Big Black - August 9th 1987 - Seattle, WA (Full Show)
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- History caught on tape!
00. Intro
01. Fists of Love
02. Bad Penny
03. Cables
04. Fish Fry
05. The Model
06. Deep Six
07. Dead Billy
08. Big Money
09. Kerosene
10. Jordan MN
Big Black was an American punk rock band from Evanston, Illinois, active from 1981 to 1987. Founded by singer and guitarist Steve Albini, the band's lineup also included guitarist Santiago Durango and bassist Jeff Pezzati, both of Naked Raygun. In 1985 Pezzati was replaced by Dave Riley, who played on Big Black's two full-length studio albums, Atomizer (1986) and Songs About Fucking (1987).
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So terribly sad to learn of Steve's passing today. I directed and edited this video, and he was a friend. Heartbroken.
stay strong.
its beyond shit. and way too close to home. thanks for being part of making this. I never got near seeing them. i was 3 days from turning 15 at the time. and in suburban southern England.
Thank you for capturing this moment ❤️🔥
Such sad news. Is this the Big Black concert that was seminal in Seattle underground music history? I was a big fan of Shellac in the 1990s. Hearing and recording the wonderful BBC sessions tracks off the radio as they were aired live. Just like back in the day, I heard of Steve heard that Steve had died on bbc radio via the Mary Anne Hobbs Shows on 6music!
@@user-oz4wk4ln3j yeah it's their last gig. Everything after it was so tame
RIP STEVE ALBINI ,THANKS FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO UNDERGROUND MUSIC
This is how I'm commemorating, too. Talked to him for about 15 seconds after this show. Had seen Killdozer about a month before and the brothers told me to say hi to Steve for them. The crush of people was too much to say much more.
Bought Racer X at Fallout Records when it came out and it caved my head in. Bought a drum machine for my punk band but never got that sound or coolness.
RIP Steve!
good story bro...
Funny how one member of this band would end up producing one of the biggest records of the decade for someone in the audience
@Dale Cooper no they made the bass and stuff louder on heart shaped box and all apologies because they wanted to, that was all they messed with.
@Dale Cooper They had to do that for the album go out to the store ... it was the only way for the record company release the record. Nirvana had complete control over the album, but the record company had the final word. They weren't going to release the album in that hard, raw form...in the end I think the album is still pretty raw, but a little more polished.
@@ledzepplinreuniontour The original Albini mixes of Heart Shaped Box and All Apologies were on the 2013 reissued version, and there's barely any difference to the album versions.
Nirvana (Bliss) as they were named at this time Played at the Community World Theater, Tacoma, WA on this Day August 9, 1987 and Kurt was still able to make it to Big Black's Last Show here at the Steamplant, Seattle, WA August 9, 1987.
yes that is so fascinating
I was the front of house sound guy for this show. I walk throught the frame at about 3:24. One of the loudest shows I ever mixed.
That is awesome, as are the pink shorts! 🤘
how did they stay in sync? how did they play the drum machine…? they all come in in sync out of nowhere….
Whats the Venue?
The basement of the Georgetown Steamplant!@@robotinvasion
Bullshit
God, Dave Riley's bass tone is something to behold. I don't know how he got his strings to sound like foot-thick metal industrial cables, but man, what an incredible sound.
Nothing special. Just a Peavey T-40 - which are now valued at $1000 because hipsters have caught up with how good they sound. IRL they are just a cheap solid bass that don't cost much - which is why Big Black has one.
@@functio1 Thanks, great info. What about his amp or any additional gear (pedals,etc)?
@@TheGamesterShow I don't think he had any pedals. I think the amp might've been a fender or an ampeg. possibly also a peavey.
@@TheGamesterShow Check out Tronographic's Rusty Box. It's based on the Traynor amp Bob Weston uses in Shellac but absolutely gets BB tones too. In general though cut your low mids and boost high mids for the grinder tones.
It's like Gibson RD Artists. I bought 2 in the 90's for less than $500 each. Now they are $1600÷.
Big Black was the sound track of my 80s. rest in peace Steve.
KEROSENE!!!! Got it on a Blast First compilation when I was in high school and it made more sense than all the idiot punks I was hanging around with.
I got the bass, still in my music room. Some asshole beat me to Albini's guitar. Nice consolation prize.
No way!!! That's crazy
john muddy That's not a T-40, is it?
john muddy you wanna sell that bass?
Kurt Cobain was that asshole lol
@@thewasserrecord4513 Bruce Pavitt apparantly...
Mark Arm and Kurt Cobain were both at this show. This was like the Sex Pistols playing Manchester Free Trade Hall and sewing the seeds for a whole new generation of punk music. A historic night indeed.
