Otherwise known as "bootlegs", these are mostly live
recordings of the band (audio and video) as well as radio and
TV appearances that are floating around out there. This list includes
every one of these recordings that I am aware of. If you know
of any more not listed here, please send us an e-mail
and let us know about them. A few PCP Highway bootlegs have turned
up already as well, information on these can be found here.
New York, NY (?): 12/xx/91
- The oldest live recording of the band to turn up so far, recorded
sometime in 1991 (presumably in New York City). It includes 3
songs: "No Way Out", "Vampire Nation" and
"Degenerated". The band's first live performance was
at a Greendoor event on December 7, 1991 - there has been some
speculation as to whether or not this recording comes from that
performance, but this has not yet been verified.
Philadelphia, PA: November 6, 1992
- The only known recording to have surfaced of the unreleased
song, "Soda Jerk".
Set list: No Way Out / Guitar Mafia / Feel Like Suicide / Vampire
Nation / Soda Jerk / Wasted Years / Frankie / Degenerated
Demos: 1993 - A tape has been
circulating under this heading for a while but the four songs
included are not demos, but, instead, are the songs from
the band's two 1993 7-inchers (No Way Out, Guitar Mafia, Wasted
Years, Waiting For the Next Big Parade).
Philadelphia, PA: 06/11/94
- 30 minutes. Recorded shortly before the release of the first
album.
Set list: Frankie / Stealing Time / No Way Out / Feel Like Suicide
/ Sins of America / Vampire Nation / Degenerated
New York, NY (?): 4/xx/95 - Someone once informed us that they had this, but they never passed along a copy so we cannot comment on it.
Toronto, Canada: 10/18/95
- 30 minutes - opening for the Dickies. Includes the unreleased
song "Dropping Out" and is the earliest known live recording
to include songs from the "No Lunch" album.
Set list: Dropping Out / Scorch / Sins of America / Working On
the Avenue / Capital Offender / No Way Out / She Stands There
/ Frankie / Degenerated.
Detroit, MI: 10/21/95 -
35 minutes - Another show opening for the Dickies. The earliest
recording to surface with the unreleased song "Heaven"
and with "Not Dreaming" A video is known to exisit of
3 songs from this show - its unknown if the full show is floating
around out there on video.
Set list: Dropping Out / Scorch / Sins of America / Feel Like
Suicide / Major / Frankie / Not Dreaming / No Way Out / Working
On the Avenue / Heaven / Degenerated
Toledo, OH: 10/23/95 -
30 Minutes - Yet another show opening for the Dickies. Contains
the unreleased songs "Never Beens" and "Heaven".
Set list: Dropping Out / Scorch / Sins of America / She Stands
There / No Way Out / Never Been / Working On the Avenue / 1981
/ Heaven / Frankie
Philadelphia, PA: 12/28/95
- 50 minutes - This was one of four warm-up shows the band did
prior to entering the studio to record the No Lunch album.
This tape contains "Dropping Out" as well as another
unreleased song, "Every Mistake Imaginable", written
about EMI Records. The 50 minute set also includes 5 songs which
later appeared on No Lunch, and all of them sound fairly close
to the recorded versions.
Set list: Degenerated / Feel Like Suicide / She Stands There /
Too Loose / Every Mistake Imaginable / Sins of America / Capital
Offender / Working On the Avenue / Major / Dropping Out / Stealing
Time / Frankie / Scorch / 1981 / No Way Out
Baltimore, MD:
Memory Lane: 12/29/95 - 65 minutes. Another of the
four warm-up shows the band did prior to entering the studio to
record the No Lunch album. This tape also contains "Dropping
Out" and "Every Mistake Imaginable". The set list
is identical to the show in Philadelphia the night before. The
complete tape also includes the soundcheck; the quality of this
is not as good as the recording of the actual show, but includes
3 songs, one of which (title unknown) was not played during the
show and does not appear on any other bootleg or official releases.
This is also the show featured on the "Every
Mistake Imaginable" bootleg CD (note this CD does not
include the soundcheck).
