STIKE
3:03:05 PM
Mr Lather is doing a gig in Toronto tonight
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The Charlie the Tuna Experience
Oct 11, 2026 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Music
With Charlie the Tuna
Special City Gardens Memorial Show
| 3:01 PM |
| Groceries Nassau Street Live at City Gardens 1981
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| 3:05 PM |
| 999 Homicide (Live) Live in London 1981 1981
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| 3:09 PM |
| Wall of Voodoo Back In Flesh (Live) Urgh! A Music War V/A A&M 1981
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| 3:17 PM |
| Dead Kennedys Holiday in Cambodia (Live) The Early Years Live 1982
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| 3:17 PM |
| The Cramps What's Inside a Girl? (Live) Live in Amsterdam 1990
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| 3:20 PM |
| Black Flag My War (Live) Who's Got the 10 1/2? (Live) SST Records 1985
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| 3:24 PM |
| Ramones We're a Happy Family (Live) Live in Germany 1978
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| 3:27 PM |
Set Break:
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| 3:32 PM |
| Toots & The Maytals Time Tough (Live) Live Island Records 1980
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| 3:37 PM |
| Pere Ubu Non-Alignment Pact (Live) Live 1979
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| 3:41 PM |
| Nash The Slash Peter and the Wolf TV broadcast
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| 3:45 PM |
| Gang of Four He'd Send In the Army (live) Urgh!
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| 3:48 PM |
| Snakefinger Picnic In the Jungle Live At the Savoy 1981 CD Presents 2010
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| 3:52 PM |
| Bow Wow Wow I Want Candy (Live) Live 1983
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| 4:01 PM |
Set Break:
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| 4:01 PM |
| Sparks This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both of Us (Live) the Midnight Special
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| 4:05 PM |
| The Dickies Manny, Moe & Jack (Live)
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| 4:08 PM |
| Steel Pulse Ku Klux Klan (Live) The Montreux Jazz Fesival 1979
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| 4:12 PM |
| Martin Mull Noses Run In My Family 1979
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| 4:16 PM |
| Killing Joke Eighties (Live) New Castle December 1983 1983
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| 4:19 PM |
| Black Uhuru Plastic Smile (Live) Live 84 Mideya 2000
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| 4:23 PM |
| Phillip Glass Opening Live on Letterman 1984
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| 4:26 PM |
| Iggy Pop Raw Power (Live) from the Much Music studio 1993
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| 4:31 PM |
| Thompson Twins Lies (Live at the Del Mar Race Track, USA, 1984) Into The Gap Live BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd. 1984
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| 4:36 PM |
| Yellowman Nobody Move Nobody Get Hurt (Live)
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| 4:39 PM |
| A Certain Ratio The Fox (live) Paris Theatre in London April 1980
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| 4:42 PM |
| Mutaburuka De System (live)
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| 4:45 PM |
| Flipper That’s the Way of the World Blow’n Chunks ROIR 1984
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| 4:49 PM |
| Hot Tuna Day to Day Out the Window Blues The Midnight Special
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| 5:01 PM |
Set Break:
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| 5:01 PM |
| The Modern Lovers & Jonathan Richman My Little Kookenhaken (Live) Live Sanctuary Records 1977
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| 5:05 PM |
| Minutemen I Felt Like a Gringo Live at the Stone in SF 1985 1985
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| 5:07 PM |
| Butthole Surfers I Saw an X-Ray of a Girl Passing Gas (live) Double Live
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| 5:11 PM |
| Hüsker Dü Celebrated Summer (Live) Provinssirock Finland 1987
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| 5:13 PM |
| Ministry Deity (Live) In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up (Live) Warner Records 1990
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| 5:17 PM |
| Half Japanese Live in Hell Washington DC
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| 5:19 PM |
| James Cotton All Walks of Life (Live) Live & On the Move Buddah/Legacy 1975
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| 5:21 PM |
| Loudness In the Mirror (Live) Live-Loud-Alive Loudness in Tokyo Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd./NIPPONOPHONE 1983
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| 5:25 PM |
| Beastie Boys Rhymin' and Stealin' (live) 1987
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| 5:28 PM |
| Meat Puppets Swimming Ground Live on Phoenix TV Summer 85
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| 5:31 PM |
| Bad Brains I Against I (Live 1987) Live SST Records 1987
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| 5:34 PM |
| Shriekback Despite Dense Weed (live) Riverside November 1983
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| 5:39 PM |
| Slayer The Antichrist (Live) Studio 54 1985
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| 5:42 PM |
| The Residents Semolina (Live) 13th Anniversary Show - Live in Dallas
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| 5:46 PM |
| Venom Satanachist (Live) Live From London The Store For Music Ltd 2000
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| 5:48 PM |
| Public Enemy Rebel Without a Pause (Live) Live in London 1988
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| 5:51 PM |
| Devo Planet Earth (Live) 3D live 1982
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| 5:59 PM |
Set Break:
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| 5:59 PM |
| Burning Spear Nyah Keith (Live) Rockplast Hambuerg 1981
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Chat is archived.
