1985 Aug 31 New Orleans USA Jimmys

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

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

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

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

Jonathan with Brennan Totten & Andy Paley.

1986 Apr 17 Bologna Italy

JR Fan 1

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

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

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

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 Dec 26 San Francisco USA The Fillmore

A fairly lively audience for this show, and with a sound quality that is probably a little better than I've marked it in the main, but, the sound quality drops away for all of 'California Desert Party' and also for part of 'UFO Man' so I've rated this one as 'good' only. Even so, it's a pretty good recording.Brennan Totten does the singing for a couple of songs midway through the show (Born to be Wild & My Baby). With a pretty funny encore.

1988 Jan 14 Liverpool UK Liverpool Polytechnic

1988 Feb 4 Hamburg Germany Logo

1988 Mar 2 Paris France New Morning

1988 Mar 3 Brussels Belgium Ancienne Belgique

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

1988 Mar 5 Manchester UK Manchester University

Last date of the tour before the band are heading home to the states, and a fun show it is too! including a great version of  'Hospital'. Brennan Totten, guitar, and Johnny Avila, drums. At the end of the show Jonathan can be heard throwing cards out into the audience, imploring people to use them to write him - "I always write back, sometimes it takes a while, but I write back!"

1988 Mar 6 London UK Town and Country Club

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

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"

1988 Jul 3 Berlin Germany The Loft

1988 Sep 10 Tokyo Japan

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

1989 Jul 13 San Francisco USA Slims

1989 Jul 22 Hollywood USA Club Lingerie

1989 Oct 20 Ardmore USA 23 East Cabaret

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

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

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

1990 Aug 26 Reading UK Reading Festival

A long solo show that includes an early version of 'When She Kisses Me'.

1990 Sep 8 Wuppertal Germany Borse

1990 Sep 17 Paris France New Morning

1990 Sep 30 Brussels Belgium Ancienne Belgique

1990 Oct 3 Hildesheim Germany Vier Linden

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

This show has the most songs of any show in this database

1991 Feb 13 Bloomington USA

A rowdy and very lively audience; Jonathan joins 'the Skeletons' for the first 3 songs...

1991 Feb 16 Chicago USA Lounge Axe

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!

Solo show. The sound quality on this one  is just awful - like it was recorded in a biscuit tin! One for completists only, a pity coz Jonathan sings a couple of songs in Italian. 

1991 Apr Genova Italy

A good solo show with quite a bit of chat in Italian...

1991 May 5 Castelnuovo del Garda Italy Usignolo Club

A few great standout moments, particularly so with Monologue on Bermuda, Pablo Picasso, and a very early sounding version of Velvet Underground, for which Jonathan is still playing about with lyrics... sounds pretty different here!

1991 May 29 Manchester UK Manchester International

Good quality solo show, something like  45 minutes long. 

1991 Aug New York City USA Lone Star Roadhouse

This is a really funny recording; Jonathan has a lot of fun trying out his French with this dual language audience - A great show!

1991 Sep 30 Montreal Canada Club Soda

A great recording - apart from it being a bit quiet - and an excellent solo show. Jonathan's in a great mood throughout and has loads of fun with the audience.

1991 Nov 12 Columbus USA Staches

1991 Nov 15 Bloomington USA Second Story

1992 Jan 30 New Orleans USA Tipitinas

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.

1992 Jul 15 Winnipeg Canada Spectrum Cabaret

1993 Oct 21 Buffalo USA Nietzsches

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

Second to last night of a 3 night stand at Yab Yum's.

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