August 5 – On This Day!

1987: Pussy Galore – Joel Aid / The Channel, Boston, US
w/ Big Black, Urge Overkill, MC Byron Coley and DJ Debbie Southwood Smith

nb. Last Big Black show.

1989: Pussy Galore – CBGB, New York City, NY, US
w/ Cop Shoot Cop, Honeymoon Killers, The Unsane and The Dust Devils

nb. Last Pussy Galore show (excluding the reunion at Maxwell’s, Hoboken, NJ on December 23, 2011).

The recordings from this show were remixed in 1997 and released as Live: In The Red on vinyl and CD.

Part of this show was broadcast on The John Peel radio show on 25 July 1990.

Peel Session Tracks:

Dead Meat
SM57
Understand Me
Pig Sweat
Nothin’ Can Bring Me Down
New Breed

Poster Image: alexinnyc (https://vassifer.blogs.com/alexinnyc/2006/12/sweet_little_hi.html)

1994: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Playroom, Gold Coast, Australia
w/ Beck and Magic Dirt

“Anybody who witnessed The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion on their first visit to Australia and New Zealand in the early nineties as support to US hipster Beck, would have seen a man – a band – seemingly possessed with the spirit of everything great rock ‘n’ roll has to offer. A flat out garage attack of diamond riffs, snarled vocals, blues hollering, the funky drummer beats and tunes you can actually dance and/or fuck to.” – FeelPresents.com (2011)

Comment regarding The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion supporting Beck during the Australian tour (exact show unknown):

“A few much cooler people were there solely for the support band, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, who really confused the audience who wanted to like them, but couldn’t yell and scream because the JSBX played continuously, with no breaks between songs.

Beck joined the JSBX for a song, which massively excited the audience, but it wasn’t Loser so it didn’t really matter.” – robyngallagher.com

2000: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Summer Sonic, Tokyo, Japan

The band have referred to this online and said that their set was delayed by 45 minutes due to James Brown but the band had the “good fortune to meet the Godfather” and Russell got his autograph.

There was also a Summer Sonic shirt specifically for this event.

2011: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Off Festival, Katowice, Poland

2015: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Powerstation, Auckland, New Zealand
w/ Swamp Thing

nb. Show rescheduled from 31 July 2015

Live Photo (Colour): Trevor Villers
Live Photos (b/w): Powerstation ( https://www.facebook.com/powerstationnz/)

2017: Cat Power (w/ Judah Bauer) – Feed The Body, Feed The Soul @ Fox Cities Performing Arts Center, 400 W College Ave, Appleton, Wisconsin, WI 54911, US

2018: Jon Spencer & The HITmakers – The Vogue Theatre, Indianapolis, IN, US
w/ Melvins

HITmakers show #8

Interview / Show Preview:

“NUVO: I know you’re putting out your first solo record in the fall. What went into the decision to go down this solo route?

SPENCER: Because I wanted to do something, and I don’t have a band. [laughs] I needed to just get out there and start something new. Boss Hog [a band he’s in with his wife] put a record out about a year ago called Brood X. We did some touring, but we were somewhat limited because most people in the group have full-time jobs. We’ve done some touring. We’d like to do more, but we can’t go out for weeks at a time.

I was really missing having a band. Last summer, I wrote a bunch of songs and then took a trip out to Benton Harbor, Michigan to work at Key Club Recording and made this record Spencer Sings the Hits! I worked with Sam Coomes, who is best known for being one half of Quasi. Sam played bass using a lot of synthesizers, and the drummer is a local guy from Kalamazoo named M. Sord. Sord was somebody that I got to know from working at the Key Club. He’s kind of like the studio handyman, but he’s also a great drummer.

We tracked the record last fall, and the session got cut short because my father-in-law passed away. Then, in January, I went back out to the Key Club to finish the record—to overdub and mix the thing. It’s been done for a while, and hopefully it’ll be out in October. If people come out and see us play, we will have a special prerelease vinyl-only tour edition of the record. So you could buy a copy if you come to the show. Otherwise, you’ve gotta wait until October. I should also mention that joining us live on these dates will be my old friend Bob Bert, who was in Pussy Galore with me. There are going to be four of us.” – Seth Johnson / nuvo.newsnirvana.com

Full Interview: https://nuvo.newsnirvana.com/music/jon-spencer-s-wild-ride/article_cf2b7400-94fd-11e8-843f-67ad9a357545.html

Poster Design: Jeremy Packer (https://www.instagram.com/zombieyeti/)
Live Photo: Kevin Hickner (https://www.instagram.com/kev_yo/)
Billboard Photo: Luc Alberts (https://www.instagram.com/sixstringrevolver/)