Jonathan and the Modern Lovers - Leroy Radcliffe, Curly Keranen, and D. Sharpe. A really rare recording, with a couple of completely unknown songs - 'At Home with a Lover' and  'I Love People'' - both of them don't seem to exist on any other JR recordings. Some issues with the sound, a bad burn's been done at some time in the past, but nothing too much to spoil it.

1976 Oct 3 San Francisco USA The Boarding House

I just remembered how much I love this song

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.

This is such a fun recording! Jonathan taking the second line up of Modern Lovers on the road with his new songs; Ice Cream Man; Here come the Martian  Martians; Rockin' Rockin' Leprechauns; etc  to a New York audience that sound like they fully expected to hear the 'old stuff!' Lots of heckling at the beginning but Jonathan soon has them won over  well most of them) Best heckle is something like 'You sound like you've got a head full of Ice Cream!'

neats

i was at this show too..very close to the front and it was still hard to hear...curly, leroy and the late d sharpe..d sharpe had a great drum kit..big african skin floor tom..leroy had the epiphone casino type guitar...curly was, curly on standup bass..

That's awesome.I guess this show got a lot of press too. I get the sense that this was the first time that Jonathan introduced his "child-like" songs/persona to a NYC audience.

http://haystackpudding.com/MP3/befa3b71.html

Ramon

Thanks Ramon, I updated the track listing

Thanks Ramon, I updated it to to Summer Morning

Between 'Important in your Life' and 'Abominable...' I have a version of 'Fly into the Mystery'

1976 Oct 9 New York City USA Town Hall

For some reason I seem to ignore this album. Not sure why. I need to play this more often.

Rock n' Roll With The Modern Lovers (1977)

Rock n' Roll With The Modern Lovers

With Leroy Radcliffe, Curly Keranen, and D. Sharpe.

This is the early show of two shows played that day

http://haystackpudding.com/MP3/3e59e175.html

1977 Mar 13 San Francisco USA The Boarding House

This is the late show of two shows played that day 

http://haystackpudding.com/MP3/bff48172.html

1977 Mar 23 Washington DC USA The Cellar Door

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

A great show this - with a very funny trombone instrumental and a few unusual songs, as well as, Little Boy In My Heart, a song that I'm only aware of through this recording and one other - The Paradise, Boston (just above here) with Leroy Radcliffe, Asa Brebner, and D. Sharpe.

http://haystackpudding.com/MP3/dff89573.html

i was at this show..i was a freshman at nyu..pretty sure he played nyu 2 different times

1977 Oct 29 New York City USA New York University

1978 Feb 17 Philadelphia USA Houston Hall

JR Fan 1

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

So classic...includes a very early version of Abdul 

1978 Feb 17 Philadelphia USA University of Pennsylvania

1978 Mar 3 Chicago USA The Quiet Knight

1978 Apr 15 Boston USA The Paradise

Jonathan with the Modern Lovers: Asa Brebner, Leroy Radcliffe and D. Sharpe. Ice Cream Man is great fun... with loads and loads of false endings.

1978 Apr 30 Brussels Belgium Ancienne Belgique

A little bit of echo for the 1st couple of  songs only, but excellent for the rest of the show.

1978 May 15 Netherlands Pinkpop Festival

Pinkpop Festival

Good  live in the studio recording of the Modern Lovers, with nice and relaxed performance. Some nice chat between songs too.

http://haystackpudding.com/MP3/c3bb5678.html

Radiohuset Radio Show (1978)

Radiohuset Radio Show

http://haystackpudding.com/MP3/9f90f76d.html

1978 Jun 22 Bristol UK Bristol University

"Jambalaya" is performed with Steve Forbert

1978 Jul 8 Roslyn USA My Fathers Place

An early solo show with a few unusual song choices, and, tantalizingly, a few lines of an unknown and unrecorded song 'Nuclear Power', probably made up on the spot soon after Jonathan noticed someone wearing an anti-nuclear button....Ends with a barely audible acapella encore

1979 Apr 1 Apeldoorn Netherlands Gigant

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

1979 Jul 14 Chicago USA Gaspars

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

1980 May 10 USA The Tam OShanter

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

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

1980 Oct 18 Santa Cruz USA The Catalyst

A cracking two set show featuring the Rockin' Robins (Beth Harrington and Ellie Marshall). The second set is particularly enjoyable... everyone's loosened up and having fun.

1981 Feb 6 Bloomfield USA The Dirt Club

With Curly Keranen, Michael Guardabascio and Ken Forfia, plus 'The Rockin' Robins' : Ellie Marshall and  Beth Harrington.Yoyos On Parade' & 'Creeps On The March' aren't really songs they're just a few lines while Jonathans messing about for a minute or two.

1981 Feb 14 Providence USA

http://haystackpudding.com/MP3/df3f4772.html

1981 Feb 20 Mt. Vernon USA Left Bank

Very clear - probably a soundboard recording. With Beth Harrington, Ellie Marshall, Ken Forfia, Michael Guardabascio, and Curly Keranen.

http://haystackpudding.com/MP3/63eb2c77.html

1981 Mar Detroit USA Bookies

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

"Roll With Me Henry" and "My Guy" are cut

1981 Jul 17 Boston USA The Channel

Right, I had this previously listed as New York 1982, and as a one CD show only, but now have a copy of the full show as below... the thing is that the one CD copy seemed to sound better than the new complete copy does (the 1 CD copy ran from fireside chat to Abdul & Cleopatra) so I now need to do some further sound checking and come up with the best recording.Here's the show... and by the way, 'Bring Back Springtime' still stands out as a great unlisted and unrecorded song...

1981 Jul 20 New York City USA The Peppermint Lounge

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

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

1981 Nov 18 New York City USA The Bottom Line

A neat sounding show, the 2nd of two nights at the Bottom Line, and with a very early acapella version of 'That Summer Feeling'... it's pretty different here and sounds like it's completely new to the audience too; Jonathan describes this as his 'Summer Song'...With Beth Harrington, Ellie Marshall, Ken Forfia, Michael Guardabascio, and Curly Keranen.

1981 Dec 27 New York City USA The Bottom Line

1982 Jun 3 Lyon France

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

He also appeared on Tulane University Radio WTUL-FM on this date

Full band present with Asa, Curly, and Ellie on Rhythm guitar

1983 Nov 22 New Orleans USA Tipitinas

cover files availableWith Jonathan on Sax and Curly Keranen on Acoustic Bass: no guitars! 

1983 Portland USA Reed College

1984 Jul 27 Manchester UK The Hacienda

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

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

1984 Aug 6 London UK Dingwalls

1985 Jun 3 Bremen Germany Shauberg

VinnieQ

i always wanted to hear the full version of CornerStore from the film Kingpin, but i never found it..

1986 Jan 16 San Francisco USA Great American Music Hall

1986 Jan 21 San Diego USA The Spirit

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 with Brennan Totten & Andy Paley.

1986 Apr 17 Bologna Italy

1993 Jun 19 Los Angeles USA Palomino

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!

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

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

Sounds like this is an outdoor music festival; a fairly short show at about 45 minutes long.