They Might Be Giants, Civ, Del Amitri, Deep Blue Something, Rusty, Solution a.d., Whirling Dervishes

Count Basie Theater, Red Bank, NJ.....

It was the WHTG Snow Ball, the second annual holiday concert out of a five-year run for the event. Everybody was terrific on stage. CIV was nuts. TMBG and Del Amitri did their usual high-quality sets. Deep Blue Something was in the top 40 at the time of the show with "Breakfast at Tiffany's"--it was at #11 on the Billboard chart right then and would peak at #5 five weeks later. I don't really recall much of Rusty and solution a.d., but Whirling Dervishes got the show off to a great start with a set including their cover of "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch."

I wore my paisley tux jacket (see below) and I think I introduced Del Amitri on stage.

 

the front cover of the official program for the show


me in my paisley tux jacket from a 1998 WHTG event being fed by WHTG's Chris Rake

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