Every place Student Nurse (Eric & Tom version) played,
as remembered nearly 20 years later,
in vague chronological order
Roscoe Louie 1st gig, July 1981, Record Release Mean review in Sun: Tom "lacked scope." Gretchen becomes frequent supplier of said mouthwash to Tom.
Wallingford House Tom gets back from vacation. Very sloppy. Eric has a bad recording on supercheap cassette tape of this somewhere.
Gorilla Room with a Phil Otto band before Stedi-5
Showbox, benefit for Gorilla Room 9/81 ? Thousands of bands, no audience to speak of Helena in brownshirt and jodhpur pants, singing in dutch, helps idenitfy band as Nazi-esque..
Danceland, no-one there. Review of show discussed particle board. Eric's bus-driver school date Lynn wondered why we sounded "so angry"
Wrex with Blackouts Eric & Tom have orange hair, Tom wears pink Judy jacket 10/30/?
Wrex with Romeo Void
Popeye's in Olympia with Geoff Morgan
Jackson St Gallery (Pioneer Square) Eric gets friendly with Liz . Possibly the show where Tom came out wearing a 4 foot high chorus line hat with sequins, pink feathers, and a rhinestone chinstrap. This hat ended up being the only pay Tom and Eric ever received for about 2 weeks carpentry work on a Music Hall show that folded in one night, so it was a good thing Tom stole it.
UCT Hall with Joe Despair & the Future, Food 12/11/?
# St. Joseph's : Lesbian Gay Sobriety Benefit New Years Eve
(fun in the van with Gretchen) "Can you guys stop playing
now ? We're going to play some records.)
$ 200 : a top-paying gig.
UCT another time, with Mr. Epp and the Calculations first show
UCT another time with Fastbacks, Little Bears ?
+ Rock Against Raygun at Danceland. Multiple bill
CISPES Benefit at Blessed Sacrament School in U-districtwith Sundance, Audio Leter, Fartz 4/2/? Strangest bill ever . Aradia Women's Health Care Benefit ? Graffitt by Hobo Skank punks, deposit lost ? Eric's 1st Audio Leter show ?
Danceland with Refuzors, U-Men (1st show ?), Blackouts. Benefit
for KRAB-FM Dead
Cat Show. Tom remembers that they hated us. Eric remembers it
not quite that way, just that they got PO'd when we did a very
punk song " It's my life !" AND being propositioned
by a teenage girl to "go backstage and do whatever"
FYI : there actually was no backstage. 12/5/ ?
+ Hub Ballroom KCMU benefit with Enemy, 2 others ? 1000 people in audience ? Sharon & Kathleen dance to Electronic Pop Smash, with ineffectual melted wax slide projector lighting by Mare Blocker and Eric. Helena over PA " Just because you go to college doesn't mean you have to be stupid !" Tom & Eric identify and meet "THE FAN" Brad Matter
Dragon Palace with Los Microwaves, Tom begins affair with Meg Brazil. With the wisdom of hindsight, he speculates that this may have driven Maggie to the "dark side". 5/29/?
Roscoe Louie, some other time Single Release ?
+ St Joseph's Country Doctor Benefit with Audio Leter, Life In General, Rally Go This one was one of the bestbig packed house, totally dancing, finished with instrumental version of Saigon 10/30/?
Cause Celebre Café 6/12/? Advertised as "free"
Gretchen's House : her birthday ?
* Whitman House (most important Heather freak out and messing around with Sarah. We actually suspended the show in mid-stride so Helena & Heather could devote full attention to their struggles. Sid & Maggie make out also. New Year's Eve)
Hub Auditorium Friday noontime show on stage to seated audience, band barely awake
Rainbow Tavern with Fastbacks & Koo Stark 2/22/?
+ Roscoe Louie closing party with Supershaft and PMA Wild Time, closed with Louie Louie11/27/?
Polish hall on Capitol Hill with Joe Despair & the Future. Ward Despair has superglued guitar : got mad at TV and put guitar through it.
Lincoln High School Gym, benefit for something with Life In General, Color Twigs, 1 other. Beer can flies over Eric's shoulder. Door broken by punks, deposit lost ? This might have been the show for which John & Eric were moving big metal stage risers in the yellow van, and they slid forward coming off Aurora and clocked John (who was driving) in the head really hard and cracked the windshield.
# Oberto Lawn party with spoiled asswipes on Lake Washington,
with Sundance.
Well-paid, humiliated. Gene says "Good Food, though"
Ground Zero 9/1/?
@ Festival of Weird & Dangerous, Bellingham, with Audio Leter. Show in huge empty theater above Italian restaurant. Dian does big hippy dance moves throughout show.
Eagles Hall, basement ? Eric remembers Little Bears From Bangkok, & a Ray Sage band with go-go dancers in cages
Rainbow, with Attachments & Gary Allen May 6/14/?
Rainbow, another time. Eric remembers Greinke & Angus setting up with Red Dress ?
Railroad Room, Vancouver, BC 2 nights : creepy business people.
* Golden Crown (Anny Rose & Thrillers canceled at last minute, Thanksgiving night ? : someone's birthday, fungus applied liberally, Can you guys stop playing now ? We're going to close down now.colored pencil drawing of lizard-headed manager available )
Golden Crown, Pravda show with Hurricanes, Mr Epp, Steddi-5, Beat Pagodas, Spectators 7/15/?
Golden Crown with Lost Architects and Face Ditch 10/7/?
Eric remembers another show with Lost Architects at a loft in Pioneer Square
Golden Crown with Napalm Beach 11/26/?
Athenian
Skagit Community College
* Stampede (Lake City) Tom was sick and puking in parking lot, with Mondo Vita, a band that we thoroughly despised. Eric remembers them doing a song called "Brides of Frankenstein" and the singer pulling a fake head out of a laundry hamper. A 2-night stand. No-one there. Gene wins plasticdancing trophy for never ever dancing.
Metropolis with Mad Dash 8/13/?
* Popeye's (Queen Anne) with Room 9, Tom's last gig
= bad gig
+ = excellent amazing show
# = asked to stop playing
@ = fun show, not very many people
Songs not on CD :
It's My Life !
Discover Your Feet
Sports for War
I am Blind
Orthoptera
Stay the Course
Break the Chains
Surf Tuna
Lies
Car song ?
Patty Duke Theme
Moldamatic Nerd
Mow The Lawn
Sperm Bank for the New Order