CARGO CULT - First Gig - 1983/1984

CARGO CULT - First Gig - 1983/1984 - (Click on Show More in Description for song list) - Performed at The Jukin’ Joint on E. 13th Ave. Eugene, OR - Home of Dan Schmid (The Jazz Greats/Saint Huck/Cherry Poppin’ Daddies). The evening began with someone throwing up on my drum kit…morphed into Jake and Spike getting shocked through their guitars and microphone…a large and rowdy party crowd pushing their way into the band…and ended up being shut down by the Eugene Police Department…all in all, a pretty rock and roll first gig! I believe I had played drums for a month or two before this show...you know, in case that wasn’t obvious! Audio for this show is also available on the amazing website Panic on 13th: https://panicon13th.blogspot.com/search?q=cargo+cult

Photograph by: Chris Metzler

Jake Smith: Vocals/Guitar
Alan Larsen: Bass
Scott Levy: Drums
Spike: Guitar

00:00 My Mom’s A Nuclear Bomb (written by Bob Ortega/Tradition Dictates)
04:55 Crowd noise - Alan screams “Stand back!”
06:50 Not Last Night, but the Night Before
08:04 I’m Waiting
12:03 Sad Sounds
14:55 Crowd noise - Someone yells “Speed it up! 1, 2, 3 4!”
15:00 Spike tells Jake: “Jake, don’t touch me! I got zapped one hell of a shock!”
16:00 1,000 Years
19:08 Under the Fence aka White Noise
20:48 “There’s like a million dead cops outside!”
22:08 “We got cops out front” - Announcements while the police shut down the show

Not performed due to police interference:
Dying to Death
Tuned to D