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Greetings!

My name is Mike Sauter, and I have been a radio DJ since the fall of 1984 (counting my college radio station). I've been on the air at WICB/Ithaca (NY), WQNY/Ithaca, WHTG-FM/Eatontown (NJ), WHTG-AM/Eatontown, WBJB/Lincroft (NJ), WYEP/Pittsburgh (PA), and WESA/Pittsburgh.

You read more about me here. 

Along the way, I've also worked at a record store (Aardvark Records in Ithaca), in the mailroom of A&M Records in their NYC headquarters, and as an entertainment writer (for injersey.com, Two Rivers Times, Pittsburgh magazine, and others). I was even very briefly a musical performer circa 1990 in NYC and NJ as part of an acoustic duo called Nova Pilbeam. 

About 2002, I decided I wanted to make a list of all the concerts I've ever attended. It began as a text file and then I realized one can backdate posts on Blogger. So I started this blog.

If you have any questions or comments (for me, that is; if you have comments about the concerts, post 'em!), email me at mikesauter at gmail.

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Del Amitri, Gin Blossoms

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Irving Plaza, New York, NY...... Although Gin Blossoms would go on to having four top 40 hits in the U.S. including one top 10 placement while Del Amitri would only have three top 40 hits (including one in the top 10), when this concert took place Del Amitri was the bigger band and thus the Scottish group was the headliner. Del Amitri released their brilliant debut album in 1985 but it came and went with little notice in the U.S. outside of some college radio stations (including my WICB, at Ithaca College). I loved that release but when no follow-up album came out for years, I figured sadly that they were a one-and-done band. But then, they had a new album in 1989 on a new record label and lo and behold--the band scored their first top 40 hit in "Kiss This Thing Goodbye." It took the label two tries to make it a hit, releasing the song as the album's first single without success but then re-releasing it in the summer of 1990 and taking it to the lower depths of the top 40...
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