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Pasadena
07DEC1985
Cal Tech
 
Huntington Beach
21DEC1985
Spatz
Los Angeles, California
Fri 13 Dec 1985
Olympic Auditorium
REVIEW|SETLIST|MEDIA|RECORDING

Details

Main Act(s)
  • Dead Kennedys
Support Act(s)
  • The Dicks
  • SNFU
Venue
Olympic Auditorium

Reviews

3 review(s)
From the web
22 May 2009

this show was great! the bass player in Fishbone got stabbed in the back of his hand. I heard he whipped his dick out and shook it at some skinhead chick, so she stuck his hand to his bass. The singer for Fishbone was flipping out and wanted to fight everybody, but their manager calmed him down. The DK's were great!!

Fedj Sylvanus
18 Jun 2022

Yup! He sure did. And then got up on stage to apologize to the crowd for cutting the set short for a good 4 or 5 minutes. As he put it over the mic, he misjudged the edge of the stage and fell onto someone’s drum kit puncturing his arm. 
He didn’t want the show to get shut down. If he said he fell into the crowd and got STABBED, they probably WOULD have shut it down. Fish drove him to the hospital even just to keep within the storyline, rather than putting him in an ambulance. 
But yeah, he really did get stabbed.
Biggest mosh pit I’ve ever seen up to that time. The “eye” of the cyclone was the FOH console where I was. Each corner of the floor had an “eddy” of people like water with no place else to go spinning the opposite direction of the rest of the “current.” It was nuts!!

nijumu
12 Jan 2023

Durga McBroom-Hudson (Pink Floyd, Blue Pearl wiith Youth of Killing Joke, Culture Club...) and also co writer of the song Karma Tsunami with Angelo on Fishbone & the familyhood nextperience CD told me the real story about what happened :

"That's bullshit. I was there, and saw the whole thing. They had a guest singer on "Lyin' Ass Bitch", I forget her name, and someone lobbed an entire beer in her face. Norwood jumped in the pit to beat on the guy, and got stabbed medial to the bicep (I know anatomy, and I saw the wound). If anyone wanted to fight, it was Fish.

"I’m pretty sure this was 1985. Gnarliest punk rock show I’ve ever been to. I entered the arena, stepping over a kid that looked to be about 14 years old passed out in a puddle of his own vomit. Fishbone had a female guest singer up to sing “Lyin’ Ass Bitch“, and somebody threw a full 64 oz cup of beer in her face. So Norwood jumped in the pit, and got stabbed in the shoulder. Red Hot Chili Peppers also played that show, and before their set somebody lit a fire in a trashcan. Then somebody got a REALLY bad fractured leg in the pit during their set; they had to stop the show to get him out of the pit by people passing him overhead so he could receive medical attention. This was all before the Dead Kennedys even came on.

"I was sitting behind the stage when the DK’s finally started their set. A shower of hocked loogies and phlegm was backlit by the stage lights from where I was sitting (safe from the disgusting onslaught), deluging the band. Jello was totally unfazed. I’d never seen anything like it before or since. That was probably the most intense punk rock show I’ve ever been to. But it was freaking awesome. Good times!

"My mom had NO idea I was going to shows like this, hanging with the band after the show, watching a girl puke pink alcoholic fruit punch out of the door of the van we were smoking weed in. But it’s part of why I’m the well-rounded musician I am today

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Setlist

1. Mr Zero
2. Skankin' to the Beat
3. Ugly
4. Bonin' in the Boneyard
5. Another Generation
6. Why'd You Make Me Mad
7. Lyin' Ass Bitch
with Lisa Grant on vocals
8. They All Have Abandoned Their Hopes
9. Game of Destruction
10. V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F. [Not Played]
Norwood gets stabbed and the show ends (see reviews)

Media

Photos

1 show photos
Joe Henderson
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Poster, setlist, tickets,...

Craig Ibarra
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flyersandstubs
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Live recordings

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Audience unknown 00:39:10
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Line-up

Norwood Fisher
Norwood Fisher
Angelo Moore
Angelo Moore
Kendall Jones
Kendall Jones
Fish
Philip Fisher
Chris Dowd
Chris Dowd
Walter Kibby
Walter Kibby
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