02-12-93
(First Set)

Date:  02-12-93
Venue:  "Capitol Theatre"  Olympia, WA
Source:  ana(1) > CDR
Time:  45 minutes

Setlist:

Eye Flys

Wispy (Instrumental Version)

If I Had An Exorcism

Boris

Vile

Influence of Atmosphere (Instrumental)

Charmicarmicat




My Rating:  B-

The source tape (as with most open-mic Melvins live recordings) is very distorted throughout, but the show is great.  Boris is nearly 15 minutes long-- a great version.  Wispy and Influence of Atmosphere are both just Dale playing.  Eye Flys and Charmicarmicat both cut.  It sounds like the original source tape had some problems while recording (other than the overdriven mic), and so there are a few "pops" and gargles throughout.  The show is pretty good.  The droning F that Buzz plays on If I Had An Exorcism is sustained for quite a bit of time, creating an air of anticipation before they let the song rock again.  This show is not quite as good as the other few shows I have on video or audio from this era (03/04/93 comes to mind), but a very excellent performance worth owning none-the-less.  The set started at 12:30am!  The taper only had a 90 minute tape, so he cut a bunch of stuff inbetween songs to try to get the most of the music from the two sets onto the cassette as possible.  Sadly, both sets are heavily editted and cut down quite a bit.  From the mouth of someone who was there, more songs were played than are captured on this tape, though he can't remember exactly what they were.