A pretty rare solo show, but not the best of recordings with this one. 

1980 May 10 USA The Tam OShanter

JR Fan 1

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

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.

1980 May 23 New York City USA Club 57

On the same CD as the one from the Roxy of the 5th October 1980. The whole of this show seems to be recorded, the other one is incomplete and just a few songs surviving on tape (see the other entry).

1980 Jul 18 Hollywood USA Roxy

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

http://haystackpudding.com/MP3/dedc5873.html

1980 Oct 18 Santa Cruz USA The Catalyst

With Beth Harrington, Ellie Marshall, Ken Forfia, Michael Guardabascio, and Curly Keranen.

There are a few faults with the recording of "Walter Johnson" on this one

1981 Nov 18 New York City USA The Bottom Line

1982 Jun 3 Lyon France

1982 Oct 23 New Orleans USA Tupelos Tavern

Loads of unusual songs here, Jonathan's very chatty and joking throughout and everybody's having a great time. Lots of interaction between him and what is a pretty lively audience. A great show!

1983 Feb 14 Los Angeles USA Uncle Charlies

I believe he is referring to the Roman god "Pan", the god of nature-like things: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_(god). So, maybe the grammar should be: "I'm Your God, Pan". He keeps his Pan-Pipe ready for Pan-Melodies! He lives in the woods...not much to steal...but those colors well, those colors are real (natural)

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

1983 Aug 27 Melbourne Australia Dallas Brooks Hall

One of the best sounding shows I have of The Modern Lovers from the early 1980's.Jonathan doesn't introduce all the band members so can't be sure of the full line-up tonight, but the performers included 'The Rockin' Robins' (Beth and Ellie), Curly Keranan, and Carla Brownlee on Saxophone. Carla's Sax is put to full use throughout and some of the songs have never sounded better

"This Kind of Music", and "Hospital" are cut

1983 Oct 10 Boston USA Jonathan Swifts

With Curley & Ellie, and probably Jonathans Saxophone.

"Vincent Van Gogh" starts halfway through the song

1983 Nov 15 San Diego USA San Diego State University

Jonathan with the Modern Lovers: Ellie, Curly, and Michael Guardabascio; it's quite a short show, at something like 40 minutes, but a good one and includes 'Let's Go Wild'.

1984 Jun 21 London UK Hammersmith

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

1985 Jun 3 Bremen Germany Shauberg

A pretty good show with Asa Brebner, and almost certainly Andy Paley. The recording ends a little before the end of the show and just a few seconds into 'My Jeans'.  It's one of the few shows I have that includes 'Lets say we just met', and it's a cracking version performed on this one - great!!!

1985 Jun 12 Paris France The Rex Club

A nice show, with a very atmospheric outdoors feel to it somehow; kids talking and playing in the background  between songs and a very enthusiastic band of Modern Lovers (Jonathan with Andy Paley & Asa Brebner) plus a couple of Jonathan's jokes thrown in between songs too. 

Leo Lyons

I think I took this photo of Jonathan at this gig.http://www.flickr.com/photos/21639778@N00/8544246781/

1985 Jun 20 Glastonbury UK Glastonbury Festival

A short performance from this huge and popular UK Music Festival, at about only 40 minutes long or so, because of the needs of the Festival organizers to get on with setting up their next act. The highlights are, to my mind, 'Tell how you Feel' and a great and spirited version of 'Louie Louie'.Maybe this tape doesn't have the best of sound quality - but still a great show!

1985 Jun 21 Glastonbury UK Glastonbury Festival

I am pretty sure that the instrumental, track 20, is really Malaguena De Jojo. 

http://haystackpudding.com/MP3/bfcdd072.html

1985 Jun 24 Torino Italy Big Club

Yo Jojo and This Kind Of Music are both on a poor sounding taping that we also have, but not on the CD copy.

1985 Jul 5 London UK The Riverside

Jonathan with Asa Brebner and Andy Paley.

William McQueen Opened.Ticket price was $8. http://www.bottomlinecabaret.com/tline_index.html

1985 Aug 6 New York City USA The Bottom Line

1985 Aug 31 New Orleans USA Jimmys

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 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

Jonathan with Brennan Totten & Andy Paley.

1986 Apr 17 Bologna Italy

1986 Unknown Location

Unknown Location

1987 Jan 27 Tucson USA Club Congress

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

1987 Sep 25 Los Angeles USA Variety Arts Center

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

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

1990 Oct 3 Hildesheim Germany Vier Linden

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

1991 Oct 30 Binghamton USA S.U.N.Y. Binghamton

1995 Apr 7 Wetlands USA

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

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 Apr 8 Philadelphia USA The Theatre of The Living Arts

1997 Oct 11 Detroit USA The Magic Stick

1999 Oct 16 New York City USA Knitting Factory

Not a bad recording but with a couple of silent points on a few of songs it's rated as 'good' only. 

2000 Feb 22 Baltimore USA Fletchers

After Girlfrien' there is a "we all live in denial" talk

2000 Mar 4 New York City USA Bowery Ballroom

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

A great sounding show, Jonathan sings in French - lots! Just look at the song list...