Devil Dogs

Photo: Credit Felipe Orrego. Another photo by Bob Bert [Sonic Youth].

Note: Their first NYC concert. The Mudd club was co-founded by Diego Cortez with Steve Mass and Anya Phillips and opened on the 31st of October 1978 and was located @ 77 White Street in downtown Manhattan.

Ad: Scan of advert from Village Voice, from No Wave Facebook group.

Note: Tier 3, also known as TR3, was a music, film and art venue that opened in May of 1979 at a small, multi level space located at 225 West Broadway between Franklin and White streets. It closed in December of 1980. Hilary Jaeger was the live music booker. For a story of the club read an interview with Hilary Jaeger @ Perfect Sound Forever.

Flyer: Photo of flyer, collection Thurston Moore, via No Wave Facebook group.

Ad: Scan of advert from Village Voice, from No Wave Facebook group.

Note: With Robert Quine guesting on guitar.

Photo: Photo credit Joseph Szkodzinski.

Ad: Scan of advert taken from the East Village Eye November 1980.

Note: Audio tape archived at the The James Brawley Collection, which was received by The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, as a gift from Lenny Kaye on October 23, 2009.

Listing: Scan of listing, taken from Chicago Tribune 14-Nov-80.

Note: Start of a small tour of the Midwest, in Marty Nation's ["Fingered" movie star] 1966 Ford F-100 longbed pickup truck (@ New Jersey Meadowlands, photo credit Julia Gorton ).

Note: Zoogie's was formerly The Longhorn.

Ad: Scan of ad courtesy of Dan Peterson.

Ad: Scan of ad taken from The Capital Times 13-Nov-80.

Ad: Radio ad by Downstairs Dan (mp3 675KB).

Poster: Scan of poster.

Poster: Photo of poster, design by Gary Grimshaw.

Card: Photo of calendar card.

Flyer: Original flyer.

Ad/Review: Scan of advert, and review taken from the Lansing State Journal 22/24-Nov-80.

Setlist: (a.o.) Jail Bait [Andre Williams. 1956]/ ... and more..

Handbill: Photo of handbill.

Ad: Scan of advert from Detroit Free Press 16-Nov-80.

Review: Scan of review, taken from the Michigan Daily 26-Nov-80.

Note: "The first time I went to America was with Siouxsie & The Banshees, and the very first night [..] I arrived at the hotel as everyone was leaving. They told me to drop the bags, they were off to the Mudd Club. [..] Devil Dogs were performing. I ended up in a diner with Siouxsie, Budgie, and Lydia, talking about Alice Cooper. I immediately hit it off with Lydia -she seemed to think I was Siouxsie's boyfriend, so she was interested in me. I was only eighteen at the time." Murray Mitchell [Siouxsie's roadie and in '81 in Lydia's "The Agony Is The Ecstacy" performance], quoted in "Lydia Lunch- The War Is Never Over", a book by Nick Soulsby (Jawbone, 2020).

Listing: Scan of listing from The Varsity 21-Nov-80.

Listing: Scan of listing from The Varsity 26-Nov-80.

Ad: Scan of ad from The Boston Phoenix 25-Nov-80.

Note: Tier 3 (also known as TR3) opened late May 1979 and closed in December 1980.

Ad: Photo of advert.

Note: "Hoboken was the famous set where Lydia was doing her solo [with a drumstick] on a cast iron frying pan in the middle of a song, and looked at me, and started laughing so hard that she peed her pants." [Kristian Hoffman email, 2009].

Note: One rehearsal with Rudi Protrudi, preparing for the upcoming show(s).

"Robert Maché worked with my sister at a print company and Robert was playing with Lydia. They needed a bass player so he asked my sister if I'd be interested. I was in a band called Tina Peel, singing and playing guitar, but maybe my sister had told him I'd played bass in cover bands in Pennsylvania before moving to New York—because the only way you would play music in Pennsylvania was if you were in a cover band. We met at Bradly Field's rehearsal studio, which was a really damp, dark, dungeon sort of a place, in the bottom of a rundown apartment building where The Cramps used to rehearse. We had one rehearsal, I barely spoke to anybody, just ran through the songs once each time, and they said OK and told me they were going to play Georgia. Really, the only reason I did the first show was Lydia offered me two hundred bucks—and I'm a big fan of blues, so when they said it would be blues music, I was into that." Rudi Protrudi quoted in "Lydia Lunch- The War Is Never Over", a book by Nick Soulsby (Jawbone, 2020).

