The Jesus Lizard - Live at Venus De Milo, Boston (10-04-1994)

[@waltermuller436]

Saw them open for nirvana at roseland nyc 7/23/93. They came on stage and yow says “we’re the melvins” and they rip into seasick and yow immediately jumps into the crowd singing (yowing) “I can swim”. First and unfortunately the last time I saw them. Blew my mind and I loved it. Then came nirvana. What a night. I think I’m old now.

[@stevennorfolk4466]

Oh man we be getting old now but the memories

[@derekstitt7215]

But at least you were of age to witness such mastery 🖤

[@PhillyTornadoSpin]

Damn. I wish i was old. To see that wouldve been such an experience

[@kidkique]

I saw Nirvana 11/8/93 and the Jesus Lizard was not there but holy cow that would have been amazing

[@stevedeans8773]

Walter, I’d still hangout with you any day and chat over music.

[@lintern77]

I used to love these guys. Now I am living in a nursing home

[@tylerperkinson1677]

Tom Lintern sorry, i think? was that sarcasm?

[@13squier]

RIP brother

[@tylerperkinson1677]

@@13squier what the hell was that? I didn't know whether to chuckle or be sympathetic. Even now I don't.

[@jorchdatorch842]

Setting a great example for us all

[@bilbobaggins4710]

@rj zander ????

[@vanyagorkov8438]

Benny Harvey RIP, miss ya big man.

[@juliendinse]

00:00 Destroy Before Reading 03:35 Puss 07:00 Bloody Mary 09:25 Nub 12:22 Horse 15:33 One Evening 18:43 The Associate 23:41 Killer McHann 26:04 Mailman 29:43 Boilermaker 32:09 Mouth Breather 34:12 Gladiator 38:09 Fly On The Wall 41:29 Chrome (Chrome cover) 46:30 Hype TV Interview 1:02:19 Seasick

[@notbrendon]

Doing god's work (?_)

[@kevinkino400]

Thank you

[@CHARIOTangler]

Thank you for the set list.

[@damianphelps648]

LLJL

[@NellieFly]

Bless you my child 🤪

[@Ch69ad]

David Wm Sims was playing through 2 15s and an 18 during this time. The thing this video misses out on, is the immense bass coming off the stage and pounding you in the chest. They were such a spectacle live... long live the Jesus Lizard.

[@petetheodocion9542]

Around this time at the 40 Watt some shit jumped on stage and Sims without missing a beat put the top of the bass into his forehead and didnt miss a note

[@deanpesaturo6401]

Tell Me about it. I used to be living on and off the road myself from the beginning of the anti alternative culture and there’s nothing around today whatsoever that’ll ever live up to this era. Sincerely, DJP ex Anal Cunt; PostMortem and Kilslug Sony; Earache 🇬🇧 Columbia and TAANG!! Records @ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Greetings 🖖 😮from Boston Massachusetts Amerikkka naturally

[@jolemite2639]

@@petetheodocion9542Good ol DWS threatened to boot me in the face at one of their shows in Tampa at The Rubb. I just blew him a kiss & silently wished he would’ve. That was just his way of high fiving you. 😂

[@words911]

Yeah that bass and Mac's drumming caved in the chest. Saw them four times back in the day. Whiskey Go Go around 96ish I think. Hell of a show, then The Roxy after that. Yow seemed tired of singing some songs so he passed the mic around and everyone yelled the lines into it. Good times.

[@deadmanx9864]

@user-fj1pq8me7w Best Friends Forever Festival💪💪💪

[@gartoonanimation6002]

My roommate and I discovered a great friendship over this band. I’m 26 he’s 55.

[@paulsnider9208]

Yow was one of the best rock n roll frontmen ever-- saw them in 1994 at Toronto's Opera House. At one point, Yow took a ball cap off a kid's head down front and wore it on stage. Then someone else from the audience swiped it off Yow's head. Yow cannonballed into the centre of the pit and disappeared beneath all the roiling meat. He was gone for about 30 seconds, then suddenly surfaced all bloody, but having retrieved the kid's hat. Awesomeness.

