The Riviera Theatre
Chicago, IL
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Set 1Tokyo Storm Warning
Green Shirt
Watching The Detectives
Battered Old Bird
Honey Are You Straight Or Are
You Blind
You Belong To Me
Jack Of All PArades
Temptation
Leave My Kitten Alone
Kid About It
New Lace Sleeves
Blue Chair
Next Time Round
Watch Your Step
I Hope You're Happy Now
Home Is Anywhere You Hang
Your Head - It's All Too Much
Green Shirt
Watching The Detectives
Battered Old Bird
Honey Are You Straight Or Are
You Blind
You Belong To Me
Jack Of All PArades
Temptation
Leave My Kitten Alone
Kid About It
New Lace Sleeves
Blue Chair
Next Time Round
Watch Your Step
I Hope You're Happy Now
Home Is Anywhere You Hang
Your Head - It's All Too Much
Set 2Lipstick Vogue
Clubland
I Want You
Uncomplicated
Pump it up
Mystery Dance
(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace,
Love And Understanding
Radio Radio
Poor Napoleon
Clubland
I Want You
Uncomplicated
Pump it up
Mystery Dance
(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace,
Love And Understanding
Radio Radio
Poor Napoleon
Set 1Recurring Dream
That?s What I Call Love
World Where You Live
Never Be The Same
Hole In The River
Love You Til The Day I Die
Don?t Dream Its Over
Tombstone
Worms
This Is Massive
Something So Strong
Now We?re Getting Somewhere
Message To My Girl
Sister Madly
Mean To Me
Throw Your Arms Around Me
That?s What I Call Love
World Where You Live
Never Be The Same
Hole In The River
Love You Til The Day I Die
Don?t Dream Its Over
Tombstone
Worms
This Is Massive
Something So Strong
Now We?re Getting Somewhere
Message To My Girl
Sister Madly
Mean To Me
Throw Your Arms Around Me
Set 1Dancin'
Heart Shaped World
You Owe Me Some Kind of Love
Wicked Game
Gone Ridin'
Wild Love
Don't Make Me Dream About You
Diddley Daddy
In The Heart of the Jungle
Blue Hotel
Caldonia
Jack the Ripper
Wild Thing
Heart Shaped World
You Owe Me Some Kind of Love
Wicked Game
Gone Ridin'
Wild Love
Don't Make Me Dream About You
Diddley Daddy
In The Heart of the Jungle
Blue Hotel
Caldonia
Jack the Ripper
Wild Thing
CommentBootleg: "Live 1994"
shroe comments: Though the packaging says 1991, this show is rumored to be from 1988 (and it looks like it from the setlist).
A snippet of a full concert review dated April 29, 1991 (to put to rest any notion that this concert was from 1988):
Source: Chicago Sun-Times - Monday, April 29, 1991
Author: Jae-Ha Kim
Article snippet: "After six years of playing to seemingly the same small group of fans, Chris Isaak made a triumphant return to Chicago, this time as a bonafide pop star...Isaak kicked the concert off with "Dancin,' a single from his 1985 debut LP, "Silvertone." As Kenney Dale Johnson drummed the familiar opening beat, the fans cheered and clapped before Isaak sang his first verse. When he did sing, Isaak's smooth tenor belied the fact that on this tour, where he has few days off between predominantly back-to-back gigs, his vocal cords are getting minimal rest.
While the moody ballad "Wicked Game" received the evening's loudest ovation, Isaak had better songs up his sleeves. He varied his set, nestling the slower numbers in between more rocking songs from his three LPs, throwing in covers of Bo Diddley's "Diddley Daddy," the Troggs' "Wild Thing" and Tom Jones' "Delilah" and unleashing his accordion for a raucous version of "Caldonia." Later, softly strumming a guitar that his elder brother engraved for him, Isaak sang a languidly sensual version of "Blue Spanish Sky." Saxophonist Johnny Reno made his entrance during this song, creating sweet melodies that caressed Isaak's vocals like a cashmere glove."
shroe comments: Though the packaging says 1991, this show is rumored to be from 1988 (and it looks like it from the setlist).
A snippet of a full concert review dated April 29, 1991 (to put to rest any notion that this concert was from 1988):
Source: Chicago Sun-Times - Monday, April 29, 1991
Author: Jae-Ha Kim
Article snippet: "After six years of playing to seemingly the same small group of fans, Chris Isaak made a triumphant return to Chicago, this time as a bonafide pop star...Isaak kicked the concert off with "Dancin,' a single from his 1985 debut LP, "Silvertone." As Kenney Dale Johnson drummed the familiar opening beat, the fans cheered and clapped before Isaak sang his first verse. When he did sing, Isaak's smooth tenor belied the fact that on this tour, where he has few days off between predominantly back-to-back gigs, his vocal cords are getting minimal rest.
