CENTRAL TAVERN 1988

 Central Tavern - 1988

The following is a list of shows that took place at the Central Tavern in 1988. The Central was/is located at 207 First Ave. S.

For general Central Tavern history and 1986 show listings click here.

To view 1987 Central Tavern show history click here.

January 1988

1 - Variant Cause, Paisley Sin, Action Buddie
2 - Variant Cause, Pop Mechanics, Common Language
8 - Kinetics, Tinderbox
9 - Cryin’ Wolf, Plan B
15 - Fastbacks
16 - U-Men, Hellcows (PDX)
22 - Jackals (PDX)
23 - Slack (PDX), Prudence Dredge
29-30 - No More Censorship Compilation Album Weekend
29 - Skin Yard, H-Hour, Weather Theater, Vertigo Bus
30 - Pure Joy, Crypt Kicker 5, Color Anxiety, Capping Day
31 - The Accused, Morphius, Ash

February 1988

5 - Benefit for Pure Joy, Chemistry Set, Room 9, plus Weather Theater
6 - Guadalcanal Diary (Atlanta), Grapes Of Wrath (Kelowna, BC)
7 - Alleged Perpetrators Record Release
10 - Paul Collins Beat (NY)
11 - The Life (Record Release), The Options, Variant Cause
12 - Moving Parts, Variant Cause
13 - Razorbacks
14 - TBA
15 - F-Holes
16 - Jr. Cadillac
19 - Jr. Cadillac
20 - Room 9, The Different Ones
26 - Killdozer, Catbutt, Boom Boom GI
27 - Jackals (PDX)

March 1988

4 - Walkabouts (Record Release), Big Tube Squeezer, Terry Lee Hale
5 - Animal Slaves (Vancouver BC), Vexed
11 - Kinetics
12 - DOA, NoMeansNo (Vancouver BC)
17 - Plan B, Bloody Mary
18 - Fastbacks, Pure Joy
19 - Soundgarden, Blood Circus
25 - Variant Cause, Divine Weeks (LA), Wigglin’ Taters
26 - Ophelias (Cincinnati), Variant Cause, Gospel Fireballs

April 1988

1 - Jr. Cadillac
2 - Colin James (Vancouver BC)
7 - H-Hour, Boom Boom GI, Hungry Crocodiles
8. - Moving Parts
9 - 4-5-1 Benefit w/Soundgarden, Bundle Of Hiss, Thrown-Ups, Fred
10 - Applied Science, The Madelines, Go Fish
14 - Splinter Party, The Flood
15-16 - Tail Gators
17 - Substitutes, Broken Statue, Lenny & Denny
21 - “Kathy’s Birthday Bash with Lots of Bands”
22-23 - Razorbacks
24 - Splinter Party, Rockabilly Jam
28 - Band Of Susans (NY), UT, Head Of David (UK)
29 - Jr. Cadillac
30 - Grapes Of Wrath (Kelowna, BC), Eagertones, The First Thought

May 1988

1 - Heliotroupe, Big Idea, Herd Of Turtles
5 - Couch Of Sound, Capping Day, Go Fish
6 - The Kinetics, The Life
7 - Gang Green (Boston), Death Sentence (Vancouver BC), Goo Goo Dolls (Buffalo)
8 - Tall Tales, The Purdins, Fallouts
12 - So Are You, Common Language, Melting Fish
13 - Jackals (PDX)
14 - Variant Cause, Ed & The Boats
15 - Ped-X, Zoomorphics, Canticle
18 - The Accelerators
19 - Soul Asylum, Naked Raygun
20 - Peter Case & Victoria Williams, Walkabouts
21 - Cabaret Deluxe w/The Humble Swamp Gods, Wigglin’ Taters, Maxwells
22 - KJET Appreciation Night w/Kinetics, Terry Lee Hale, “lots more”
26 - Slack (PDX), Mass Hypnosis
27 - Moving Parts, The Substitutes
28 - Scruffy The Cat, Joey Kline Show, the Life
29 - Variant Cause, Swingin’ Swamis

June 1988

2 - Toe Jam ’88, Chemistry Set
3 - Screaming Trees, Room 9, Special Guests
4 - Bolero Lava, The Life
5 - Doll Squad, Zoomorphics, Nirvana
9 - Broken Statue, Lethal Dose, Misguided Baboons
10 - Eagertones, Power Mowers
11 - Nero’s Rome (PDX), Plan B
12 - Pheasant Wagon Lotto Rock Benefit
16 - Wild Seeds, Splinter Party
17 - Walkabouts, Dharma Bums (PDX), Terry Lee Hale
18 - The Life, Prudence Dredge
19 - Alphabet Swill, The Groove, The Seeds
23 - Shock Treatment, Hungry Crocodiles, Losers
24 - Room 9, Pure Joy, Chemistry Set
25 - Variant Cause, Lew Jones Band (PI) OR The Blasters, Variant Cause (Rocket)
26 - Inspector Cazbo, Nora Michaels Cabaret
30 - Big Tube Squeezer, Terry Lee Hale, Swinging’ Swamis

