Summer Home
13 The French Song (Joan Jett)
14 New York Groove (Ace Frehley)
15 Deuce (Kiss)
16 Cold Gin (Kiss)
17 Let Me Know (Kiss)
18 Black Diamond (Kiss) (Cuts Off)

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Date : 09.10.95 [Sunday](Show 11)
Location : Shadows Lounge, Tea SD
Source Recording : Tascam 488 8-Track
Other Bands : None. We played three sets.

Notes : THE STORY OF SHADOWS LOUNGE - Shadows Lounge was a little shack at a crossroads out in some farmland between Sioux Falls and Tea. I think they sometimes had strippers during the week and cover bands on the weekends. I think Aric got us the gig(s) here. The owner had this brilliant new idea to have bands play on Sunday afternoons. I think we went from like 4-8pm. On a Sunday. During football season. Yeah. Nobody showed up. Duh. They even went so far as to do some radio advertising for this show, which I bemusedly heard a number of times in the car. It didn't work. From listening to the recording, I'm pretty sure the only person in the audience was my wife Solvei. Add to this the fact that we had just played Phil's Pub the night before, so we were probably tired and annoyed to be there playing for no one. Despite it all, we played it off legit and got the hell out of there. Then 3 weeks later, we went back for another gig under the same circumstances. What were we thinking? Anyway, the 2nd gig (Show 13) was tons more fun because when we realized that once again no one was showing up, we stopped caring and started playing songs we didn't know for hours. That was a lot more fun.

Set One
01 One More Dose Of Your Love
02 Kick Out The Jams (MC5)
03 Red Eye (Devo)
04 Walking Man
05 New York Groove (Ace Frehley)
06 Deja Vu (parody of "When I Come Around" by Green Day)
07 Eugene V. Debs
08 I Don't Know
09 Ballad Of Helen
10 Publicity (Love,Calvin)
11 Pipeline (The Chantays)
12 Gary Floyd (Butthole Surfers)
13 Hotel Room
14I'm Anti-You
15 My Baby Works At Burger King
16 Why Can't I Touch It? (Buzzcocks)

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Set Two
01This Is My Life
02 Light My Fire (The Doors)
03 Jerry Lee (The Didjits)
04 The Pirate Song
05 Hey You (The Giouteens)
06 The French Song (Joan Jett)
07 Mom's Dead

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Set Three
01 Boy Crazy
02 I Wanna Be Sedated (The Ramones)
03 Wake Up
04 Arlo Is Here To Stay
05 Deuce (Kiss)
06 Why Don't We Do It In The Road (The Beatles)
07 Die Trying (God's Favorite Band)
08 Fight Fire With Fire (Metallica)
09 Perry (Butthole Surfers)
10 (Down In The) Basement
11 Summer Home
12 Going Against
13 Beanstalk
14 Already Dead
15 Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight (Earl Vince & The Valiants)
16 Bouncing Off The Walls
17 My Couch In Manhattan
18 Pretty Vacant (Sex Pistols)
19 Fearless (Pink Floyd)
20 Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder (Frank Zappa)
21 Semi-Fraudulent White Person Blues Rave-Up

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Date : 10.01.95 [Sunday](Show 13)
Location : Shadows Lounge, Tea SD
Source Recording : Tascam 488 8-Track
Other Bands: None. We played 5 (!) sets.

Notes : After our first visit to Shadows Lounge (Show 11), I'm not sure why we came back again. We ended up playing five sets, the fifth being almost complete useless noise. I have no idea why they didn't tell us to get the fuck out, but after all was said and done, almost 3 1/2 hours were recorded. Throughout this adventure, our audience consisted of Guido the bartender, and no more than two people at any given time. Things went sour midway through the third set (just before "Light My Fire") when some chick yelled "play something NORMAL!". After that...IT WAS ON! In true Ten Center tradition, we transitioned into a couple hours of covers that we didn't know how to play.