Set list: Degenerated / Feel Like Suicide / She Stands There /
Too Loose / Every Mistake Imaginable / Sins of America / Capital
Offender / Working On the Avenue / Major / Dropping Out / Stealing
Time / Frankie / Scorch / 1981 / No Way Out
Private interview (Jesse and Danny): Baltimore, MD 12/29/95 - 20 minutes. Recorded in the band's van outside Memory Lane prior to that evening's show.
New York, NY: Irving Plaza: 07/xx/96 - 25 minutes. This is a "soundboard" recording which was actually recorded from the internet broadcast of this show. However, it is incomplete and contains only the first 25 minutes of that night's set.
Quebec City, Canada: 8/02/96
- 30 minutes - opening for Kiss. As far as sound quality goes,
this is the best one from the Kiss tour.
Set List: Scorch / Feel Like Suicide / She Stands There / Capital
Offender / Too Loose / No Way Out / Major / Frankie / Degenerated
Montreal, Quebec: 8/03/96
- 30 minutes - another night on the Kiss tour.
Set List: Scorch / Disclaimer / She Stands There / Capital Offender
/ Too Loose / No Way Out / Major / Frankie / Degenerated
Toronto, Canada: The Skydome: 8/06/96
- 30 minutes. Yet another night opening for Kiss. This recording
is included on the Once Kissed, Twice Live
bootleg CD.
Set List: Scorch / Feel Like Suicide / She Stands There / Capital
Offender / Too Loose / No Way Out / Major / Frankie / Degenerated
Toronto, Canada: The Velvet Underground:
8/06/96 - 35 minutes. After doing their opening set
for Kiss at The Skydome, D Gen hopped over to this Toronto club
to do a free show. This recording is included on the Once
Kissed, Twice Live bootleg CD
Set List: Scorch / Feel Like Suicide / She Stands There / Capital
Offender / Disclaimer / No Way Out / Major / Not Dreaming / Working
On the Avenue / Frankie / Degenerated
Q107 Radio: Toronto, Canada: 8/06/96 - 10 minutes. Before both of this evening's sets, the band stopped off at this radio station where they did a brief interview.
Milwaukee, WI: 8/10/96 - 30 minutes. A so-so quality
recording. Last night on the Kiss tour.
Set List: Scorch / Feel Like Suicide / She Stands There / Capital
Offender / Too Loose / No Way Out / Major / Disclaimer / Degenerated
Private Interview (Jesse and Danny): Baltimore, MD: 8/25/96 - 20 minutes. This interview was done over dinner at Bertha's Restaurant in the Fells Point District of Baltimore (right down the block from where they used to film the TV show "Homicide").
Soundcheck: Fletcher's: Baltimore, MD: 8/25/96 - 10 minutes. This features the band playing "She Stands There" and "Waiting For the Next Big Parade". (A recording of the actual show has not surfaced).
Baton Rouge, LA: 9/18/96
- 30 minutes. Opening up for Social Distortion.
Set List: Scorch / Feel Like Suicide / She Stands There / Capital
Offender / No Way Out / Major / Working On the Avenue / Not Dreaming
/ Frankie / Degenerated
Asbury, NJ: The Stone Pony: 11/26/96
- 35 minutes. Opening up for Social D. There are actually two
different recordings of this show out there. One contains the
complete 35 minute set. The second recording is missing the first
song ("Scorch") but the sound quality is much better.
Set List: Scorch / Feel Like Suicide / Waiting For the Next Big
Parade / She Stands There / Capital Offender / No Way Out / 1981
/ Working On the Avenue / Frankie / Degenerated
Toronto, Canada: The Velvet Underground:
11/30/96 - 35 minutes. Again on the Social Distortion
tour.
Set List: Scorch / Feel Like Suicide / Waiting For the Next Big
Parade / She Stands There / Capital Offender / No Way Out / 1981
/ Working On the Avenue / Frankie / Degenerated
Portchester, NY: 11 Willow Street: 6/06/97 - 50 minutes. This was the first recording to surface which contained new material since the band went out on the road in support of No Lunch. Included are the songs "Never Gonna Marry" (the only known recording available), "Sweet Talker", "China Town", "Lonely" and "Cornered" as well as a cover of Neil Young's "Don't Be Denied".
