April 19th, 1982

People seeing the Bad Brains in the late 70s and early 80s usually run out of superlatives when they talk about those shows. I sure wish I could have seen then in their prime, but since I‘m neither from the US, nor had I been alive yet, I‘ll have to make do with videos and live recordings. One of the more legendary Bad Brains shows took place at 9.30 Club in Washington on April 19, 1982, which was roughly one month before I was born. Great song selection (including Banned at DC, which is kinda funny) and pretty good quality for a live bootleg from 1982. 

Cough/Uncool

The second record I bought in London that was supposedly a heavy hitter scored for cheap. Oh well. It would have been cool, but just having this bootleg is okay for me. Obviously I don't have an original to compare this with, so I don't know if this is a good copy or not, but I like the "the Unfits" pun on the label.