CB's Gallery, December 13, 1992

LOOB never played CBGBs, at least not when I was in 'em.  This may be hard for the kiddies to believe but at that point, playing CBs was not considered a good gig! Everyone played CBs!  Usually at 11 on a Tuesday night!  CBs Gallery, on the other hand, which opened up shortly before this gig, was always a fun place, both for LOOB, and later for myself.  A big long room, with literally a gallery overlooking the stage, not to mention it literally being an art gallery, with art covering every inch of the massive space...... I miss CB's Gallery fifty times than I'll ever miss CBGBs!

This was our first gig at this beloved club, and our only electric show there.  (at least with me in the band). The way we got this gig was because this was a fundraiser for a magazine; I think it was through a friend of Hubie's or Ward's....or maybe Lawrence.....anyways, because of this, we got to play two (very well-paced!) sets!  More than anything, we loved (and thrived) playing two set shows.....did you see how much equipment we had to load in?  If we had to do all that hard work and heavy lifting....the actual playing of the gig was the fun part!  That's why they call it "playing" music!  The more we could play, the more we could "dazzle" with catchy song after catchy song, and style hopping.  The more we could play, the longer we could put off having to load the car up and shlep home.

Life Out Of Balance ended 1992 playing a bunch of shows, including Sun Mountain Cafe, and our first show at CB's Gallery.

The sound man, whose name escapes me, became one of our champions.  After the show, he enthused to me at length.  He said that when he saw us setting up - Steve in a tie-dye, big Ted - he thought, oh no, another one of these Dead ripoffs.  Instead, he spent minutes try to describe what we sounded like - he thought we had a great blend of influences.  Years later, when I was playing CB's Gallery, I bumped into him and - again - he enthused at length. He had only fond memories of LOOB. 

 

Ok, so let me listen to this thing.  You know it's a cold day when LOOB opens with "Wintertime"! That's usually what that signified! ("Thundersong" for rainy days, "It's Warm Outside" for hot days, spring days....or used ironically on freezing days!).  We announce that, since we're not playing on New Year's Eve, this is going to be our New Year's show....a theme we carry through to the very end of the tape!

Lawrence is great on this show.

Because it was an echoey club, we ended up playing all our other Gallery shows acoustic, it became our home base for acoustic sets.

CB's Gallery was particularly great for all the percussion jams!  Hubie and Ted would go running the entire length of the club, giving out percussion, dancing wildly with the audience, bringing good cheer to the whole bar, to the street, whatever.....

It's funny, you can hear Lisa and Chris talking about how long it's taking us to set up! "They're taking too damn long to tune up!"  But you can hear them laughing and enjoying the show.


We do a "late night" second set, way cool, Ted and Hubie are hilarious.  These guys, man!

Man, every time we do "Dog Days", I marvel that we remembered all those words!!!  And we always do a good job, we usually don't forget the lyrics!  Not an easy song to learn, but a lot of fun to sing.

Chord changes get blown over and over on "Bottle In The Ocean", it's cringe-inducing.  So is playing "I Know Your Name" too fast (my bad).

I think there's some kind of drum malfunction at some point in "New Voice".  And in "I Know Your Name", I'll bet it's the high-hat clutches.

Hubie plays some great guitar on "Dog Days" and "Thundersong", holy smokes.  And let me say this again: Lawrence is great on this show. All of us are great on this.  Ted and Steve are great, as usual.

 

Steve's verdict of the gig, as entered in the LOOB scrapbook!

That backroom was fun, we had a mini party in it AFTER our show.  Same thing happened years later, at one of my shows, we had a great night in the back.  It was such a great party (both occasions), the waitress started coming back there and taking drink orders!


What can I say, we just loved the Gallery, and we'd be playing it a lot more in the coming year.  This was a truly great night, a memorable one.

CB's Gallery, December 13, 1992
Wintertime
I Owe ->
Some Other ->
It's All Right
Bambaleda
Soon Come
Smile ->
Someone's In My Head

Dog Days ->
Thundersong
We Both Wobble
Bottle In The Ocean
New Voice
I Know Your Name
Gimme Fun
Auld Lyng Syne


Hubert Poole - guitar, vocal, percussion
Ted Schreiber - bass, vocal, percussion
Lawrence Krauser - electric piano, synth, trumpet
Michael Goodman - drums, vocal
Steven Goodman - percussion, accordion

recorded by Chris Ivers on his portable cassette deck.

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A different version of our end-of-'92 flyer. Click to enlarge.