Mark Arm already had two albums released before this cocnert with different groups.
Not quite the same thing. Lots of now well known musicians have gone to see other bands in concerts. None of them like the FTH show in Manchester.
Black Flag playing in town in the early 1980's was more like that one Sex Pistols 1976 gig. This is more akin to The Jesus and Mary Chain 1984 gigs in the UK
Couldn’t save Kurt’s writing ability though.
@@josiahprofenno4136 Kurt's writing ability was better than any rock musician of the last 20 years. You probably listen to Greta Van Fleet.
0:00 - Roland Baker & James Husted Intro
4:23 - Steven "Jesse" Bernstein
9:00 - Fists Of Love
13:40 - Bad Penny
17:08 - Cables
21:50 - Fish Fry
24:25 - The Model
27:25 - Deep Six
31:00 - Dead Billy
37:10 - Big Money
40:21 - Kerosene
47:20 - Jordan, Minnesota
You sir are a real human bean.
babe you are
50:36 chaos ensues
Thanks!
Thanks!
so many people are devastated today
One of the best live performances ever. CHANGE MY MIND!!!!! RIP STEVE ALBINI!!!!!
Jesse Bernstein opening for Big Black's final show has to be one of the best things to ever happen.
I think he also opened for the Big Black show at the then-shuttered and for sale Showbox, along with U-Men, in 1986. Very fortunate to have seen both shows at a time when Kate Bush was more likely to be in my cassette player.
david wojnarowicz
THIS IS MUSIC, ASSHOLE!
Came here for this reason actually
Ha! I remember when Jesse came up, I thought he was so old, 50s or 60s or whatever. Funny to watch this all these years later to find he was only 37 at the time. I was towards the back when he was reading, part of it was probably his old man voice. He only made it to 41.
@@ComaTwinsi'm dying lol when i was obsessed w him in hs he looked sooooo old
just now he looked sooooo young
he should be more famous
I love the Big Black bass sound so much, one of my favorites ever. Especially Dave, he was such a beast.
me too, I go fuckin apewild for Pezzatti's stuff off of Bulldozer, Pidgeon Kill in particular.
Big Black... one of few music acts to do everything right. Just amazing...
Cobain at the end of the concert asked Albini if he could pick up the pieces of the smashed guitar...I heard Albini say that in a recent interview. and I thought damn thats a fucking nice story, fucking epic! How Punk is that?! God damn
I would've done that if it was Albini's guitar too
Wonder what happened to the guitar fragment. Bet you Cobain wouldn't throw it out.
Final show of an awesome band with one of the greatest drummers ever.
;)
#BigBlack
Charley Deppner I caught them in NYC about a week or two earlier. Indeed one of the all-time great bands.
***** I used to tell people, "I'm the drummer for Big Black," which seemed a lot funnier to me as a teen circa 1986.
***** I was in the CIA too. ;)
+Charley Deppner You went by "Roland" huh? I'm a big fan.
that might be the best bass tone I've ever heard. gaddamn
You should check out Shellac - Albini's occasional band. Bob Weston's bass playing is bloody awesome.
smoog I’ve heard pretty much everything Steve has been apart of. Guy never fails to deliver the goods
@@brennand933 a shame he's a bit of an asshole, but most insanely talented people are.
I was fortunate to see Shellac over a quarter of a century ago (which doesn't make me feel old in any way...). Small club, not many people, you could get right up to the band. Great interaction with Albini and the crowd.
The drummer Todd Trainer played guitar as the opening act, incredibly slowly. This pissed off some punks who gave him shit. Near the end of the Shellac set, Todd kicked over his drum set, grabbed Albinis microphone and yelled at the punks, "I'm the same guy you gave shit to but now you're loving this!" before leaping into the audience and started punching the punks. Security had to drag him off, and then they finished their set.
Absolute belter of a concert. One of the best I've been to.
His amp looked liked like an Ampeg B-25
@@smoog brick layer cake
Thanks for everything Steve ❤
Rest In Noise Dave Riley
I'm gonna miss you so much, Steve. Thanks for all the great music.
this really needs a DVD release
Brings back memories. Thought my eardrums were shot after the firecrackers went off. I was right next to a monitor at the time.
Scott Courtney did you saw Kurt Cobain? :-)
It's too bad the drummer had such a bad drug problem. It tore the band apart.....😉
Then Albini made the super group Rapeman
Fucking Roland...
@@tuco666 Roland might be a bit of a troubled asshole, but he plays like a machine
@@shinitaisenpai9057 "Brutal Pussy Hound." - Steve Albini, during a 2012 Reddit AMA in response to being asked what working with Roland was like.
