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

Excellent recording made for Radio-Bellevue, recorded through the soundboard and mixed on-the-fly, incorporating a couple of  ambience microphones standing in front of the stage. With Ellie Marshall and Curly Keranen.

http://haystackpudding.com/MP3/3f3da275.html

1984 Jul 12 Lyon France West Side Club

Jerry

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

English music festival, Jonathan with Ellie Marshall and Curly Keranen.

1984 Jul 29 Cornwall UK Elephant Fayre

Elephant Fayre

Very good audience recording of Jonathan with Ellie & Curly. Including an improvised and otherwise completely unknown song, 'Jonathan I feel so Bad'', the words of which Jonathan seems to be spilling out, line by line, in a stream of consciousness style of improvisation.

1984 Jul 31 Bath UK Moles Club

1984 Jul Barcelona Spain

With Jonathan, Curly & Ellie Marshall. A few faults with the original taping : every once and a while the microphone seems to be getting a bit of a knock which then affects the recording levels for the next 30 seconds. This doesn't happen too much at the start though it's a lot more noticeable for the last 10 minutes.

"There is No Squiltage" and "There is No Abomination" are very short

1984 Aug 3 Edinburgh UK Queens Hall

JR Fan 1

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

With Ellie and Curly, a great sounding performance, and several encores too.

1984 Aug 6 London UK Dingwalls

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..

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

1985 Jun 17 London UK Jacksons Lane Community Centre

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

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

Not a weak track here. 14 solid songs. One of his best easily.

After years of deliberating with myself...this one always ends up being my favorite JR album. Favorite song: "Now Is Better Than Before"

Rockin' & Romance (1985)

Rockin' & Romance

1986 Jan 16 San Francisco USA Great American Music Hall

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

1986 Mar 4 Lund Sweden Pub Sparta

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

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

Jonathan breaks a string mid set and then spends the best part of the next 10 minutes taking time out telling jokes, the jokes are awful but the delivery's great  - Our kids really like the frog joke!

1986 Sep 5 Chicago USA Holsteins Folk Club

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,

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 Unknown Location

Unknown Location

1987 Jan 27 Tucson USA Club Congress

1987 Mar 15 NY USA Knitting Factory

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

1988 Feb 4 Hamburg Germany Logo

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

Not the best of sound with this one... it's a little quiet and sounds like the venue was a large cavernous hall so a bit hollow sounding.

1989 Aug 9 Winnipeg Canada Warehouse Theatre

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

1994 Feb 7 Baton Rouge USA The Varsity

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