[@lextual]

Seen 'em about 3 times or so, met David Yow backstage those times real cool/mellow dude (believe it or not), wicked sense of humor of course. There's a video 'round these KZbin parts of a JL show where he gets nailed with a bottle in the head, and is visibly addled. About 3 minutes later is able to finish the rest of the show. Let's see Beyonce pull that off...

[@Ch69ad]

Hey Paul... I was at that show too!!! I saw them one other time at the Horseshoe about a year or two after - another amazing show. I remember he got his dick out the night of the Opera House show lol.

[@drbooks]

Was? Is. Saw them two nights ago in NYC. Really haven’t aged a bit. Full fucking bore. Yow loves a crowd surf as much as ever

[@patricknapier8902]

It's incredible! The dude is a total beast. I just saw them in LA and they blew my fucking mind.

[@kellphil76]

poppachubby chubby tight and shiny!

[@paulsnider9208]

David Yow's style as a frontman owes more to a hebephrenic hobo jabberin onna street corner than it does any conventional frontman... more awesomeness.

[@HadesMiscreant]

This drummer friggin keeps it together what a beat! Jesus Lizard rocks.

[@buzzardbeatniks]

This band literally changed my taste in men.

[@CorporateShoes]

Lmao

[@alannewman4818]

Sounds familiar

[@RC-gg1ib]

From what??

[@buzzardbeatniks]

@@RC-gg1ib effeminate artsy or gothy.

[@MeAndTheBoys_]

@@RC-gg1ib Simp.

[@copheart]

5:39 Watch Mac kill the drum break and then Yow getting summoned into the crowd. This is why Jesus Lizard are one of the best bands in the world, ever, for all time, in existence, that ever played.

[@cheetahcoats4923]

Unreal band, thankyou. Mac Mcneilly is a crazy genius on drums.

[@1zv]

absolutely love the mustached security guy on the side of the stage, enjoying every minute.

[@bigdog517]

Dude's a legend, you should see the footage of him at a recent Converge gig Though I think he recently passed?

[@steveplease]

I love the guy too! They are the perfect soundtrack for handing someone their ass, so he's like "Finally, a band for me!"

[@hardcorehoulie]

Jeff Freedman, Wizard Security....he's still kickin'!!!

[@ShawnH529]

Alive and well, and still works major shows in Boston...well...until shows went away

[@William.Driscoll]

💯

[@mikerophone235]

Man, in their prime, there really wasn't another band who could touch them. Genius

[@reyrichard4922]

Y avait Condense en France

[@FattyJane]

0:13 Destroy Before Reading 3:35 Puss 7:12 Bloody Mary 9:25 Nub 12:22 Horse 15:34 One Evening 18:43 The Associate 23:40 Killer McHann 25:53 Mailman (Soundgarden Cover) 29:42 Boilermaker 32:10 Mouth Breather 34:13 Gladiator 38:09 Fly On The Wall 41:59 Chrome 46:28 Interview w/ David Yow 1:02:20 Seasick (Encore)

[@jolemite2639]

Thank you for the stamps. “The Mailman” is definitely not Soundgardens version of the same title though. He was bullshittin.

[@jaysonwilson2697]

And the fact that he says “We’ve written just recently, It’s a cover” 😆

[@stevenmelanson4191]

I was at this show

[@cortneyh6206]

Ahhh man....I miss the 90s!!!! Amazing performance and recording, especially being like almost 30 years ago!

[@tomread8748]

Wrong! It's only 10 years ago... 15 max... aw, heck.....

[@tylerperkinson1677]

I don't speak Yow-ese, but, what a loss to have not seen them live back in the day. What a band, what an atmosphere they sweated out and projected. My loss, and I feel it, watching this.

