Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - Athens, GA 1988 (sbd)

Uptown Lounge

Athens, GA

March 2, 1988

  

soundboard recording (quality: VG+; liberated bootleg, ripped from my CD; there's occasional slight distortion, but it's not intrusive)

01 I Often Dream of Trains

02 I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl

03 The Cars She Used to Drive 

04 Acid Bird

05 Bass

06 Tropical Flesh Mandala

07 Element of Light

08 I'm Only You

09 Birdshead

10 Flesh No. 1

11 Balloon Man

12 The Man with the Lightbulb Head

13 Heaven

14 Uncorrected Personality Traits

15 Listening to the Higsons

16 The Queen of Eyes

17 Globe of Frogs

  

18 Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands*

19 The Crystal Ship+

   

*Track 18 = RH live session, KCRW Santa Monica, CA

                   1989-04-24 (FM) 

+Track 19 = RH live session, KROQ Los Angeles, CA

                   1989-04-24 (FM)

Musicians:

Robyn Hitchcock - vocals, guitar, bass
Andy Metcalfe - bass, vocals, drums
Morris Windsor - drums, vocals, guitar
Peter Buck - additional guitar
  

ROB SEZ: Continuing to celebrate the musical genius of Robyn Hitchcock this month — heard here in his "...and The Egyptians" incarnation. Offered for your listening pleasure is this liberated bootleg of a lovely soundboard recording. It's from an RHE show in Athens, GA — with no venue specified, but a blog reader who remembers being there says it was at the Uptown Lounge. The helpful Asking Tree gigography tells us this show was the first American performance on the tour supporting the just-released Globe of Frogs album. Athens local / Hitchcock fan Peter Buck played supplemental guitar on many of the songs. (FYI: this one's not available via archive.org)

  

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MP3@320

Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - 'Thoth Boys' Live Comp

'Give It to the Thoth Boys'
made-for-fans live compilation 
various venues & dates 1991-1993
  
soundboard recordings (quality: Ex-; recorded from the mixing desk)
  

01 Egyptian Cream (Tempe, AZ 1992)
02 chat about 'My Wife'
03 My Wife and My Dead Wife (Dallas 1992) 
04 Clean Steve (Dallas 1992)
05 Glass Hotel (Minneapolis 1992)
06 When I Was Dead (New York 1992)
07 City of Shame (New York 1993)
08 Only the Stones Remain (New York 1993)
09 The Live-In Years (Los Angeles 1992)
10 Globe of Frogs (San Francisco 1992)
11 Somewhere Apart (London 1991)
12 Freeze (London 1991)
13 A Day In the Life (Dallas 1992)

ROB SEZ: Anytime's a good time for a little Robyn H. — so why not late January in 2020? This collection is from a tape compilation made available exclusively to fans in 1993, with all tracks recorded by the band from the mixing board. Egyptians bassist Andy Metcalfe selected and sequenced the tracks, sold only at live shows for a time. I cannot recall my source for this, but I'm guessing it came from the mysterious & generous Dr. Forrester. He's shared a heap o’ Robyn Hitchcock goodies through the years at his excellent Just Add Cones blog, which appears to be dormant right now. Expect more RH rarities in the coming weeks...

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MP3@320