Rabbit Choir: Rabbit Choir Live, Spring 1989

So, after the demo tape was recorded, we had a drummer and a conga player in the band, I became Raz Bury (that’s Raz to you) – we started to play around Berkeley (mainly the Starry Plough) and booked a tour to Seattle and Eugene. The Seattle show was at the Central Tavern - empty, cold, raining, and they made Stacie stay in the van because she was under age.

Feeling low, the next stop was Eugene – we met Abe the first night we were there. The next morning, we went down to campus and played a street show. The crowd was huge, we sold many tapes and passed the hat for enough money to eat and got interviewed for both the college paper and the main paper in Eugene.

The show at Max’s was crazy – we sold the bar out of beer (they had to buy beer from the local liquor store). I remember getting the money from the owner and his hands were shaking as he counted out $450 in one dollar bills. The next day we bought Artimus – which Tommy used as a bed, but that’s another story.

This is a tape of live music that Tommy made for Jen sometime in the Spring of 1989. I think this is mostly a live show at WOW Hall in Eugene. All these songs are before Doc was on drums. My favorite track is PNG, recorded live in the living room of downstairs 61^st house right after Tommy wrote it. It was recorded on a home stereo with one mike plugged in. That’s me on harp.