10,000 Maniacs – New York, NY (10/11/86)

10,000 Maniacs
New York City, NY
The Ritz
1986-10-11

Source: unknown source > ? > cassette received in trade > recorded to hard drive >
CoolEdit (track separation) > burned to CD > tracks extracted using iTunes > Trader’s
Little Helper > you

Sound quality: B

Tracks:

  1. What’s the Matter Here? (early version)
  2. Poison in the Well (early version)
  3. A Campfire Song (early version)
  4. Maddox Table
  5. Don’t Talk (early version)
  6. Just As the Tide Was a’Flowing
  7. City of Angels (early version)
  8. Can’t Ignore the Train
  9. Scorpio Rising
  10. Like the Weather (early version)
  11. Sister Rose (early version)
  12. Planned Obsolescence
  13. Pit Viper
  14. Daktari

This is one of the earliest recordings of the band beginning to road-test some of the
upcoming “In My Tribe” material. The audience is nearly impossible to hear, which makes
me think that this may be sourced from the soundboard, but unfortunately the sound is
extremely bright with minimal low end.

It’s impressive to think that most of these “In My Tribe” songs were written immediately
following John Lombardo’s departure from the band on July 14 (twelve weeks earlier) and
that they were already being performed live in their near-final versions by mid-September.

Of note: by the time of this concert, “Poison in the Well” had fully evolved from the earlier
song known as “G Suspended”. Of course it was ultimately rejected for “In My Tribe” and
held for release on “Blind Man’s Zoo.”

10,000 Maniacs’ “The Wishing Chair” L.P. will celebrate its 30th anniversary this year
(original release date – September 23, 1985). Since it seems apparent that the Maniacs
are not being given the remaster / bonus tracks / box set treatment that they so richly
deserve, I’ve decided to upload all of my 70+ live and rare 10,000 Maniacs recordings
during the coming weeks. Although many of these recordings will be re-seeds of previous
Dime torrents, a substantial number have never appeared on the Dime (and many others
haven’t been shared since the Dime’s previous incarnation as “easytree.org” circa 2005).

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