This one is from Craig Hilmer’s collection and it is a bit puzzling to me. 10,000 Maniacs were playing big venues on this tour- we saw the stop at the 8,500 seat Greek Theater in Berkeley, and they played the 3,000 seat at the Bronco Bowl in Dallas right before this. Then they play the (about) 450 capacity Liberty Lunch. Wild. I had to look through newspaper articles to confirm that the year is correct. Probably the last club show until Natalie left the band.

EDIT: thanks to promoters Mark Pratz for the background! “it was sold out so at least 1,000 attended. They ended up there when some disagreement occurred between the band and promoter/s at a Barton Springs outdoor concert back then, before ACL fest was created. We had done the band at the Continental. Club in the early 80’s (to no one,Thanksgiving, oops!). So the agent called and asked if we could pick up the show which. Duh, of course we did. I remember it being an early show so we could still do the evening bands booked.”

Recorded by: Craig Hilmer
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card