Washington, DC: Nightclub 9:30: 7/03/97
- 40 minutes. This tape contains the band's 30 minute set opening
up for The Misfits (their last night on that tour) and included
two songs that were later recorded for Through the Darkness:
"Chinatown" and "Cornered" as well as an older,
unreleased song dating back to 1991 called "Age of Confusion"
(of which this is the only known live recording). Also included
on this tape are two songs recorded during D Gen's soundcheck,
including "ChinaTown". This was Rick's last show with
the band before he left.
Set List: Scorch / Age of Confusion / 1981 / She Stands There
/ Capital Offender / No Way Out / ChinaTown / Cornered / Frankie
/ Degenerated
New York, NY: Coney Island High: 10/31/97
- 45 minutes. This tape also had what was a lot of new material
at the time, including the earliest recorded appearances of "Good
Ship Down" and "Rise and Fall". The show also features
a cover of the Dead Kennedy's tune "Kill the Poor",
performed with members of Murphy's Law. This is also the earliest
tape to surface with Todd Youth on guitar.
Set List: Frankie / Sweet Talker / She Stands There / Hatred /
Good Ship Down / No Way Out / Rise and Fall / Lonely / 1981 /
ChinaTown / Cornered / Degenerated / Kill the Poor
Leeds, England: Town & Country:
01/27/98 - From the band European tour opening for
Green Day.
Setlist: Frankie / Sweet Talker / She Stands There / Only a Ghost
/ Rise & Fall / Feel Like Suicide / Hatred / Prohibition /
Cornered / Degenerated.
Wolverhampton, England: Civic Hall:
01/28/98 - Also from the Green Day tour and includes
the only live recording of "So Messed Up" that we've
found to date.
Setlist: Frankie / Sweet Talker / She Stands There / Only a Ghost
/ Rise & Fall / Feel Like Suicide / So Messed Up / Prohibition
/ Cornered / Degenerated.
London, England: The Astoria Theatre: 02/01/98 - One more form the Euro tour with Green Day.
New York, NY: C.B.G.B.'s: 2/27/98
and 2/28/98 - After returning from Europe, the band
did a two-night stint at C.B.G.B.'s to celebrate their homecoming.
These are also the band's last shows with Mikey and Todd and are
the earliest known recordings to surface of "Every Mother's
Son" and "Sunday Secret Saints". The show on the
28th features a really cool intro which we've never heard them
use before or since.
-2/27
- a solid 55 minute, 16 song set: Frankie / Sweet Talker
/ She Stands There / Too Loose / Only a Ghost / Good Ship Down
/ Rise and Fall / Feel Like Suicide / Every Mother's Son / Lonely
/ 1981 / No Way Out / Cornered / Hatred / Prohibition / Degenerated.
-2/28 - a little over an hour, 18 songs: No Way Out / Sweet Talker / She Stands There / Too Loose / Only a Ghost / Good Ship Down / Hatred / Rise and Fall / Feel Like Suicide / Sunday Secret Saints / Lonely / 1981 / ChinaTown / Cornered / Frankie / Every Mother's Son / Prohibition / Degenerated
Asbury, NJ: The Saint: 2/27/99
- A lot of "firsts" on this one...This is the first
tape to turn up from the "Through the Darkness" tour
(this was the 3rd night of the tour) as well as the first taped,
live recording of "Helpless" and the first live tape
to feature new drummer Joe Rizzo. This is also one of the handful
of shows during which Richard Bacchus came out to take over the
guitar slot left vacant by Todd Youth's departure. 50 minutes.
Set List: Scorch / Sweet Talker / Every Mother's Son / Helpless
/ She Stands There / Only a Ghost / Good Ship Down / No Way Out
/ Rise and Fall / ChinaTown / Lonely / Capital Offender / Frankie
Philadelphia, PA: The Trocadero Balcony:
3/13/99 - Interesting as the band opened up their set
with "Lonely" for the first time, which was rather surprising,
but actually very cool. 55 minutes
Set List: Lonely / Scorch / Sweet Talker / Every Mother's Son
/ Helpless / She Stands There / Only a Ghost / Good Ship Down
/ No Way Out / Rise and Fall / ChinaTown / Feel Like Suicide /
Hatred / Frankie
New York, NY: The Bowery Ballroom:
3/20/99 - Includes Joey Ramone singing backup on "Helpless"
and is the first live recording to turn up with "PCP Highway"
on it. 65 minutes.
