Heroin
WFMU Radio
Jersey City, NJ
Unknown Date
Here’s a great recording of Heroin when they were on tour in New Jersey. No idea on the date, but it would have either been July/August of ’92 or ’93.
Set List:
1. This Time
2. A Portion
3. Has Been
4. Another
5. Leave
6. Head Cold
7. With No Name
8. Undertaking
Sample:
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Download: Heroin – WFMU Radio, Jersey City, NJ – 104 MB
This song, along with “Head Cold”, were included on the Superpowers Cassette. It is certainly a different version than was released on Gravity. The song ends up being about a minute and a half shorter than what I was used to hearing. It’s definitely not a live recording, so I’m assuming that it must be an early demo of the song that was sent to Troubleman Unlimited before it was entirely finished. It seems like a lot of the songs that are on the Superpowers Cassette were eventually released later in much more polished versions. Regardless, even this early version of the song is amazing.
When I went to see The Offspring in 1992 little did I know that I would be seeing one of the most important hardcore bands of the 90s. After Heroin opened everyone pretty much forgot about The Offspring. Heroin’s first 7″ (the “Paper Bag EP”) had just come out and it was the first of many, many Gravity releases I bought. This song was recorded live in South Dakota in 1993 on their second tour.
