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1990 Faith No More & Circus of Power performance ad...
1990 Faith No More & Circus of Power performance ad...
Item # 719055
July 03, 1990
THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York City, July 3, 1990
* Faith No More - American rock metal band
* "The real Thing" album tour w/ Circus of Power
* The Ritz Manhattan nightclub advertisement
Page 108 has a 7 x 4 3/4 inch advertisement for a upcoming "Faith No More w/ Circus of Power" performance at the RITZ nightclub in Manhattan. (see images)
AI notes: On July 6, 1990, Faith No More delivered a wild, high-energy performance at The Ritz in New York City, then operating out of the former Studio 54 venue in midtown Manhattan. Riding high on the success of The Real Thing, the band’s set was a chaotic blend of funk, metal, and absurd humor, featuring songs like “From Out of Nowhere,” “Epic” (which famously included a mashed-up outro of Technotronic’s “Pump Up the Jam”), and covers of Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs” and the Commodores’ “Easy.” Openers Circus of Power and Mindfunk primed the crowd with gritty hard rock, but it was Faith No More’s theatrical antics—like ordering pizzas onstage and gleefully breaking performance norms—that etched the night into fan memory as one of their most unpredictable and unforgettable shows. The crowd was electric, the band was in peak unhinged form, and the night captured everything that made Faith No More a genre-defying force in the early '90s alternative scene.
I suspect this to be an extremely rare item because there was really no reason to save it at the time.
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Complete in 152 pages, one fold across the center, nice condition.
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