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4/19/88 The Vogue. Seattle, WA
Supporting: Das Damen, Blood Circus
Notes: Mudhoney's first public performance, appearing unadvertized.5/18/88 The Vogue. Seattle, WA
Supporting: White Zombie
Notes: Mudhoney's second public performance. This was back when White Zombie was considered a New York "art" band.5/??/88 The Satrycion. Portland, OR
Supporting: White Zombie
Notes: Mudhoney's third public performance.??/??/88 The Alamo
Notes: Mudhoney's fourth public performance.7/2/88 The Central Tavern. Seattle, WA
Supporting: Soundgarden, The Fluid7/8/88 The Seattle Boxing Club. Seattle, WA
Supporting: Blood Circus, Swallow
Set: Touch Me I'm Sick, In 'N' Out of Grace (set incomplete)
Notes: This show was a record release party. The guys are all wearing blue beads and playing blue instruments. Mark, Matt and Steve all wear matching Fluid t-shirts, and Steve is drinking Gatorade throughout the show. At one point one of the guys wraps the most pit in saran wrap. In 'N' Out of Grace closes the show. In a 2/00 Spin Online interview, Steve remembered about the show: "We hadn't played a show yet. By July we played a big show with, I think, Blood Circus and Catt Butt at the Boxing Club, a gay bar where they didn't have many shows. It was sold out, lines around the block, fire marshalls were there. The interest in these brand new bands that didn't have any [records] out took people by surprise. The local scene was starting to explode all of the sudden."7/??/88 The Vogue. Seattle, WA
Supporting: Blood Circus7/??/88 The Vogue. Seattle, WA
Supporting: Blood Circus8/19/89 Squid Row. Seattle, WA
Supported By: TAD, The Derelicts??/??/88 The Central Tavern. Seattle, WA
Notes: This show took place during the summer of 1988. The photo used on the cover of the Superfuzz Bigmuff album was taken at this show. Possibly 9/23/88.9/23/88 The Central Tavern. Seattle, WA
Also on Bill: The Fastbacks, The Walkabouts, Terry Lee Hale10/10/88 "Berlin Independence Days Music Festival". Ecstasy. Berlin, Germany (45 min)
Also on Bill: NOFX
Set: No One Has, Sweet Young Thing..., Need, Chain That Door, If I Think, Mudride, Here Comes Sickness, Touch Me I'm Sick, In 'N' Out of Grace
Notes: This festival was sponsored by the former government of East Germany, which also featured a performance by Les Thugs. Mark opens with, "Hi! Hi! It's great to be here! Hi! We're from America! Howdy!" Before Need, Mark instructs the crowd to, "pull down your pants if you like us." After no one complies, Mark remarks, "no one likes us." In a 2/00 Spin Online interview, Steve remembered about the show: "We were flown over to Berlin by their government for the Berlin Independence days, just one show. It was unbelieveable. It's this big music festival with independent artists of all different types. European countries fund their arts so much better. They actually view art as importnant somehow. So we were flown over there and Bruce and Jonathan from Sub Pop went with us and we couldn't believe that somebody would do that. It was absolutely ridiculous. We fucked the place up, acted like fools." This was originally going to be the first show of a European tour that ran through October 26, but that fell through, so they toured America on their own before they joined up with Sonic Youth instead.10/14/88 Salt Lake City, UT
Notes: The first show from Mudhoney's Fall 1988 tour of the United States.10/??/88 Denver, CO
10/??/88 Kansas City, MO
10/??/88 Colombia, MO
Notes: This show might have taken place in early November, near the time of the Columbus, OH show.10/??/88 Chicago, IL
10/??/88 Kalamazoo, MI
10/??/88 Babylon Babylon. Lexington, KY
Attendance: 7
Setlist: I Wanna Be Your Dog, If I Think, In 'N' Out of Grace, Chain That Door (setlist incomplete and out of order)
Notes: Most shows in Lexington at the time drew much better than this, but there was something else going on that night, accounting for the small turnout. With the audience so small (mostly staff from WRFL, with whom they gave an interview earlier in the day), they set up the drum kit on the tiny stage, and then Matt, Mark and Steve played on the floor with the audience while slamming around. Mark changes the pre-chorus of If I Think to "If I Think, I Think of Tony." Late in the show, Mark breaks his distortion pedal doing one of several jumps off of the 12-18" high stage and ditches his guitar for the remainder of the performance. They gave out copies of Superfuzz Bigmuff on generic tapes to those in attendance; the release of the EP being a week away.
