Same story as the Harvard University...I think... However please let me know if you can help identify either of them better - thanks.

1973 Boston Cambridge USA Cambridge Boathouse

JR Fan 1

Jonathan and the Modern Lovers - Leroy Radcliffe, Curly Keranen, and D. Sharpe. A really rare recording, with a couple of completely unknown songs - 'At Home with a Lover' and  'I Love People'' - both of them don't seem to exist on any other JR recordings. Some issues with the sound, a bad burn's been done at some time in the past, but nothing too much to spoil it.

1976 Oct 3 San Francisco USA The Boarding House

I just remembered how much I love this song

Jerry

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

An early solo show with a few unusual song choices, and, tantalizingly, a few lines of an unknown and unrecorded song 'Nuclear Power', probably made up on the spot soon after Jonathan noticed someone wearing an anti-nuclear button....Ends with a barely audible acapella encore

1979 Apr 1 Apeldoorn Netherlands Gigant

Sweet!!! Someone referenced this page: http://www.boiseweekly.com/Cobweb/archives/2012/06/01/jonathan-richman-is-the-crazy-uncle-you-wish-you-had

Includes a couple of very unusual songs, but, be warned... the sound quality is poor.

"I'm a Little Dinosaur", and "Shirin and Fahrad" are performed acapella

Ramon

She's Mine is really Rama Lama Ding Dong by the Edsels

Thanks Ramon! I changed the song to Rama Lama Ding Dong

http://haystackpudding.com/MP3/f62e127e.html

1980 Oct 7 Berkeley USA The International House

With Curly Keranen, Michael Guardabascio and Ken Forfia, plus 'The Rockin' Robins' : Ellie Marshall and  Beth Harrington.Yoyos On Parade' & 'Creeps On The March' aren't really songs they're just a few lines while Jonathans messing about for a minute or two.

1981 Feb 14 Providence USA

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

A neat sounding show, the 2nd of two nights at the Bottom Line, and with a very early acapella version of 'That Summer Feeling'... it's pretty different here and sounds like it's completely new to the audience too; Jonathan describes this as his 'Summer Song'...With Beth Harrington, Ellie Marshall, Ken Forfia, Michael Guardabascio, and Curly Keranen.

1981 Dec 27 New York City USA The Bottom Line

Also known as "I Can't Stand To See People With Their Feeling's Hurt"

A solo show in the main, except for a few songs with 'the Rockin Robins' on each set, joined by Andy Paley on piano for 'Up In The Sky Sometime'.

1982 Mar 2 Boston Cambridge USA Jonathan Swifts

http://haystackpudding.com/MP3/3f04a675.html

1982 Mar 20 New York City USA The Other End

Recently got hold of this one, and guess what... it's as good as the following nights show.And a couple of  very rare songs too.

http://haystackpudding.com/MP3/d2497f80.html

cover files available     This is a great little show! It sounds really intimate and of the 16 songs Jonathan plays 6 that I've only heard here (well maybe one or two exist on a couple of other live shows but the performance here is spot on). This is one of my favorites and listened to lots.

1982 Mar 21 New York City The Other End

With  Beth Harrington, Ellie Marshall, and Michael Guardabascio.

1982 May 13 Boston Cambridge USA Jonathan Swifts

1982 May 19 Paris France The Rex Club

1982 Jun 3 Lyon France

With the Modern Lovers and Beth and Ellie (The Rockin' Robins)

1982 Sep 24 Boston USA The Channel

1982 Oct 23 New Orleans USA Tupelos Tavern

He also appeared on Tulane University Radio WTUL-FM on this date

Full band present with Asa, Curly, and Ellie on Rhythm guitar

1983 Nov 22 New Orleans USA Tipitinas

A good show but the audience here is pretty rowdy and a sizeable number seem pretty inattentive to the performance, there's also quite a lot of chatting way too near the microphone, but, besides these gripes it's still an interesting recording and includes a couple of otherwise unknown songs - 'More Surprises' and 'Let's Go Wild' - apart from on this tape.

1984 Jan 27 Providence USA The Living Room

Alongside Jonathan tonight are Ellie Marshall, Curly Keranen, Carla Brownlee (on Sax), Michael Guardabascio and one other performer whose name I can't quite hear, but sounds something like Scott (or Stan) Brook (?)

1984 Feb Vancouver Canada Soft Rock Cafe

1985 Apr 25 San Francisco USA Last Day Saloon

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

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,

1986 Sep 5 Chicago USA Holsteins Folk Club

1986 Unknown Location

Unknown Location

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"

1988 Mar 2 Paris France New Morning

1988 Jul 3 Berlin Germany The Loft

1988 Sep 10 Tokyo Japan

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

A Radio broadcast of the full show, quite long, at about 1 1/2 hours and with many encores. The Spanish presenters do chip in quite a bit between some songs, but nothing too much and the show isn't spoilt . A very good recording!

