1985 Apr 25 San Francisco USA Last Day Saloon

Jerry

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

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

Excellent apart from a couple of songs where Jonathan's singing away from the microphone. 

1985 St. Louis USA Heartbreak Club

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

1986 Jan 21 San Diego USA The Spirit

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

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 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 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,

1986 London UK Town and Country Club

http://haystackpudding.com/MP3/bf79337b.html

1987 Jan 25 San Diego USA Saigon Palace

1987 Jan 27 Tucson USA Club Congress

1987 Feb 26 Chicago USA Holsteins Folk Club

1987 Feb 27 Chicago USA Holsteins Folk Club

1987 Aug 21 Davis USA

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

1987 Oct 20 Boston Cambridge USA Nightstage

1987 Oct 27 Philadelphia USA Chestnut Cabaret

1987 Dec 26 San Francisco USA The Fillmore

Interview by 'Big Jim Hunsicker', with Jonathan and Brennan Totten. From an intended cable TV show that was never aired , the video of which has since deteriorated, this is the audio recording of the programme. About thirty minutes long. (On the same CD as 14th March 2008). Jonathan does a few songs between questions

"I'm a Little Dinosaur" is a few lines only

KFSR Interview (1987)

KFSR Interview

1988 Feb 4 Hamburg Germany Logo

With Johnny Avila and Brennan Totten. Brennan's doing the singing on 'Born to be Wild'.

"When I'm Walkin'" and "The Fenway" are performed a capella

Ramon

My copy doesn't have "When I Dance" (it shows up on the track listing as a medley with "This kind of music" but there is no sign of it on the track.  Is your copy different?

Thanks Ramon, I removed that track listing

http://haystackpudding.com/MP3/de27e37a.html

1988 Feb 12 Mezzago Italy Bloom

1988 Mar 3 Brussels Belgium Ancienne Belgique

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 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

1989 Jul 22 Hollywood USA Club Lingerie

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

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

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

1990 Sep 8 Wuppertal Germany Borse

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 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

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

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

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

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!

Really good recording, On the same CD as 91X Radio interview from the same day.

1993 Jun 21 Solana Beach USA The Belly-Up Tavern

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 Feb 7 Baton Rouge USA The Varsity

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

1994 Feb 12 Orlando USA Yab Yum's

Loose Ends is Radio 4 chat show presented by Ned Sherrin, Jonathan would have been one of about half a dozen guests on the day, he probably did a very short interview which was linked by a couple of songs.

Loose Ends, Radio 4 (1994)

Loose Ends, Radio 4

The first encore is "Give Paris One More Chance and "You Can't Talk to the Dude", and the second encore is "Fender Stratocaster"

1994 Sep 2 Nuremberg Germany LGB Nuernberg

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

1994 Nov 4 Ogunquit USA

1994 Nov 9 Alexandria USA The Birchmore

The recording's a bit quiet unfortunately. It includes though a great version of 'You're crazy for taking the Bus' - A very funny and extended tale of life on the bus!

1994 Nov 10 Alexandria USA The Birchmore

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