SST - The Tour (Hüsker Dü, the Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Saccharine Trust, SWA)

[@gregdahlen4375]

did actually see this tour when it came through palo alto, well, the minutemen stopped me on El Camino Real in their white van to ask for directions to the club (cuz I was wearing a Captain Beefheart T-shirt), that's why I went

[@colinloustalot9472]

ah man i hope you still have that beefheart t!

[@gregdahlen4375]

@@colinloustalot9472 yeah I hope so too but I haven't seen it in a while

[@roberthplaversuch5835]

Minutemen and HüDü were/are GODS - anything less would be an insult - D. Boon rest easy!

[@mikeroby1313]

If Bob Mould (or d. boon in life) heard the 'gods' appellation they would've pissed in your bowling bag.

[@NicoBleackley]

I love watching shows from this era. The comments are usually great too if there's a couple of older peeps in here dishing out stories. A time period I'd love to visit.

[@kidthump]

Husker Du the greatest American band of all time.

[@OhanaFilms]

D. Boon was such a terrible loss. As much as I like fIREHOSE, I sure would have loved some more Minutemen songs.

[@sutiszorny8039]

They would have been as big as R.E.M. if not bigger! 1985 seemed like a promising year for them, but the tragic death ruined everything. :(

[@EdgarBumpers]

"The Blasting Concept" changed my life back in 1984. I bought it new for $1 at my local small town (Temple, TX) record store. I asked the guy why it was only a dollar and he said, "It's a sampler. We don't sell that kind of crap here."

[@theskintexpat-themightygreegor]

Wow. This is my all-time favorite show. I caught it in San Diego AND in L.A. Best concert I've ever been too and I don't expect I'll ever top it. Minutemen, Meat Puppets and Hüskers were my favorite bands, and all on one bill?? Jesus. They are still some of my favorite bands. And Henry Rollins looked like a madman. I was just SLIGHTLY disappointed that Black Flag didn't play, but whatever.

[@LAG3]

Ah, the SST years. Talk about deja vu. The Huskers were as tight as a mosquitoes @$$. Divide And Conquer is my favorite song. I put it in repeat and sing along! Man, how I love them.

[@antpaloni]

Minutemen at 42:50 43:06 - Corona 45:28 - Beacon Sighted Through Fog 46:18 - The Only Minority 47:19 - Badges 48:10 - The Cheerleaders 51:39 - Lost

[@sutiszorny8039]

Thank you!

[@beebop333]

Only saw Husker Du, at the Orpheum in Boston, around 1987 I believe Wharehouse tour .

[@zobo42]

D Boon - lighting in a f*cking BOTTLE!

[@df5295]

I saw Husker Du and the Meat Puppets. I wish I'd seen The Minutemen! RIP D Boon!

[@zebageba]

Saccharine Trust rules.

[@ParallelYell]

U rule for these words of wisdom.

[@Antanix]

Huskers are a force of nature. Eight Miles High is brutal. No match.

[@drjitters]

I had to stand through SWA once, now you don't have to. Saccharine Trust begins at 12:00 .

[@drjitters]

drjitters Peace Frog; 23:00

[@drjitters]

drjitters d. boon sounds drunk. Husker's 'Diane' at 54:29

[@camofrog]

+drjitters You, sir(?), made me lol 2x

[@BillKiefaber]

One of the first concerts I attended at Bogart's in Cincinnati, OH. Great show and insane crowd.

[@gooch45202]

Word up to the 'Nati! Jockey Club!

[@devinherndon6867]

I need this on DVD!!

[@blonieamw2998]

Minutemen is why im watchin' tho... D boon, Mike Watt, And George Hurley!! Clearly, (in my little opinion) the best musicians punk ever produced

[@lotyde]

Minutemen is the best.

[@sutiszorny8039]

Without a doubt!

[@hkmoving]

Saw this tour the next night at Ackerman, UCLA. Brilliant, although HüDü was cut short due to an incident

[@JTPrime08]

Man, so awesome. I play bass and I’m very fond of Chuck Dukowski. He’s so cool. Aside from his time in Wurm, Black Flag, the October Faction and others, SWA is awesome. Chuck Dukowski is an awesome bass player. He is so awesome. Other than that, cool:).

[@zippymufo9765]

SWA were awful. They were a running joke in the late 80's, you couldn't find one person who liked their music.

[@matthewvaneyk4713]

Actually Arroyo was a minor college radio hit.

[@timgallegos4856]

I saw all these bands, not in one place, Cool, before 1985, wish they would all come bak

[@JohnSmith-ij6ms]

R.I.P. D.

[@AlisonWild]

Yeah, ignore the old technology, desync, enjoy the Meat Puppets taking you on a psychedelic ride, "Little Wing" right after "Up on The Sun" at 28:00 or so. LIke Willy Wonka boat trip, with Ompa Loompas and twisting snakes and crazed Gene Wilder narration..... good stuff.

[@atomaalatonal]

to me sst was the ultimate influencing label.

[@RedChannelsStudio]

Might help if someone put this up with the sound in sync and with the video without the squeeze....

[@mrmo4176]

Wow, Saccharine Trust? That's going deep in a good way lol

[@GuilhermeJardim]

Pré-Grunge! 1985!

[@ParallelYell]

Hahahaha Jack falling over TWICE in peace frog xD

[@DJBuglip]

Fuck Watt is killing it. Aww, Grant. :( Bob Mould is my punkrock god.

[@blonieamw2998]

Saccharine Trust's singer is Steve Brule lol

[@blonieamw2998]

they are so dam good,,, funny i never knew Nirvana listed them on that 50 list

[@poiiypocket]

love to meat puppets

[@pauldyer7077]

Saw the UCLA stop. Last time I saw d.boon....

