Life-changing show with many cool openers like Popstitutes, but a ways in tbh crowd was not quite ready for the plaintive confessionals of Beat Happening who were all but vibed offstage. (Its not that beat happening weren't good, it was this crowd was beyond amped and not in a hand-wringing sort of mood.) Thats when the trouble started. A guy came out after BH, and tried their hand at an Ian-esque lecturing of the crowd, along the lines of "If you were really punk, you'd love Beat Happening and open your ears, so you're all actually a bunch of total fakes," etc. Was he right? Possibly, but his holier-than-though provocation of the crowd worked better than he thought. About maybe 5-10 minutes through his extended spoken word solo judgement of everyone assembled, a punk with I believe large green liberty spikes suddenly swung upside down from the balcony (wrapped his legs around the railing), clutching a large fire extinguisher and while laughing maniacally, blasted the guy off the stage.. promptly filling auditorium with white fog of CO2 making it hard for everyone to breathe. This was the situation Fugazi came out to and both the show and the kvetching that followed were legendary. To my knowledge, that was possibly the first but definitely the last punk show the Russian Center put on.

I totally remember when someone set off the fire exinguisher and everyone had to leave the theater for about an hour.....best pit I was ever in, great show!

For me I remember the MC making an eloquent soliloquy holding a wine glass, and at the end of his speech dropping it on the stage shattering shards everywhere, only to receive the stink eye of the barefoot dance troop that was slated to perform next.

Great version of Suggestion.

Didn't The Popstitutes play this one also? Or...is that Theater of Absurd? I remember super-cheap tacos and that a couple of *real* punk-rockers set off fire extinguishers, causing a nasty break in the show. Good times, awesome night!