I was just whipping up a spotlight for next week’s Gogol Bordello shows at HG and stumbled upon this vid of The Fags at Club Toast (supposedly circa December 1994). For those too young — or maybe too old — to remember, The Fags were 1.) Awesome. And 2.) Eugene Hutz’s band before he was, well, Eugene Hutz.

The quality is a little spotty. But if you dig Gogol, you’ll dig this.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=TFthn3BRiF0%26hl%3Den%26fs%3D1

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Dan Bolles is a culture coeditor at Seven Days. He joined the paper in 2007 as its music editor, covering Vermont's robust music, comedy and nightlife scenes for a decade before deciding he was too old to be going to the Monkey House on weeknights to...

4 replies on “Get Your Own Bag”

  1. Oh, hells, yes. I was so there. Eugene is playing Pistol’s guitar! When was the last time anyone has seen or heard from Dana Shepard, btw?

  2. I might have been there too Casey. 1994 is a little spotty in the old memory, but I do remember some Fags at the Toast – I really think I remember that ending scream in this set – but it might have been another time.

  4. I was likely there as well. Seeing as Toast was the only place in town that my underage ass could drink and see a show circa 1994…

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