1989


Standing behind the colorfully-attired Johnny and Judy Banana is Byl Leet. In addition to his duties as the Electric Banana's soundman, Leet was also the guitarist for the metal band Diamond Haze, who graced the Banana's stage frequently during 1989-91.  Courtesy of Mike Bonello via Donny Zarra.


Johnny Banana had endeared himself to the kids to the point where the bands enjoyed promoting him as much as themselves.  Scroll down to see another poster promoting this same show.


1/3/89 - New Model Army
1/6/89 – New Directions * Silent Prayer
1/7/89 – The Guilt * Stinging Rain
1/8/89 - Solitude * Dream Death
1/13/89 - A.T.S.
1/14/89 - Broken Bones * Travesty * Eviction
1/15/89 - Assault and Battery
1/20/89 - Active Ingredient
1/21/89 - Spuds
1/22/89 - Immoral Discipline
1/25/89 - Dr. Know * Travesty * Slugworth
1/26/89 - Damaged Pies
1/27/89 - The Cynics * No Idea * Hungry Bill
1/28/89 - The Guilt * Johnny Frisbee Hackysack
1/29/89 - Post Mortem (set list) (listen) * Eviction * Sinister

2/3/89 - A.T.S. * The Crow Flies
2/4/89 – Saber * Chuck Parrish & Crew * Future Dinosaurs (watch)
2/5/89 – Ludichrist * Sacred Hate * Travesty
2/9/89 - Sacred Reich *Atrophy * Eviction
2/11/89 - Banner Day * No Idea
2/12/89 - Condemned 84 * Half Life * Barbed Wire Dolls
2/16/89 - Diamond Haze
2/17/89 - Johnny Frisbee Hackysack
2/18/89 - Active Ingredient * Six Gun Jury
2/19/89 - Murphy's Law * Eviction * Assault and Battery * War Games
2/23/89 - Saber * No Idea
2/24/89 - Static * The Cynics
2/25/89 - The Shroud (listen) * Evan Knauer * Emil * Hungry Bill
2/26/89 - Assault & Battery * Split Decisions * Brute Force * Toxic Doom

3/2/89 - The Shroud * Sabre
3/5/89 – Hades * Mucky Pup * Wrecking Crew * Death Notice
3/7/89 – Ladies Nite (no band)
3/8/89 - Black Ritual * Sathasas * Toxic Doom
3/9/89 - Sabre
3/10/89 - Bone of Contention * The Shroud * Hungry Bill * Know Idea
3/11/89 - Fear of Produce * Good Earth * The Murr
3/12/89 - School of Violence * Half Life * Eviction
3/14/89 – Week of Diversions * Amere Diversion
3/15/89 - Assault & Battery * Sinister * Brute Force * Death Notice
3/16/89 - Static
3/17/89 - A.T.S. * Suicidal Tendencies (listen)
3/18/89 - Iodine Raincoat * Pleasure Heads
3/19/89 - Slag * Kill Joy * Sathasas
3/21/89 – Ladies Nite (no band)
3/22/89 - Cranial Vacancy * Split Decision * Bastard Squad * Mommy Heads
3/23/89 - Black Rose
3/24/89 - The Shroud * Future Dinosaurs * Sabre
3/25/89 - Mommy Heads * Banner Day
3/26/89 - Sinister * Black Rose * Brute Force * Death Notice * Split Decision
3/28/89 – Iodine Raincoat
3/29/89 - Chunks * State's Evidence
3/30/89 - Diamond Haze
3/31/89 - The Weeds * A.T.S. * The Shroud

4/1/89 - Future Dinosaurs * Sabre
4/2/89 - Taursyn * Sinister * Deviant
4/6/89 - Lesser Apes
4/7/89 - The Cynics * Pleasure Heads * Marshmallow Overcoat
4/8/89 - Crow Flies * Zen Hotel
4/9/89 - Dream Death  (set list) * Revelation * Deceased (listen) (set list)
4/12/89 - Half Life * Death Notice * Slugworth * Necracedia
4/13/89 – The Shroud
4/15/89 – Diamond Haze * Paradise Lost
4/16/89 – Toxic Shock * Brute Force * Assault
4/17/89 - fIREHOSE
4/21/89 – Big Drill Car * A.T.S.
4/22/89 – Spuds
4/23/89 – Sinister * Mortar * Norman's Creed * Misconduct
4/24/89 - The Cynics * Stump Wizards
4/27/89 - Prom Sluts * Diamond Haze
4/28/89 - Iodine Raincoats * Zen Hotel
4/29/89 - The Cynics * Stump Wizards * Senator Punk
4/30/89 - Parasite * Black Ritual * Sathanas * Catholic Plague * States Evidence

