Jonathan with Leroy Radcliffe on guitar, Curly Keranen on bass, accompanied an unnamed drummer.The sound is a little 'boomy'. 

1976 Apr 11 San Francisco USA

Jerry

"Here Come the Martian Martians" has cuts

1976 Apr Iowa USA

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

This album had me scratching my head when I first heard it. This album came out right after The Modern Lovers and it was like night and day. But this album was the direction JR would take from then on.

Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers (1977)

Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers

A really good recording and something of rarity from this time. Tonight's and the following nights recording are solo performances, a lot of fun, and full of spontaneity. An added bonus too is the inclusion of  a rare recording of 'I Don't Want No Nuclear Power Plants (in My Life)', a song once planned to be released as a single with the Beserkley label. This release never came to be and the song quickly dropped from Jonathans live shows.

1979 Jul 13 Chicago USA Gaspars

JR Fan 1

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

Jonathan toured with Belle and Sebastian throughout their West Coast Tour as support act (surely some mistake here!). Have read some of the reports about the shows and regularly Jonathan was reported as having 'virtually stolen the show' from Belle. This is a very clear recording of both nights at the Wiltern.

The second show starts with the second "Egyptian Reggae"

2001 Sep 5 Los Angeles USA Wiltern Theatre

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

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

2002 Mar 31 San Francisco USA The Make Out Room

Copied straight from the taper. Most of the show's here, there's just a couple of songs that are missing because of some background noise.Some background info to the show... apparently Jonathans guitar had got broken during the flight over so somebody lent him a couple of guitars on the night, and a few songs near the end are played with electric guitar. I've had to take guess at the title of the very last song, it seems to have only been played on this particular tour, and even then just a few times.

"He Gave Us the Wine to Taste", "Couples Must Fight", and "Give Paris One More Chance" are with electric guitar

2003 Mar 4 Madrid Spain Sala El Sol

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

Behold the Lilies of the Field is missing the first few seconds on this recording

Camina y ven pa? la loma is a Spanish song from Cuba by Ciro Rodriguez

2003 Mar 7 Barcelona Spain Sala Razzmatazz 3

A pretty good show but sometimes the microphone picks up too much of the near distance sounds, for example clapping, and then loses the recording level for a few seconds afterwards.

"When Harpo Played His Harp" is in spanish

2003 Mar 8 Vitoria Spain Sala Azkena

Just a few crackles during 'Springtime in New York' but otherwise all okay.This is one of the few recordings we have that includes 'Not in my Name', a short verse on the pending American/British attack on Iraq, he didn't choose to do it when we saw him in Liverpool a week later.

"Life is unpredictable" surely was "in che mondo viviamo". Weird that lots of these shows I went to and I had no idea any recording of any of them existed till now.

2003 Mar 16 London UK Shepherds Bush Empire

2003 Mar 24 Koln Germany Gerbaude 9

2003 Mar 25 Hamburg Germany Schlachthof

2003 Mar 30 Munich Germany Orangehouse

I received a few short extracts from this one a while back - just 3 or 4 songs in total and of pretty poor quality really; the taper wasn't happy with it either - and had been hoping that someday a better recording would  turn up? Well, it now turns out that there was someone else there taping, and he got the full show. So, here's a complete copy...

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