Eve of Destruction (album)

Eve of Destruction is a 2-CD/1-DVD boxed set by punk rock guitarist/singer/songwriter Johnny Thunders. The set consists of three different live recordings from various points in Thunders' life and career.

The first CD consists of the full live set featuring a reunion of Thunders with fellow ex-New York Dolls and Heartbreakers drummer Jerry Nolan and ex-Dolls bassist Arthur "Killer" Kane, recorded at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles, California on January 4, 1987. It would be the last time Kane would ever play with Thunders and Nolan, as the two musicians would pass away within a year of each other (Kane died of leukemia a month after playing a formal New York Dolls show with surviving members David Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain). The show was also filmed with a single VHS video camera and would become a popular bootleg amongst Thunders' fans; the footage was officially released, with the consent of Thunders' and Kane's estates, in November 2004 as the DVD Thunders, Nolan and Kane: You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory. The audio had been previously released legitimately by Triple X Records as In the Flesh.

The second CD consists of a Heartbreakers live performance from December 1980, and an acoustic show recorded in Osaka, Japan in April 1991, several days before Thunders' death. It would be the last Thunders performance to ever be recorded.

The DVD contains four songs from what would be the last ever Johnny Thunders concert to be filmed or videotaped, from a club date in Osaka shot 5 days prior to the performance that is the bulk of Disc 2, and is essentially a sampler for the DVD of the full concert, Who's Been Talking?... In Concert.

Track listing

Disc one

1. "Pipeline" (Bob Spickard, Brian Carmen)
2. "Blame It On Mom"
3. "Personality Crisis" (Johnny Thunders, David Johansen)
4. "I Can Tell" (Ellas McDaniel, Samuel Smith)
5. "Dead Or Alive"
6. "Can't Keep My Eyes On You" (Walter Lure, Jerry Nolan)
7. "I Ain't Superstitious" (Willie Dixon)
8. Medley: "Too Much Junkie Business"/"Pills" (Walter Lure)/(Ellas McDaniel)
   • Both songs were erroneously credited to Johnny Thunders on the inner sleeve.
9. "You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory"
10. "Eve of Destruction" (P.F. Sloan)
11. "It's Not Enough"
12. "Lonely Planet Boy" (David Johansen)
13. "The Wizard" (Marc Bolan)
14. "Play With Fire" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)
15. "Green Onions" (Jones/Cropper/Steinburg/Jackson)
16. "In the Midnight Hour" (Wilson Pickett, Steve Cropper)
17. "Sad Vacation"
18. "Little Queenie" (Chuck Berry)
19. "Born To Lose"

Disc two

1. "Pipeline" (Spickard, Carman)
2. "London Boys" (Johnny Thunders, Walter Lure, Billy Rath)
3. "Too Much Junkie Business" (Walter Lure)
   • Erroneously credited to Johnny Thunders on the inner sleeve.
4. "Chatterbox"
5. "All By Myself" (Walter Lure, Jerry Nolan)
6. "Let Go" (Johnny Thunders, Jerry Nolan)
7. "So Alone"
8. "Do You Love Me" (Berry Gordy Jr.)
   • Erroneously credited to Johnny Thunders on the inner sleeve.
9. Get Off The Phone (Walter Lure, Jerry Nolan)
   • Erroneously credited to Johnny Thunders on the inner sleeve.
10. "Chinese Rocks" (Dee Dee Ramone, Richard Hell)
    • Erroneously credited to Johnny Thunders on the inner sleeve.
11. "As Tears Go By" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Andrew Loog Oldham)
12. "Joey" (Bob Dylan, Jacques Levy)
    • Erroneously titled "Joey Joey" on the inner sleeve.
13. "Society Makes Me Sad"
14. "Disappointed In You"
15. Eve of Destruction (P.J. Sloan)
16. "I'd Rather Be With The Boys"
17. "Ask Me No Questions"
18. "Fool Killer" (Stevie Klasson)
19. "It's Not Enough"
20. "I Only Wrote This Song For You"
    • Credited to John Genzale, Thunders' real name, on the inner sleeve.
21. "Lonely Planet Boy" (David Johansen)
22. "So Alone"
23. "Somehearts (Birdsong)"
24. "It's Not What You Say"

Disc Three (DVD)

1. "Sad Vacation"
2. "Too Much Junkie Business" (Walter Lure)
3. "Personality Crisis" (Johnny Thunders, David Johansen)
4. "Born To Lose"

All songs composed by Johnny Thunders except where noted.

Disc one recorded January 4, 1987 at The Roxy Theatre, Los Angeles Disc two, tracks 1-10 recorded December 21, 1980 at The Silverbird, Detroit Disc two, tracks 11-24 recorded April 8, 1991 at Muse Hall, Osaka, Japan Disc three filmed April 3, 1991 at Club Citta, Osaka, Japan