Set One
01 Insomnia - Introduction
02 Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight (Earl Vince & The Valiants)
03 Midnight At The Guantanamo Room (M.O.T.O.)
04 Find It
05 Mom's Dead
06 Beanstalk
07 Summer Home
08 Deuce (Kiss)

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Set Two
01 Dead (They Might Be Giants)
02 Boy Crazy
03 Already Dead
04 One More Dose Of Your Love
05 The French Song (Joan Jett)
06 I Felt Like We Lived By The Ocean
07 Hotel Room
08 Eugene V. Debs (Cuts Off)
09 Fearless (Pink Floyd)
10 Arlo Is Here To Stay
11 American Woman (The Guess Who)
12 Bouncing Off The Walls
13 I Don't Know
14 I Hate
15 I Was Made For Loving You (Kiss)

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Set Three
01 Honky Tonk Women (Rolling Stones)
02 By 30 (Mother Inferior)
03 Everything Is Really Pleasant
04 If I Was A Carpenter
05 Jerry Lee (The Didjits)
06 Gary Floyd (Butthole Surfers)
07 Pretty Vacant / Red Eye (Sex Pistols / Devo)
08 Light My Fire (The Doors)
09 Sweet Home Alabama (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
10 New York Groove (Ace Frehley)
11 Cat Scratch Fever (Cuts Off) (Ted Nugent)

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Set Four
01 Blister In The Sun (Violent Femmes)
02 Kick Out The Jams (MC5)
03 Hey You (The Guioteens)
04 Let Me Know (Kiss)
05 Act Naturally (The Beatles)
06 Sharp Dressed Man (ZZ Top)
07 Foolin' (Def Leppard)
08 She's A Woman (The Beatles)
09 Mean Mr. Mustard / Polythene Pam (The Beatles)
10 Come Together (Cuts Off) (The Beatles)
11 My Baby Works At Burger King (Reggae Version)
12 Fight For Your Right To Party (Beastie Boys)
13 Metal Health (Quiet Riot)
14 Should I Stay Or Should I Go (The Clash)
15 Wild Thing / Hang On Sloopy / Louie Louie (The Troggs / The McCoys / The Kingsmen)
16 Why Don't We Do It In The Road (The Beatles)
17 My Baby Lives In A Green Trailer House (Minor 2049er)
18 Wipe Out / Pipeline (Surfaris / Chantays)
19 Don't Bring Me Down (Cuts Off) (E.L.O)

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Set Five
01 Introduction
02 Smoke On The Water (Deep Purple)
03 Radar Love (Golden Earring)
04 Surf
05 Goin' To The Titty Bar
06 Someone Please Cut The Power
07 Free Fallin' (Tom Petty)
08 Gonna See My Girl
09 This Is My Life / That's How We Get Along / Folsum Prison Blues (Stedman / Minor 2049er / Johnny Cash)
10 Boy Crazy

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Date : 10.07.95 [Saturday](Show 14)
Location : Phil's Pub, Sioux Falls SD
Source Recording : Tascam 488 8-Track
Other Bands: We opened for ourselves as a lounge cover band called DOG SWEATERS

Notes : The tag on the flyer ("Would It Really Kill You To Come Out And See Us?") says a lot about our attitude on Phil's Pub at the time. This was the last gig of what I call our "Summer Residency" at Phil's (we played there once a month from April through October, most times to a near empty room). I like the recording, it was a pretty loose night due to the fact that we just didn't really care anymore. Gigs at Phil's had become dress rehearsals for us. Despite that, there are a number of interesting things about this show that you should know before listening:

1. We opened for ourselves as "fake" band DOG SWEATERS, playing covers out of a fake book. We never rehearsed this together...we just went up with the pages copied out of the fake book and played. Three people witnessed this set. Skip the bartender and a couple playing pool. By some bizarre synchronicity, just seconds before we were about to play "Walk This Way", the chick playing pool goes "PLAY AEROSMITH". Incredible.

2. Mike was using a new percussion instrument this night that I dubbed The "Explode-O-Gong". In reality, what actually happened is that I had duct taped one of the recording microphones to one of his cymbal stands, and everytime he hits that cymbal...you WILL hear it. Just pretend it's a huge KISS-esque flash-pot explosion.

3. A couple more people wandered in after the Dog Sweaters set, including Matt "Sideshow" Staab of The Sneakies, who went on a mission to drink 100 ounces of beer. Not sure if he made it.

