Eve of Destruction is a 2-CD/1-DVD boxed set by punk rock guitarist/singer/songwriter Johnny Thunders. 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 and Heartbreakers drummer Jerry Nolan and ex-Dolls bassist Arthur "Killer" Kane, recorded at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles, California 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 and Sylvain Sylvain). 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 as In the Flesh.
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.
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