The first bar it was just alright, the second bar was Friday night

I saw Jonathan Richman last night at a sold out show at the (pretty tiny-sized) Hideout here in Chicago. Despite being a fan for years I've never seen him live before, and at 60 he still has the energy he had in every Conan appearance I've obsessively watched on Youtube.

My favorite of his many mid-song storytelling digressions was when he demonstrated the difference between the dancing that went on at the first bar, and then explained/showed us the clearly superior dancing that then transpired at the lesbian bar. What a weird and wonderful man.

Jonathan Richman - I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar

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