4. I had recently found out that Aric's girlfriend Gwynne played the Bassoon, and demanded that she come sit in with us somehow. The result was "Gwynne's Bassoon Blues".

Set One (DOG SWEATERS)
01 Imagine (John Lennon)
02 Fool On The Hill (The Beatles)
03 And I Love Her (The Beatles)
04 King Of The Road (Roger Miller)
05 Fever (Peggy Lee)
06 Love On The Rocks (Neil Diamond)
07 Walk This Way (Aerosmith)
08 With Or Without You (U2)

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Set Two
01 Mom's Dead
02 If I Was A Carpenter
03 Find It
04 Jerry Lee (The Didjits)
05 Light My Fire (The Doors)
06 By 30 (Mother Inferior)
07 Hotel Room
08 I Don't Know
09 I'm Anti-You

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Set Three
01 Kick Out The Jams / Red Eye (MC5 / Devo)
02 Gary Floyd (Butthole Surfers)
03 Midnight At The Guantanamo Room (M.O.T.O.)
04 Pretty Vacant (Sex Pistols)
05 Summer Home
06 Bouncing Off The Walls
07 Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder (Frank Zappa)
08 Boy Crazy
09 Beanstalk
10 My Leg Hurts

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Set Four
01 Gwynne's Bassoon Blues
02 My Baby Works At Burger King (Reggae Version)
03 I Felt Like We Lived By The Ocean
04 This Is My Life
05 Foolin' (Def Leppard)
06 Fight For Your Right To Party (Beastie Boys)

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Date : 10.15.95 [Sunday](Show 15)
Location : Main Street Pub, Vermillion, SD
Source Recording : Tascam 488 8-Track
Other Bands : None. We played three sets.

Notes : A very fun Main Street Pub show. The version of "Ballad Of Helen" from this show is my single favorite Ten Center recording of all of them. This version features some random guy coming up and reciting some poetry/rap and also features me walking out the front door of the pub and down the street while soloing (thanks to my wireless unit). I remember walking next door and sitting on the stairs of a fire escape, watching cars go by while soloing. The band always set up in the front window, so I had no problems hearing them from outside. If you were to listen to this show all the way through, you'll notice that the crowd gets better and better as the night goes on, and that reflects in our stage banter and demeanor. By the end of the night, it felt like we were all friends. Sorry about the horrible tuning problems I was having.

Set One
01 It Can't Happen Here (Frank Zappa)
02 Pretty Vacant (Sex Pistols)
03 Hey You (The Guilloteens)
04 Summer Home
05 Bouncing Off The Walls
06 My Baby Works At Burger King
07 I Hate
08 The Tuning Song
09 Pipeline - Why Don't We Do It In The Road (The Chantays / The Beatles)
10 Gary Floyd (Butthole Surfers)
11 Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder (Frank Zappa)
12 Fearless (Pink Floyd)
13 New York Groove (Ace Frehley)
14 Cold Gin (Kiss)
15 Deuce (Kiss)

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Set Two
01 Mom's Dead
02 Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight (Earl Vince and The Valiants)
03 I'm Anti-You
04 Hotel Room
05 Find It
06 One More Dose Of Your Love
07 Got Religion
08 By 30 (Mother Inferior)
09 Light My Fire (The Doors)
10 Red Eye (Devo)
11 Eugene V. Debs
12 Theme From The Monkees / If I Was A Carpenter
13 I Don't Know
14 Midnight At The Guantanamo Room (M.O.T.O.)
15 My Leg Hurts

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Set Three
01 Dazed And Confused And Paranoid (Led Zeppelin / Black Sabbath)
02 Arlo Is Here To Stay
03 Jerry Lee (The Didjits)
04 Boy Crazy
05 Deuce (Kiss)
06 Cold Gin (Kiss)
07 The Tuning Song (Slight Return) / Something
08 Love Under
09 I Felt Like We Lived By The Ocean
10 This Is My Life
11 Publicity (Love,Calvin)
12 Beanstalk
13 Cheesy Pop Star (Electric Monk)
14 Ballad Of Helen

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Date : 10.25.95 [Wednesday](Show 16)
Location : Pomp Room, Sioux Falls, SD
Source Recording : Tascam Porta One 4-Track
Other Bands : The Sneakies opened.

