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THE
SOUND OF URCHIN
"PICKS DICKS LIVE
CD SERIES"
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Now
available for the first time through Steven Records,
because of the demand to hear live URCHIN on cd, we have
put together the following 6 "Pick's Dicks
Series" of live URCHIN shows in their entirety on
cd, each one hand-picked from URCHIN's own collection of
recorded shows!!!!
To purchase these handmade
grassroots collectors items (available only while they
last), e-mail stevenrecs@yahoo.com with the
Pick's Dicks cd #, quantity, and your mailing address,
and we will e-mail you back with payement instructions.
We will be adding shows new and old to the series every
so often, but remember these are very, very limited
edition at this point and hand burned by us - that's why
we have to charge so much for 'em (even though they're
still cheaper than normal cds).
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Pick's
Dicks #1 ($15.00)
Westbeth Theater, NYC, New Years Eve '98-'99
This incredible 60 minute URCHIN
performance is from The Westbeth Theater in NYC
from New Years Eve '98-'99 in front of a sold out
crowd of 800 opening for Ween. The recording
quality is excellent, recorded by Ween soundman
Kirk Miller using two huge room mikes. It was the
first real big show URCHIN played as a band, and
the energy is intense. An amazing moment happens
on the cd where Tomato11 is talking about their
hometown, Brazil, and some guy in the audience
makes his way up to the stage with his Brazillian
driver's license.
Track list:
Briceskating
Bat’s Taxi
Quiz Show Spy
At The Barbeque
Happy
Space Station on the 4,5 & 6/
The Brooklyn Jaccuzi/
Space Station (Reprise)/
These Are The People of the Time
The Junius Ponds
Green Green Gold
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Pick's
Dicks #2 ($15.00)
Club 9:30, DC, January 2nd, 1999
This incredible 30 minute URCHIN
performance is from The 9:30 Club in DC from
January 2nd, 1999 in front of a sold out crowd of
1,200 opening for Ween. The recording is an
excellent board recording and serves as a
document of Barbie Smooth's last performance as a
live band member. This powerhouse set opens with
a slamming Kiss cover, Deuce, and is non-stop
through to the last notes of Green Green Gold
where the band goes into an impromptu Springsteen
Rosalita chant to finish out the 30 minuites that
the band was allowed due to the club curfew.
Included on this cd to give you your money's
worth are rare 4-track demos and unreleased
recordings of songs URCHIN fans have grown to
know from URCHIN live shows.Track list:
Deuce
The Junius Ponds
Space Station on the 4,5 & 6/
The Brooklyn Jaccuzi/
Space Station (Reprise)/
These Are The People of the Time
At The Barbeque
Green Green Gold
+ unreleased songs and 4-track demos you have to
buy to hear
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Pick's
Dicks #3 ($20.00)
Brownies Zoidfest, NYC, May 14, 1999
This crazy hour and a half, 2 cd,
performance is the closing set from the May 14,
1999 Zoidfest Music Festival at the infamous
Brownies on Avenue A in the cool East Village,
NYC. One of the best URCHIN shows, this board mix
has a couple of gliches in it due to the band
overpowering the soundboard, but otherwise is a
rockin' recording where every instrument is
totally close and dry. This was the first live
performance of Local 48, which is slammin' and
also features the first addition of the
Constantinople section to the ever-growing Space
Station. SS456 also features a great Phon-X
section where he is totally on fire. Also one of
the best things about this performance is the
between song banter, which is totally loose and
priceless, with B-ILL interjecting B-52's lines
all throughout the set, toatlly cracking Tomato
up. Track
list:
Disc 1
Briceskating
Bat’s Taxi
Quiz Show Spy
The Alligator
The Junius Ponds
Deuce
Local 48
Disc 2
At the Barbeque
Space Station on the 4,5 & 6/
The Brooklyn Jaccuzi/
Phon-X Jam/
Space Station (Reprise)/
Constantinople
These Are The People of the Time
Green Green Gold
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Pick's
Dicks #4 ($20.00)
"L'URCHIN Nous Sommes Fammile Show"
Featuring Black Sebabbitt
The Baggot Inn, NYC, June 5th, 1999
This piece of URCHIN history, 2 cd
set, clocks in at over an hour and a half and was
the only performace ever of "L'URCHIN Nous
Sommes Fammile" at The Baggot Inn, NYC -
where URCHIN had Black Sebabbit (the voice in
between the songs on URCHIN's first studio cd)
actually telling a live story about his
adventures looking for his lost martini shaker
between the songs, amazingly tying the set
together. Black's story is indescribable and
totally out of this world, which you will only
begin to understand after listening to the cd a
bunch of times, and he even ties in some of the
quotes we all know and love from the URCHIN cd.
