Legendary Performance: Pere Ubu's David Thomas backed by The Suicide Commandos 1/17/09 Minneapolis

Crunchy vid of a great show.

Set list:
Non-Alignment Pact
Final Solution
Cloud 149

The concert was a benefit for Laura Kennedy of the Bush Tetras who just got a liver transplant:
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/music/37642874.html?elr=KArksD:aDyaE...

Please donate to Laura's Liver Fund at her blog:
http://lklf.blogspot.com/

It was moving when Laura thanked the musicians. Her old band The Bush Tetras played, with a replacement bassist:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gregschaal/sets/72157612725968546/


Check out another youtube vid of Final Solution from this concert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vCLlnR8Dwc

One of the best shows I've ever seen. Nick & Eddie's is a great little restaurant with a lousy sound system. I never saw Pere Ubu or Suicide Commandos back in the day but I played their LP's until the grooves were smooth. Mr. Thomas and The Commandos were explosively sublime together. David Thomas's voice is a musical genre all its own.

Sorry for the vid quality - let's pretend I was consciously shooting for a punk aesthetic ;^} I didn't think my camera's video recorder would work in the low light so I just held it at waist level, vaguely pointed it, and hoped it would grab the sound while I did my herky-jerky happy dance.

Whiskey glass in foreground and backing vocals by Samuel Z Ross, the best damned 5th grade teacher of the postmodern era.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• David Thomas
• Pere Ubu
• Suicide Commandos
• bootleg
• Laura Kennedy

[camdenlurch]

sometimes i watch this and think it is the best live/concert video ever made and that they should all be like this .

never mind your multiple cameras and such .

every time i watch it in fact .

love this .

[dougsha]

@camdenlurch Whoa! Can't beat that comment. Glad to share the music!

[dougsha]

Hard for me to believe over 25,000 people have watched this video. Glad I brought my cheap little camera to the show!

[hahahahaha23]

YESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dougsha]

Glad you dug it!

[MarsVoltaKA]

David Thomas is incredible

[PVCVIDEOLA]

Non-Alignment Pact!

[stevie44ify]

Glad u were there!!!

[mrdrgonzo]

Now I know what its like to be a midget at a gig

[stomachlining]

I use to see these guys play at the Pirates Cove, Cleveland, Ohio.... with Devo as their opening act

[periurban]

Lovely wee video. I saw Pere Ubu twice in the day when they toured the UK. Brings back great memories.

[paretsky]

@dougsha I am 25912 to see this and it's GREAT!!! what energy there....

[ojensby]

Like being there. Eminent.