5/1/89 - A.T.S.
5/4/89 - Sanxtion
5/5/89 – Bone of Contention * Beatnik * 4th World
5/6/89 – The Shroud * Diamond Haze
5/7/89 – The Great Kat * Eviction * Taliesyn
5/11/89 - Birds of Prey * Damage * Love Gods in Leisure Suits
5/12/89 – Plan 9 * Pleasure Heads
5/13/89 – The Wretches * Next President
5/14/89 – Apathy * Death Notice
5/18/89 - Doggy Style * Normans Creed * Split Decisions * Assault & Battery * Hoyt Bull
5/19/89 – Zen Hotel * Keith Spardanie * Soft Parade
5/21/89 - Iron Christ * Taliesyn * Chaotic Plague * Deceased (listen) (set list)
5/24/89 - All * Day Glo Abortions * Slugworth * Half Life
5/25/89 - Keith Spardanie & the Soft Parade
5/26/89 - Diamond Haze * Beatnik
5/27/89 - A.T.S. * The Shroud (listen) * Hoit Bull
5/28/89 - Travesty
 

6/1/89 - Soft Parade
6/2/89 - The Wretches * The Shroud
6/3/89 - New Model Army * Pleasure Heads * Barbed Wire Dolls
6/4/89 - Cranial Vacancy
6/8/89 - Lesser Apes * Soft Parade
6/9/89 - Zen Hotel * Diamond Haze * Know Idea
6/10/89 - The Shroud * 4th World * Future Dinosaurs (watch)
6/11/89 - 7 Seconds * Barbed Wire Dolls * Bastard Squad * Hoit Bull
6/15/89 - The Shroud * Diamond Haze
6/16/89 - Lesser Apes * A.T.S.
6/17/89 - Blue Mendigelis * Snaglpuss * Keith Sparbanie * Soft Parade * Bye Bye
6/18/89 - Life Sentence * Travesty * Norman's Creed * State's Evidence
6/22/89 - Material Issue * Kno Idea
6/23/89 – The Cynics * The Brood (listen)
6/24/89 – The Shroud * Crow Flies * Hungry Bill
6/25/89 – Split Decisions * Raw Sewage * Trippin’ Elderly * Hoit Bull * Travesty
6/27/89 - Filth * Necracedia * Camello Ayello
6/28/89 - Half Life * Eviction * Death Notice
6/29/89 - Slimy Goat Farmers * Persian Golders
6/30/89 – Diamond Haze * New Direction * Ex37

7/1/89 – Iodine Raincoats * Zen Hotel
7/2/89 - Taliesyn * The Apparition * Toxic Doom
7/6/89 - Johnny Rhythm & the Dimestore 45's
7/7/89 - Big Stuff * Future Dinosaurs * Banner Day
7/8/89 - The Wretches * Diamond Haze * Know Idea
7/9/89 - Screeching Weasel * Travesty * Misconduct
7/13/89 - Mike Sallows & the Rockin' Reptiles
7/14/89 - A.T.S. * Lesser Apes
7/15/89 - Junk Monkeys * Pleasure Heads * Heretics * First We Kill the Neighbors
7/16/89 - Cranial Vacancy * Acheron
7/20/89 – All * Travesty * Split Decision
7/21/89 - Ultra Pop * The Shroud * Diamond Haze
7/22/89 - Zen Hotel * The Hour
7/23/89 - Ataxia * Genghis Khan * Death Notice
7/25/89 - Murphy's Law * Half Life * Lost Cause
7/27/89 - Mike Sallows & the Rockin' Reptiles
7/28/89 - The Shroud * Nuvoodoo * Big Stuff * Bye Bye
7/29/89 - The Cavemen * Hungry Bill * Future Dinosaurs * Slimy Goat Farmers
7/30/89 - Mucky Pup * Eviction * Psycho * Misconduct

8/2/89 - AG-S
8/3/89 - December Campaign * Firebox
8/4/89 - Future Dinosaurs (watch) * Lesser Apes
8/5/89 - Diamond Haze * Pierce * Voodoo Love Gods
8/6/89 - Slimy Goat Farmers * Dirty Yanky Dogs
8/8/89 - Dead Brain Cells * Travesty * Death Notice
8/11/89 - Active Ingredient * Lesser Apes
8/12/89 - The Cynics * Heretics * Hungry Bill
8/13/89 - School of Violence * Blitzspeer * Genghis Khan * Sinister
8/16/89 - A.C.
8/17/89 - Social Distortion * Half Life * Travesty
8/18/89 – The Heretics * Six Gun Jury * Pleasure Heads
8/19/89 - Slimy Goat Farmers * Bone of Contention
8/20/89 - Guillotine * Genghis Kahn * Sinister
8/22/89 - Metalus Giver * Confused * Schuiktar Muscles 
8/23/89 - Chemical People
8/24/89 - Daughter Product
8/25/89 - Pleasure Heads * The Shroud
8/26/89 - Zen Hotel * Lesser Apes
8/27/89 - Trippin' Elderly * Travesty * Sacred Hate * Half Life * Death Notice

