BOAT OF

PERFORMANCE CHRONOLOGY

(Updates and enhancements will be forthcoming.)

NEST (ADJ.)

(The immediate precursor.)

30 October 1980

40-Watt Club

Athens, GA

(Carol Levy, Mary Rockwell, Tom Smith, Michael Stipe)

Unrecorded!

BOAT OF

  14 February 1981  

Cobb Institute Athens, GA

  (David Gamble, Mike Green, Carol Levy, Tom Smith, Craig Woodall)  

A Valentine's Day fete; unfortunately unrecorded. Spontaneous performance - no flier.

  16 May 1981

  40-Watt Club  

Athens, GA

  (Mike Green, Carol Levy, Tom Smith)

The flier was detourned from a photo found in a 1980 issue of Hustler's Rejects. I wrote the shorthand "BO 40W T" with one of Carol Levy's mascara pencils; the color photocopies were made at the University of Georgia library, where Mike Green was employed. Local Pylon enthusiasts ripped 'em down overnight. From the 16 May 1981 show at the 40-Watt, all performances were recorded. 

 11 June 1981

  Tyrone's O.C.

  Athens, GA  

(Mike Green, Carol Levy, Tom Smith, Michael Stipe)  

The Side Effects' Paul Bouchard (who later went to a Federal prison on absurdly trumped-up drug charges) recorded the gig on the 40-Watt's eight-track. Probably the best live sound we ever got...

  19 July 1981  

Night Gallery Athens, GA  

(Mike Green, Carol Levy, Tom Smith)  

  22 September 1981  

Night Gallery Athens, GA

  (David Gamble, Carol Levy, Sandra-Lee Phipps, Tom Smith; choreography by Mike Green and Michael Stipe)  

24 October 1981  

Night Gallery

  Athens, GA  

(Mike Green, Carol Levy, Sandra-Lee Phipps, Tom Smith, Jim Walker III)  

  19 December 1981

Night Gallery

Athens, GA 

(David Gamble, Mike Green, Carol Levy, Tom Smith) 

  14 January 1982

  Coffee Club  

Athens, GA

  (David Gamble, Mike Green, Carol Levy, Sandra-Lee Phipps, Tom Smith; lighting design by Michael Stipe)

  30 January 1982

40-Watt Club 

Athens, GA  

(David Gamble, Carol Levy, Sandra-Lee Phipps, Tom Smith, Jim Walker III; guest, Mike Richmond)  

31 January 1982

  Coffee Club 

Athens, GA  

(David Gamble, Carol Levy, Sandra-Lee Phipps, Tom Smith, Jim Walker III)  

  9 March 1982  

40-Watt Club

  Athens, GA

  (David Gamble, Carol Levy, Tom Smith)  

  24 April 1982  

T.V. Dinner

  Atlanta, GA

  (David Gamble, Carol Levy, Tom Smith, Jim Walker III)  

  22 May 1982

  T.V. Dinner

  Atlanta, GA

  (David Gamble, Carol Levy, Tom Smith, Jim Walker III)

  6 August 1982

House of Rimbaud

  Athens, GA  

(Dominique Amet, Tom Smith; guests, Mike Huff, Bryan Lilgy, Tim Lacy)  

  29 August 1982  

WREK-FM

  Atlanta, GA

  (Dominique Amet, David Gamble, Davey Stevenson, Tom Smith)

Davey's brother was Gordon Stevenson of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks...  

  5 September 1982  

WREK-FM

  Atlanta, GA

  (Dominique Amet, David Gamble, Tom Smith; guest, Stan Satori, formerly of Atlanta avant-honkers Vietnam; he later joined the post-Gamble edition of Vic Varney's Method Actors.)  

16 January 1983  

WREK-FM  

Atlanta, GA

  (David Gamble, Tom Smith; guest, Steve Dickey)

  17 February 1983  

The Nitery

  Atlanta, GA  

(David Gamble, Tom Smith; guests, Jim Bob and the Leisure Suits)  

  10 March 1983

  d.c.space  

Washington, DC

  (Tom Smith; guests, Don Fleming, Jay Speigel, Joey Pea)  

  11 March 1983  

The Wax Museum

Washington, DC

  (Tom Smith; guests, Velvet Monkeys - Elaine Barnes, Don Fleming, Jay Speigel, Charles Steck)

Carol Levy died on the 25th of March, and that was it...