Live In Chicago

The Three Johns | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 30, 2004)
• Original Release Date: March 30, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Buried Treasure Records
• ASIN: B0001WA6XS
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #88,158 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

About the Artist

The first time I set foot in Chicago I climbed out of the cab outside the Metro on Clark Street and saw this big Viking lad dragging his snake out of a big white truck. That was Timothy R. Powell one half of the dazzling Last Time Round Record consortium and owner of the Metro Mobile recording operation. Unbeknownst to us Johnnies he was setting up to record our first ever show in Chicago half way through our first ever tour of the States. It was the summer of 1985 and even littler did I know that this strange city would one day be my home. Terry Nelson, a college DJ on WZRD in Chicago, who hung out with the Mekons in Brixton for a few months back in 83, organized the gig through the late, great and sadly missed Ruth Polski, our agent in NYC. We’d been zig-zagging back and forth across the country on those multi-voucher airline tickets that sent us stumbling into the same bar in Detroit airport every afternoon no matter where we’d played the night before. We traveled light with two battered guitars, Hugo the drum machine in his heavy metal silver ammo box and Tommy from the Mekons doing our sound. It was a great, weird, event-packed tour that peaked just right that particularly bonkers night in Chicago with us Three on about the toppest form we ever really summoned up so thank Neptune the buggers taped it!

Timothy baked the tapes, cranked up the volume & added a few tracks that had to be left off the original vinyl SO here you have it: The Three Johns Live In Chicago!

- Jon Langford, Chicago, 2004

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the devil's music, October 31, 2004

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Armchair Rambo (MINNEAPOLIS, MN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live In Chicago (Audio CD)

"That song was written by the devil, who invented punk rock."

So speaks Jon Langord, one of three. I saw the Johns on this tour when they were in Mpls and was instantly hooked. This is what it sounded like. They made 5 records, one cassette-tape-only, tons of singles and eps, all out of print, all worth owning.

Guitar, slide guitar, bass, drum machine, beer by the gallon, international socialism, and a tremulous, yoedeling Johnny Rotten. And between-song wisecracks that are as funny as ever! That's punk rock: it's messy, noisy, funny, silly, serious, hopelessly optimistic and pissed off at the same time.

This is not hi-fi. But it's rock and roll to be reckoned with.

Jonboy, when's the reunion tour?

4.0 out of 5 stars If you like retro 1980's punk, August 7, 2006

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Robert J. Miller (northbrook, il) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live In Chicago (Audio CD)

Considering the original studio version is gone this is not too bad. Done at Metro in Chicago where I live it's worth to put in your collection. Metro is not designed as a recording studio setting just a small club but they did an OK job.