WHTG Snowball
Cherry Poppin' Daddys/Local H/Less Than Jake/Harvey Danger/Bugzy Hunka Bunka Ballroom, Sayreville, NJ
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Patti Smith
Fastlane, Asbury Park, NJ sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!
Garbage
Paramount Theater, Asbury Park, NJ At left, me and Butch Vig (photo by Chuck Homler). 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"
Fuel
Tradewinds, Sea Bright, NJ sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!
Blink 182/Reel Big Fish
Hunka Bunka Ballroom, Sayreville, NJ sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!
The Connells
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)
A Day in the Garden
Dishwalla/Joan Osborne/Marcy Playground/Goo Goo Dolls/Third Eye Blind "The Garden" field, Bethel, NY sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!
6th Annual Asbury Music Awards
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!
Tori Amos
Madison Square Garden, New York, NY Setlist : "Precious Things," "Cruel," "Cornflake Girl," "Spark," "Iieee," "Sugar," "Leather," "Landslide" (Fleetwood Mac), "Jackie's Strength," "Tear in Your Hand," "Raspberry Swirl," "Waitress," "She's Your Cocaine," "God," "Horses"
Third Eye Blind/Our Lady Peace/Eve 6
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...
Semisonic
Stone Pony, Asbury Park, NJ sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!
Surfstock 5
John Easdale/They Might Be Giants/The Connells/Miles Hunt & Malcolm Treece/Superdrag/Jonathan Fire*Eater/Pee Shy/Solution a.d./Evelyn Forever Surf Club/Planet Surf, Ortley Beach, NJ Matt Pinfield was the MC.
Shredfest II
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!
Prissteens/Evelyn Forever/Selzers/7 Minds
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!
Green Day/Samiam
Convention Hall, Asbury Park, NJ approximate 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: Platypus ( i hate you) KING FOR A DAY! prosthetic head when i come around Good Riddance
John Easdale
Tradewinds, Sea Bright, NJ sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!
Hum/Swervedriver
Birch Hill, Old Bridge, NJ sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!
Evelyn Forever/Suran Song in Stag
Budapest Lounge, New Brunswick, NJ sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!
Monster Magnet
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...