Set List: Lonely / Scorch / Sweet Talker / Every Mother's Son
/ Helpless / She Stands There / Only a Ghost / Good Ship Down
/ No Way Out / Rise and Fall / ChinaTown / Feel Like Suicide /
Hatred / PCP Highway / Frankie / Degenerated (on the actual recording
of the show, the last two songs are not included, but were played
that night)
Cleveland, OH: Peabody's: 4/15/99
- The band's penultimate headline show, the one tape we have heard
from this show is not complete (its missing the first and last
few songs). This is currently the only live recording we are aware
of with Jim on guitar. 35 minutes.
Set List: Every Mother's Son / Helpless / She Stands There / Only
a Ghost / Good Ship Down / No Way Out / Rise and Fall / Chinatown
/ Feel Like Suicide / Hatred
Video Recordings
New York, NY: Studio Zero: January,
1978 Actually this is not really a D Generation recording
- what this video tape contains is several musicians informally
coming up on stage and banging out some old songs together (including
two New York Dolls tunes). Some of those on stage include members
of The Misfits as well as a young Howie Pyro,
who sings lead vocals on four of the five songs. Unfortunately,
the only known copy of this video is in the hands of ex Misfit
Bobby Steele and he is not currently making copies available to
anyone.
They Eat Scum: Again, this is not really a DGen recording - this is a low-budget, indie movie that came out sometime around 1980. For a total of about 5 minutes of screen time, there is some live footage of the band The Blessed, with Howie on bass.
New York, NY: CBGB's: 1993
Someone told us that they had seen this video once, but no one
seems to know of where a copy can be procured. If anyone has this,
please let us know!!
Philadelphia, PA: J.C. Dobbs: 3/27/93
One of the earliest DGen vids floating around out there as far
as we know. At one point Jesse mentions that the 7-incher of "No
Way Out" will be "coming out next week". Also,
"Working On the Avenue" and "Frankie" have
some different lyrics than the ones we all know and love. A few
clips from this amateur video are featured in the "Wasted
Years" promo video from EMI. 30 minutes
Set List: Wasted Years / Feel Like Suicide / No Way Out / Working
On the Avenue / Frankie / Vampire Nation / Degenerated
Philadelphia, PA: J.C. Dobbs: 11/13/93
A great, old video of DGen's set opening up for Dandelion.
This video contains songs that were eventually on the first album,
one of which of which ("Ghosts") does not appear on
any other bootlegs. The renditions of "Working On the Avenue"
and "Frankie" have some different lyrics than the recorded
versions, but some of the ones for "Frankie" also sound
different than on the other J.C. Dobbs 1993 video. 30 minutes.
Set List: Working On the Avenue / Stealing Time / Ghosts / Frankie
/ Guitar Mafia / No Way Out / Vampire Nation / Degenerated
"The Wasted Years": 1994 - 5 minutes. This was a promo video put out by EMI / Chrysalis Records and is basically a montage of live footage with "No Way Out" playing in the background, interspersed with a few interview snippets. It's pretty cool if for no other reason than to see some of the really old video footage shown which predates the band's EMI days.
"USA Up All Night": 1994
- During breaks in the movies shown on this Saturday night TV
show, host Gilbert Gottfried does his little intros from a record
release party for DGen's first album. However, there is no real
dialogue with the band, its mostly Gilbert plugging the band at
each break in that horrid voice of his. Watching Rick and Howie
in the background is pretty amusing tho.
"Last Call": 10/21/94
- 5 minutes. DGen appeared on this TV show (aired in New York??)
and played "No Way Out" live.
Much Music: 10/31/94 - 5 minutes. This includes a brief interview with the entire band at a Halloween party aboard the Queen Mary in L.A. as well as a few (very) short clips from the set they played later that night. I do not know, specifically, what TV show this came from (we think it was Canada's "Much Music", but we are not 100% sure).