And the powerhouse URCHIN performance features an
intense Tomato11 drum solo out of "The
Junius Ponds", as well as a brief but insane
cover version of the Approval song "I Just
Saw The Bunny". Also, B-ILL does a great
rendition of the Dead tune "Sugaree"
which will show you why URCHIN is the only band
worthy of covering any Dead song. This totally
mint live to DAT recording by John Brown from
Blade Music, is a great documentation of this
once in a lifetime performance. People were
actually throwing plastic alligators on the stage
during "The Alligator". Listen to highlights from
this show in Real Audio at URCHIN's download page
Track list:
Disc 1
Briceskating
At The Barbeque
Quiz Show Spy/
I Just Saw The Bunny
Local 48
The Alligator
The Junius Ponds/
Tomato Drum Solo
Disc
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Bat’s Taxi
Happy
Space Station on the 4,5 & 6/
The Brooklyn Jaccuzi/
Phon-X Jam/
Space Station (Reprise)/
Constantinople
These Are The People of the Time
Sugaree
Green Green Gold
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Pick's
Dicks #5 ($20.00)
St. Patty's Show/Scotty Choc B-day Show
The Baggot Inn, NYC, March 13, 1999
This slammin' set is a great
documentation of a 1999 URCHIN Baggot show, where
the band and crowd raise the energy level to the
highest point almost tearing the roof off the
joint. This show includes one of the only times
URCHIN used the infamous "URCHIN Intro
Tape" to start off the show, as well as this
being a show from "The Pajama Period"
where the boys wore old man pajamas for no good
reason at all. This small period of time added an
added sense of craziness to the performance since
the pajamas gave the band a reason to rock
harder. This recording is live to Tomato's DAT,
which clips a bit when the band gets loud, but
once you get past that it is a totally crisp
recording of a classic performance. B-ILL does
another incredible Dead cover, this one being
"Fire On The Mountain", and this was
also one of the first performances of the almost
20 minute loong SS456.
Track list:
Disc 1
Briceskating
Bat’s Taxi
Quiz Show Spy
The Junius Ponds
At The Barbeque
Deuce
Disc
2
Happy
Space Station on the 4,5 & 6/
The Brooklyn Jaccuzi/
Phon-X Jam/
Space Station (Reprise)/
These Are The People of the Time
Fire On The Mountain
Green Green Gold
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Pick's
Dicks #6 ($20.00)
URCHIN's 1st B-Day Show (now known as "The
Crank Set")
The Baggot Inn, NYC, August 21, 1999
This is our newest addition to the
Picks Dicks series, and also happens to be the
latest NYC show. This set was on fire and
definitely was the most intense that the band has
got in its year in existence. This was a
celebration. John Brown from Blade Music did a
great job recording this show on DAT, and got a
real warm and crisp recording of the insanity.
The set opens with a blazingly fast cover of Thin
Lizzy's "The Boys Are Back In Town" and
then goes right into "Green Green
Gold", which URCHIN has never put so early
in a set. Which puts the usual URCHIN opener,
"Briceskating" in the middle of the
set, sparking new life into one of URCHIN's most
loved jams. This is also Scotty Choc's finest
performance with the band yet, showing his
definite mark in the music and personality as a
great guitar player. This set has lots of
surprises and features the longest and most
fierce SS456 to date, clocking in at over 30
minutes and including an impromptu "Fire On
The Mountain" which wasn't planned at all,
as well as some crazy syncopated riffing between
all of the guys in the band that highlights their
tightness these days, as well as Tomato kicking
his drums over at the end of the "These Are
The People Of The Time" section of the song.
This is a must for an URCHIN fan!!!! Listen to it in Real Audio
at URCHIN's download page
Track list:
Disc 1
The Boys Are Back In Town
Green Green Gold
Bat’s Taxi
Quiz Show Spy
The Alligator
Disc
2
Tomato11 Drum Solo
The Junius Ponds
Briceskating
At The Barbeque
Space Station on the 4,5 & 6/
The Brooklyn Jaccuzi/
Phon-X Jam/
URCHIN Syncopation Jam/
Fire On The Mountain/
Space Station (Reprise)/
Constantinople/
These Are The People of the Time
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