Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Slayer - Ruthie's Inn, Berkely, CA. 12-31-1984 (SBD)

Slayer
Ruthie's Inn
Berkley, California, U.S.A.
December 31, 1984
Soundboard Recording
Flac Level 8 & MP3 320kbps
No Cover Art

01 Aggressive Perfector
02 Face the Slayer
03 The Final Command
04 Captor of Sin
05 Necrophiliac*
06 Crionics+
07 Fight `Till Death
08 The Antichrist
09 Haunting the Chapel
10 Black Magic
11 Die By The Sword
12 Evil Has No Boundaries
13 Show No Mercy

total playing time: 49mn 56sc

Tom Araya – vocals, bass
Kerry King – guitars
Jeff Hanneman – guitars
Dave Lombardo – drums

* = 1st time played live (before the release of Hell Awaits)
+ = Extremely Rare to hear live

This is Roots Of Heavy Metal post #1

The info text included with the bootleg when I received it stated that Ruthie's Inn  was in Sn Francisco California. Thanks go out to Draftervoi and The L-RV for giving me the correct info. Ruthie's Inn was located in Berkley, California. Please update the info text included in the download to reflect this new info.

Slayer had not yet released their break through album Reign In Blood when this recording was made. As a matter of fact they had only just released their EP Haunting The Chapel. This recording has the first ever live performance of "Necrophiliac", which would be included on Slayer's second LP Hell Awaits. The other cool thing about this Slayer show is the inclusion of "Chrionics" in the set list. This song was rarely played live as Tom Araya states in the songs intro. To have a soundboard quality recording of this track is a real treat for a Slayer fanatic.

More Slayer bootlegs are available on this site here

Flac

7 comments:

  1. Thanks for posting this!
    Just to clarify, Ruthie's Inn was in Berkeley, CA - not San Francisco - just across the San Francisco Bay / Bay Bridge, down the road from Oakland, CA
    Keep up the great work!

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  2. Hey, Dave! Ruthie's Inn was actually over on San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley, in the East Bay. I never went there, I was working nights as a bartender and they were mainly booking metal bands...I missed out!

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    1. Thanks D-man! Good to see you are still lurking about!

      Dave

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    2. Yeah, it's been a busy summer. I took a drive across the southwest and need to catch up my email!

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    3. Hope you had a good time D!

      JD

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  3. Thanks guys, the info text that was included in the file set gave me the wrong info...thank you for the correct information.

    Dave

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