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Asbury Park Festival Area, Asbury Park, NJ..... I was at this show, but didn't see much of it. I was broadcasting live reports for WHTG from the Berkeley-Carteret Hotel overlooking the festival area. some of the WHTG crew with Sum 41 in the broadcast hotel room I did interviews with Long Beach Dub Allstars & Sum 41 (Dickie of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones was scheduled to do one; he showed up saw all the people hanging out, mumbled something about going to get some food, and then fled the scene without returning. In between reports, I was able to watch the show from perhaps 8 or 10 stories up, often with the simultaneous sound of two bands playing on the multiple stages. We had hung station banners out of both windows in our corner room, and show promoter Tony Paligrossi later remarked that our banners lent that year's Warped the vibe of a South American revolution. Also floating around the FM 106.3 Party Room was station staff Tod Lewis, Brian Cotter, Kara, Carly, freaky Bob...

Mighty Mighty Bosstones/Social Distortion/Pennywise/Blink 182/Reel Big Fish/Less Than Jake Bradley Park, Asbury Park, NJ sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show -- coming soon!

Downing Stadium, Randall's Island, New York, NY..... The Tibetan Freedom Concert was obviously a pretty massive show, not just in the number of artists performing but in the largeness of most of the acts. The day I went (out of the two days of the festival) had a great lineup and was absolutely jam-packed with people. I tried not to go to the bathrooms or to get food (though I ended up doing both) because the area one had to walk to get to those facilities seemed like a dangerously overcrowded choke point. But it was a great day of music.  Add your own comments if you were also there!   my ticket stub from the show  

Mighty Mighty Bosstones/Fishbone/NOFX/Pennywise/Dance Hall Crashers/Goldfinger/fluf/1000 Mona Lisas/Blink 182 Stone Pony, Asbury Park, NJ sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

Downing Stadium, Randall's Island, New York, NY..... Lollapalooza 5. This was my third and final Lolla show, and I feel like I caught the ideal ones: '91, '92, and this year.  The main memories that stick with me from this show were Cypress Hill's giant bong prop and Beck doing everything in his power to make his performance of "Loser" a crappy experience. (In fact, his overall set was pretty blah, in stark contrast to every later time I saw hm live. I had a chance to tactfully ask him about what changed, and he told me he had a realization that his fans were paying hard-earned dollars to see him and that it might be their one and only time seeing him live so he had better put on a good show. Good for him!) In the weeks leading up to the show, drama was enveloping this tour. In Washington state on the 4th of July, there was an incident between Hole frontwoman Courtney Love and Bikini Kill singer Kathleen Hanna (which led to assault charges against Lo...