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Tuesday 08/07/1990 - Blue Oyster Cult: The Late Show, Niagara Falls, NY

Notes: I went with Wulf and my neighbor Rob. I met Billy at that show.

Set list (not in order):

• Roadhouse Blues
• Career Of Evil
• Godzilla
• Burning For You
• Don't Fear The Reaper
• Take Me Away
• Dominance And Submission
• Cities On Flame

Just a note on this gig... it was outdoors and there may have been some other bands, but I remember Mitch Ryder,Mark farner,The Romantics, and the Tubes... there were only about 200 people there in an area set up for about 10,000....

The next day in Marquette may well have been all the same bands (I know it was the same promoter too) and was indoors... about 500 people for that one.....there was BIG schism at that show between BOC and Tubes ...... I just remember giving the stagehands a joint just before the set change so that when I told them to remove the Tube's gear from in front of ours they did it without paying any attention at all to the Tubes roadies frantically trying to make them stop...

We already knew that the promoter had taken such a bath that the hands(and the local venue staff) were not gonna get paid, so we played early and got the hell out of there before they figured it out....

Excellent deli spread in the dressing room... some of the best Italian Cappicolla I ever tasted... some really nice paté and baguettes as well... we have our priorities you know...

As Shenck and I used to say, ALL the gigs suck... some just have better food than others...

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14 Dec 1990 The Basement Dallas Texas: Don't remember the set list at all (thanks to Anheuser Busch!), but I'll always remember the show.

The Basement was a tiny, tiny place (I don't think it exists anymore). The stage barely fit the band from what I remember. But it was great as there was no room for a stage show... you could only play. And play BOC did. One of the best concerts ever...

For an idea on how big The Basement was check video's by Pantera (when Phil Anselmo was in the band). One of theirs (Cowboys From Hell) was taped there.

Zilla Dave here. At this gig steve was being steve and up on getting to the gig had already pissed everyone off. Not unusual, so for me and Danny our Drum tech that meant no stage hands.So me and Danny once again had to unload the truck like so many times before when steve pissed people off.

We had to lift flight cases that took 4 people to unload with just the 2 of us. My back was fucked up already from doing this and was wearing a weight belt to hold me together. After the show I thought things would cool down but no, steve had continued to piss people off. So guess what. Steve has to eat after the gig and leaves me and Danny to pack the gear with just the 2 of us that takes 4 people to do.

The stage hands left the promoter locked the doors and me and Danny were left outside to load by ourselves. Hope you enjoyed your dinner steve you fat fuck. At that point that was it, I threw the keys to the truck at steve at the hotel later and said drive the truck home yourself motherfucker. And I do not regret it.

This guy has pissed more people off and made a bad situation for BOC than I care to remember. FUCK YOU STEVE AND ERIC. Rizzo stole and sold your Guitar. Think about it... What do Junkies do??? Come on now Eric, pix mean nothing. Get a life.

This was "Zilla Dave" Thorpe's last show.

His departure came about when he and Schenck butted heads about a load-out gone wrong in Dallas on 14 dec 90...

I lasted only another month...

I think also that these date(s) were played in 1990 - if you have any info, please let me know:

As near as we could determine at the time (and from my old tired brain today), this was where Buck's white SG went missing - we don't think it was stolen, but left under a table in a dressing room trailer. We were playing an outdoor festival kind of thing in downtown San Antonio (that currently seems to be missing from the giglopedia)...

It was a multi day affair and I've always suspected the next band in there might have found it... but it was impossible to even nail down EXACTLY when it went missing... it was no longer being used at all and was generally staying in the truck... it got unloaded and put in the D-room that day and that's the last time anyone could remember seeing it...

I wasn't loading trucks in those days, so technically it wasn't "my job" to keep track of it, but I got sick to my stomach when I found out it had gone missing....

I'd sure like to help get it back to the bossman as that was THE ONE he wanted to save... I remember him telling me once he wanted to "nail that one over the bar in his den or something" whenever he actually retired... looks like we've got a few more years to find it before he does that, but not as many as we did in 1990...

Any clue as to any sort of date for this?

Not really... probably spring as it wasn't too hot... I would say fall but the list says we were there in a club in Dec, but I don't even see a TX gig at all in the spring...

All I really know for sure is that it was definitely outdoors on a stage set in a HUGE parking lot near downtown, with a midway nearby in San Antonio sometime in 90.. I was surprised to see a club date for San Antone in Dec... not sure what to say...

It was part of some kind of several day city wide festival they have there every year if that helps..

Just did a quick check and found this SA festival: "Fiesta San Antonio: Fiesta San Antonio, a ten-day Texas festival in late April, is a multicultural celebration that features music, dancing, races and three parades (including and on-the-water river parade). The citywide festival and its more than 150 scheduled events honor the heroes of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto."

Dunno if it was in operation in 1990... Anybody got any ideas?

As well as the aforementioned San Antonio gig, we also played a club in Kileen TX on this swing as well I believe...