[@DanielDanger420]

When David gets the sound guy to turn his mic up, and then gives him the "okay". That's some showmanship just in itself

[@ShawnH529]

Smooth as hell

[@jackburton3540]

Time stamp?

[@jigri_pokhri]

Lol J why the fuck are you smiling?

[@Jack_nnn_]

@@jackburton3540 the very start, when he begins singing the opener

[@copheart]

That nickname. I've run into a couple Daniel Dangers in my day. Funny seeing one her.

[@garyh4458]

I've seen this band three times by accident.

[@killyourtelevision]

A Duane Dennison instructional video led me here. Any of my friends who knew about this band and never made me listen to them are dead to me now.

[@knifeprtyyyy]

Check out Tomahawk if you haven’t.

[@sloboda28]

i just came from the same video lmao

[@joewagner4593]

I was that guy for my friends. I just assumed they couldn't handle TJL. Ironically, they were listening to offspring and shit like that 😂

[@brunosco]

This band and David Yow will always be in my heart. Such intense feelings from it. Saw them in a festival in ninety something (Dour Festival in Belgium?) and Yow throw himself in the crowd with his microphone and the long wire hanging over heads, clamped to some random people from the audience. After their show, I think it was the turn of Ministry... and after a few minutes Yow appeared on stage among the ministry members playing their gig, jumping around TOTALLY NAKED (before being swiftly removed from the security guards). What a joy! (Not that I was glad seeing him naked, but such adventures and memories! :'-D ) UPDATE: OK, looking at some other live shows from them, old and new (as well as comments), seems what I wrote is just the norm with them! LOL

[@Steaminlidz]

I remember reading an article around the time that they played their 500th show and he claimed that he’d got naked about 250 times. The microphone in the audience bit was all of their shows. ‘Seasick’ was specifically written so he could scream “I can’t swim” as he crowd surfed.

[@brunosco]

@@Steaminlidz Haha, what a bloke!

[@stevenlesperance445]

best goddamned band EVER. best live act I ever witnessed. glad I got to see them in their heyday. the place was even smaller than this place!

[@RooBot]

I concur.

[@bradley8913]

Only after the Shaggs.

[@douglas6743]

I can't believe how good the footage is, being 1994.

[@mattwood2872]

Yeah, that was hundreds of years ago

[@thomasgambroadamsson3650]

This was a quality recording. We bought/traded bootleg VHS live recordings of shows from bands like tJL and this was one of the only with dynamic camera footage and... soundboard?... audio. It looks and sounds great.

[@VambeefcoHorzey]

It was actually pre-camera - some kind fan took the time to draw this footage in their flip book.

[@Emp1231231]

Music is just sound waves, but at a Jesus Lizard show, unlike any other show I've ever been to, it felt like sound waves could punch you in the face.

[@puertoriconnect4611]

this is awesome. I was watching a big black video and this played automatically.

[@milque9715]

Bass player nailing that Ricky from Trailer Park Boys aesthetic

[@youtube_moderator]

one of the greatest bands of all time

[@bradley8913]

Only after The Shaggs.

[@My-heart74]

I was at this show and also saw them the year before downstairs at the Middle East Yow crowdsurfed all the way across the room to the bar jumped over the bar and started throwing beers to the crowd and then crowdsurfed back to the bar singing the whole time

[@firstnamefirst3200]

In fhis covid world, i so miss live music, and though JL had "albums" and "songs" nothing was nearly as cathartic as a real JL show!

[@downsyndromearmy55]

High quality recording and performance of JL at their peak! Thank you.

[@thomasgambroadamsson3650]

Their performance of "Nub" is both amazing and hilarious. Yow, crowdsurfing, says "Duane!" because it's going into that scathing guitar bit. Yow, who needs to get back to the stage, says "help me move forward, fucker". It's perfect. I had this show on a burned DVD from my buddy who did all the leg work. Looking forward to RACK and the tour!