While the moody ballad "Wicked Game" received the evening's loudest ovation, Isaak had better songs up his sleeves. He varied his set, nestling the slower numbers in between more rocking songs from his three LPs, throwing in covers of Bo Diddley's "Diddley Daddy," the Troggs' "Wild Thing" and Tom Jones' "Delilah" and unleashing his accordion for a raucous version of "Caldonia." Later, softly strumming a guitar that his elder brother engraved for him, Isaak sang a languidly sensual version of "Blue Spanish Sky." Saxophonist Johnny Reno made his entrance during this song, creating sweet melodies that caressed Isaak's vocals like a cashmere glove."
Set 1Temptation Waits
Not My Idea
I Think I'm Paranoid
Special
My Lover's Box
Hammering In My Head
Kick My Ass
#1 Crush
Stupid Girl
Wicked Ways
Queer
Push It
Only Happy When It Rains
You Look So Fine
Thirteen
Milk
When I Grow Up
Not My Idea
I Think I'm Paranoid
Special
My Lover's Box
Hammering In My Head
Kick My Ass
#1 Crush
Stupid Girl
Wicked Ways
Queer
Push It
Only Happy When It Rains
You Look So Fine
Thirteen
Milk
When I Grow Up
Set 11. Homebrew
2. Do You Right
3. Misdirected Hostility
4. Can't Fade Me
5. We Do It Like This
6. Down
7. Welcome
8. Silver
9. Full Ride
10. Nix Hex
11. Plain
12. Jackolatern's Weather
13. Applied Science
14. Offbeat Bareass
15. Hydroponic
16. Taiyed
17. T & P Combo
18. Come Original
19. Hive
20. Freak Out
21. Feels So Good
22. Fuck The Bullshit
2. Do You Right
3. Misdirected Hostility
4. Can't Fade Me
5. We Do It Like This
6. Down
7. Welcome
8. Silver
9. Full Ride
10. Nix Hex
11. Plain
12. Jackolatern's Weather
13. Applied Science
14. Offbeat Bareass
15. Hydroponic
16. Taiyed
17. T & P Combo
18. Come Original
19. Hive
20. Freak Out
21. Feels So Good
22. Fuck The Bullshit
Set 1Crazyhorse Mongoose, Shucktime (shortened ending), Tchfunkta*, Change Reform, Century City, Won't Wash Out, Charlie Dozen*. Doublewide*, Blue Pepper**> Third Stone from the Sun, Chicken Pox (w/ Alt. Breakdowns), Lumpology, Blackeyed Pea, Love the Life I Live, Sweetleaf, Two Clowns#; Encores: Thanks for Tryin*, Shibuya
Comment* w/ Skerik; ** w/ Les Claypool, Skerik & Jay Lane; info per galacticfunk.com
# w/ Lake Trout
# w/ Lake Trout
Set 1Intro, Happier, Great Escape, New Song 2, Bury Me, All The Way Up To Heaven, Here Comes Your Man*, Either Way, Happy Frappy (Muzak), Ramona, I Spy, Airport Song, Barrel Of A Gun, 4:20 talk + Marriage Proposal, Mona Lisa, What You Wish For, Demons, Fa Fa
Set 2Encore: X-ray Eyes, Center Of Attention, So Happy Together**
Comment*= Dixie Chicks Cover
**= with Joe, Marc's Brother
**= with Joe, Marc's Brother
Set 1Mary Morello Speech
Gasoline
Set It Off
Like A Stone
Super Stupid
What You Are
Exploder
Show Me How To Live
The Last Remaining Light
Hypnotize
Shadow Of The Sun
I Am The Highway
Cochise
Gasoline
Set It Off
Like A Stone
Super Stupid
What You Are
Exploder
Show Me How To Live
The Last Remaining Light
Hypnotize
Shadow Of The Sun
I Am The Highway
Cochise
Commentw/ Burning Brides (2nd Night)
Set 1Don't Let The Devil Take Your Mind
I'm So Gone
The Rusty Nail >
New Speedway Boogie
Nothing Comes From Nothing
While You're Walking Away
Shaken
So Hard To Find My Way
Like A Ball And Chain
I'm So Gone
The Rusty Nail >
New Speedway Boogie
Nothing Comes From Nothing
While You're Walking Away
Shaken
So Hard To Find My Way
Like A Ball And Chain
CommentOpened for Gov't Mule.
