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Live in San Francisco, 1979

by Tuxedomoon

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Preludin 04:47
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What Use? 05:37
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7 Years 04:22
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Volo Vivace 01:46
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59 To 1 04:13
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Fifth Column 04:18
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Loneliness 04:03
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Nervous Guy 04:56
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about

“In December 1979, Tuxedomoon played at the Boarding House, San Francisco, as part of an all night Ralph Records special that also included MX-80 Sound and Snakefinger. During the show “Nervous Guy”was dedicated to David Byrne (of The Talking Heads).

At one point the audience shouted:
“Do something live!
- (Brown or Reininger) We never do a thing live...”

The concert was reviewed by P. Ramont for The Daily Californian in quite eloquent terms: ‘There’ll be no dancing either because Tuxedomoon was up next. This is music to sit down and die by. No, I mean that in a nice way. It’s time we admitted it, there will be no golden harps in the afterlife. If it’s to be orchestrated at all, it will likely be something like Tuxedomoon – a nightmare vision of the darker elements in us that we spend lives trying to conceal. Tuxedomoon do not set out to entertain – they want to take you into a dark alley and push you around. Three extremely talented and versatile musicians, Tuxedomoon arrived easily at the type of instrumental mosaics that Brian Eno and David Bowie have spent albums striving for.’ “

(Extract from Isabelle Corbisier’s Tuxedomoon biography “Music For Vagabonds”, 2008; used by permission of the author)

credits

released August 16, 2020

Recorded live at Boarding House, San Francisco, 3 December 1979, by Terry Hammer

Performers:
Steven Brown
Peter Principle
Blaine L. Reininger

Live sound by Gerry Hesse

Mastered by Anselmo Canha, 2020

Cover collage: unknown , 1978

Band photos by Stefano Paolillo, from the archives of Damage magazine, September 1980.
With thanks to Ryan Richardson @ circulationzero.com

Project management and graphic design by Heitor Alvelos

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An opportunity to explore in detail variations of the classics beyond their officially released versions: how they evolved, how they were interpreted at different times, how they made use of then-available technology… and then there’s the never-heard-before material. Selected according to sound quality and/or historical relevance, an ever-evolving audio-biographical puzzle spanning 40+ years. ... more

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