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Treacherous Jaywalkers Bunratty's Boston, MA 21 August 1989

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1.
Waiting by the tracks For that trrain Gonna take me back To the sea Like a fish out of water Like a chicken lacking feed This strange town Is not for me The desert is vast and dry Tumbleweeds rolling by It's a long way into town I can make it by sundown
2.
Los Tumbos 04:59
The blue turns into grey The grey turns into black And we all know that the ocean won't be back Man's pollution Neptune's gallow A submarine attack Trees can be cut down But man can't cut down water So he fills the ocean with his waste And laughing while not caring About mother nature's fate
3.
Waking up from a dream Things aren't real as they seem Things are falling from the sky Looking up to the skies Rain comes falling down City lights get splashed away Drops rolling down my window Melting into my face
4.
A sun needs A sun near Open eyes Realize Coming to Sunrise A place needs A place near Open eyes Realize Coming to Sunrise
5.
She Says 04:38
She enters in her mind That she must beware Of empty rooms And cold dark stares Enters in her mind What is her mind She says She doesn't want to live And she doesn't want to die She don't want to look into her mind Look into her mind What is her mind She says She's through with all her thoughts And she's through with all her dreams She just wants to fall asleep Wants to fall asleep What is sleep She says I don't want you anymore
6.
Checking out the earth from outer space Adin can see there's life on this place Adin finds a place to land On the sea, next to the sand
7.
Stack 04:16
What is home A place in Rome How it seems Believe me I mention Home again A house that's swamped Good Medicine's songs I am concerned With a house And with what Can live without Has two hearts Yet torn apart By seventy miles And what was smile Stack of cards Can't relate To feelings We insulate With feelings We create So we can In turn relate I am concerned With a house And with what Can live without In a home Far from Rome And I guess I guess I guess
8.
Latest Word 05:00
I heard You followed me Into The dark You see You cried But I Didn't hear I heard You followed me Into A dream You see You died Not in my arms I heard I followed you Into The light It's true Your light I made it make me blind Couldn't see I heard I followed you Into Your sight It's true You saw That I may never find What I want But if the sun rises If the sky turns bright Tomorrow Will you take my hand Or my elbow And make me feel alright
9.
Nature's timeless beauty Is destroyed by technology Man's path of broken tears Forever harms the ecology Forever will the night fold These pages and stories told Of how man's afraid of what he feels inside Never choosing to cross the threshold
10.
I'm too blue And I don't know what to do The ocean blue Can I join you
11.
Gaze 04:38
Gazing at the fire Flickering on my face Like seasons upon the earth Finding their place Blaze on electric fire On into my mind Warm these places In which you May find
12.

about

Treacherous Jaywalkers recorded live at Bunratty's, Boston, MA 21 August 1989.

Soundboard recording.

Our debut SST LP, Good Medicine, was released in 1988. The band members were spread across California, and our school responsibilities meant we could only tour during summer. The 1989 tour began August 6 in San Francisco, and ended September 3 in Santa Cruz, CA. While I have lots of memories of this trip, I don’t remember anything about the Boston gig. I don’t remember what the venue looked like, and I don’t remember the opening bands. I can’t find any photos, and I didn’t keep any flyers. Just one xeroxed clipping from a Boston newspaper (not even sure which one) still exists in my collection.

Luckily, the 21 year-old me decided it was important to record the shows from this tour. Despite the announcement that former Black Flag & current Descendants/All drummer Bill Stevenson would produce our next LP for SST, SST dropped us after this tour, and the band broke up just over two years and a handful of sporadic gigs later.

The sound quality of this show is better than most I have. I thank the venue sound engineer, whoever they were, for this recording.

Josh Haden, Los Angeles, 11 August 2020

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released August 15, 2020

Josh Haden - bass, vocals
Quinn Haber - guitar
James Fenton - drums

Digitizing, editing, mastering by Josh Haden.

1. Men Who Ride Mountains
2. Los Tumbos
3. Green Lantern
4. Could Be The Same
5. She Says
6. Adin’s Spaceship
7. Stack
8. Latest Word
9. Crossing The Threshold
10. Breaking Heart
11. Gaze
12. Have You Ever Seen The Sunrise

Quinn Haber wrote tracks 1, 2, 3, 6, 11, 12
Josh Haden wrote tracks 4, 5, 7, 8
Quinn Haber and Josh Haden wrote tracks 9, 10

All songs published by jamesjoshquinn music (BMI)

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Treacherous Jaywalkers Los Angeles, California

Treacherous Jaywalkers were a Los Angeles punk band between 1984-1992. This site is an ongoing repository of all Treacherous Jaywalkers studio and live recordings, with the exception of the three albums they released on SST Records in 1988 and 1989, respectively.

Josh Haden - bass, vocals

Quinn Haber - guitar

James Fenton - drums
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