17:08 Most calm Big Black strum I’ve ever heard 💀
It’s interesting to hear every note plucked twice because of Steve’s double pointed metal guitar pick
R.I.P Albini, you were a true musician
18:20 Steve sweep picking palm muted harmonics .. brilliant
He really was a brilliant guitarist in his own right. The only other guitarist I've seen with a similar level of oddball innovation is Isaac Brock - whom I also suspect was influenced by Big Black. You can hear it on those first two MM albums.
@@fuzzydunlop7928 actually I find it cool/ ironic that Jack Endino was also a guitarist in a dope heavy band back in the 80’s! both incredible musicians and engineers
Never underestimate the power of furious nerds.
This show and the Sonic Youth gig around this time gave me confidence to play guitar, obscenely loud.
Was that the Sonic Youth gig at Union Station where the Screaming Trees opened for them?
Rest easy Steve.
Watching this fantastic live I was wondering about the fact we got the same problems with Roland control pedal during our live shows. It is funny. And yes, now Roland is performing with us, if you're asking.
By the way, Big Black was an incredible band, possibly the most underrated band ever.
Thank you for your contributions to the underground Steve :(
We lost a good one this week....RIP Steve
thank you so much for posting! Love these guys. Was 17 when this show was taped - grew up on 'em.. still love 'em :)
Saw Big Black in 1987 at Adelaide Uni here in South Australia. Amazing show, full on aural attack, much louder than given the impression off this clip, and loved the visual of the waist guitar straps. The crowd first had to peel themselves off the back wall after the set from local support noise freaks King Snake Roost, a band arising from Grong Grong, who Jello Biafra loved so much when they supported DK here in '83 that he released their album on Alternative Tentacles.
Damm i never knew BB came to OZ....i just saw Shellac in L.A this year....since i was only 13 in 1987 i guess its a bit hard to catch them
This is one of the best videos I've ever seen on the internet
I've watched 20 minutes of this and damn Steve Albini fucking shredds
I'm blown away at how synced they are 😮😮😮😮
"This is music ASSHOLE!" Whoever recorded this should be sainted.
This was a professionally produced video recorded and sold by the band. I still have it on vhs somewhere.
@@green4black this band did great work
Amen.
This is a gem. The sound is fantastic through headphones. Wish I'd seen them...
Great performance of "Deep Six"-Durango's guitar playing shines.
Never have nerds looked so scary as they did in Big Black.
It's called The LAST BLAST,I used to rent this ever weekend from my skateshop
couldn't have made a more 90s comment. Love it. Sorry for our loss.
Wow, thanks for uploading this! I was at their penultimate show, just before this one, in Covington Kentucky. Small venue (Old house on a hill) and more of a school gym atmosphere than a club. No colored lights and not much atmosphere at all, but it was still awesome. ;)
This show happened on the day I was born
RIP - behind so much good music
A life well lived. R.I.P to a true force in music!
That was the most absurd stand up I've ever seen!!!! Fantastic
26:45 My favorite dance
This is probably a stupid question but does anyone know how they controlled the drum machine live? A lot of BB songs have multiple drum parts, did they have a pedal or something to switch between presets or did they just have someone doing it by hand?
My sr-16 has two foot pedal inputs for start/stop and an A/Fill/B track switch. Idk if the TR-606 has the same but it’s my guess. Or they recorded their set onto a tape which went through the PA
what an ending, just tremendous!
Still the best *attempt* at smashing guitars ever. RIP Steve.
Came here to pay respects ... rip Steve xx 2024
Brainphreak, thanks so much for posting this. It's made me think this internets thing might be good for something after all.. ;) I made it to the Boardwalk gig in Manchester which was a bit more intense than this. Steve got into a scrap with the guy next to me, lost his glasses then properly smacked him in the head with his guitar. Some of the audience took the punk thing a bit far and started spitting at him. He did not like...
Wow, this is outstanding. Nothing these days is quite so textured, complex, and intense
intro music is incredible
The guitar ambience has that In Utero flavour. Fascinating
Rest Easy Dave
Yay, Dave Riley footage, hard to find!
An Amazing Band - and all the more important seminal Bands that helped the change what was acceptable & how the music could be vicerel yet worthy of commanding a deeper evaluation of the entire presentation.Mr.Steve Albini will indeed be missed & especially in the current zoo we call society.Enjoy your earned REST & see you shortly no doubt (I'm now in my 50's so awaiting that final bus-ride won't be to far-off nowI didn't think i'd see 30...lol wonder what 60 might be like...L8rs & thanx for a killer upload)
rest up legend
I saw this on cable TV years ago, knew it would be on yt, thanks!
