10 Commandments

We bought a new light, a floor lamp to stand in the corner over our drawing table and pretty much light up the whole room when we need it. I had a homemade rack for cassettes under the table and it just looked ridiculous with the new lamp. And when was the last time anyone but a hipster listened to a cassette? Well, today! We got into it, Playette, a mix tape from ’84, my recording of Talking Heads from the Village Gate as a threesome in ’77. It’s all stuff that doesn’t exist in any other format unless that Roir Stuff eventually went digital. Even Pete LaBonne has gone digital.

I put all the tapes in a box and we’ll probably never listen to them again. I was intrigued by one labeled “10 Commandments” from 1985, the same year as the video above. 10 Commandments opened for Personal Effects at Scorgies. and the band was us, Personal Effects, doing other bands’ material. So I kept that one out for a future listen. Funny thing, Taana Gardner’s “Heartbeat” was not in the set. Now you know this just don’t make no kinda sense.

Here’s the 10 Commandments’ 1985 set list:
“Heaven” – Talking Heads
“What Goes On” – VU
“Connection” – Stones
“End Of The World” – Skeeter Davis
“Big Bottom” – Spinal Tap
“More Than Good” – MX-80
“Sex Machine” – JB
“Maggot Brain” – Funkadelics
“She Belongs To Me” – Dylan
“It Came Out Of The Sky” – CCR
“FunTime” – Iggy

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