Cloaca Melodia

State Theater, New Brunswick, NJ sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

Budapest Lounge, New Brunswick, NJ This was my birthday show that my friend Maryelizabeth put together for me. It was quite a treat. People kept buying me drinks. By the end of the night, I was smoking a cigar from somewhere. It was the first time I heard Evelyn Forever do their cover of "Born to Run." Splitsville was great, as always.

Budapest Lounge, New Brunswick, NJ sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

State Theater, New Brunswick, NJ..... sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!   setlist: The Boy Racer Alma Matters London Billy Budd Spring-Heeled Jim Now My Heart Is Full Speedway Reader Meet Author Why Don't You Find Out for Yourself Roy's Keen The Teachers Are Afraid of the Pupils The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get Paint a Vulgar Picture   encore break   Shoplifters of the World Unite 

State Theater, New Brunswick, NJ...... sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!    

State Theater, New Brunswick, NJ Sheik performed with a second guitarist, a bass player, and a percussionist. The sound mix was terrific. Very mellow, yet you could hear every note... As a sidebar, here's a 1996 interview I did with Sheik on his birthday (11/18): Mike: One of the things I love about your album is it's not just great music--songs, I mean--but also it's such a great sonic environment. Was that the kind of thing you heard in your head when you were composing the songs, or was this something that evolved in the studio? Duncan: Well, definitely my aesthetic comes from people like Brian Eno or David Sylvian or the later Talk Talk records. Whether they're electronically produced or they're acoustic-instrument produced, I still like these things that sound really organic and moody and have their own kind of darkness. That's always been a really important part of creating recordings for me. Mike: So when you have something like in "Reasons For Livin...

Court Tavern, New Brunswick, NJ.... sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

State Theater, New Brunswick, NJ.... Before Tori's show (the second time I was seeing her live), my then-wife Christine and I were meeting my WHTG colleague Matt Pinfield, Atlantic Records' Tod Elmore, and a few others for dinner at a restaurant next to the State Theater. The hot topic at dinner was discussion about whether O.J. Simpson might be guilty of murdering Nicole Brown Simpson, which had taken place the previous Sunday. Someone at the dinner table mentioned they had heard on the radio earlier that O.J. was missing. Speculation was interrupted when Matt realized he had to head over to the theater to introduce Tori on stage. Tori and I, after the show Christine and I strolled over to the theater and saw the show, with Tori performing alone with her Bosendorfer on one side of the stage and a harpsichord facing the other direction. It was perhaps the best Tori show I've seen. After the show, we went and spoke with Tori's tour manager and went backstage to meet Tori...

Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ This is probably not the correct date for this show.

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ   This was one of the most fun concerts I've ever attended. I've been to perhaps better concerts, on a number of criteria, but rarely have I enjoyed myself more at a show. post continues.... This was an outdoor concert at Deiner Park, a lawn built over Route 18 and overlooking the Raritan River. It was beautiful September night, with that sort of coolness which, when mixed with activity, is neither chilly nor hot. Mick Jones' B.A.D. II's album The Globe had just connected with the cultural zeitgeist in a way that he hadn't managed since his days with The Clash (and, at this writing, he was not to do so again). Fueled by the big-beat dance-rock sound that was soaring to ascendency during 1991 (in what was also to be effectively its swan-song, as the hammer was even then being cocked to fire grunge's gun square at American musical tastes), "Rush" was just then becoming Jones' only U.S. post-Clash Top 40 hit;...

Melody Bar, New Brunswick, NJ Actually, this was a Miles Hunt solo performance not the whole band. A noteworthy one though, since it was filmed for inclusion in the group's documentary Welcome to the Cheap Seats .

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Setlist I Don't Know I Will Dare Achin' to Be Bent Out of Shape Another Girl, Another Planet Merry Go Round Satellite Happy Town Swingin Party One Wink at a Time Waitress in the Sky Skyway When It Began Nightclub Jitters Someone Take the Wheel Kiss Me on the Bus Talent Show Asking Me Lies Nobody Color Me Impressed Within Your Reach Unsatisfied/Sadly Beautiful Can't Hardly Wait The Ledge All Right Now (brief snippet) I'll Be You Bastards of Young Left of the Dial Alex Chilton

Cook College Gym, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Although I later had several opportunities to meet Paul Westerberg, this night contained the entire direct interaction I've ever had with the man. I shouted out "Androgynous!" as a song request during the show, and Westerberg replied, "Naw, we'd need a piano for that one."