9/2/89 – The Jacklords * The Cynics * Hungry Bill
9/4/89 - Dream Death
Courtesy of Tim Romine.
9/7/89 - Problem Child
9/8/89 - 4th World * The Sponges
9/9/89 - The Shroud * Active Ingredient
9/10/89 - Barbed Wire Dolls * Sinister * Slag
9/14/89 - Johnny Rhythm & the Dimestore 45's
9/15/89 – N.M.E. * Diamond Haze
9/16/89 – A.T.S. * Grandsons of the Pioneers * Bill Oliver
9/17/89 - Eviction * Threten * Travesty * Death Notice
9/21/89 - U.K. Subs * Lost Generation * Half Life
9/22/89 - Pleasure Heads * Outcrowd
9/23/89 - Napalm * Johnny Rhythm & the Dimestore 45's
9/24/89 - Travesty * Barbed Wire Dolls
9/28/89 - Problem Child
9/29/89 - The Cynics * Lesser Apes * Boys From Nowhere
9/30/89 – Heretics * The Pagans * First We Kill the Neighbors

10/1/89 - Backlash * Terror (listen)
10/5/89 - 4th World * Drama
10/6/89 - National Peoples Gang * The Shroud * Hungry Bill
10/7/89 - Diamond Haze * Backlash
10/8/89 - Fearless Leader * Social Outcast * Bastard Squad
10/12/89 - Blue Mendigelis * Rock Nuclear
10/13/89 - The Feral Family * Bone of Contention
10/14/89 - Next President * Macedomans * The Shroud
10/15/89 - Eviction * Sinister * Znowhite
10/19/89 - Diamond Haze * Backlash
10/20/89 - Pleasure Heads * Junk Monkeys * Whistle
10/21/89 - A.T.S. * Hungry Bill * Grandsons of the Pioneers
10/22/89 - Barbed Wire Dolls * Lost for Words * Travesty
10/25/89 - T.S.O.L. * Detriment * North Wind
10/26/89 - A.T.S.
10/27/89 – Lesser Apes
10/28/89 – The Shroud * Big Drill Car
10/29/89 – Sinister * Ahmuk * No Excuse

11/2/89 - A.T.S.
11/3/89 - Big Stuff * The Shroud
11/4/89 - Kno Idea * Lesser Apes
11/5/89 – Crimson Glory * Diamond Haze * Genghis Khan * Lizzie Borden
11/6/89 - Sepultura (set list)
11/8/89 - The Dwarves
11/9/89 - A.T.S.
11/10/89 - The Popes * The Shroud
11/11/89 - Tooba Blooz * A.T.S.
11/12/89 - Acheron * Slaughter House
11/15/89 – Sepultura (listen) * Eviction * Faith or Fear
11/16/89 - A.T.S.
11/17/89 - N.M.E. * The Beautiful
11/18/89 – Oracle * Hector Instead
11/19/89 - Snapper * Social Outcast * Deviant Ways
11/22/89 - A.T.S.
11/24/89 – The Shroud * Pleasure Heads * Bill Oliver
11/25/89 – Genghis Khan * Sinister
11/26/89 – Disoriented * Sinister * Killer Elite
11/30/89 - A.T.S. * Bill Oliver

12/1/89 - Diamond Haze (watch) * 4th World
12/2/89 - The Shroud * Lesser Apes
12/3/89 - Life Sentence * Sinister * Social Outcast * Acheron
12/5/89 - Fates Warning (set list)
12/6/89 - Barbed Wire Dolls (set list) * Genghis Khan
12/9/89 - Gang Green * Eviction * Death Notice
12/14/89 - A.T.S.
12/18/89 - Life Sentence * Barbed Wire Dolls * Half Life * Hoyt Bull
12/21/89 - A.T.S.
12/22/89 - Pleasure Heads * Junk
12/23/89 – N.M.E.
12/29/89 - 4th World * Bloom from the Shroud
12/30/89 - Hector Instead * A.T.S.
12/31/89 - A.T.S.* The Heretics * Altered State * Flying Society * No Excuse

List last updated 7/12/24

Links last checked 11/23/24

Courtesy of Paul Bucciarelli, who also created this one.

Gig flyers pasted to poles were a common sight around Oakland and surrounding neighborhoods.  This flyer for the 11-10-89 show with the Popes and the Shroud was still visible, although weather-beaten, in January 1990 when this photo was snapped.  Today this rather charming marketing method has become a casualty of the internet.  Courtesy of Kevin Ruppenthal.



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