1986 Jan 16 San Francisco USA Great American Music Hall

Jerry

VinnieQ

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

1986 Jan 21 San Diego USA The Spirit

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

1986 Mar 4 Lund Sweden Pub Sparta

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

Another neat sounding show; Jonathan's trying his best with the local lingo, the music and atmosphere is great and he's playing Sax loads. Vincent van Gogh, Wipeout, La Bamba, and Egyptian Reggae all given a full Sax blowout!

1986 Apr 10 Barcelona Spain

Another of those great sounding mid-eighties shows with a lot of Saxophone.cover files available

"Back in Your Life" is performed as an acapella

1986 Apr 15 Milanese San Giuliano Italy Viridis

JR Fan 1

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

A radio broadcast, it probably would have been a great show, but it's a bit spoilt by the radio announcers cutting into the show endlessly between songs to remind you that  you're listening to 'Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers', by the end of the show you've probably heard this 20 times. They also, near the end, start to overlap their conversation well into the start of some songs. (I've now got hold of a very clear and edited copy of this show, without all the announcers 'babble', but there's a couple of track missing too).

1986 Apr 16 Turin Italy

1987 Sep 25 Los Angeles USA Variety Arts Center

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

1987 Dec 26 San Francisco USA The Fillmore

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

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

An FM "TUL Box" broadcast solo set. The show was opened by "The Iguanas". This is missing about 4 songs between "California Dance Party" and "Dancin' Late At Night"

1990 Mar 5 New Orleans USA Tipitinas

1990 Oct 3 Hildesheim Germany Vier Linden

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

"My Career as a Home Wrecker" has some different words on this recording

Jeff Cowan

This show was recorded at Club Detroit. Club Detroit was the hotel bar for the Detroit Hotel in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida. My first time meeting Jonathan. He sat and enjoyed a beverage with me and my friend Stan Lapinski. I have never found a recording of this show.

1991 Feb 2 St. Petersburg USA

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!

Soundboard recording - but as the audience are hardly being picked up there is little or no live atmosphere present. Probably not a bad show but not a favourite of mine - I much prefer hearing shows where there's lots of interaction between Jonathan and the audience.

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