Mark and Steve remember the show: Spin Online, 10/15/9810/??/88 Ann Arbor, MI
10/??/88 New Jersey
Notes: There might have been multiple shows in New Jersey.10/??/88 The Pyramid Club. New York City, NY
Notes: There might have been multiple shows in New York.10/??/88 Gabe's. Iowa City, IA
Set: Mudride, No One Has, If I Think, In 'N' Out of Grace, Need, Chain that Door (set incomplete and out of order)
Notes: Mudride was the opener.??/??/88 Boston, MA
Notes: This show might have taken place after the Halloween show.11/??/88 Rapp Arts Center. New York City, NY
Supporting: Gwar11/2/88 (Someone's Basement). Philadelphia, PA
Set: If I Think, Mudride, Here Comes Sickness, Touch Me I'm Sick, By Her Own Hand, In 'N' Out of Grace (set incomplete)
Notes: This show took place in someone's basement. By Her Own Hand is performed for the first known time.11/3/88 OSU Student Union. Columbus, OH
Attendance: 30
Supported By: Satan's Bake Sale, Control
Notes: The bands played in a storage closet adjacent to the East Ballroom that holds ~60 people.11/11/88 The Union Station. Seattle, WA
Supporting: Sonic Youth, Screaming Trees
Notes: This was Mudhoney's first show of their tour with Sonic Youth.11/12/88 The Pine Street Theater. Portland, OR
Supporting: Sonic Youth, Screaming Trees11/14/88 One Step Beyond. Santa Clara, CA
Supporting: Sonic Youth11/15/88 The Fillmore Auditorium. San Francisco, CA
Supporting: Sonic Youth, Die Kreuzen
Set: Hate the Police (set incomplete)11/16/88 KCSB Studios. Santa Barbara, CA
Set: Mudride, Here Comes Sickness, No One Has, If I Think, By Her Own Hand, Touch Me I'm Sick11/17/88 SDSU Backdoor. San Diego, CA
Supporting: Sonic Youth11/18/88 Night Moves. Huntington Beach, CA
Supporting: Sonic Youth
With Sonic Youth: I Wanna Be Your Dog
Notes: Mark performs I Wanna Be Your Dog with Sonic Youth at the end of their set.11/20/88 The Roxy. Hollywood, CA (45 min)
Supporting: Sonic Youth
Set: Mudride, Here Comes Sickness, No One Has, Sweet Young Thing..., Need, Chain That Door, If I Think, Touch Me I'm Sick, In 'N' Out of Grace, Halloween(w/Kim Gordon)
Notes: This show might have taken place on 11/19/88. Sonic Youth played two shows at the Roxy, and Mudhoney only opened one of them. Halloween is played for the only known time.11/21/88 Pheonix, AZ
Supporting: Sonic Youth11/22/88 Albequerque, NM (CANCELLED)
Supporting: Sonic Youth
Notes: Mudhoney didn't make the show when they got van trouble and became stuck in Flagstaff, AZ.11/25/88 Arcadia Theater. Dallas, TX
Attendance: 50
Supporting: Sonic Youth
Notes: Sonic Youth wanted to charge $5 for tickets, but the promoter was selling them for $15, which resulted in an argument. The audience ended up being 50 people in a 1,500 seat theater.11/26/88 Liberty Lunch. Austin, TX (30 min)
Supporting: Sonic Youth
Set: Mudride, Here Comes Sickness, No One Has, Sweet Young Thing..., Need, Chain That Door, If I Think
Notes: Mark dedicated Chain That Door to "the memory of "David Nobody. Rest in Peace." Mark hurt his ankle badly at some point.11/27/88 Powertools. Houston, TX
With Sonic Youth: Silver Rocket, I Wanna Be Your Dog
Notes: Mudhoney's last show of this tour. Mark performs Silver Rocket and I Wanna Be Your Dog with Sonic Youth at separate times during their set.12/1/88 The Mazey/Hickey Gallery. Seattle, WA
Supported By: The Thrown-Ups, Love and Respect
Notes: This was probably an opening for an exhibit by Ed Fotheringham.12/31/88 The Central Tavern. Seattle, WA (65 min)
Supported By: The Walkabouts, Terry Lee Hale, The Life
Set: 1969, Here Comes Sickness, No One Has, Sweet Young Thing, Chain that Door, Need, If I Think, Mudride, Burn it Clean, Touch Me I'm Sick, In 'N' Out of Grace, (Bohemian Rhapsody), Hate the Police(w/Bohemian Rhapsody)
Notes: Additional songs might have been played between Burn it Clean and Touch Me I'm Sick. The guys all wore blue beads and played blue guitars. As they hit the stage, everyone in the crowd is blasting away on noise makers. The crowd is rowdy and aggressive in a fun way, and the band is even more so, right back. They open the show with the only known performance of The Stooges 1969, with Mark changing the lyrics to "1989." Here Comes Sickness is introduced with, "This song's called, 'Don't shit on a platter if you're going to eat it up.'" There's plenty of band/audience interaction between songs, with the highlight coming after Here Comes Sickness. Mark begins with, "I can tell this is going to be a fucking bad year for most of you," and wraps things up a few minutes later with, "Happy new year, losers! All you're going to do is have your shitty, old jobs!" Before Hate the Police, Mark sings a few lines of Bohemian Rhapsody ("Mama, I just killed a man, put a gun against his head, pulled the trigger now he's dead"), then sings the "We are the champions" part over the ending of Hate the Police.??/??/88 Cincinnati, OH
Notes: During 12/31/88, Mark talks of having played Cincinnati.??/??/88 OK
Notes: During 12/31/88, Mark talks of having played Oklahoma.1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006