Penthouse Omni Magazine College Rock Concert #1010 - Jonathan Richman

Penthouse Omni Magazine College Rock Concert #1010
London Wavelength's Scheduled Broadcast of November 20, 1983
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers
Unknown location and recording date.

This is really terrible.  :(

01 Pete Larkin - Intro
02 Jonathan Richman - Not Yet Three
03 Jonathan Richman - Ice Cream Man
04 Jonathan Richman - That Summer Feeling
05 Jonathan Richman - Here Come The Martian Martians
06 Jonathan Richman - Vincent Van Gogh
07 Jonathan Richman - Give Paris One More Chance
08 Jonathan Richman - Rollercoaster By The Sea
09 Jonathan Richman - I'm A Little Dinosaur
10 Jonathan Richman - The Neighbors
11 Jonathan Richman - Those Conga Drums
12 Jonathan Richman - I'm A Jerk
13 Jonathan Richman - Affection
14 Pete Larkin - Outro

This version was posted in the C-box over at the Plop! Cave and was a good sounding vinyl rip.  I cleaned up the clicks n' pops n' surface noise, and moved a few edit points.

I've included low resolution terrible off center scans from Discogs.

https://mega.nz/file/DcA0wDTI#j_hpJciuKZZdo2BVsoykBT2qmQN9rJKWbgbPUtP8VQ4

Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers - VPRO-FM, Paradiso Sept. 24, 1977

Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers
Paradiso
Amsterdam, Netherlands
VPRO-FM
September 24, 1977

Another Hans Devente tape.  Tracks 1-14 are from VPRO-FM, tracks 15-19 are an audience tape.
The FM is pretty good, although a bit hissy in the quiet portions.

The audience tape is muddy.

Hans notes: "part one is the radio show, part two is those tracks not in the broadcast, but my own recording in paradise, not the greatest sound ever, but I still like it"

01.  VPRO Promo:  We're The Modern Lovers (cuts in...) 
02.  Hi Dear
03.  I'm A Little Dinosaur
04.  The New Teller
05.  Ice Cream Man
06.  My Love Is A Flower Just Beginning To Bloom
07.  Back In The U.S.A.
08.  Astral Plane
09.  Lydia
10.  Route 66
11.  I'm A Little Airplane
12.  VPRO Promo: We're The Modern Lovers
13.  Pretty Little Girl
14.  Hello Josephine

End of radio broadcast...the rest is a low quality audience tape:
15.  Roadrunner
16.  Egyptian Reggae
17.  Ancient Long Ago
18.  ? instrumental
19.  New England

Okay, gang... this is a re-up of a post from over ten years ago, back when Hans Devente was dropping tapes on one of his many peripatetic blogs that came and went every few weeks for awhile. I originally posted it on one of our offshoots that we eventually took down.  A few months back, our pal Jonder was posting some Richman, and I went down in the musty catacombs beneath Castle Đ®åⒻṬëŕṽøï rediscovered my copy.  Over the years, someone added a cover to it.  

AS I originally wrote (above), the quality varies, but collectors will find it of interest.

https://mega.nz/file/jAx3TQiL#II7Rp1F8FcnwE5WzHhs2VzsLcAjSuNYoKQ2oiqNro58

Jonathan Richman / West Coast Live, San Francisco, CA April 12, 1997

Jonathan Richman
West Coast Live

San Francisco, CA
April 12, 1997

This one is from a "short radio stuff" cassette I edited down, so it's a first generation.  The good news is that I was using Maxell MA90 metal cassettes by that time, so there's almost no hiss even though it's not a master cassette. 

01 Sedge Thomson & Jonathan Richman - West Coast Live Intro
02 Jonathan Richman - Surrender

Okay, yeah, this is ridiculously short, less than four minutes.  But there's a Richman cult out there, and I know you guys want this, as short as it may be.

https://mega.nz/file/CUwTFbpB#YJHNS2RPiD3lHcnnDzkhfBSBfs5RrEfaqY4P-OuuTug

Jonathan Richman - demo tape, early 1980s

Jonathan Richman
tape given me by background singer...
various demos, early 80s

01 Someone To Hold Me
02 The Neighbors
03 Don't Change For Me
04 Better
05 Stop This Car
06 Underneath
07 I Can't Stand To See People With Their Feelings Hurt
08 Stop This Car (#2)
09 We Can't Go Wrong
10 The Fenway
11 In Love Again
12 Top To Bottom
13 Not Yet Three
14 You're The One For Me
15 The Morning Of Our Lives
16 Don't Change For Me (#2)
17 Up In The Sky
18 The Neighbors (#2)
19 Dick Gregory

Several of these songs may be the same as the six song so-called "Jonathan Goes Funky" demo tape which circulated on several blogs circa 2008: the titles "Someone To Hold Me," "Don't Change For Me," "The Neighbors," "Better," and "Somebody To Hold Me" match up, but there is no "My Name Is Jonathan." 

The rest match up with the tracks that circulate as "The Jonathan Sings Sessions."  

I don't have those for comparision, but discovered that they're out there (or were out there) on the Internet while researching this tape.

THIS version comes from a cassette I was given by one of the lunch waitresses at the Rusty Pelican restaurant in Alameda in 1984-85, who was rehearsing as a background singer with Mr. Richman at the time.  It was a low bias TDK D-90 cassette. I don't have the other circulating versions for a comparision...so this may be WORSE...but it might be better, so I'm tossing it out there.  There's hiss, but it's not overwhelming...and given that I got this over 35 years ago, the number of generations is fairly low. I don't want to discourage you from downloading it, but my "thing" has been master tapes, so I want you to know that this is NOT from a master. 

If any of Our Beloved Audience can shed any light on how this compares with what is already out there, I would sincerely appreciate it.  If it's not as good (or worse) let me know and I'll take it down.  

https://mega.nz/file/aFI30C5Z#qBrKvl6rJwh5OznbsAtkxhfIB3oAl9vOrBPmhzHBxgU