[@hanah_playcool]

i really feel like it sums up how the band is live perfectly

[@chuckeddy2588]

Happy 25th Anniversary Oct 04 1994- 2019. Magical Fantastic

[@13squier]

One of the most menacing bands of all time!

[@bradley8913]

Them and The Monkees.

[@intercoursenoise74]

This is the best Jesus Lizard video out like my 20th time watching

[@RobertoTapiola]

Oh Intercourse, you are killer band!

[@Jack_nnn_]

love how sims is stone cold serious the entire time, and then he just starts dancing and smiling during gladiator, esp 35:39

[@goodmansteve2481]

Well he did that same dance the entire time, but the smile, that is new

[@jamescarbuthen9521]

me and my pal iadorelife can't function after 20 years of lizard listening. we just stare out the window now. wearing our crocs.

[@gbowles]

best straight up Rock and Roll band of all time

[@bradley8913]

Only after The Partridge Family.

[@solitaryman777]

or The Cramps

[@MORTIFICER]

Never heard of this band before now, but I love them. I see where These Arms are Snakes and Hot Cross got their elements.

[@RobertoTapiola]

Welcome to the CLUB!.

[@keeelane]

MORTIFICER next: early Television w/ John McGeoch ;)

[@MORTIFICER]

I

[@MORTIFICER]

keeelane Is that a song I should check out?

[@keeelane]

MORTIFICER television is a band that influenced the jesus lizard pretty heavily. john mcgeoch was their guitarist at least on some of the albums...not sure which ones but he's a definite influence on duane denison of TJL. john also played in siouxsie and the banshees and public image ltd.. definitely also check PiL out cuz they influenced TJL too.

[@geoffhafner5856]

Crowd surfing and screaming at the same time. Crazy

[@demonicsweaters]

I like how there's slap-back on the drums even live, haha.

[@waysiderecs]

I just came here to be 17 again.

[@stevedeans8773]

My favourite band, so underrated!

[@johnstockman2956]

I love em too. They only let me out on day passes now.

[@codymcgrew4015]

32:40 "don't get me wrong.. don't get me wrong... he's a nice guy.... weeeeooooo!" 😂😂😂

[@johnnywhale]

but he's a mouthbreather!

[@ruggeroconfalonieri2]

Very funny story about this song lyrics😅

[@Paganscot]

@@ruggeroconfalonieri2 Wasn't Mouthbreather about a member of Slint?

[@ruggeroconfalonieri2]

@@Paganscot Yes😄😄 About Slint drummer Britt Walford and Steve Albini. David Yow told the story.

[@boisterousbillyclub2772]

One of the tightest concerts I've attended

[@agoogle1240]

This is too good. Love the guy with the stash at the side of the stage. JL = pure rock and roll evil

[@drbooks]

Agoogle looks like Simon from the Walking Dead

[@michaelducote2509]

Fuqin' Jeff! lol ,,been doin' security all over Boston for years, that's why he was helpin' with the mic cable. Actually you can see 'im in a bunch of sh%t workin' the pit.

[@ShawnH529]

Jeff Freedman, Wizard Security. STILL working every major show in Boston

[@garybrame3119]

Saw these guys a couple times in the early 90s. 0 to mayhem in two minutes flat...

[@prgvidiot]

Thank You Roberto Tapiola

[@JFKFC13]

I was there. People were pissed. The audio doesn't do it justice. The crowd in the back were looking for blood. All I know is Dave came back on and they started playing again. Never realized that Sims was out for while. I knocked my tooth out on the back of somones head. Oh Well. Didn't care at the moment. Simpler times 1994.

[@andreasdeutinger7319]

duane is a giant. david lifted weights in high school, you could still see that in 94. the rhythm section is a killer. maybe the best in rock ever. i love this band.

[@knifeprtyyyy]

They are great but I put Bill Gould and Puffy of FNM above them.