Set 1Evening Kitchen
No One's Gonna Love You
Compliments
Cigarrettes, Wedding Bands
Factory
Marry Song
Laredo
The Great Salt Lake
NW Apt.
Islands on the Coast
Bluebeard
The General Specific
Older
Part One
Weed Party
Is There A Ghost
Wicked Gil
Ode To LRC
The Funeral
encore
The First Song
Georgia
No One's Gonna Love You
Compliments
Cigarrettes, Wedding Bands
Factory
Marry Song
Laredo
The Great Salt Lake
NW Apt.
Islands on the Coast
Bluebeard
The General Specific
Older
Part One
Weed Party
Is There A Ghost
Wicked Gil
Ode To LRC
The Funeral
encore
The First Song
Georgia
Set 1Smoke >
Stranger Than Fiction
Bring It Back Home >
Blue Jeans Pizza >
Suck A Lemon
George >
Lazarus
Stranger Than Fiction
Bring It Back Home >
Blue Jeans Pizza >
Suck A Lemon
George >
Lazarus
Set 2Paper Dragon
Head >
Interstellar Overdrive >
Head
Captain America >
Recreational Chemistry
Queen of Everything
Can't You Hear Me Knocking >
Buster
Encore:
Downward Facing Dog
Head >
Interstellar Overdrive >
Head
Captain America >
Recreational Chemistry
Queen of Everything
Can't You Hear Me Knocking >
Buster
Encore:
Downward Facing Dog
Set 1Money1 > St. Augustine2, Haze2, Shoot First, Gone, Again and Again > Puebla, Akimbo
Set 2Casey Jones3 4, Silver Sun, Tailspin > Kids, Where Does the Time Go?, Head > The Road > Head Encore: Farmer Ben5 > Rebubula > Farmer Ben
Comment1 Last time played 03/03/2012 (75 shows)
2 Al. on vocals
3 Last time played 08/18/2005 (617 shows)
4 Vinnie on vocals
5 Farmer Ben sections: Farmer Ben -> Paper Dragon -> Farmer Ben -> New York City -> Farmer Ben
2 Al. on vocals
3 Last time played 08/18/2005 (617 shows)
4 Vinnie on vocals
5 Farmer Ben sections: Farmer Ben -> Paper Dragon -> Farmer Ben -> New York City -> Farmer Ben
Set 1I Don't Believe A Word You Say,
Get Up,
The Blues Overtook Me,
Don't Look Twice,
When It's Good,
She Got Kick,
band intro's,
I'm In, I'm Out & I'm Gone,
Blood Side Out,
Homeless Child,
I Ride At Dawn,
I'm Goin' Home,
When The Levee Breaks,
crowd.....,
ENCORE:
We Can't End This Way,
Meet Me In The Morning,
You Found Another Lover (I Lost Another Friend),
All That Matters
Get Up,
The Blues Overtook Me,
Don't Look Twice,
When It's Good,
She Got Kick,
band intro's,
I'm In, I'm Out & I'm Gone,
Blood Side Out,
Homeless Child,
I Ride At Dawn,
I'm Goin' Home,
When The Levee Breaks,
crowd.....,
ENCORE:
We Can't End This Way,
Meet Me In The Morning,
You Found Another Lover (I Lost Another Friend),
All That Matters
Set 2
Set 3
Set 1I Only Said
When You Sleep
New You
untitled (new song)
You Never Should
Honey Power
untitled (new song)
Cigarette in Your Bed
Only Tomorrow
Only Shallow
What You Want
Thorn
Nothing Much to Lose
Who Sees You
To Here Knows When
Slow
Soon
Wonder 2
Feed Me With Your Kiss
You Made Me Realise
When You Sleep
New You
untitled (new song)
You Never Should
Honey Power
untitled (new song)
Cigarette in Your Bed
Only Tomorrow
Only Shallow
What You Want
Thorn
Nothing Much to Lose
Who Sees You
To Here Knows When
Slow
Soon
Wonder 2
Feed Me With Your Kiss
You Made Me Realise
Set 2
Set 3
Set 1Hopefulness
City Looks Pretty
Avant Gardener
Need a Little Time
Nameless, Faceless
I'm Not Your Mother, I'm Not Your Bitch
Crippling Self Doubt and a General Lack of Self Confidence
Small Poppies
Small Talk
Debbie Downer
Depreston
Are You Looking After Yourself?
Walking on Eggshells
Elevator Operator
Houses
Lance Jr.