Bill Davidson
3:03:07 PM
Groceries! Yes! I recognized it before I opened Spinitron.
Bill Davidson
3:04:02 PM
Do you know if Rich is living in Haiti or or the U.S.?
Bill Davidson
3:04:14 PM
Richard
STIKE
3:04:21 PM
the US now
Bill Davidson
3:05:16 PM
RAM played in the Boston area (where I live) not too long ago.
STIKE
3:10:39 PM
very good article about Richard and Haiti https://www.equator.org/articles/hotel-oloffson-haiti-RAM-Bhatia
Bill Davidson
3:12:22 PM
I downloaded a great Lunchmeat 2000 track I found out about on the Regressive Aid Facebook group.
Bill Davidson
3:12:52 PM
Thanks for the article link!
Bill Davidson
3:14:55 PM
This is a killer set of songs!
STIKE
3:19:41 PM
The octopi interns are working overtime
Bill Davidson
3:27:20 PM
Did Henry do a photography book in the not-too-distant past? I vaguely remember going to a bookstore to see him talk about the stories behind the photos. I was in the back of the room, didn’t see a lot of it.
Bill Davidson
3:28:39 PM
Riot on the Dance Floor is an awesome doc.
STIKE
3:29:38 PM
Saw the Bush Tetras in the back room
sean burns
3:31:14 PM
999 "biggest prize in sports" great album
Bill Davidson
3:36:52 PM
The only Princeton/Central NJ bands I knew of in the ‘80s were Groceries and Regressive Aid. I thought Three Colors was local because I heard them on ‘PRB and kids at school talked about them. Oh, and I knew about a few Princeton High School/Hun School bands like Blues Band, The Disturbed, None of the Above and Roadkill. What other ‘80s central Jersey bands were there?
Bill Davidson
3:37:43 PM
(I think Roadkill was mostly a Lawrence High band.)
Bill Davidson
3:42:30 PM
Oh, shit, Nash The Slash!
Charlie the Tuna (host)
3:42:46 PM
hi guys ... don't mean to be stand offish but i kinda have my hands full at the moment ... i''l be back when i get it together
Ross McLochness
3:42:59 PM
Don’t forget Scorn Flakes!
STIKE
3:43:12 PM
I coveted the skull electric mandolin for th longest time
Bill Davidson
3:46:59 PM
No worries, Charlie
debbie reichard
3:51:25 PM
Great show
Bill Davidson
3:53:23 PM
Seconded!
Charlie the Tuna (host)
3:53:34 PM
thanks y'all
Bill Davidson
4:08:01 PM
Did Billie Joe Armstrong rip off The Dickies?
Rofflelectic TM
4:12:23 PM
This band was just fine with 2 K's back in the day.
Bill Davidson
4:15:36 PM
Martin Mull played City Gardens? Wow!
Rofflelectic TM
4:16:16 PM
Local big shot in Two Ferns too.
Bill Davidson
4:18:21 PM
Jaz Coleman! I’ve been meaning to watch the Killing Joke doc.
Rofflelectic TM
4:20:22 PM
It's the last thing you should watch. Just sayin...
Rofflelectic TM
4:20:36 PM
This rain makes me dopey
Bill Davidson
4:27:05 PM
Philip Glass played City Gardens? I saw his ensemble at McCarter Theater. My high school music teacher took me and another student. It had been my idea. My teacher was frowning and had his hands over his ears. The other student was asleep. I was mortified.
