Master of the Shout Blues, H-Bomb Ferguson performed at Corys in Cincinnati over Memorial Day Weekend. We were actually in south-eastern Indiana camping and canoeing for the weekend, but had to seek high ground due to significant rain. So we drove into Cincinnati for a little fun on a Saturday night. Little did we realize at the time that Ferguson was living blues legend. What a show! The colorful wigs and boas were outrageous. H Bomb was incredibly entertainingat roughly 60 years of age.

H-BOMB FERGUSON

After seeing a less than impressive Grateful Dead in Indianapolis summer of 1984, this concert marked a starting over point for my love of the Dead. Stories of Jerry Garcia's heroin problems and coma now behind, The Grateful Dead seemed re-energized to enter the 1990's.

GRATEFUL DEAD SET ONE

Bertha
Greatest Story Ever Told
Candyman
Walking Blues
Peggy-O
Queen Jane Approximately
We Can Run, Bird Song

GRATEFUL DEAD SET TWO:

Foolish Heart
Victim or The Crime
Crazy Fingers
Truckin'
Smokestack Lightning
Drums/Space
China Doll
All Along The Watchtower
Stella Blue
Sugar Magnolia

Encore: Brokedown Palace

GRATEFUL DEAD

My friend Dave took me to this concert kicking and screaming all the way. I didn't really like R.E.M. very much, but he convinced me to give them a chance. I gave it a chance and I still didn't like them. I like a lot of different kinds of music, but R.E.M. no. By the time they played Orange Crush, I thought oh thank God, the show must be close to over. But no, It was only about one third the way through the set. Finally, it's the end of the show as we knew it and I'll be damned if they didn't come out for an encore consisting of not one, but four more songs. So then I thought, oh God what did I do to deserve this? Then the worst of all possible fates, they came back for another encore of not one, but yet four more songs. At this point, I didn't think R.E.M. understood how this works. For an encore you get to do one maybe two more songs. If the crowd just won't leave the building, maybe you come back for one more really special song to close the night. The house lights come on then everybody goes home. Maybe that's why they stopped touring, they couldn't figure out how to close a show.

R.E.M. SETLIST

Stand
The One I Love
These Days
Exhuming McCarthy
Turn You Inside-Out
Orange Crush
Feeling Gravitys Pull
Disturbance At Heron House
King Of Birds
I Remember California
World Leader Pretend
Sitting Still
I Believe
Belong
Get Up
Life And How To Live It
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

ENCORE ONE

Pop Song 89
Fall On Me
Ghost Rider
You Are The Everything

ENCORE TWO

Begin The Begin
Crazy
Finest Worksong
Perfect Circle

R.E.M.
THROWING MUSES

This was the first Adrian Belew solo tour in awhile, following his stints with each King Crimson and his side project, The Bears. The band included Rick Fox (keyboards/vocals) and Mike Hodges (drums).

ADRIAN BELEW SETLIST

Hot Zoo
Three of a Perfect Pair
Bad Days, Coconuts
One of Those Days
Bird in a Box
1967
Oh Daddy
Heartbeat
House of Cards
Bumpity Bump
Motor Bungalow
Rail Song
Superboy
Elephant Talk
Guitar Noises
Big Electric Cat

ADRIAN BELEW

Backed by the ever capable John Mellencamp Band, James McMurtry assembled a concert set drawn from his debut release, Too Long In The Wasteland. A song called Painting By Numbers was getting some radio play. Fantastic show. We did not stay for Nanci Griffith.

JAMES McMURTRY