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They Might Be Giants
Tyson's Suburban Ecstasy Lounge in New York, NY
April 3, 1983

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A promotional flyer created by the Johns in 1983, seen momentarily in the 2003 documentary Gigantic (A Tale Of Two Johns), lists this as the band's fourth-ever show performing as They Might Be Giants.

Tyson's Suburban Ecstasy Lounge was a bar and short-lived club in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, which specialized in showcasing "avant-garde or esoteric" performers.^[1] The venue was a small 80-seat room, and it featured both musical and comedy acts. It was located at 755 9th Avenue, on the corner of 9th Ave and 51st. St.

This may have been the first They Might Be Giants show that Jamie Kitman, the band's future manager, attended. He recalled in a 2022 interview with the 9 Secret Eps fan podcast:

The first time I saw them was in 1983, I think. I was actually in law school and had a summer internship working for the New York attorney general. They were playing some dive bar in Hell's Kitchen and Bill [Krauss] invited me. If you took away the guest list there was negative three people there. But they were absolutely blew-my-mind great. They had their crudest reel-to-reel backing tapes and the sound was poor. But their songwriting and their voices — which were not necessarily conventionally lovely, but the way they harmonized together absolutely blew my mind. I was reminded of The Everly Brothers, who I loved as high schooler. [...] So, that really struck me and I just became a fan that first day, and I kept wanting to go see them.