1985 Apr 25 San Francisco USA Last Day Saloon

Jerry

VinnieQ

i always wanted to hear the full version of CornerStore from the film Kingpin, but i never found it..

The single version of this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMmSH-628jI

A great concert with a great version of 'Affection' tied into the concert cause.

1985 May 8 Berkeley La Pena USA Earth First Benefit

Earth First Benefit

1985 Jun 3 Bremen Germany Shauberg

A pretty good show with Asa Brebner, and almost certainly Andy Paley. The recording ends a little before the end of the show and just a few seconds into 'My Jeans'.  It's one of the few shows I have that includes 'Lets say we just met', and it's a cracking version performed on this one - great!!!

1985 Jun 12 Paris France The Rex Club

1985 Jun 17 London UK Jacksons Lane Community Centre

A short performance from this huge and popular UK Music Festival, at about only 40 minutes long or so, because of the needs of the Festival organizers to get on with setting up their next act. The highlights are, to my mind, 'Tell how you Feel' and a great and spirited version of 'Louie Louie'.Maybe this tape doesn't have the best of sound quality - but still a great show!

1985 Jun 21 Glastonbury UK Glastonbury Festival

Ramon

I am pretty sure that the instrumental, track 20, is really Malaguena De Jojo. 

http://haystackpudding.com/MP3/bfcdd072.html

1985 Jun 24 Torino Italy Big Club

Jonathan with Asa Brebner and Andy Paley.

William McQueen Opened.Ticket price was $8. http://www.bottomlinecabaret.com/tline_index.html

1985 Aug 6 New York City USA The Bottom Line

1985 Aug 31 New Orleans USA Jimmys

A great and hugely extended 'This kind of Music', something like 15 minutes in total, adds to a very memorable performance. 

1985 Sep 27 Santa Monica USA

1986 Jan 16 San Francisco USA Great American Music Hall

1986 Jan 21 San Diego USA The Spirit

http://haystackpudding.com/MP3/7f20ce70.html

1986 Mar 4 Lund Sweden Pub Sparta

1986 Mar 16 Hoboken USA Maxwells

Nice show with the full band :Jonathan, Brennan Totten and Andy Paley, plus plenty of Sax too! 

1986 Mar 23 London UK Town and Country Club

1986 Dec 6 Berkeley USA California Berkley Square

1986 London UK Town and Country Club

This album seems to get mediocre reviews but I've always loved it.

Agreed! It just has a special feel that's even different from other albums. "This Love of Mine" and "Just About 17" are just pure magic

Shirin and Fahrad gets me a litle choked up when I hear it.

Just About 17 is in my top ten JR songs of all time.

It's Time For Jonathan Richman (1986)

It's Time For Jonathan Richman

1986 Unknown Location

Unknown Location

1987 Feb 27 Chicago USA Holsteins Folk Club

1987 Mar 15 NY USA Knitting Factory

A great show with Brennan Totten & Johnny Avila. A really lively one this one, the band is on top form: full of enthusiasm, and playing to a highly excited crowd. Some excellent guitar work is here too, especially on 'Chewing gum wrapper' and 'Conga Drums' - this is by far the best version of 'Conga Drums' that I've yet heard.Unfortunately, the tape runs out near the end of 'Walter Johnson', the shows second encore, just a couple of lines short of what would have been the end; so unfortunately, the recording comes to a bit of an abrupt ending - this though is probably the only slight flaw with the recording.Has a great atmosphere of an excellent show, superbly captured!!!!!

1987 Mar 27 Kansas City USA Parody Hall

With Johnny Avila & Brennan Totten; includes a great sounding 'Affection' peppered with ad libs. 

1988 Mar 5 Manchester UK Manchester University

This song was written in the studio during the recording of "Modern Lover's 88"

A cracking show that includes an excellent and completely unknown song... 'Wild Wild Party', never seen it listed anywhere before... as well as a very early version of 'You can't talk to the Dude' introduced as a brand new song...  and with very different lyrics too. Recommended.

1988 Apr 7 Athens USA

This could be one of most rare fully-formed Jonathan Richman songs. As tantalizing as "A Little Boy In My Heart" and "I Don't Want No More Nuclear Power"

Jonathan's pretty talkative tonight with a very lively audience that's only too willing to join in with the songs wherever possible. A super show for all, that ends with Jonathan saying how much he's enjoyed himself, unusually he's more than happy to do several encore's on this one. S. E. Rogie comes on stage as guest to sing 'African Lady', one of Sooliman's songs that's usually covered by Jonathan as an instrumental. 

1988 Jun 28 London UK Mean Fiddler

A nice show this one, a bunch of instrumentals performed near the beginning and a great version of 'Closer'.'Fender Stratocaster' and 'Make a Mistake' are both described as new songs.

1988 Nov 3 Toronto Canada

Jonathan's pretty chatty tonight... inviting questions from the audience, etc, more so during the first set than the second. There's an interesting explanation of why 'Roadrunner' doesn't get performed much anymore and also an early embryonic version of You Can't Talk to the Dude'.

"Roadrunner" is a short instrumental version

1988 Nov 14 Columbus USA Staches

1989 Jul 22 Hollywood USA Club Lingerie

The very first JR song I ever heard. I heard Hospital on the radio around 1976 or so. That got me hooked for life.

Jonathans pretty talkative on this one, there are just one or two flaws with it, it cuts out for about 20 seconds during 'hot nights' and also the recording stops during 'At night' just before the end of the show.

1990 Jul 1 Baltimore USA Maxs

I didn't know what to expect when I heard that JR was doing a country album. But in the end it's just another great JR album.

This may be JR's best sounding cd along with I'm So Confused. Both are very well produced.

Those Nashville musicians are top notch.This is the one album where I actually think that the re-makes of his songs don't spoil the album. The version of "I Must Be King" here sounds more fresh than the "Jonathan Sings's" version

Jonathan Goes Country (1990)

Jonathan Goes Country

1993 Jun 19 Los Angeles USA Palomino

A strange JR song. Dark and almost evil sounding at times. Unless I'm missing the point of the song entirely. It wouldn't be the first time!

Yeah, this one and The Neighbors are both dark. Still not completely sure if I really get them...and I've heard them both countless times!

She's not so scary she's got all of my records! 

The term "Vampire Girl" has entered into my natural dialect because of this song

After Girlfrien' there is a "we all live in denial" talk

2000 Mar 4 New York City USA Bowery Ballroom

How is JR able to point out things that rarely get pointed out in such a lucid way?

I love it when JR writes songs about real people. Velvet Underground,Pablo Picasso,Walter Johnson, etc.

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