Because I missed out on catching the Dinosaur Jr. show on Sunday, I popped on my prized Jawbreaker video--live at Gilman in 1987. I'll be parting with it for a bit so that Jawbreaker's drummer, Adam Pfahler, can make a digital copy of it for the upcoming Jawbreaker documentary.
Since I caught the Jawbreaker fever late (1995), the video allows me to catch songs they'd stopped playing by the time I saw them play live like Busy and With or Without U2.
They announce that it's their last show for a year or so because band members need to "return to college," and they still called themselves a band from Los Angeles!
One of the best moments happens at the end of their set when Gilman staff defend the no stage diving rule because a parent was suing the club for her son's injury while punk rock boys complain that it's cutting in to their fun. Clearly this was before the days where the debates were over who "sold out."
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