[@Meatloaf_Sandwich1]

@@knifeprtyyyy Totally agree

[@jonnyjib]

His voice always sounded like his nose was plugged to me..fucking great band

[@notone4029]

Such a great concert wish I knew of them back then instead of my grunge days. Puss and Bloody Mary are pure fire!!

[@xasperations]

saw him play a gig in Western Australia at a festival and everything that got thrown on stage was put inside his stretch pants, which only encouraged the rain of debris. Haven't laughed so much at any gig ever. Their sense of humour is often overlooked, probably due to the awesome nature of the wall of sound.

[@shedendhayzer]

Class altogether 🇮🇪✌️🍺thanks for this I saw them in 96/97 the old point in Dublin

[@codymcgrew4015]

25:55 “This is a song we’ve written just recently... it’s a cover of a new Soundgarden song!...” lmao 😂

[@AmericanLibra]

He sang most of Nub crowd-surfing. Absolutely epic.

[@rickyrayjackson2503]

The best band of all time.

[@Pivkan143]

Thank you Mr.Roberto Tapiola. Jesus Lizard be with you and all of us.

[@russb8151]

I love how the security guard is standing there chilling in the rock & roll bliss rolling off the stage like that(lucky bastard)

[@replyragescreamlive1540]

Yow sucha loose cannon. Unpredictable. Makes this band even more legendary!! What a band! Only saw them once. Gladiator and Boilermaker my fave songs but no weak ones they got really...

[@senorgrowdog]

This is AMAZING! I was at this very show!!!! I can't thank you enough!!!!!!!

[@BRUNOAZIZ]

Adam GROW its envy a bad thing?

[@bradley8913]

You don't have to scream, we can hear you.

[@sergiomartins8525]

The guy that remembers everyone about how nobody used mobile phones hasn't appeared yet

[@gabmflm]

Is that the same guy who's been saying all over that this was the real music and young people only listen to shit nowadays?

[@goodmansteve2481]

@@gabmflm eh, I’d still listen to this then listen to anything from Justin Bieber

[@ericexaybachay]

Whatever. That guy's right.

[@neighborhoodmusicsnob5517]

@@goodmansteve2481 dude the Bieber Fever was like 14 years ago.

[@brianpietrowicz2390]

So fortunate to see these guys. 'Fucking Rule' comes to mind.

[@FelixWheatfield]

Never got a chance to see Jesus Lizard live, but I did get to catch David Yow when he toured with Flipper recently. Wild guy, wild show. Wild band!

[@bradley8913]

Do you mean that you caught him literally or figuratively? A lot of people in this crowd are catching him literally.

[@FelixWheatfield]

@@bradley8913 Yes, literally and figuratively, I was in the front row and he seemed to favor our side of the room funnily enough

[@bradley8913]

@@FelixWheatfield Man, that must have been a great show. Flipper are no slouches either.

[@solitaryman777]

Yeah, saw them in Chicago, with Greg Norton's (bassist for Husker Du) new band. It was kind of a revisiting of the old heads. Flipper's original drummer and guitarist are still with us, can't remember who the bassist was. Yow brought an excitable vibe that was in contrast to the OG Flipper blase 'tude, and launched into the crowd time after time. They played all stuff off Generic and laid down that hard-to-define Flipper groove that just carries you along. It's not funky, but its persistent.

[@ontrialuk7963]

Best front person ever !!

[@bradley8913]

Only after David Cassidy.

[@user-lw9wh8xo3q]

Up there for sure with Fred Schneider and Jello Biafra.

[@tok1964]

He’s a man !!!!

[@z.s.n.]

Goddammit this is such a great band.

[@mikesilva5085]

I feel old watching this - saw them play many times when they came to London. I even got to interview them but David Sims walked out after 1 minute .

[@VambeefcoHorzey]

Something you said?

[@mikesilva5085]

@@VambeefcoHorzey the guy who invited me to the interview wasn’t a huge fan of the band so took me along for the ride and also hoping I would ask interesting questions. His first question however was awful - “what are your favourite drugs? “ . It was at this point David walked out .