[@DJThinK707]

This is it!!!!

[@gusbuckingham6663]

Ah ha! Now here is a reissue the world needs. Oh wait, that'll never happen. So thanks for the boot!

[@cathedralmound]

Thanks!

[@toddelkin6599]

I was there maaaaaaaan. no lie.

[@MaxLeader9000]

I saw this tour in Palo Alto (the night before this?). Actually left during Husker Du. I liked them but their live sound was horrible.

[@killerbunyip]

The sound on Land Speed Record is atrocious.

[@duckbrew]

killerbunyip That's cause the minutemen produced it..

[@TheBonnieFranklin]

+Matthew T. Grant I think it was the night after, but typing that only serves to make me look like the goofy nerd that I am. But more to the point, I agree. The night before was the same. Husker Du were good, but overblown guitar-sound wise. And after the Meat Puppets/Minutemen/S.T., it was kinda hard to stay interested. So, at the first show - the Stone - I stayed all the way through. At Palo Alto, I also left during Husker Du. And Land Speed Record wasn't produced by the Minutemen. It was simply released on their label, New Alliance.

[@stevegilmore2093]

@@TheBonnieFranklin And land speed record is amazing

[@CAKmusic]

too bad about the desync

[@allthesecars]

CAKmusic I thought I was just drunk.

[@JTPrime08]

These bands are awesome. I play bass and I’m very fond of Chuck Dukowski. He’s so cool. Aside from his time in Wurm and Black Flag, SWA is awesome. Chuck Dukowski is an awesome bass player. He is so awesome. Other than that, cool:).

[@privatenumber7243]

Yeah, sure. Awesome synch, kid..

[@camofrog]

CAN'T SOMEBODY FIX THIS FUCKING VIDEO thank you

[@unfortunatebeam]

'm free.

[@elmoblatch9787]

d. Boon had good footwork for a big man. l love how the kid just jumps on stage during the minutemen set and jumps off. No security goons are there to hassle him, and there are no problems. Ah, the good ol' days. I prefer fIREHOSE to the Minutemen.

[@sutiszorny8039]

For some reason, fIREHOSE doesn't move me. Possibly it's just the reason that D. is not among us anymore.

[@Riza31417]

Are the meat puppet brothers twins?

[@charlessale409]

+Riza31417 yeh

[@dellboid]

No

[@charlessale409]

wait i think they're brothers

[@dellboid]

Yeah just brothers. Curt being the senior.

[@seabasssimpson4547]

Where's Painted Willie???

[@robertsimms7130]

SWA is kinda bad.

[@EscombrosAmundsen]

all bands pale and crumble before Hüsker Dü

[@zippymufo9765]

SWA was the worst bullshit band ever. Steve Albini once wrote that "the most pathetic things a person can do is listen to SWA or be SWA".

[@silversnail1413]

Steve Albini hated almost every band. He even insulted the Pixies after they did their first album with him then had to walk back his comments years later. And let's not forget that he produced Bush albums too. I don't listen to his opinions on anything anymore. Big Black is incredibly overrated too. Everything they ever did musically was done better by bands like Swans and Godflesh and their lyrics are the kind of garbage an edgy thirteen year old would write.

[@flashbazzbo]

Meat Puppets? Thats not a set. Thats a Joke. They can barely be bothered to sing, half assed covers. They must have been pissed off or making a concept statement.

[@camofrog]

+flash bazbo what do you mean man, "up on the sun" was amazing. though to be fair they probably were tripping because when weren't they.

[@crashatollah]

+flash bazbo no, they were absolutely amazing and you can see them win over the crowd, it's obvious they go from confused, to amazed to thrilled.

[@crashatollah]

+flash bazbo i saw them open for John Cale in Miami when the Dead Milkmen canceled. IT was the first time i had heard of the Meat Puppets, they slayed. They conquered. John Cale was too drunk to play but the Meat Puppets and the Pscyho Daisies were soooooo good it made up for it.

[@TheBonnieFranklin]

+flash bazbo Funny. For a few decades running, this particular Meat Puppet set was the best example of an overcrowded club audience completely falling in line with the mayhem onstage. As well as attending this show (Ooh, look at me! Look at me!), I saw the Meat Puppets easily 15 times in the four years surrounding this one. They were not "pissed," and if there's a statement being made, it's not one they didn't make on a regular basis.

[@goodboysic]

+Jay Kahl and TheBonnieFranklin I agree completely. I saw them on the "up on the Sun" tour in Manhattan on the 3rd floor of a club called "The World". I wasn't tripping,(having given that up years ago), but a few times during their performance, the music seemed to induce hallucinations by its composition and how brilliantly it was being played. At the end of Hot Pink the room seemed to melt and then elevate somehow...it was truly amazing. A cover of Led Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll" as one of the encores was unlike any I had ever heard and the entire crowd was in tune, enthralled and at rapt attention during the entire show. Not an easy thing to pull off in a NYC night club. After that experience, I always made it a point to see these boys whenever they were in town. They never disappointed.

[@elmoblatch9787]

At 28:30 you have to admit that a band could not sound worse than the Meat Puppets. Their set is unwaveringly sloppy, devoid of energy, self indulgent, and outright pathetic. Their recorded catalog is fine, but jesus fucking christ they are piss poor live...just awful.

[@AsherReed]

I think what’s more pathetic is that you had to comment twice on how much you hate the meat puppets

[@elmoblatch9787]

Meat Puppets are terrible in this...truly awful.

[@TheGordeaux]

terribly epic. awfully amazing. peep their first album.. this is an intentional artform~!