for other uses of the term "Eve of Destruction", see Eve of Destruction

Eve of Destruction

"Eve of Destruction" is a protest song written by P. F. Sloan in 1965. Several artists have recorded it, but the best-known recording was by Barry McGuire. This recording was made between July 12 and July 15, 1965 and released by Dunhill Records. The accompanying musicians were top-tier LA session...

.

Eve of Destruction is a 2-CD/1-DVD boxed set

Boxed set

A box set is a compilation of various musical recordings, films, television programs, or other collection of related items that are contained in a box.-Music box sets:...

 by punk rock guitarist/singer/songwriter Johnny Thunders

Johnny Thunders

Johnny Thunders, born John Anthony Genzale, Jr. , was an American protopunk guitarist, singer and songwriter.He came to prominence in the early '70s as a member of the New York Dolls...

. 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

New York Dolls

The New York Dolls is an American rock band, formed in New York in 1971. The band's protopunk sound prefigured much of what was to come in the punk rock era; their visual style influenced the look of many new wave and 1980s-era glam metal groups, and they began the local New York scene that later...

 and Heartbreakers

The Heartbreakers

Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, also known as The Heartbreakers, were an American rock & roll band formed in New York in May 1975. The band was part of the first wave of punk rock.-History:...

 drummer Jerry Nolan

Jerry Nolan

Jerry Nolan was an American rock drummer, best known for his work with The New York Dolls and Johnny Thunders and The Heartbreakers.-Career:...

 and ex-Dolls bassist Arthur "Killer" Kane

Arthur Kane

Arthur Kane was a musician best known as the bassist for the pioneering glam rock band the New York Dolls. He stated in the 2004 documentary film New York Doll that his nickname, Arthur "Killer" Kane, was inspired by an early New York Dolls concert newspaper review in which the journalist...

, recorded at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

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 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

David Johansen

David Roger Johansen is an American rock, protopunk, blues, and pop singer, as well as a songwriter and actor. He is best known as a member of the seminal protopunk band The New York Dolls and also achieved commercial success under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter.-Early life:Johansen was born in...

 and Sylvain Sylvain

Sylvain Sylvain

Sylvain Sylvain is an American rock guitarist, most notable for being a member of the New York Dolls.-Early years:...

). 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

Triple X Records

Triple X Records is a Los Angeles based record company. They are the label for bands such as Bo Diddley, The Vandals, Jane's Addiction, Social Distortion, Human Drama, Of Cabbages And Kings, Angry Samoans, Bad Manners, Stephen Pearcy, Dr...

 as In the Flesh

In the Flesh (Johnny Thunders album)

In the Flesh is a posthumous live CD by legendary punk rock guitarist/singer/songwriter Johnny Thunders. It 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...

.

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.

Disc one

1. "Pipeline"
   Pipeline (song)
   "Pipeline" is a surf rock tune by The Chantays which was recorded in 1963.The tune, originally called "Liberty's Whip," was renamed after the band members saw a surfing movie showing scenes of the Banzai Pipeline in Hawaii. The tune, fitting in with the popular surfing craze of the time, swiftly...
   
    (Bob Spickard, Brian Carmen)
2. "Blame It On Mom"
3. "Personality Crisis" (Johnny Thunders
   Johnny Thunders
   Johnny Thunders, born John Anthony Genzale, Jr. , was an American protopunk guitarist, singer and songwriter.He came to prominence in the early '70s as a member of the New York Dolls...
   
   , David Johansen
   David Johansen
   David Roger Johansen is an American rock, protopunk, blues, and pop singer, as well as a songwriter and actor. He is best known as a member of the seminal protopunk band The New York Dolls and also achieved commercial success under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter.-Early life:Johansen was born in...
   
   )
4. "I Can Tell" (Ellas McDaniel
   Bo Diddley
   Ellas Otha Bates , known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter , and inventor...
   