Notes : Not sure why we relied so heavily on butchered 60's songs and KISS covers. The familiar "I had a horse, his name was Jack, I rode on his tail to save his back" refrain in "Ballad Of Helen" is replaced by "I killed my daddy with a shotgun blast, I don't know what happened, it happened so fast." This is a reference to our previous show at the Main Street Pub (Show 15) and the special guest rapper. Also, I think the beginning of the set is missing because someone forgot to start the tape. Pretty sure we didn't open with "My Baby Works At Burger King". Despite the fact that this was recorded on Four-Track, there was actually just one mono track, which I think must have been a single microphone pointed at the stage.

Set List
01 My Baby Works At Burger King
02 Bouncing Off The Walls
03 If I Was A Carpenter
04 One More Dose Of Your Love
05 Light My Fire (The Doors)
06 Pretty Vacant (Sex Pistols)
07 Arlo Is Here To Stay
08 Summer Home
09 I Don't Know
10 Boy Crazy
11 Got Religion
12 Midnight At The Guantanamo Room (M.O.T.O.)
13 You Really Got Me (The Kinks)
14 Deja Vu (a parody of "When I Come Around" by Green Day)
15 Deuce (Kiss)
16 Cold Gin (Kiss)
17 New York Groove (Ace Frehley)
18 Ballad Of Helen
19 My Leg Hurts
20 Green Haze (Elvis Hitler)

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Date : 11.14.95 [Tuesday](Show 17)
Location : Volstorf Ballroom, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD
Source Recording : Tascam Porta One 4-Track
Other Bands : This was a "Battle of the Bands". A number of other bands played

Notes : Ah, the obligatory "Battle Of The Bands". We were allowed a 20-minute set. We did not win anything. We drove the 60 miles North from Sioux Falls in a particularly nasty ice storm. Many cars in the ditches. We were lucky to make it. The "ballroom" was more of a gym with a permanent stage at one end. The hardwood floors were covered with wrestling mats for protection. At the time, I was using a wireless unit, and I used to enjoy walking away from the band occasionally during solos. On this particular night, I decided to leave the stage and run a lap around the gym while soloing. I figured this might score some points with the judges. I punctuated my run with a leap into the air before returning to the stage. Miscalculating the traction that would result from the aforementioned wrestling mats, when I landed my feet firmly planted themselves, and the inertia of the rest of my body sent me face-first to the floor...on top of my guitar. Somehow it did not snap in half. This amazing event can be heard at exactly the 4:00 mark of "Ballad Of Helen".

Set List
01 Russ & Mike Check The Recorder
02 Introduction
03 Love Under
04 Find It
05 Ballad Of Helen
06 My Leg Hurts
07 Got Religion
08 If I Was A Carpenter
09 Jerry Lee (The Didjits)

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Date : 01.13.96 [Saturday](Show 18)
Location : Joe House, Brookings, SD
Source Recording : Tascam 488 8-Track
Other Bands : None. We played three sets.

Notes : This was our first show back in action after taking a holiday break. We had not played live for 2 months. At some point during those two months, I had apparently decided that what the band really needed was a dynamic frontman. This can be witnessed during the first set, as I displayed my new short-lived on-stage personality that I now refer to as a cross between Paul Stanley and Ted Nugent. This kind of behavior tends to fall flat when the only members of the audience are the drummer's parents (Mike's parents were at this gig for some reason, and I'm pretty sure I embarrassed the hell out of him). Also working against us this night were my insistence on playing incredibly loud (you will hear the crunchiest guitar tone ever, punctuated by lots of feedback), and the fact that another Sioux Falls band (Stranded With Norman) were playing two doors down at a place that served alcohol. Joe House, as you may have guessed, was a coffee bar. Ten Center is not coffee house music, to say the least.

