God Street Wednesday: Stone Pony ’95

One of the most recent uploads to the God Street Wine collection on the Live Music Archive brought back some bad memories for me. I’m talking about a show from March 10th, 1995 at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey. I was 17 at the time and the Stone Pony was an 18 and over venue. Though I tried to get in, my fake ID – which was the kind you buy at flea market for $10 – didn’t come close to fooling any of the doormen.

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[Photo by Michael Weiss]

I missed out on the show that night while the rest of my friends danced the night away all because they were a few months older than me. While it wasn’t much consolation, I did find a nice crack in the door and was able to hear the show out on the sidewalk. They opened with a blazing Wendy and kept the energy high throughout the first set with a frisky Twitchin’, the power-pop majesty of Nightengale and a nasty Gretchen that came out of the tender as fuck Bring Back The News.

Early ’95 was one of my favorite periods of the band’s music as they were loading each set with classic jam song upon classic jam song before some of the more song-oriented Red material entered the repertoire later that year. I wore out two copies of my buddy Gus’ recording of the show, so it’s nice that we all can download/stream this crispy soundboard recording now. The energy didn’t fade through the second set with a Dig A Pony / I’ve Got A Feeling combo anchor and on into the two song encore that included a cover of Elvis Presley’s Love Me Tender.  This show sounds so much better through my headphones than through the crack of a door.

Note: God Street Wednesdays will run every other Wednesday from now on.

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4 Responses

  1. Great story Scott…glad the tape is there to help you through this painful memory. 🙂

    Big thanks to Adam Wagner for digitizing so many of my tapes and getting them up on the archive. Truth be told…I was just too damn lazy, and Adam was cool enough to help me out.

  2. ^Thanks for coming clean. We hereby forgive you!

    Doesn’t that feel better?!?!?

    Anyone else have anything to get off their chest?

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