   , Samuel Smith)
5. "Dead Or Alive"
6. "Can't Keep My Eyes On You" (Walter Lure, Jerry Nolan
   Jerry Nolan
   Jerry Nolan was an American rock drummer, best known for his work with The New York Dolls and Johnny Thunders and The Heartbreakers.-Career:...
   
   )
7. "I Ain't Superstitious
   I Ain't Superstitious
   "I Ain't Superstitious" is a song written by bluesman Willie Dixon and first recorded by Howlin' Wolf in 1961. It recounts various superstitions, including that of a black cat crossing the pathway...
   
   " (Willie Dixon
   Willie Dixon
   William James "Willie" Dixon was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. A Grammy Award winner who was proficient on both the Upright bass and the guitar, as well as his own singing voice, Dixon is arguably best known as one of the most prolific songwriters...
   
   )
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
    Marc Bolan
    Marc Bolan was an English singer-songwriter, guitarist and poet. He is best known as the founder, frontman, lead singer & guitarist for T. Rex, but also a successful solo artist...
    
    )
14. "Play With Fire" (Mick Jagger
    Mick Jagger
    Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an English musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and a founding member of The Rolling Stones....
    
    , Keith Richards
    Keith Richards
    Keith Richards is an English musician, songwriter, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone magazine said Richards had created "rock's greatest single body of riffs", and placed him as the "10th greatest guitarist of all time." Fourteen songs written by Richards and songwriting...
    
    )
15. "Green Onions
    Green Onions
    Green Onions is the debut album by Booker T. & the M.G.'s, released on Stax Records in October of 1962. It reached number 33 on the Pop Albums chart in the month of its release...
    
    " (Jones/Cropper/Steinburg/Jackson)
16. "In the Midnight Hour
    In the Midnight Hour
    "In the Midnight Hour" is a song originally performed by Wilson Pickett in 1965 and released on the 1966 album The Exciting Wilson Pickett. It was composed by Pickett and Steve Cropper at the historic Lorraine Motel in Memphis where Martin Luther King, Jr. would later be murdered in April 1968...
    
    " (Wilson Pickett
    Wilson Pickett
    Wilson Pickett was an American R&B/Soul singer and songwriter.A major figure in the development of American soul music, Pickett recorded over 50 songs which made the US R&B charts, and frequently crossed over to the US Billboard Hot 100...
    
    , Steve Cropper
    Steve Cropper
    Steve Cropper , also known as Steve "The Colonel" Cropper, is an American guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the guitarist of the Stax Records house band, Booker T...
    
    )
17. "Sad Vacation"
18. "Little Queenie" (Chuck Berry
    Chuck Berry
    Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" , "Roll Over Beethoven" , "Rock and Roll Music" and "Johnny B...
    
    )
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
    Dee Dee Ramone
    Dee Dee Ramone was an American songwriter and musician, best known as founding member, bassist and main songwriter of the punk rock band the Ramones....
    
    , Richard Hell
    Richard Hell
    Richard Hell is a singer, songwriter, bass guitarist, and writer.Richard Hell was an innovator of punk music and fashion. He was one of the first to spike his hair and wear torn, cut and drawn-on shirts, often held together with safety pins...
    
    )
    • Erroneously credited to Johnny Thunders on the inner sleeve.
11. "As Tears Go By" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Andrew Loog Oldham
    Andrew Loog Oldham
    Andrew Loog Oldham is an English producer, talent manager, impresario and author. He was manager and producer of The Rolling Stones from 1963, and was noted for his flamboyant style.-Biography:...
    
    )
12. "Joey" (Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
    
    , Jacques Levy
    Jacques Levy
    Jacques Levy was an American songwriter, theatre director, and clinical psychologist.Levy was born in New York City in 1935, and attended its City College. He received a doctorate in psychology from Michigan State University. Levy was a trained psychoanalyst, certified by the Menninger Institute...
    
    )
    • 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