Rofflelectic TM
4:31:49 PM
I remember that crap Black Sabbath gig all too well. They sucked at their epitome.
Ross McLochness
4:33:43 PM
Thompson Twins?!?! How’d I miss that show.
Rofflelectic TM
4:36:58 PM
Got lucky
Rofflelectic TM
4:53:54 PM
That was nice guitar
Rofflelectic TM
4:55:49 PM
Trenton? Gun to my head going in, gun to ones head going out. Sounds cool.
Ross McLochness
4:59:58 PM
Saw Jorma at the Rathskeller at Trenton State College in about 91 or 92.
Bob Borowsky
5:00:28 PM
Glad to hear the City Gardens and Randy Now tribute - I also spent MANY nights there seeing shows. Yup, I saw Phillip Glass too!
Gepetto Fresh
5:01:30 PM
Randy moved his shop to Hightstown FYI. It's no longer in Bordentown.
Gepetto Fresh
5:01:50 PM
Enjoying the show
Charlie the Tuna (host)
5:03:25 PM
whoops ... i'm always the last to know
Charlie the Tuna (host)
5:03:49 PM
but thanks ... and thanks
Rofflelectic TM
5:04:22 PM
Hang out at the bottom of the sea and what do you expect? :)
Charlie the Tuna (host)
5:06:05 PM
i come up for air every so often
iConJohn
5:10:01 PM
Hi C Tuna, just tuned in at 5 and dig today's theme. Philly guy here and only remember going to City Gardens to see New Order in 1983? But I'll always regret missing The Residents 13th Anniversary tour there.
Rofflelectic TM
5:18:26 PM
One day, they'll all be dead Jim... According to my calculations...
jimbooooo
5:23:42 PM
S'up, Chuck? Just tuned in, sorry I missed all the scorchers!
Charlie the Tuna (host)
5:24:16 PM
hey Jimbooooo ... still a few scorchers to go
jimbooooo
5:29:39 PM
Aw the Pups
mike reese
5:30:14 PM
Hey Charlie! Never saw Butthole Surfers at City Gardens but did see Gwar in '91. Recorded the show on small cassette, still have it!
Charlie the Tuna (host)
5:31:06 PM
hey mike ... butthole shows were classics ... so were the Gwar shows for sure
jimbooooo
5:33:34 PM
brainsssss
mike reese
5:34:01 PM
Agreed! Did catch surfers at Fastlane around that time
Charlie the Tuna (host)
5:35:12 PM
yup saw that one as well ... and at the court tavern in New Brunswick ... and the old Ritz ... and....
jimbooooo
5:35:27 PM
That double live surfers is excellent, just listened to it the other day!
Charlie the Tuna (host)
5:36:14 PM
it is indeed ... i've
Charlie the Tuna (host)
5:37:13 PM
yet to hear a recording that does true justice though ... need the sights and smells etc.
jimbooooo
5:42:32 PM
Ewww
Rob from Maryland 🦀
5:43:49 PM
ooh The Residents! My wife is very happy right now
Charlie the Tuna (host)
5:44:22 PM
hey Rob ... been awhile
Rofflelectic TM
5:45:58 PM
Dead president's!
Rofflelectic TM
5:49:15 PM
At the end of the world there will be a Jukebox where choices are to be made.
Rofflelectic TM
5:50:12 PM
Hoping for quarters in my pocket.
jimbooooo
5:50:28 PM
25 cents per choice, no big stakes
jimbooooo
5:50:53 PM
Public Enemy played City gardens?
Charlie the Tuna (host)
5:51:16 PM
yup
Rofflelectic TM
5:51:35 PM
Rolling with a bunch quarter rolls.
STIKE
5:52:21 PM
This show needs to go in a time capsule
Rob from Maryland 🦀
5:54:06 PM
Hi Charlie! What year are we up to with Devo?
Bill Davidson
5:55:10 PM
Great show as always! Check you later!
Amy Lee
5:59:43 PM
My Bloody Valentine
Amy Lee
5:59:59 PM
As well at City.
Rob from Maryland 🦀
6:00:25 PM
RIP City Gardens
Charlie the Tuna (host)
6:01:32 PM
see y'a. next week ... cheers, CtT