12-03-89

Date: 12-03-89
Venue: "Astoria Theatre"  London, England
Source: CDR
Time: 49:23
Sound Sample:  I Wanna Be Your Dog (Analog/ Complete)
                        Sappy (DAT/ Incomplete)

Setlist:

Intro/ School

I Wanna Be Your Dog (jam)

Scoff

Love Buzz

Floyd The Barber

Dive

Big Cheese

Polly

Spank Thru

About A Girl

Immodium

Molly's Lips

Sappy

Negative Creep

Blew




My Rating: A

This is so great. First of all, the show starts off with the scream used on Muddy Banks, so immediately there is something recognizable.  Then they jam on a great song called "I Wanna Be Your Dog".  I have an early Sonic Youth album where they also play this song. In NIRVANA's version, Krist changes the words "Now I Wanna Be Your Dog" to "Now I Wanna Smoke Marijuana".  You can hear people laughing and having a great time throughout this whole show. The band is in incredible spirits. If the recording quality was a little better, this would be an A+ for sure. Sappy just puts the icing on the cake.  VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!

Recently, I have acquired the D.A.T. verion of this show.  The quality is MUCH better, but it is incomplete.  It begins at Dive and goes until the end of the show.  Really good source though, and captures what is probably one of the best NIRVANA concerts of all time.