July 1988

1 - Pure Joy, Chemistry Set (Seattle PI listing) OR Fastbacks, Vomit Launch, The Purdins (Rocket listing)
2 - Soundgarden, The Fluid (Denver), Mudhoney
3 - Moving Parts, Boomslang
7 - Fred, Metaphonics, Color Anxiety
8 - NoMeansNo (Vancouver BC), The Scramblers (Vancouver BC), The Squirrels, Terry Lee Hale
9 - Jr. Cadillac
10 - Front Line (SF), Bloody Mary, Infamous Menagerie
14 - Best Kissers In The World, Storybook Crooks, Food Chain
15 - Kinetics
16 - Glass Eye (Austin), Pure Joy, Terry Lee Hale
17 - Death & Taxes, Common Language, Race Brothers
21 - Peasant Wagon Benefit II
22 - Jackals, Dead City Rebels
23 - Leaving Trains (LA), Blood Circus, Nirvana
24 - Saturday Boy, The Hitmen, Linny & Denny
27 - Moving Parts, Pop Mechanix
28 - PEDX, Nation Of Milk
29 - Variant Cause, Sing Sing Sleepwalker
30 - Je Ka Jo
31 - Best Kissers In The World, Actors, Herd Of Turtles (PI listing) (Bootleg Howdah instead of Best Kissers in the Rocket listing)

August 1988

3-4 - Variant Cause, The Life
5-6 - Jr. Cadillac
7 - Nation Of Milk, Misguided Baboons, Eastern Star
10 - Moving Parts, Pop Mechanix
11 - Evan Johns (Austin), The Flood
12-13 - Rangehoods
14 - Peasant Wagon Benefit III w/Runaway Trains, Variant Cause
18 - Fred’s Crash Shop, Thorn, Ghostflesh
19 - F-Holes, The Life, Boom Boom GI
20 - Blood Circus, Pure Joy, The Purdins
21 - Gurus Of Gladness, Bassics, The Fallouts
25 - The Posies, Saturday Boy, Rogues Gallery
26-27 - Moving Parts (Carnival Season opened on the 27th)
28 - Miracle Workers (LA), D.M.Z., The Losers

September 1988

1 - Best Kissers In The World, Flower (NYC), Animal Kingdom
2 - Razorbacks
3-4 - Tail Gators, Jackals
8 - Doughboys, Housecoat Project, Capping Day
9 - The First Thought, Billy Black & Outcast Theater
10 - Mother Love Bone, Spades, Rocksolger
11 - Vomit Launch, Undercurrent, Stubborn Puppet
15 - Alice Fell, Pure Joy, Common Language
16 - Lyres (Boston), Prudence Dredge, Dial Memphis
17 - Variant Cause, Hungry Crocodiles, Best Kissers In The World
18 - Storybook Krooks, The Actors, Painfully Pretty
22 - Bootleg Howdah, The Bassics, The Purdins
23 - Fastbacks, Terry Lee Hale, Mudhoney
24 - The Life, Food Giant
25 - Psycotazia
29 - Thinking Cellars (SF), Skin ’n’ Bones, Broken Statues
30 - Pure Joy, Swallow

October 1988

1 - Blubinos, Splinter Party
2 - Cat Heads (SF), The East and the West
6 - Obituaries (PDX), Lew Jones Band (PDX), Fantods
7 - Jr. Cadillac
8 - Moving Parts
9 - Lazy Cowgirls, Food Giant
13 - Dehumanizers, Desperate Minds, Soul Asylum (PI Listing; the Rocket lists Eastern Star in place of Soul Asylum)
14 - Jackals, Dead City Rebels
15 - The Life, Mass Hypnosis
19 - Son Of Man, DMZ
20 - Renaissance Affair, Gurus Of Gladness, Willie’s Camel
21-22 - Razorbacks
25 - Hothouse Flowers (Dublin), Luka Bloom (Ireland)
27 - Forced Entry, Bitter End
28 - Walkabouts, Chemistry Set, Straight Face 
29 - Variant Cause, The Supernaturals
31 - The Kinetics, F-Holes

November 1988

2 - Fire, The Substitutes
3 - The Defenders
4 - The Bonedaddys, Big Tube Squeezer
5 - The Bonedaddys, Barracho & Loco
6 - Jimm McIver (PI listing; the Rocket lists American Music Club on this date)
9 - Eastern Star, My Name
10 - Lush, Ghost Flesh, Refuzors
11-12 - Rangehoods
16 - Go Fish, The Hanks (show not listed in Rocket)
17 - Dead City Rebels, Big Beat
18 - Crisis Party (PI listing; the Rocket has Death Angel on this date)
19 - Jr. Cadillac
23 - Glass Eye (Austin), Ed Hall (Austin)
25 - Beat Farmers (San Diego), The Actors
26 - Jackals (PDX), Power Mowers
29 - Concrete Blonde 
30 - Son Of Man, The Beltanes 

December 1988

1 - Panic, Lethal Dose
2 - Sing Sing Sleepwalker
3 - Live Skull (NYC), BBQ Killers (Athens), Sons Of Freedom (Vancouver BC)
7 - The Bassics, Spectrum
8 - Undercurrent, Willie’s Camel, Vertigo Bus
9 - Kinetics
10 - Backlash 1st Anniversary Party w/Mother Love Bone, S.G.M., Dead Flowers
14 - The East and the West, Dogma Cipher
15 - Tough Mama
16 - Napalm Beach, Big Tube Squeezer, Terry Lee Hale
17 - Killing Field, Variant Cause, Saturday Boy
23 - Paul Collins Beat, Rangehoods, LAW
30 - Moving Parts, Hungry Crocodiles
31 - Walkabouts, The Life, Mudhoney, Terry Lee Hale