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

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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.

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  • 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 .

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

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

  • YESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Glad you dug it!

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  • David Thomas is incredible

  • Non-Alignment Pact!

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  • Glad u were there!!!

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

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

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

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

  • Like being there. Eminent.

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