Live At Lee’s Palace, Toronto, ON (1991)

The next full concert release from contributor Ryne is a very special one, for a couple of cool reasons. Historians will certainly enjoy it.

On April 13th, 1991 the band was deep into their “Hold Me Up” tour. That day they were actually in Toronto, Canada. Specifically, at Lee’s Palace. Not too far away from their hometown. This concert was indeed a special one. Let’s find out why directly from Ryne:

Well Fellas, I hope you’re ready for this one, Because this is the oldest release i have for you yet. I give you an audio-only bootleg from the 1991 Lee’s Palace show.

I dare say the ‘Hold Me Up’ tour is where things start to really get interesting for the GGDs. Especially when you see the release of more recently familiar songs like ‘Two Days in February’. But it is this show in particular that you get some incredible firsts.

First one being ‘Cuz You’re Gone: I know, This isn’t actually the first time this song was played, As i believe this was played at least one other time. But to see another familiar song like ‘Cuz You’re Gone’ years before the record it debuted on be played live? Really quite something to see a song in its infancy like this.
And you know the song is in its infancy when the lyrics sound a bit different during this show, But the sound is still quite familiar.

But then the second of these firsts would be the song ‘Disconnected’: As far as I know, This show is where we get to see the song played live for the first time.
4 Years before it would end up on the ‘Boy named Goo’ record, Even though it was a cover song from ‘The Enemies’ Band. I am aware it ended up being on the Final Version of ABNG due to the Departure of George Tutuska, With at least one or two different songs being on an early version of it.

In terms of the Audio-Quality, I think it will be fair to say: This is how you know you’re dealing with something from the early 1990s. And Certainly not what you would get later into the 1990s and 2000s.

But yeah, Sorry if the sound isn’t the best. You do still get a great performance and a great setlist out of it, In any case. 🙂

To clarify, “Cuz You’re Gone” was actually played the first time ever at this event, while, like Ryne said, we can also enjoy the first ever live performance for “Disconnected“. Needless to say, I was dead wrong when I claimed I doubted the fact the band had played the latter before 1995.

In terms of the concert itself, besides the two aforementioned tunes, you get your typical “Hold Me Up” show with most of the songs coming from their then-latest two albums, and a few more from their first release. The Roger Miller cover for “King Of The Road” makes an appearance, a song they played quite a few times during those years. Furthermore, the last song they performed, “Don’t Fear The Reaper“, is interrupted as they attempt to play a few seconds of “Can’t Touch This” by MC Hammer in-between before reprising it.

Audio quality unfortunately is not the greatest, quite muffled I’d say. Nonetheless, this is amazing material because it is as rare as it gets. I’m sure Goo historians will love it despite its flaws.

Those who want to enjoy the video counterpart of this show can do so by clicking here.

As a final note, the audio file comes as a single, long one featuring the entire performance. It was encoded as a 192kbps .mp3 file.

Thanks a lot Ryne for yet another grand release!

You can listen to the concert below. Download links are available at the end of this post.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Just The Way You Are
2. So Outta Line
3. Torn Apart
4. Hey
5. Cuz You’re Gone
6. Road To Salinas
7. Different Light
8. Million Miles Away
9. You Know What I Mean
10. Had Enough
11. Laughing
12. Two Days In February
13. Out Of Sight
14. On Your Side
15. I’m Addicted
16. There You Are
17. Disconnected
18. No Way Out
19. Love Dolls
20. Never Take The Place of Your Man
21. King Of The Road
22. Gimme Shelter
23. Don’t Fear The Reaper

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