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Surf Club, Ortley Beach, NJ sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY.....   A very memorable concert. The HBO music series Reverb was taping the concert and their extra lights set off the venue fire alarms. At first, we all thought the strobe lights flashing around the stage were just part of the show, if not well synched to the beat. But then a guy walked on stage and pow-wowed with Moby and then announced that we had to clear the room and head outside. The fire department checked everything out and the audience was let back in after a bit of a wait on the sidewalk, but I'd swear the crowd was larger and that some of the people re-entering the venue had walked up during the fire-department intermission.  Oh, and the music was terrific. Songs performed included "Honey," "South Side," "Natural Blues, " "Bodyrock," "Go!," "Find My Baby," and "Feeling So Real." This show was about a half-dozen days after Moby had performed at Woodstock '99 (on the ...

Tradewinds, Sea Bright, NJ.... Counting Crows booked this show as a warm up before they headed up to New York state for Woodstock 99. Prior to playing "St. Robinson in His Cadillac Dream," Adam Duritz said, "We got a new album coming out in October, and it's called  This Desert Life . And tonight we're going to play you songs from the first album, and the second album, and I guess the fourth album. This is a song you don't know, it's the last song on our new album." (It appears he was counting their 1998 live album in their sequence of albums; note that  This Desert Life  wasn't released until November 2nd.) setlist: "Mr. Jones," "Angels of the Silences," "St. Robinson in His Cadillac Dream," "Anna Begins," "Mercury," "Omaha," "Daylight Fading," "Speedway," "Round Here," "Hanginaround," "Rain King," "A Murder of One," "Hors...

Asbury Park Festival Area, Asbury Park, NJ sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show -- coming soon!

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

Surf Club/Planet Surf, Ortley Beach, NJ.... sorry, I have not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!