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Hunka Bunka Ballroom, Sayreville, NJ.... The WHTG Snowball.

Fastlane, Asbury Park, NJ sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

Paramount Theater, Asbury Park, NJ.... Garbage Setlist : "Temptation Waits," "Not My Idea," "I Think I'm Paranoid," "Special," "My Lover's Box," "Hammering in My Head," "Thirteen," "#1 Crush," "Stupid Girl," "Vow," "Wicked Ways," "Queer," "Push It," "Only Happy When It Rains," "You Look So Fine," "Supernatural," "The Trick is to Keep Breathing," "When I Grow Up"     me and Butch Vig (photo by Chuck Homler)    

Tradewinds, Sea Bright, NJ sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!    

Hunka Bunka Ballroom, Sayreville, NJ sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

Tradewinds, Sea Bright, NJ..... setlist: Hey You Brown Leper Maybe Bruised Slackjawed Disappointed Curly '74-'75 Over There SCY Fun & Games Motel New Boy Glade Doin' you Soul Reactor Get a Gun Burden Choose a Side Running Mary Still Life Crown ( source , also with show review)    

"The Garden" field, Bethel, NY..... The show was billed as "A Day in the Garden," and while it took place at the site of the legendary Woodstock concert the day I went was all current alt-rock acts.  The event took place Friday, August 14th through this day (Sunday the 16th). On Friday, they had Ziggy Marley, Don Henley, Stevie Nicks, and Woodstock vets Ten Years After. On Saturday, they had Lou Reed, Joni Mitchell (who was advised by her manager not to play the 1969 festival to instead make an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show), Donovan, and Woodstock vets Pete Townshend, Melanie, and Richie Havens. I didn't go to those days, just Sunday. I was there with my girlfriend, and it was very interesting to see live music at what was formerly Max Yasgur's farm. We didn't stick around for much of Third Eye Blind, the day's final act. I had just seen them a few weeks before  and I was full up on my 3EB consumption. I think we missed part of Dishwalla (the d...

Kid With Man Head/Evelyn Forever/Love in Reverse/Thee Casino Royales/Gotham City Swing/Rachel/Brown Stone Pony, Asbury Park, NJ sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

Madison Square Garden, New York, NY We at WHTG had a number of contest winners (along with some other folks, including me) attend a soundcheck listening. It was very cool to be in a nearly empty Madison Square Garden and hear Tori play a couple of songs on her piano. While most of the attendees were rapt in attention to Tori, I mostly listened with my head tilted a bit sideways so I could hear the natural reverb of such a large space without people to absorb the sound. Tori was backed by a three-piece band (drummer Matt Chamberlain, guitarist Steve Caton, and bassist Jon Evans). In addition to her usual Bosendorfer, she also played an electric piano at times during her hour-and-a-half long set.. Setlist : "Precious Things," "Cruel," "Cornflake Girl," "Spark," "Iieee," "Sugar," "Leather," "Landslide," "Jackie's Strength," "Tear in Your Hand," "Raspberry Swirl," "Waitres...

PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ.... sorry, I haven't yet written about this show... feel free to write your own recollections if you were there...

Stone Pony, Asbury Park, NJ sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

Surf Club, Ortley Beach, NJ .... Surfstock 5. Matt Pinfield was the MC. My credential for the show.

7 Minds/Inspector 7/Mephiskapheles/Brown/Gotham City Swing Surf Club, Ortley Beach, NJ sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

Freehold House of Records Parking Lot, Freehold, NJ sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

Convention Hall, Asbury Park, NJ....     my ticket and after show pass from the concert approximate Green Day  setlist : Nice Guys Finish Last Hitchin' A Ride The Grouch Geek Stink Breath 2,000 Light Years Away Welcome To Paradise Longview Brainstew Jaded Basket Case She Knowledge (w/ horns) Redundant Scattered encore break Platypus ( i hate you) KING FOR A DAY! prosthetic head when i come around Good Riddance

Tradewinds, Sea Bright, NJ sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!    

Birch Hill, Old Bridge, NJ sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

Budapest Lounge, New Brunswick, NJ sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

Continental Arena, E. Rutherford, NJ.... sorry, I haven't yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!    my ticket stub from the show

Stone Pony, Asbury Park, NJ Here's an external review from the web: New Jersey's resident retro-psychedelic-metal-troglodyte-hot-rodding space-cadets Monster Magnet put in an impressive live set last weekend at this "home town" show. Visuals included rising sun back-drop projections, rapid-fire stills of newsreel war footage, strobe lights, and clouds of dry ice. The boys came out in fine, de-tuned, sludgy form, with frontman Dave Wyndorf repeatedly leaning into the wall of moshers in front of the stage. Ed Mundell put in some fantastic lead-work all night long, with his usual wah-wah drenched sound coming thru 2 full Marshall stacks. (He used a lovely black Les Paul in addition to his usual Strat... Dave also used an SG in addition to his usual battered old Strats.) Joe Calandra's bass-work was great, and was FELT as much as heard. Jon Kleiman drummed brilliantly, & managed to smoke entire cigarettes while drumming, a la Cheap Trick's Ben E. Carlos.... At...