Bauhaus
Wartburg Club
Weisbaden, Germany
11/28/81
For 30 plus (yeah 30!) years, Peter Murphy has been one of the most captivating front-men in show business. I recently took my wife to her first Peter Murphy concert and even though she knew next to nothing about his solo work short of “Marlene Dietrich’s Favorite Poem” she walked away even more captivated by the performance than I did, a fan of over 20 years.
Peter Murphy’s new record “Ninth” comes out today in the UK and tomorrow in the US. The full record can be streamed right now from the fantastic Slicing Up Eyeballs and I can say, it’s a pretty fantastic record.
Now a little bit about this recording. Recorded in Germany in 1981, Bauhaus were wrapping up their “Mask” European tour. It’s an audience recording from the early ’80s, so there’s a ton of tape hiss, but you can still hear the brilliant live show the band must have put on for what was a small crowd judging by the amount of applause.
Setlist
1. Intro/The Passion Of Lovers
2. In The Flat Field
3. Silent Hedges
4. In Fear Of Fear
5. Of Lillies And Remains
6. Dancing
7. Rosegarden Funeral Of Sores
8. Terror Couple Kill Colonel (Cut)
9. Hair Of The Dog
10. Mask
11. The Man With X-Ray Eyes (Slow Version)
12. Kick In The Eye
13. Hollow Hills
14. Stigmata Matyr
15. Dark Entries
Download: Bauhaus – Weisbaden – 11/28/81 – 214 MB
Sample: The Man With X-Ray Eyes (Slow Version) (Live)
I just read that Bauhaus has a new record coming out next April, but that’s the last thing that they are going to do. No more touring, no more new songs, nothing else. I’m not really excited about the prospect of a new record, and I’m glad they are done with touring because whenever they go on a long string of dates, David J leaves town. When they aren’t on tour, he’s here in Southern California, playing live shows, doing DJ appearances, etc. I would much rather see him solo than Bauhaus any day. This song is off the rejected mix of “Mask” and never got a proper release on the final record. Too bad since it’s a great song.
Here’s a live Bauhaus track from their show at the Marble Bar in Baltimore back in 1982. I finally got my copy of “Archive/Shadow of Light” on DVD and watched it for the first time in a looooong time. They put on a truly amazing show. It also has come to my attention that there’s another video out there of Bauhaus playing Hurrah in New York in 1980 or 1981. I’ve been keeping my eye out for it and hopefully it will see the light of day sometime in the near future.
This track is from the version of Mask that was mixed at Playground Studios in July, 1981. Some of the songs were remixed and used on the final release, some of the songs were scrapped and re-recorded, and some of the songs were only released as B-Sides. This version of Muscle In Plastic seems to have been re-recorded for the official Mask release. The quality isn’t that great, but it’s interesting to hear a very different take on this great song.