Set One
01 Mom's Dead
02 If I Was A Carpenter
03 Wake Up
04 Betty Crocker
05 Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight (Earl Vince and The Valiants)
06 Fight Fire With Fire (Metallica)
07 Boy Crazy
08 One More Dose Of Your Love
09 My Baby Works At Burger King
10 Love Under (Cuts Off)

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Set Two
01 Pretty Vacant (Sex Pistols)
02 Find It
03 (Down In The) Basement
04 Skyrockets
05 Chicken And Rice
06 Hotel Room
07 Jerry Lee (The Didjits)
08 Beanstalk
09 Cheesy Pop Star (Electric Monk)
10 Ace Of Spades (Motorhead)

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Set Three
01 Deuce (Kiss)
02 By 30 (Mother Inferior)
03 Sweet Leaf (Black Sabbath)
04 Gary Floyd (Butthole Surfers)
05 Perry (Butthole Surfers)
06 Jogging With The Devil
07 Ballad Of Helen

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Date : 01.20.96 [Saturday](Show 19)
Location : Eagles Club, Vermillion. SD
Source Recording : Tascam Porta One 4-Track
Other Bands : This was a festival event with a whole bunch of bands. The other ones I remember were Scratch That (Vermillion), Watercolor Fiction (Sioux Falls) and Little Scotty And The Big Tones (Vermillion?). Mike was also playing drums for Scotty at the time, so he did double duty at this show.

Notes : This was a benifit concert for Steve Peterson, a friend of Mike's, who had recently had a house fire (at his trailer out in the middle of nowhere - we played his front lawn later in the year [Show 24]). There were a number of Sioux Falls and Vermillion bands playing. The Eagles Club is a fraternal lodge type place...like a VFW. I liked this show a lot. The sound was good, the crowd was responsive. Actual dancing took place at random intervals. We used some other band's amps, which is nice. Walk in with a guitar case and start playing. No messy load-in and set-up.

Set List
01 Pretty Vacant (Sex Pistols)
02 (Down In The) Basement
03 Find It (VIDEO)
04 Chicken & Rice
05 Broken String - Announcements
06 Hotel Room (VIDEO)
07 Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight (Earl Vince and The Valiants) (VIDEO)
08 Jerry Lee (The Didjits)
09 I Felt Like We Lived By The Ocean (VIDEO)
10 Midnight At The Guantanamo Room (M.O.T.O.) (VIDEO)
11 Beanstalk (VIDEO)
12 Cheesy Pop Star (Electric Monk)
13 Ace Of Spades (Motorhead) (VIDEO)

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Date : 02.07.96 [Wednesday](Show 20)
Location : The Main Street Pub, Vermillion, SD
Source Recording : Tascam 488 8-Track
Other Bands : None. We played three sets.

Notes : This is probably my favorite recording of all of them. It sounds really good, it shows what we had become as a band over a year's worth of live shows, and I have extremely fond memories of playing the Main Street Pub. Vermillion is a small town anchored by the University of South Dakota, and unlike the slightly jaded Sioux Falls music scene of the day, it was brimming with college kids who were looking to have fun instead of just stand around with their hands in their pockets. I liked this show so much that it became the basis for the official Ten Center live release LIVE : GEARED TO ANNOY. All but one song on that release came from this show. This was our fourth and final show at the Main Street Pub, and Mike had been living in Vermillion for 7 or 8 years, so I think he pretty much knew everyone in town connected with music and we had built somewhat of a following by then.

Set One
01 Bouncing Off The Walls
02 The French Song (Joan Jett)
03 By 30 (Mother Inferior)
04 If I Was A Carpenter
05 One More Dose Of Your Love
06 Skyrockets
07 Betty Crocker
08 Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder (Frank Zappa)
09 Fight Fire With Fire (Metallica)
10 Mom's Dead
11 Beanstalk
12 I'm Anti-You
13 Helter Skelter (The Beatles)

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Set Two
01 Pretty Vacant (Sex Pistols)
02 (Down In The) Basement
03 Find It
04 Chicken & Rice
05 Hotel Room
06 Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight (Earl Vince and The Valiants)
07 Jerry Lee (The Didjits)
08 Midnight At The Guantanamo Room (M.O.T.O.)
09 Boy Crazy
10 Cheesy Pop Star (Electric Monk)
11 Son Of Mr. Green Genes (Frank Zappa)
12 My Leg Hurts