Listing: Scan of listing, taken from Philadelphia Inquirer 12-Dec-80.

Note: Perhaps cancelled.

Setlist: I Feel So Worried [Sammy Lewis/Willie Lee Johnson. 1955]/ Twelve Year Old Boy [Elmore James/Mel London. 1957]/ I Don’t Want Nobody/ Be Careful What You Do (Do Away With You) [John Brim. 1953] / Jive (That's Why We Can't Agree)/ Racketeer’s Blues [Lonnie Johnson. 1932]/ Memphis Yodel-Rocky Road Blues [Jimi Rodgers. 1928/ Bill Monroe. 1945]/ Snatch It Back and Hold It [Junior Wells. 1965]/ Get Your Business Straight [Morris "Magic Slim" Holt]/ He Fooled Me/ It's Tight Like That [Clara Smith/Hudson "Tampa Red" Whittaker. 1929]/ That's All She Wrote (Young, Dumb & Full Of Cum).

Listing: Scan of listing, taken from the Atlanta Constitution 13-Dec-80.

Note: Rudi Protrudi vocals on "Young, Dumb & Full Of Cum". When I got the call for the next gig, I had a recording of the first gig [..] We recorded that night for what was going to be a live record [..]. Unfortunately, Lydia decided that she had laryngitis and she did not want the record to come out. It was funny because, when I heard the recording, [..] she was off-key as always. I refer to Lydia's style as 'bitching the blues': she doesn't sing [the songs], she bitches them, which has a certain charm if you understand where she's coming from." Rudi Protrudi quoted in "Lydia Lunch- The War Is Never Over", a book by Nick Soulsby (Jawbone, 2020).

The recording of this show has been made available on the "Bitchin' The Blues" bootleg CD-R (Black Cat Records 2006) and on the Fuzztones' bandcamp (2023).

Note 1: Start of the short (4 dates) Italian tour. They do a 35 mins show. Leroy Jenkins (1932-2007) was an American composer and free jazz violinist. In 1981 he released his "Lifelong Ambitions" album on the Italian Black Saint records label.

Note 2: A month later, they called me up and asked if I wanted to play a few shows in Italy. [...] There were four acts playing with us on the bill—and none of them had anything to do with the other. It was very intellectual, except for Devil Dogs. There was a classical pianist and violin player who played together, there was the band Orchestra Luna, then I don't remember the other. It was a good experience but a little rough [...] When we got onstage, it all gelled really nice, but I can't say I gelled with anyone in the band as people, and I can't even say I really joined the band—they just asked me to play some gigs. We never did end up getting along, and they all seemed very cynical. In Italy, Lydia was really mean—no one spoke to her in Italy. [...] I never got the impression from Lydia, however, that this was anything other than a filler band to go in between what she had done and what she wanted to do next. She didn't seem to have a vision for it—I have a feeling Lydia just likes blues music and thought it would be fun to do this band for a few minutes." Rudi Protrudi quoted in "Lydia Lunch- The War Is Never Over", a book by Nick Soulsby (Jawbone, 2020).

Note 2: "I had a fantastic time playing in Italy with Lydia, when we were riduculously booked into a sort of conservative "Jazz Festival" as I recall. [...] I always had a good time playing with Lydia and had so much fun doing it. And the fact that she had me play drums -for which my skill was, at the most affirmative possible description -mediocre- meant she only asked me to go on those tours, because we just laughed and laughed." Kristian Hoffman (DM Facebook, October 2024).

Setlist: Racketeer’s Blues [Lonnie Johnson. 1932]/ Twelve Year Old Boy [Elmore James/Mel London. 1957]/ Snatch It Back and Hold It [Junior Wells. 1965]/ Get Your Business Straight [Morris “Magic Slim” Holt]/ He Fooled Me/ Jive (That's Why We Can't Agree)/ That's All She Wrote (Young, Dumb & Full Of Cum).

Note: After the 30 mins show the band is interviewed for Prisma magazine (published April 1981).

Note: After these 2 final dates somewhere in Italy the band ended.

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Last modified 29th of December, 2024.