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Torrent: 496821
Title: World of Pooh – 1990-03-16, Maxwell’s, Hoboken, NJ – AUD (Reseed, May of 2013)
Size: 235.35 MB
Category: Alternate
Uploaded by: Cyrus
Info hash: a758f4c2c94721d8f9ea3cfc7cef697431dc3e46
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World of Pooh
1990-03-16
Maxwell’s, Hoboken, NJ
AUD > ? > Cassette > Goldwave > WAV > FLAC Frontend
Total time = 42:48 minutes
1. Playing One’s Own Piano 4:00
2. Somewhere Soon 2:48
3. Mr. Coffee-Nerves 2:30
4. 4:29
5. G.H.M. 1:44
6. 1:40
7. Owl Business 3:01
8. Straw Man 2:35
9. Scissors 4:06
10. 2:13
11. Mean Wood Army (?) 3:11
12. Stones of Judgement 4:56
13. Druscilla Penny – (The Carpenters) 2:13
14. – (unknown cover) 3:39
15. (fade into the first tune by headliner, Mazzy Star) 0:34
Barbara Manning; guitar/vocals, Brandon Kearney, guitar/vocals and Jay Paget, Drums
Help with the setlist would be appreciated.
This is their infamous last show, and there have been many stories about the tension between
Barbara and Brandon who were in the midst of a breakup. However, other than a scintillating
performance, you don’t get much of that from just the audio.
Here is a review of it followed by a supposed reply from Brandon – true? By the way, what
Brandon does say at one point is something like, “Getting a little heavy aren’t you, Barbara?
Better get you back on that diet”. This is NOT a quote as I haven’t listened to it in few days.
Cheers, Cyrus
MONDAY, MARCH 17, 2008
Scenes from a break-up by ELISABETH VINCENTELLI
Here’s another installment in the occasional series in which I revisit some good shows of yore.
Today: World of Pooh at Maxwell’s on March 16, 1990one of the most unbearably tense gigs
I’ve ever seen. Forget pigfuck audience abuse or whatnot: We watched two people psychologically
pummel each other on stage, and it really was not fun at all. It was also, of course, entirely memorable.
At that time, I was finishing my MA in history at Rutgers, though the truth is that most of my memories
of that era have to do with music rather than scholarly pursuits: doing shows on WRSU, going to gigs
several times a weekI’d gotten very familiar with the New Jersey turnpike (and Route 1, when I was
too broke for the toll). I can’t remember what prompted me to go see World of Pooh. I don’t remember if
I had their sole full-length, 1989′s Land of Thirst, by then or if I bought it at the show. I may have been
prompted by having heard the band was pals with Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, which I absolutely
loved back then, ever since mail-ordering their debut cassette, Wormed by Leonard. World of Pooh was
pretty emblematic of a short window in the mid-80s to early 90s when San Francisco was a hotbed of
screwed-up inventivity. When I saw mentions of the NufSed label, Seymour Glass’ Bananafish fanzine
or producer Greg Freeman, I knew there was a good chance I’d like whatever it was.
World of Pooh was Barbara Manning on bass, Brandan Kearney on guitar and Jay Paget on drums; the
group was both propelled and hampered by the love-hate relationship between Manning and Kearney, who
were partners on and off stage. Except their couple was imploding at the time, and they took it all out to us,
the audience. On record the songs revealed pent-up hostility beneath the jangly exterior, but even that didn’t
prepare us for Maxwell’s.
Kearney kept berating and humiliating Manning, telling her she was fat and couldn’t play, and she either
demured uncomfortably or looked at him in what I now remember as stunned passivity. It was just horrible to
watch, and of course completely enthralling. It didn’t feel like a put-on but like the raw implosion of a couple right
in front of us, Scenes from a Marriage punk rockstyle. In fact, this turned out to be World of Pooh’s last show,
the band pretty much ending right there and then because Manning and Kearney could not function together
anymore. And the weirdest part is that in between the tense banter, they managed to sound great.
Now, an art experience given extra meaning by the romantic relationship between two of the principals isn’t new,
from Richard and Linda Thompson to Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna. And the downfall of an artistic couple
can be obvious fodder for both parties. But there’s something quite different about listening to a song about a break-up
and seeing the break-up of both a relationship and a band with your very eyes. World of Pooh at Maxwell’s was
uncomfortable because we were privy to something abjectly personal. It feels quaint in our age of sharing too much,
but 18 years ago hearing and seeing this hate-filled intimacy was quite jarring.
Manning went on to a rich if now tragically unheralded solo career; Paget joined Thinking Fellers; and Kearney
continued being active with a variety of projects including Caroliner, Job’s Daughters, Archipelago Brewing Co. and
Faxed Head, as well as the NufSed label.
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Kearney apparently replied to the author with the following:
That was indeed a tense show, for any number of reasons that don’t bear going into here (or anywhere else, for
that matter).
But I am willing to state pretty definitively that at no point did I call Barbara “fat.” That would’ve been unthinkable
to me in public or private, no matter how much duress I was under or how much I’d had to drink.
As for the rest of it, well…it had been a long, long week. Remind me to tell you about it sometime.
Apologetically,
BK
Come to think of it, I probably told her she was “flat” (i.e., out of tune).
If so, I’m sure the way I said it made a pretty unpleasant impression. But still, it’s not quite as crude as what you’re describing.
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