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Set Three
01 Cold Gin (Kiss)
02 Deuce (Kiss)
03 Let Me Know (Kiss)
04 Eugene V. Debs
05 Already Dead
06 Gary Floyd (Butthole Surfers)
07 Got Religion
08 Hootenanny (The Replacements)
09 Ballad Of Helen
10 Ace Of Spades (Motorhead)
11 Post-Show Rumblings

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Date : 02.17.96 [Saturday](Show 21)
Location : Phil's Pub, Sioux Falls, SD
Source Recording : Tascam 488 8-Track
Other Bands : We opened for The Sneakies

Notes : I remember having a good time playing this show.

Set List
01 Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight (Earl Vince and The Valiants)
02 If I Was A Carpenter
03 (Down In The) Basement
04 Find It
05 My Baby Works At Burger King
06 Mom's Dead
07 Love Under
08 Chicken & Rice
09 Bouncing Off The Walls
10 Got Religion
11 Beanstalk
12 My Leg Hurts
13 Helter Skelter (The Beatles)
14 Ace Of Spades (Motorhead)

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Date : 2.22.96 [Thursday](Show 22)
Location : Pomp Room, Sioux Falls, SD
Source Recording : No known recording exists.
Other Bands:Cooper (Minneapolis) opened.

Notes : I remember next to nothing about this show. No idea what Cooper sounded like.

Date : 03.30.96 [Saturday](Show 23)
Location : Jono's, Sioux Falls, SD
Source Recording : Tascam 488 8-Track
Other Bands : None

Notes : We played 3 sets this night. Due to some technical idiocy on my part, only about a third of it got recorded. The first eight songs are pretty much a linear representation of what got recorded from the first set. The rest of it is what could be salvaged from the other two. There's a lot of chatter about "mains". Not only did we have recording problems, but also PA problems. I'm not really sure if the handful of people that were watching us were even hearing the vocals half the time. The vocals on the recording are direct from the PA board, thankfully. The most entertaining part of the recording for me is the drunken requests from a couple of older women. This was also the first show for my cherished '74 Les Paul Goldtop Deluxe.

Set List
01 Introduction / Equipment Failure
02 Really Good Show
03 Find It
04 I Felt Like We Lived By The Ocean
05 Love Under
06 Beanstalk
07 (Down In The) Basement
08 Drunken Beast Interlude / Equipment Failure II
09 Bad Ass
10 Betty Crocker
11 Already Dead
12 If I Was A Carpenter
13 Going Against
14 Got Religion
15 Jerry Lee (The Didjits)
16 Helter Skelter (The Beatles)
17 My Leg Hurts
18 A License To Be An Asshole
19 Midnight At The Guantanamo Room (M.O.T.O.)
20 Bad Ass Again
21 Cold Gin (Kiss)

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Date : 06.01.96 [Saturday](Show 24)
Location : Steve Peterson's Front Yard, near Vermillion, SD
Source Recording : Mono VHS Camera, Mono Cassette Recorder. The majority of the recording comes from the video tape. The cassette recorder version cuts in towards the end of "Ce N'est Pas Du Jazz".
Other Bands : None

Notes : If I remember correctly, this night just started out as a normal practice at our usual spot at SDPR in Vermillion, and then we somehow ended up playing this bonfire party in the front yard of a trailer house on a piece of land out in the middle of nowhere. There was a state highway running in front of the yard, so people would drive by and see this band playing, and one even pulled over and watched for a while, but refused our repeated invitations to come join the party. This is a recording of the 2nd of 2 sets we did.

Set List
01 Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight (Earl Vince and The Valiants)
02 Find It
03 Love Under
04 Hootenanny (The Replacements)
05 Got Religion
06 My Baby Works At Burger King
07 I Felt Like We Lived By The Ocean
08 Beanstalk
09 Jerry Lee (The Didjits)
10 Rock And Roll All Nite (Kiss) (VIDEO)
11 New York Groove (Ace Frehley)
12 Pipeline / Let Me Know Outro (The Chantays / Kiss)
13 My Leg Hurts
14 Ce N'est Pas Du Jazz
15 Ballad Of Helen

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