[@shaunhamilton8217]

Lol, gotta love his rampage against earplugs!!!!

[@bradley8913]

Ya, wait till the tinnitus kicks in, and you don't have to scream, we aren't deaf. (Not yet anyway.)

[@notbrendon]

I do not identify as one of the 18 downvotes. I like this very much

[@bradley8913]

Don't lie, we saw what you did and we are waiting for you to apologize.

[@AudioGuyBrian]

Jesus Lizard and Scratch Acid. As good as it gets!

[@simonschole]

Fantastic footage!

[@vernalater]

I Found my paddle around midnite!

[@revraaab]

Great upload! I miss them.

[@JustinWhyte]

I am trying really, really hard not to judge the 22 people who gave this a thumbs down.

[@bradley8913]

You should, they are assholes.

[@snowboardingisrad2649]

They probably think Idles are better

[@JustinWhyte]

​@@snowboardingisrad2649 Idles are great, but the JL is 1,000,000 times better than Idles

[@rawcous]

Good solid drumming for sure!!!!

[@scottdittmer5597]

Drumming's Superb!

[@Lemont321989]

This is awesome.

[@illuminatibraincontrol]

setlist: www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-jesus-lizard/1994/venus-de-milo-boston-ma-5bdc4320.html

[@3rdAltChannel]

The part about Mailman being a Sound Garden cover was a joke. It's not. Sound Garden also have a song titled Mailman.

[@melvins74eyehategod]

David Yow is Absolute Pure Fuckin Real Rocker...Top Band

[@keomgranger695]

Check out the transript.

[@Huegelmann]

I just love the chorus of Mouthbreather here: "Don't get me wronghesaaargrhhhgghl.... WOOOOOOOO!"

[@RooBot]

Beautiful.

[@BRUNOAZIZ]

best moment in the history of rock n roll at 28:07

[@RooBot]

"Our eyes met across a crowded theatre.."

[@William.Driscoll]

Lou Rawls 'Love is In the Air'

[@harveyjohnny1967]

Saw these dudes at a music festival in Scotland around this time and they made it EXCELLENT despit the usual shite sound quality. I love the JL

[@reyrichard4922]

Enorme ce groupe

[@bradley8913]

"It hurts my hearing." It's too bad Yow probably isn't able to hear his cats over his tinnitus. Great band. I was watching the Idles and thought they were kind of a Jesus Lizard rip-off. Anyone agree?

[@jeppefrederiksen1084]

haha came here from their KEXP video! Its so true

[@MonteQuz]

O żesz kurła! Ja cierpię dolę!

[@SuperLordHawHaw]

Holy crap I was at this show

[@bradley8913]

And you didn't take us with you. Asshole.

[@josef2012]

Saw them a couple of months ago in portland,still kicking as much ass as they do in this video,but 24 years later. Lol

[@mauriziocoppolaro4227]

2018 still ♡

[@damirpasic2747]

Love forever

[@JohnyeWest83]

YEAH!

[@robertdewhirst2813]

28:08 ;)

[@ComatoseFly]

Rock isn't dead as long as Yow still lives.

[@didierberthet6045]

I love David Yow !

[@BRUNOAZIZ]

who speaks YOWish ?...at 29:32

[@illuminatibraincontrol]

I heard psycho in there somewhere, I think maybe the guy got attacked and KOed? IDFK, maybe david yow landed on his head? either way I think yow wanted him to be safer.

[@stuarterwin4848]

At this point, I'm not even sure Yow speaks yowish.

[@ebsebs11]

kaakakaajakjaaklaklajajajjlakl awesomeeeeeeee

[@7Moonbeam6]

Hey, Duane help me move forward 👊🏻

[@marcopervo]

This live footage reminded my to add Liar to the rotation. It may not be as good as their first records but it's still really freakin' good.

[@mesrineqcc.2086]

yeah !