Repulsion - Knocking On Heaven's Door / The Stench Of Burning Death / Slaughter Of The Innocent

Repulsion live at Capitol Theatre, 'The Fallout Shelter' 01-01-88
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Surprisingly another reunion show happened at the same place on January 1st '88, so what was the reason for doing another show so soon?
Scott: Thats the one where we do those GUNS covers
Matt: "Oh man! We were real stoned all of us, Dave was on acid, I was stoned on pot!
Scott: We were dropped on pills and drinking and smoking weed, all kind of stuff we did on that one. The reason that we did those GUNS N ROSES songs and no offence to the Death Metallers out there but the whole time that our band was together, we knew in our minds that we were the most killer Death Metal band on the face of the earth (HELL YES! - Laurent) but no Death Metallers in our city or in our area acknowledged that, like I said before our entire loyal audience was Punk Rockers so at that show you know the GUNSN ROSES album was out and I think we all totally digging on that record at the time so when we were rehearsing, we all hadnt seen each other together in a long time so we were like, hey yeah were bashing out like GUNSNROSES version of 'Knocking On Heavens Door' its so easy at the rehearsals just for fun, just goofing around. We got to the show and there were all these Death Metal people there and they had video cameras and I knew what they were gonna do. They were gonna video tape it, sell it, trade it whatever and like be the cool guy on the block with the REPULSION video tape so were like you know what man? Lets just totally rain on their parade and all the Punk kids thought it was funny, and the Death Metal guys were like Dude whats up with the 'Knocking On'? The band was always kind of fun, and we werent image conscious at all so when we did that, it was just like, just to rip those guys, not really to piss them off or flip them off in the face or tell em to fuck off cos we were happy that they were there, that people were acknowledging our existence but it was a sort of little in-joke on the Death Metal guys to make them scratch their heads and wonder why the hell we were doing that.
Matt: And also were totally self indulgent, I mean when we booked the show, it was just like Guys do whatever, play as long as you want, do whatever you want, it was basically a rehearsal, a big drunken rehearsal that a bunch of people showed at.

[@gavin6666]

Lol @ the guy dancing to the left in the crowd during "Knocking on Heaven's Door"

[@putrescentvermin]

Very wholesome the people in the circle are getting their cardio in.

[@corybiro]

AWSOME been a fan since 86