FLIPPER OPV

Just saw the 40 th anniversary live tour gig near me. Original guitarist and drummer plus David Yow of Jesus Lizard on vocals and a newer bassist. Yow climbed up on balcony, bared his big gut, let audience members join in onstage on vocals and saxophone. Sometimes lame, sometimes great, it was a crazy night in Baltimore. They did most of the songs mentioned in this thread

We Don't Understand
Life
The Lights, The Sound, The Rhythm, The Noise
Sex Bomb
The Wheel

I doubt the 1st 3 are ever not going to be in my Flipper POV but I'll swap out 2 from 11 years ago for:

Ever
Sacrifice (Not So Quiet On The Western Front version)
Ha Ha Ha
(I Saw You) Shine
One By One

would've liked to see the Yow Flipper, wasn't feasible unfortunately. glad I at least got to see them once

o yeah I forgot abt the early version of "Sacrifice", swap that out the "The Wheel" in my list

Only got to see them as the Novoselic line up back in '06.
But been on FB with the members so interesting to see what they take stands on politically/philosophically etc.
Not as nihilistic as the songs might imply.

First saw em around 1982 in DC. Recall a fair amount of sneering comments about DC hardcore between songs.

I have seen the Flipper/Yow set-up twice now. Pretty fun, the band sounds good and chunky and Yow hams it up.

Was at that Baltimore show and during the first song he jumped into the crowd and sang most of it from there. For a couple seconds directly into a girl’s face and she... did not seem to appreciate it. Like she was going through a nervous/personal thing at the moment and that amplified it significantly. I don’t think think there was much thought/awareness on Yow’s part, but she seemed shaken and weepy afterwards and it kinda made me think a lot of stuff unexpectedly for the first 15 mins of the show.

I was standing against back wall and didn’t see that. It didn’t look like a woman he tried to get to sing along in the balcony later, appreciated his putting the mic to her. Although a couple of women chose to jump on stage at one point( their choice).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwoEFCFlM5I