Jonathan breaks a string mid set and then spends the best part of the next 10 minutes taking time out telling jokes, the jokes are awful but the delivery's great  - Our kids really like the frog joke!

1986 Sep 5 Chicago USA Holsteins Folk Club

Jerry

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

A very low key and relaxed performance with some great guitar playing, particularly on 'That Summer Feeling' and 'Everything's got to be right'.

From http://haystackpudding.com/MP3/ddb96478.html:Jonathan was in a really good mood as he played at Holsteins, the now defunct sit-down folk club on Lincoln Avenue. Holsteins was run by the Holstein brothers, Fred and Ed, who were folk musicians themselves. It was a great place to see a show, and it was on the same side of the street as where Lounge Ax later stood, about a block north. The club was long and not wide,

Jonathan's pretty chatty and comes up with plenty of ad libs during 'That Summer Feeling', and Brennan Totten's here too.

1986 Sep 8 Bloomington USA Second Story

JR Fan 1

JR is the man!  He lives near my family.  I want to wear his socks

1986 Dec 6 Berkeley USA California Berkley Square

VinnieQ

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

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 Brennan Totten, Johnny Avila and a lot of Sax!

1987 May 5 Scottsdale USA Anderson's 5th Estate

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

1987 Aug 21 Davis USA

With Johnny Avila and Brennan Totten. Brennan's doing the singing on 'Born to be Wild'.

"When I'm Walkin'" and "The Fenway" are performed a capella

Ramon

My copy doesn't have "When I Dance" (it shows up on the track listing as a medley with "This kind of music" but there is no sign of it on the track.  Is your copy different?

Thanks Ramon, I removed that track listing

http://haystackpudding.com/MP3/de27e37a.html

1988 Feb 12 Mezzago Italy Bloom

Harpo is my favorite. No real clunkers on this album.

This lineup still sounds fresh to this very day. I wish that version of the Modern Lovers had stayed together for a few more years

Modern Lovers 88 (1988)

Modern Lovers 88

Good quality solo show, something like  45 minutes long. 

1991 Aug New York City USA Lone Star Roadhouse

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!

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

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