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Count Basie Theater, Red Bank, NJ..... This show took place at the same day the U.S. began bombing Iraq, initiating the war. Very surreal, but it was great seeing Hamell perform at this venue. His song "Big as Life" (which I loved) uses Count Basie as a part of the lyrics..

Count Basie Theater, Red Bank, NJ sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

Count Basie Theater, Red Bank, NJ..... It was the WHTG Snow Ball, the second annual holiday concert out of a five-year run for the event. Everybody was terrific on stage. CIV was nuts. TMBG and Del Amitri did their usual high-quality sets. Deep Blue Something was in the top 40 at the time of the show with "Breakfast at Tiffany's"--it was at #11 on the Billboard chart right then and would peak at #5 five weeks later. I don't really recall much of Rusty and solution a.d., but Whirling Dervishes got the show off to a great start with a set including their cover of "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch." I wore my paisley tux jacket (see below) and I think I introduced Del Amitri on stage.   the front cover of the official program for the show me in my paisley tux jacket from a 1998 WHTG event being fed by WHTG's Chris Rake

Count Basie Theater, Red Bank, NJ....     sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

Count Basie Theater, Red Bank, NJ.... Setlist : "Flying Dutchman," "Crucify," "Silent All These Years," "Precious Things," "Happy Phantom," "Leather," "Tear In Your Hand," "Whole Lotta Love" (Led Zeppelin cover), "Me and a Gun," "Winter," "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (Nirvana cover), "Mother," "China," "Take to the Sky," "Angie" (Rolling Stones cover)