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UB40, Gin Blossoms

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Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ.... Why in hell were UB40 and the Gin Blossoms playing together? Likely because they were both on the same record label--and in this article you get a taste of the record label insanity lurking behind most decisions in the music industry. my ticket stub from the show  

Jeff Buckley, Paleface

Knitting Factory, New York, NY...... I'm still not 100% sure this is the show that I attended, even after multiple attempts at research. But here are the facts that I am certain about. The show was at the Knitting Factory, and I dragged my then-girlfriend Christine to the gig specifically to see Paleface perform. I vaguely recollect that the show was being broadcast on WFMU, but I couldn't say that without doubt. I had become fans of a number of musicians from the East Village anti-folk scene after seeing my friend Danny Vermont perform standup comedy at Lach's open-mic "anti-hoot" at the Chameleon bar on E. 6th Street. I eventually performed there myself on a fateful night . Paleface was one of those musicians. I played the hell out of his 1991 self-titled album. I can remember laying on the beach in Belmar, NJ (where I lived in '91) on many a weekend afternoon with this record coming out of my headphones. I had met his manager Danny Fields and had almost, ...