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Sinead O'Connor/Solas

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Paramount Theater, Asbury Park, NJ   setlist for Sinead O'Connor :   The Emperor's New Clothes  Your Spirit Sings  I Am Stretched on Your Grave  Only one way to be free  Englishman John  I love you  This is to mother you  Sign to you ??  Thank you for loving me + Last day of our acquaintance  In this heart (my love)  She's changing ??  I am something ?  He moved through the fair  ( source )     

R.O.A.R. Tour ("Revelation of Alternative Rhythms")

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Iggy Pop/Tonic/Sponge/Rev. Horton Heat/Bloodhound Gang/Puzzle Gut Stone Pony, Asbury Park, NJ Photo : Emerson Hart of Tonic performs on the Stone Pony stage.

Bjork, De La Soul, Lee Perry, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Michael Stipe & Mike Mills, Pavement, Blur, Taj Mahal & The Phantom Blues Band, Rancid, Beastie Boys, Alanis Morisette

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Downing Stadium, Randall's Island, New York, NY..... The Tibetan Freedom Concert was obviously a pretty massive show, not just in the number of artists performing but in the largeness of most of the acts. The day I went (out of the two days of the festival) had a great lineup and was absolutely jam-packed with people. I tried not to go to the bathrooms or to get food (though I ended up doing both) because the area one had to walk to get to those facilities seemed like a dangerously overcrowded choke point. But it was a great day of music.  Add your own comments if you were also there!   my ticket stub from the show  

Third Eye Blind, Coward

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Tradewinds, Sea Bright, NJ Goddamn, I wanted to hate Third Eye Blind live. At WHTG, we were playing "Semi Charmed Life" quite a bit and listeners really dug it. Hell, I dug it. Before this show, we had set up a meet & greet with some contest winners. The opening act, Long Island rockers Coward, were terrific guys--very friendly and personable to us station people and our listeners. One of our contest winners was in a wheelchair, and the Coward boys took an extra minute to give this listener some attention. By contrast, the members of Third Eye Blind looked and acted as if they just woke up and wanted to be elsewhere. Which may well have been true, but hey, guys: suck it up. Your duly-appointed representatives made a commitment for you to greet some listeners, so do your duty, if not with a smile, at least without a grimace. They also ignored the listener in the wheelchair. Jackasses. So I was all set to hate their performance. But, I had to admit, they put on a good show....

Matthew Sweet, that dog.

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Birch Hill, Old Bridge, NJ.... Sweet's setlist : "Come to California," "Get Older," "Divine Intervention," "Walk Out," "Winona," "Into Your Drug," "Girlfriend," "Back to You," "Someone to Pull the Trigger," "Over It," "Time Capsule," "Until You Break," "I've Been Waiting," "Hollow," "Where You Get Love," "Sick of Myself," "Evangeline," "We're the Same," "Do Ya," "I Almost Forgot," "Thought I Knew You," "Does She Talk?," "Moonage Daydream," "Holy War" ( source )     me with Matthew 

Beck, Cheap Trick, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Luscious Jackson, Matthew Sweet, Kula Shaker, Paula Cole, James, Huffamoose, The Caulfields, Matchbox 20, Space, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Reel Big Fish, that dog.

E-Center, Camden, NJ.... Officially called the "Y100 Feztival," it was a concert put together by the radio station WPLY. sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!