BTW, here's a short preview before a TRATB gig at The Stone Pony:
This gig was 16 Mar 1990. They are referred to as TRATB and the newspaper listings also referred to them as such.
However, at a gig at the The Rongovian Embassy 6 days earlier on 10 Mar 1990, they were listed in several newspapers as "Dharma, Riddle & Rogers" which sounds like a law practice, albeit a rocking one...
This would suggest that between the 10th and the 16th they'd said to themselves, "we need a name..." Since the Flaming Telepaths name was already taken, and The Screaming Dizbusters didn't sound quite right, they obviously picked another...
But that article above says the Stone Pony (16th) was their
third gig... I only know of one other before that, the Rongo show mentioned above. Was the Rongo the
first TRATB gig or the
second?
I'm clearly missing a gig - Buck, any clue...? Do you think you debuted at the Rongovian (Trumansburg)...? That article says the debut was in Ithaca - I looked that up and Trumansburg is 10 miles from Ithaca, but for all I know, locals might consider it to be
part of Ithaca... I dunno...
Anyway, if the Rongovian
was in fact the debut, then, because I know that the Stone Pony was the 3rd gig, at least I'd have a narrow 5 day window in which to fit this currently unknown
2nd gig...
Here's what I know so far:
10 Mar 1990: The Rongovian Embassy, Trumansburg NY [Billed as "Dharma, Riddle & Rogers"]
16 Mar 1990: Stone Pony, Asbury Park NJ
31 Mar 1990: Studio One, Newark NJ
01 Apr 1990: Coleman's, Rome NY [w/ DC Strut]
04 Apr 1990: The Red Zone, New York City NY [Record Company Showcase]
11 Apr 1990: East Coast Music Mall, Danbury CT [w/ Leslie West, Reeves Gabriel; Benefit Show]
14 Apr 1990: Stone Pony, Asbury Park NJ [w/ Good Rats, KISS, Joe Lynn Turner etc; Benefit Show]
16 Jun 1990: The Rongovian Embassy, Trumansburg NY
Actually, that reminds me... Buck: you once said that you had a recording of one of those Rongovian shows and that you might decide to digitise it and offer it to the fans at some future point... as you're doing less shows next year, this might afford you a fair bit of free time to go rooting through those boxes of old tapes in the attic...