New York City, NY: Irving Plaza: 11/11/94
- This is a great live vid of the band from their tour in support
of the first record. 50 minutes
Set List: Scorch . Sins of America / Feel Like Suicide / Major
/ No Way Out / Falling / Working On the Avenue / Guitar Mafia
/ Stealing Time / Vampire Nation / Frankie / Degenerated
Detroit, MI: 10/21/95 -
15 minutes. This video is very cool, but also very short, consisting
of footage of only 3 songs from what is probably the middle of
the band's set - "Not Dreaming", "No Way Out",
"Working On the Avenue". Its unclear if the full show
exists on video - there is an audio tape available of the full
show. If anyone out there has a longer version of this video,
please e-mail us!!!
Port Chester, NY: 10/31/95
- This is a very cool video from a show done just after the official
end of the Dropping Out tour. It contains a healthy dose of songs
from the first album, plus some stuff that later wound up on No
Lunch. It also contains two unreleased songs that do not appear
on any other bootleg videos - "Never Been" and "Heaven"
(and "Dropping Out" is on here too). 50 minutes
Set List: Dropping Out / Scorch / Sins of America / Feel Like
Suicide / She Stands There / Too Loose / No Way Out / Never Been
/ Capital Offender / Working On the Avenue / Heaven / Frankie
/ 1981 / Degenerated
Much Music: Toronto, Canada: 11/15/96 - 15 minutes. Jesse and Howie are interviewed on this Canadian version of MTV. It also features the video for "No Way Out" (No Lunch version).
Minneapolis, MN: 12/06/96 - 30 minutes. This video contains the band's set opening up for Social Distortion. The first song, "Scorch", has a few dropouts but, otherwise, this tape is pretty decent except for when the guy filming it has to duck out of the way to avoid security.
Hollywood, CA: 4/03/99 - 55 minutes. This video contains the band's full set at the Troubadour (after opening for Green Day earlier in the evening). So far, this is the only video to turn up from the Through the Darkness tour - there is one small dropout in ChinaTown, but otherwise its a decent recording - shot from the balcony.
Bootleg Records and CD's
DGeneration - This is a
copy of the band's first album on black vinyl (which was not done
by Chrysalis records - they did not press any vinyl). There are
two different versions of this floating around. On one, the center
label on the record itself is blank and the quality of the jacket
artwork is inferior to that on the official copies of the disc.
The second version has better quality artwork.
Drop-Outs - This is a pretty
cool little item. This CD contains all of the songs from DGen's
two, 1993 7-inchers and the Prohibition EP as well as some non-album
tracks and live versions of unreleased songs. The front cover
artwork appears to be lifted from the cover of the DGeneration
Advance Cassette Sampler. The back cover lists the tracks and
the following limitation: "This is # ___ of a limited number
of 123 copies" with the number in the blank filled in by
hand. The quality of "Heaven" and "Never Beens"
is a little sub-par, and there appears to be a small glitch in
the very beginning of Prohibition, but other than that, the overall
quality is pretty decent. This was obvioulsy produced by a fan
with a home-CD burner, and we have heard of copies floating around
with different CD labels and black and white artwork (the first
copies we came across were blue and white) - so there appear to
be bootleg versions of this bootleg out there.
Tracklist: Scorch (RAFR version) / No Way Out / Guitar Mafia /
Wasted Years / Waiting For the Next Big Parade / No God (original
version) / I Got Nothing / Dying For a Living / Never Gonna Marry
(live) / Every Mistake Imaginable (live) / Heaven (live) / Never
Beens (live) / Dropping Out (live) / Prohibition / Sweet Talker
/ PCP Highway.
Every Mistake Imaginable - One of two live CD's we know of. It contains the Baltimore, MD: 12/29/95 show (as described above) without the soundcheck portion of the recording. The cover also consists of a photo by Gina DeJong from the actual show and appearing on this website - used without permission of either the photographer or the copyright holder (you guys could have at least asked first!!).
Once Kissed, Twice Live - This live CD contains two performances recorded in Toronto, Canada on August 6, 1996. The first set is from the Skydome, opening up for Kiss. The second set is from the Velvet Underground, a club where the band did a free gig after the Kiss show.