1988 Dec 5 Sevilla Spain Discoteca Rio

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

It's a great solo show, of very good quality, and a new one to me. The only small flaw that I've noticed is at about 3 minutes 15 into 'This Kind of Music'. There's a 1/2 second bit where some crowd noise, or something like that, cuts in over the top of the song, the track then continues as normal. That's how the CD arrived. Also, this show could be from the 10th August or 8th October, 1991, as it came labeled 10/8/91; I've gone for the August date here, but maybe someone has a ticket stub or flyer which would confirm the date either way?

1991 Aug 10 Stockholm Sweden Daily's Bar

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

1991 Dec 11 Ontario Canada

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

1994 Oct 14 Minneapolis USA First Avenue

"Parties in the USA" goes into "Hang On Sloopy"

1994 Nov 4 Ogunquit USA

1994 Nov 9 Alexandria USA The Birchmore

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!

1995 Feb 1 New Orleans USA The Howlin' Wolf

Quite a good recording until the start of the last four songs, but from there on the recording is pretty flawed, sounds like there was a very bad burn done sometime ago, and because of this the end of the show is pretty much unplayable.

Flawed songs: Let Her Go into the Darkness, A Higher Power, You Must Ask the Heart, Now is Better Than Before

Songs with Beth and Ellie: Down in Bermuda, Somebody to Hold Me

1995 Apr 6 Boston USA Lansdowne Playhouse

1995 Apr 8 Philadelphia USA The Theatre of The Living Arts

1995 Apr 21 San Francisco USA Noe Valley

1995 May 25 New Orleans USA The Howlin' Wolf

1996 Jan 31 Orlando USA Yab Yum's

1996 Feb 3 New Orleans USA The Howlin' Wolf

1997 Feb 27 Bloomington USA Second Story

The first of three great sounding recordings from Japan.

1997 May 26 Kyoto Japan Taku-Taku

A very clear recording including several new songs.   

1997 May 30 Ebiso Japan

A slightly muffled sound here: it does though include a couple of songs unique to this show.

Superb show. Did "Since She Started To Ride" after someone shouted "Go Country Jonny!". After that funny request he did another song, and afterwards remarked how he liked how informally he was addressed! ("very  familiar of them!") He then played the song with these twangy country guitar licks that I had never heard him play before

1998 Dec 6 San Francisco USA Slims

1999 Mar 5 Firenze Italy Auditorium Flog

1999 Oct 16 New York City USA Knitting Factory

2003 Mar 5 Madrid Spain Sala El Sol

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

Doesn't seem to get played much anymore, but I love this song

Ace sounding show with plenty of new songs too, I'm not yet sure of the titles so I've had to take a bit of a guess for now. The new songs sound great by the way!

2004 Apr 8 Glasgow Scotland The Renfrew Ferry

A pretty good show this, with quite a lively audience and a pretty long one. The sound for the first 30 seconds is a bit off but from there on the recording sharpens up and the sound is pretty good for the rest of the night. Like I said it's a pretty long one this - at about one and three quarter hours and with several encores... Jonathan has has said in the past how much he enjoys playing to Spanish audiences.. this is a good example why... the rapport's great here!

In "She Cracked", the beginning is cut due to a tape flip

2004 Apr 24 Bilbao Spain Kafe Antzokia

Jonathan & Tommy did three consecutive nights at the Jazz Cafe this is the 2nd one and the whole concert's here. The recording from the following night is incomplete.

2004 Oct 5 London UK Jazz Cafe

It's weird when JR get's political...but it happens so rarely that you know it's a subject that means a lot to him

2004 Nov 6 Cleveland USA The Grog Shop

2005 Apr 2 Munich Germany Feierwerk (Hansa 39)

The instrumental is funky (Funky Goodtime?)

2005 Jun 9 Atlanta USA The Earl

A faulty recording here, the sound keeps dropping out from the left and right channels randomly, so not an easy listen.

The show starts with a fragment of "Egyptian Reggae"

2008 May 6 Milan Italy La Casa 139

2010 May 20 Long Beach USA DiPiazzas

2011 May 15 Nashville USA The 5 Spot

What could be said about this song? For me it's the epitome of Jonathan Richman

JojoBlog post for the song with a live performance: http://jojofiles.blogspot.com/2011/11/door-to-bohemia.html

I hope that Bohemia shows up on the next album but aren't there quite a few excellent JR songs that never appeared on any of his albums?

Some unreleased recent songs: Mr. Sorrow, Bohemia, Her Love Is From Somewhere Else, Hard Time Saying Goodbye, Italian Party Song, Hebrew Party Song (barbeque), Keith Richards. There's even a few that I'm missing

Includes a fun new song "Honeymoon is Over".Jonathan was opening for Alejandro Escovedo

Jerry B

Love it. Hope it appears on the next album.

2013 Nov 29 Austin USA Continental Club

This is a collection of songs that someone put together of lots of Jonathans rarer live songs from various other boots complied onto the one CD. A nice CD this but as I listen U can't help wondering where the rest of the concerts are at? (I can recognize some of the recordings but not all) without this thought it'd be a very nice disc.