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The Bongos
1983-08-21
Columbia University
New York, NY
FM Broadcast
256 kbp
Artwork Included
01. Telephoto Lens
02. Tiger Nights
03. Glow In The Dark
04. The Bulrushes
05. Automatic Doors
06. Roman Circus
07. Burning Bush
08. Numbers With Wings
09. Three Wise Men
10. Skydiving
11. Barbarella
12. In The Congo
13. Question Ball
14. My Sin
15. Mambo Sun
In the early 1980s, punk and new wave music started to move more into the mainstream, as evidenced locally by the fact that classic rock station WNEW-FM began to play those genres. As a result I found myself listening to and enjoying a host of new artists, which in turn led me to buy tickets to concerts by those bands. Between 1980 and 1983, I attended shows by The Clash, The Pretenders, Joan Jett, Joe Jackson, The Police, The Go Gos, Pat Benatar, Robin Lane, and The Ramones, just to name a few. I also got to see a local band, from nearby Hoboken NJ, called the Bongos, on December 31, 1982 at the Mudd Club in New York. The Bongos had released an album entitled Drums Along The Hudson, which featured a host of tunes, such as Bulrushes, Zebra Club and In The Congo, that blended guitar driven pop with dance rhythms. It became anther one of those discs that went on my turntable and never came off.
While I'm fairly certain no tape exists of the New Year's Eve show I attended (no one could have been sober enough to make a recording!!), I did find this FM broadcast from Columbia University, from about 6 months later, on August 21, 1983, 43 years ago today. Only wish this one had Zebra Club on it!
