While this New Year’s Eve concert started on the 31st, L.S.U. technically didn’t start playing until 12:30 am on January 1, 1995. Sometimes this show is listed by either date.
| Band: | L.S.U. |
| Date: | December 31, 1994 |
| Venue: | The Strand |
| Location: | Atlanta, Georgia |
| Opening: | Sunday’s Child |
| Michael Knott: | Vocals, Guitar |
| Brian Doidge: | Bass |
| Michael Hawkins: | Drums |
| David Vanderpoel: | Guitar on “Die Baby Die” (and probably other songs) |
Songs included:
- The Bomb / Not a Cussword (opening song)
- Die Baby Die
- Tether to Tassel
- Rocket and a Bomb
- Kitty Courtesy
Concert Stories
David Vanderpoel:
“It was a New Year’s party and it sounded like it. As Knott had done the previous three shows, he waved me out from behind the board and handed me his guitar to free him up for various stage antics.” (during “Die baby Die”)
“On this performance, the band went on around 12:30 a.m. and was as tight as they were going to get for the rest of the night.”
“On this night, Knott duct-taped dozens of audience members together and shoved them off of the stage. He performed some quick surgery on stuffed animals, smashed a chocolate cake into a stagehand, and instigated a war between the band and audience with the mountains of shredded newspaper that had dropped from the ceiling at midnight.”
“Notice how Hawkins and Doidge are very definitely following Knott (during ‘Tether to Tassel’)… all drummers did, with the exception of the tour supporting The Grape Prophet, when the band was at its tightest.”
“At midnight, I had dropped about 75 pounds of newsprint tickertape from the 30-foot high ceiling onstage. It exploded when it hit and was the stuff of audience/band paper fights for the night. Twice during the song (‘Rocket and a Bomb’), you can hear Knott take a missive to the head, the second just before the song explodes. When you don’t hear Doidge, he is attacking the audience.
A mutilated Kermit in his back pocket, and a rubber chicken hanging from his guitar head, no one can remember exactly what character the ‘Mr. God’ verse is sung in.”
“‘Kitty’ started good live, and the bottom fell out soon thereafter. Knott pulled a half of a dozen people on stage, and taped them together with Gaffer’s tape and then shoved them onto the rest of the audience, who then responded by rushing onto the stage. Knott and the mic were separated and lost in the crowd for the rest of the song.”
(from the Bring It Down Now liner notes)