Charity
History Eraser
Everything is Free
Anonymous Club
Pedestrian At Best
City Looks Pretty
Avant Gardener
Need a Little Time
Nameless, Faceless
I'm Not Your Mother, I'm Not Your Bitch
Crippling Self Doubt and a General Lack of Self Confidence
Small Poppies
Small Talk
Debbie Downer
Depreston
Are You Looking After Yourself?
Walking on Eggshells
Elevator Operator
Houses
Lance Jr.
Charity
History Eraser
Everything is Free
Anonymous Club
Pedestrian At Best
Set 2
Set 3
Set 1Who's in Charge > Voices Insane, Wet (1), Aceetobee > Shocked, Caterpillar > Widow In The Rain (2) > Caterpillar
Set 2I-Man > The Wormhole > And the Ladies Were the Rest of the Night (3) > Cyclone > To Be Continued
E: Therapy > I-Man
E: Therapy > I-Man
Set 3
CommentGood Sex opened
1 LTP 7/16/21 (70 shows)
2 LTP 10/29/20 (95 shows)
3 inverted
1 LTP 7/16/21 (70 shows)
2 LTP 10/29/20 (95 shows)
3 inverted
Set 1Kitchen Mitts, On Time (1,2) > Tourists (Rocket Ship) > On Time, House Dog Party Favor, Twisted in the Road > Run Like Hell (3) > Twisted in the Road
Set 2Mindless Dribble > Another Plan of Attack > Crickets (4) > Dance Of The Sugarplum Fairies (5,6) > The Deal (7) > Orch Theme > Another Plan of Attack
E: Frog Legs > Run Like Hell
E: Frog Legs > Run Like Hell
Set 3
CommentMy Boy Elroy opened
1 LTP 7/16/21 (71 shows)
2 w/ Tourists tease
3 w/ "History of the Disco Biscuits pt. 2" teases
4 mid/end
5 LTP 12/28/2018 (147 shows)
6 w/ ‘Crickets’ teases
7 FTP (tDB original)
1 LTP 7/16/21 (71 shows)
2 w/ Tourists tease
3 w/ "History of the Disco Biscuits pt. 2" teases
4 mid/end
5 LTP 12/28/2018 (147 shows)
6 w/ ‘Crickets’ teases
7 FTP (tDB original)
Set 1Sirius (The Alan Parsons Project)-> Rock Candy, Spaga’s Last Stand, Magellan, Digital Buddha
Set 2Uber Glue-> Freeze-> Mr. Don-> M1-> Little Shimmy in a Conga Line-> Mr. Don
Set 3Why We Dance, Times Square (with countdown), Helicopters-> Tricycle-> 42 (inverted)-> Basis for a Day
E: Space Train-> Helicopters
E: Space Train-> Helicopters
Commentfirst "Spaga’s Last Stand"
Set 1Push the Pig[1] > Phil's Farm[2], JaJunk[3] > 13 Days[1] > JaJunk[4], 40's Theme[1], Nothing Too Fancy[1]
Set 2In the Flesh?[5] > Another Brick in the Wall[5] > Puppet String[5], You Never Give Me Your Money[5], Plunger[5] > Driven to Tears[5], Abacab[5] > Wizard Burial Ground[5]
e: Conduit[5] > Big Bottom[6], YYZ[7]
e: Conduit[5] > Big Bottom[6], YYZ[7]
Set 3
Comment[1] with Rory Dolan on drums
[2] with Rory Dolan on drums; "Jimmy Stewart" with vocals
[3] with Rory Dolan on drums; with Voices Inside My Head (The Police) teases
[4] with Rory Dolan on drums; with Top Gun Anthem (Faltermeyer) tease
[5] with Mike Portnoy on drums
[6] with Mike Portnoy and Brendan on lead bass with Ryan, and with Rory Dolan on drums
[7] with Mike Portnoy on drums; with The Spirit of Radio (Rush) ending
Show Notes:
entire show without Kris
last You Never Give Me Your Money 2002-12-31 (2,177 shows)
last Abacab 2017-05-26 (470 shows)
last Big Bottom 2013-02-17 (895 shows)
last YYZ 2018-12-29 (336 shows)
[2] with Rory Dolan on drums; "Jimmy Stewart" with vocals
[3] with Rory Dolan on drums; with Voices Inside My Head (The Police) teases
[4] with Rory Dolan on drums; with Top Gun Anthem (Faltermeyer) tease
[5] with Mike Portnoy on drums
[6] with Mike Portnoy and Brendan on lead bass with Ryan, and with Rory Dolan on drums
[7] with Mike Portnoy on drums; with The Spirit of Radio (Rush) ending
Show Notes:
entire show without Kris
last You Never Give Me Your Money 2002-12-31 (2,177 shows)
