1986 Dec 6 Berkeley USA California Berkley Square

Jerry

VinnieQ

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

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

1987 Jan 25 San Diego USA Saigon Palace

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

1987 Jan 27 Tucson USA Club Congress

1987 Feb 27 Chicago USA Holsteins Folk Club

1987 Mar 15 NY USA Knitting Factory

With Brennan Totten, Johnny Avila and a lot of Sax!

1987 May 5 Scottsdale USA Anderson's 5th Estate

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

1987 Aug 21 Davis USA

1987 Sep 25 Los Angeles USA Variety Arts Center

1987 Oct 20 Boston Cambridge USA Nightstage

1987 Dec 26 San Francisco USA The Fillmore

Dutch Radio, Hilv. 3 (1988)

Dutch Radio, Hilv. 3

1988 Jan 27 Aarhus Denmark Huset

1988 Feb 4 Hamburg Germany Logo

1988 Mar 2 Paris France New Morning

1988 Mar 3 Brussels Belgium Ancienne Belgique

Last date of the tour before the band are heading home to the states, and a fun show it is too! including a great version of  'Hospital'. Brennan Totten, guitar, and Johnny Avila, drums. At the end of the show Jonathan can be heard throwing cards out into the audience, imploring people to use them to write him - "I always write back, sometimes it takes a while, but I write back!"

1988 Mar 6 London UK Town and Country Club

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

Jonathan's pretty talkative tonight with a very lively audience that's only too willing to join in with the songs wherever possible. A super show for all, that ends with Jonathan saying how much he's enjoyed himself, unusually he's more than happy to do several encore's on this one. S. E. Rogie comes on stage as guest to sing 'African Lady', one of Sooliman's songs that's usually covered by Jonathan as an instrumental. 

1988 Jun 28 London UK Mean Fiddler

East Berlin. http://haystackpudding.com/MP3/f5fea271.html

1988 Jul 2 Berlin Germany

1988 Jul 9 New York City USA Summerstage

1988 Sep 10 Tokyo Japan

A nice show this one, a bunch of instrumentals performed near the beginning and a great version of 'Closer'.'Fender Stratocaster' and 'Make a Mistake' are both described as new songs.

1988 Nov 3 Toronto Canada

A pretty interactive and friendly show with some nice chat between songs too, and an especially nice moment when a woman joins Jonathan up on stage, unexpectedly, part way through 'Affection'.Some slight background hiss during the early part but this fades away part way though. 

1988 Nov 9 Boston Cambridge USA Nightstage

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

Harpo is my favorite. No real clunkers on this album.

This lineup still sounds fresh to this very day. I wish that version of the Modern Lovers had stayed together for a few more years

Modern Lovers 88 (1988)

Modern Lovers 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

An FM "TUL Box" broadcast solo set. The show was opened by "The Iguanas". This is missing about 4 songs between "California Dance Party" and "Dancin' Late At Night"

1990 Mar 5 New Orleans USA Tipitinas

1990 Sep 30 Brussels Belgium Ancienne Belgique

Another great show with several nice moments; the best of which occurs just when you think it's about to end - an unexpected and great 'I eat with Gusto' finale. Excellent.

1990 Oct 3 Melbourne Australia

His funniest song? Even though it's not really a song.

This song threw me off at first but now I think it's hilarious

"My Career as a Home Wrecker" has some different words on this recording

Jeff Cowan

This show was recorded at Club Detroit. Club Detroit was the hotel bar for the Detroit Hotel in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida. My first time meeting Jonathan. He sat and enjoyed a beverage with me and my friend Stan Lapinski. I have never found a recording of this show.

1991 Feb 2 St. Petersburg USA

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!

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

JR Fan 1

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

Some digi-noise on "Fender Stratocastor" for this recording

1991 May 4 Sesto Calende Italy Sala Consiliare

A few great standout moments, particularly so with Monologue on Bermuda, Pablo Picasso, and a very early sounding version of Velvet Underground, for which Jonathan is still playing about with lyrics... sounds pretty different here!

1991 May 29 Manchester UK Manchester International

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

Jonathan is speaking Italian throughout this one, dropping some into the lyrics on a few songs, and even manages to do the whole of  'Monologue on Bermuda' in Italian. 

1991 Sep 14 Bologna Italy Festa Dell Unita

The date for this one I've had to take a bit of a wild guess at, coz the guy who sent me it was not too sure about when the recording was first made. He also said that this is about 1/2 of what the complete show was when first broadcast; so, unfortunately, this is a shortened and edited up version.All that said it's still a great show! Jonathan's having a whale of a time with his audience and he even sings a Spanish version of 'Reno'.Hopefully the rest of the show will eventually turn up, but at present the song list is :-

1991 Madrid Spain Sala Universal

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

1993 Jun 19 Los Angeles USA Palomino

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

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

1993 Oct 21 Buffalo USA Nietzsches

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

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

1995 May 13 Carrboro USA Cats Cradle

With Tommy Larkins, Nick Augustine, and Dan Eisenberg

1996 Oct 9 Montreal Canada Club Soda

2002 Mar 31 San Francisco USA The Make Out Room

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

"Here Come the Martian Martians" and "Mary Anne" are together

2003 Mar 6 Valencia Spain Sala Roxy

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

"Springtime in New York" is cut (the end of the tape)

2007 May 26 Mondragon Spain Teatro Amaia

Jonathan performing this in someone's backyard!: http://vimeo.com/1385299

Post about this song: http://jojofiles.blogspot.com/2008/06/stupenda-e-misera-citt.html

Les Amoureux (?) is similar to "The Lovers" ... but in French and with a much slower tempo

2007 Nov 30 Hollywood USA Safari Sams

Unlike any other song JR has written.Incredibly moving.