That intro aesthetic is so perfect
Fuck, R.I.P Steve, we're gonna miss you
steve ... please give Andy Gill a big hug for all of us... we know how you loved him so!!
You can see Mark Arm to the left of the dude with red hair at 52:46
31:15, that's Kurt behind the guy with the glasses
Whoa, I think it really might be!
Saw him!
WHAT DRUM MACHINE IS HE USING?! HOW DOES HE GO INTO NEW SONGS WITH IT? HOW DOES HE OPERATE HIS DRUM MACHINE WHILE PLAYING GUITAR AT THE SAME TIME TO SWITCH FROM VERSE TO CHORUS/START AND STOP A RYTHYM I WANT TO BE STEVE ALBINI I NEED TO KNOW! PLEASE HELP ME DAMNIT THANK YOU
man ... opening a concert with ´fists of love` is respectable ...
I like how they used SM57s instead of 58s. Albini had to be punk about his mic choice too.
Kurt was there, he even collected a piece of guitar from Steve
Who cares?
Dead Billy 😍
omg that is a treasure. what a treat! wow never seen this before thank you!
Atomizer & Songs About Fucking are both enabling influences for those aspiring to further step up inspiite of life-threatening circumstances that marginalizes human capabilities.
Amazing. I wish I could travel back in time.
Steve ❤️
Oh my god what is that song at the beginning it's haunting and frenetic, beautiful all at the same time.
Best last show ever.
"This song is off our record that's coming out this summer, it's called Songs About Fucking. Ask for it by name."
Yeah, you can actually see him in the audience during the beginning of Dead Billy. Wicked!
@SieppoHovi I literally couldn't. Which one was he?
@@crose7412 right here, past the guy in the foreground to the left. th-cam.com/video/ubqWbfg2elQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ai6SB90FgyShkwo1&t=1875
Holy shiiit, this is amazing
awesome piece of history of rnr. very nice. many thx for this
Was the Roland Baker & James Husted Intro song ever released?
*REALLY* *FUCKIN* *LOUD*
Fish Fry, The Model, and Kerosene.
Killer set list.
Intro track's dope. Cool to see Jesse do his thing, too.
What's the name of this track? It's so good.
How on earth Steve managed the playing and pattern selection of the TR-606?, was it with some kind of midi pedalboard?, pressing start stop directly to the roland located in the floor?, was someone else operating it?. And what kind of process went the 606 to sound so kickass?, compressors?, some amp?...., so many questions..
The actual Roland machine was only used on the band's early recordings. By the mid-'80s, Albini had switched to an EMU Drumulator, which used the much heavier-sounding samples heard on their full-length LPs, and on this live recording. I know he operated it on stage with pedals, which he would occasionally press by accident while thrashing around (see around the 14:00 mark). If you watch the CBGB '86 video, you can see the setup malfunction - for the most part, though, it seems to have worked pretty well during concerts.
@@cftvdata Amazing info!, so it was a more punchy Drumulator. thank you!
...who knows what Nirvana would have started out as without Kurt seeing this
besides kurt cobain, mark arm of mudhoney also attended this fantastic show.
Everybody in the scene Nationwide saw this tour. Cobain being there is no big deal.
Sadly I had slept on getting tickets. Didn't think it would sell out. Was left in the parking lot outside watching all of my friends trotting off to a great time. Nobody was selling extra tickets outside.
That is one cool venue.
One of my very favorite moments of this show occurs at 8:23. As I recall, someone at the sound board (or maybe Baker & Husted?) captured audio of Jesse's response and looped it like crazy. THIS IS MUSIC, ASSHOLE! So good.
Kurt was here.
Dark wave/synth wave in the beginning
Santiago is one terrifying dude
Can someone tell me why I've heard so many people say he's scary, I mean see it some big Colombian guy who plays guitar at 10 volume, but idk. I'm curious as to why people think hes scary.
I was 5 when this happened. I looked like Steve in high school. Strange.
is that steven jesse bernstein in the beginning doin the spoken word thing?
Jordan Murray sure is
This is History!
I hate the fact that crowds laughed at Steven Jesse Bernstein's poetry.Ive been a huge fan of him since the early 90s.His stories and poems were absolutely amazing.
Love Durango's march
Did they regularly do shows at the Steamplant, or was this a one-off in a unique space? I can imagine Big Black being receptive to that sort of thinking.
the original' cables'
awesome stuff uploader!!
song name at very beginning of vid?
I tell myself I will not go.... even as I drive there. Top outfit. Cheers!