last Abacab 2017-05-26 (470 shows)
last Big Bottom 2013-02-17 (895 shows)
last YYZ 2018-12-29 (336 shows)
Set 1Slacker[1], Cemetery Walk[1] > Bridgeless[2] > Ringo[3], Believe the Lie[1] > Cemetery Walk II[1] > Bridgeless[1]
Set 2Wappy Sprayberry[4] > In The Kitchen[4], The Linear[4] > The Triple Wide[5] > Booth Love[6] > Miss Tinkle's Overture[4]
e: August[4] > Den[7]
e: August[4] > Den[7]
Set 3
Commententire show without Kris
[1] with Rory Dolan on drums
[2] with Rory Dolan on drums; with Glide (The New Deal) teases
[3] with Rory Dolan on drums; with My Name Is Mud (Primus) tease
[4] with Ben Atkind on drums
[5] with Ben Atkind on drums; "Jimmy Stewart" with vocals and Over the Hills and Far Away (Led Zeppelin) ending
[6] with Ben Atkind on drums; with Cocaine (JJ Cale) tease
[7] with Ben Atkind on drums; with Big Bottom (Spinal Tap) tease
[1] with Rory Dolan on drums
[2] with Rory Dolan on drums; with Glide (The New Deal) teases
[3] with Rory Dolan on drums; with My Name Is Mud (Primus) tease
[4] with Ben Atkind on drums
[5] with Ben Atkind on drums; "Jimmy Stewart" with vocals and Over the Hills and Far Away (Led Zeppelin) ending
[6] with Ben Atkind on drums; with Cocaine (JJ Cale) tease
[7] with Ben Atkind on drums; with Big Bottom (Spinal Tap) tease
Set 1Attachments[1] > Hiccup[1] > Night Nurse[1] > All In Time[1] > The Floor[1]
Set 2Staircase[2] > Young Americans[3], It Doesn't Matter[1] > Hajimemashite[1] > 1348[1] > What a Fool Believes[4], Out of Focus[2] > 1348[2]
Set 3Small Strides[2] > Auld Lang Syne[2], The Silent Type[5], I Don't Know What I Want, Educated Guess, Elephants[6], Escape Goat[7]
e: Day Nurse[8], Take On Me[9]
e: Day Nurse[8], Take On Me[9]
Comment[1] with Ben Atkind on drums
[2] with Ben Atkind on drums and Mad Dog's Filthy Little Secret horns
[3] debut, David Bowie; with Ben Atkind on drums and Mad Dog's Filthy Little Secret horns
[4] debut, The Doobie Brothers; with Ben Atkind on drums, Michael "Mad Dog" Mavridoglou on vocals, and Mad Dog's Filthy Little Secret horns
[5] with Kris replacing Ben on drums and Mad Dog's Filthy Little Secret horns; with Auld Lang Syne (Burns) teases
[6] debut, Karl Denson; with Ben Atkind on percussion and Mad Dog's Filthy Little Secret horns
[7] with Mad Dog's Filthy Little Secret horns; with Rocker Part 2 tease
[8] with Mad Dog's Filthy Little Secret horns
[9] debut, A-ha; with Mad Dog's Filthy Little Secret horns
Show Notes:
Mad Dog's Filthy Little Secret horns were: Michael "Mad Dog" Mavridoglou on trumpet, Jeff Coffin on saxophone, Chris Ott on trombone, and Josh Quinlan on saxophone
[2] with Ben Atkind on drums and Mad Dog's Filthy Little Secret horns
[3] debut, David Bowie; with Ben Atkind on drums and Mad Dog's Filthy Little Secret horns
[4] debut, The Doobie Brothers; with Ben Atkind on drums, Michael "Mad Dog" Mavridoglou on vocals, and Mad Dog's Filthy Little Secret horns
[5] with Kris replacing Ben on drums and Mad Dog's Filthy Little Secret horns; with Auld Lang Syne (Burns) teases
[6] debut, Karl Denson; with Ben Atkind on percussion and Mad Dog's Filthy Little Secret horns
[7] with Mad Dog's Filthy Little Secret horns; with Rocker Part 2 tease
[8] with Mad Dog's Filthy Little Secret horns
[9] debut, A-ha; with Mad Dog's Filthy Little Secret horns
Show Notes:
Mad Dog's Filthy Little Secret horns were: Michael "Mad Dog" Mavridoglou on trumpet, Jeff Coffin on saxophone, Chris Ott on trombone, and Josh Quinlan on saxophone
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