Child's Play in Concert

Rat Race Tour 90-91
DATE	CITY/STATE	CLUB/VENUE	MEMORIES
10/20/90	Hickory, NC	Cadillac's w/ Cold Sweat	We arrived during soundcheck and are blown away by Cold Sweat's stage volume!
10/22/90	Raleigh, NC	The Switch w/ Cold Sweat	The good old Switch - Where's Kiva?
10/23/90	Dayton, OH	McGuffy's w/ Cold Sweat	Little stage - went Goodwill shopping next door
10/24/90	Columbus, OH	Al Rosa Villa w/ Cold Sweat	Unbelievable-Vern was there and he had all our monitor setttings from when he was the house engineer at Network in Balto!
10/25/90	Cuyahoga Falls , OH	Akron Agora w/ Cold Sweat	Cool BIG room - very empty Big room!
10/26/90	Toronto, CANADA	Rock-n-Roll Heaven w/Cold Sweat	Show was good but everyone thought we should be headlining since our video was all over Much Music!
10/27/90	Rochester, NY	Backstreet's w/ Cold Sweat	We accidentally left our guitar tech in Canada - Oops!
10/28/90	Ocean City, MD	Scandal's w/ Cold Sweat	We headline! Woo Hoo! OC is deserted but the locals show up in force!
10/30/90	Boston, MA	Narcissus w/ Cold Sweat	We played on the dance floor surrounded by plexi-glass, Hockey anyone?
11/01/90	Washington, DC	The Bayou w/ Cold Sweat	We headline our first DC Sell-Out! CS find out they are dropped - bummer - they are nice guys.
11/02/90	Richmond, VA	Newgate Prison	Picnic tables in the club - fun in the back lounge of the tourbus!
11/03/90	Martinsburg, WV	Slammer's	Got to play on an enormous stage and AC/DC's old PA!
11/04/90	Atco, NJ	Bonnie's Roxx	Wow - weird, Bonnie's did look like rocks!
11/06/90	Brockton, VA	Derringer's	Show was shut down about 6 songs in. We were too loud! Oh well.
11/07/90	New York, NY	Cat Club	Only memory is having the bus in a rainyNYC - parked on 3rd Ave.
11/09/90	Norlfolk, VA	Onstage Niteclub	Great, sweaty show, Z-Rock marketso it was promoted well some friends came down and video taped show.
11/??/90	Jacksonville, FL	????	12 people showed up it was a like tuesday- I think? Of course I think I had one of the best shows of the tour!
11/??/90	Orlando, FL	The Station	Cool Rock memorabilia way before the Hard Rock Cafe.
11/??/90	Tampa, FL	Rocket's	BAM Anniversary Party - everyone in the band except for me met Rick Allen of Def Leppard.
11/??/90	Baltimore, MD	Network	Thanksgiving Eve Show that was PACKED!!!
11/??/90	Baltimore, MD	Network	SURPRISE Thanksgiving Day Show that was also PACKED!!!
11/29/90	Dallas, TX	Dallas City Limits	Awesome house light show and stage!
11/30/90	Houston, TX	Afterdark	Club was an old spa w/ a nasty hotub in the dressing room!! We didn't try it!
12/01/90	Austin, TX	Back Room w/ Sweet F.A.	Corner stage on the otherside of a pool hall! I think the place is STILL there!
12/03/90	San Antonio, TX	Sneaker's	Cool club - I think every HAIR band in the world played this place - lots of black lights with the different band logos on the walls!
12/05/90	Albuquerque, NM	Senor Bucket's	Couldn't remember the name of the club until our soundman dug out on of his old itineraries but I did remember how cold it was up there in the mountains! Out the bus window all I could see was desert so naturally I thought it would be warm there - WRONG! Good crowd for during the week and they were into it, but it was a very shallow stage - could barely fit the drums on it!
12/06/90	Tempe, AZ	The Asylum	Scary place! Painting ofThe Shinings "Here's Johnny" scene, Danzig on the jukebox! Can you say a.... SATAN!!! But turned out to be a rockin' sweaty show!
12/07/90	Westminster, CA	The Marquee	Nice sized club with a good crowd! It was a Friday and some friends from back home showed up.
12/09/90	Hollywood, CA	The Whiskey A-Go-Go	We were awed by this legendary club! The Doors had just been shot so it still was painted for the movie. Cool.
12/11/90	Salt Lake City, UT	Rafter's	A stage with a POLE in the middle!!!
12/13/90	St. Louis, MO	Mississippi Nights w/ Every Mother's Nightmare	First show supporting Every Mother's Nightmare -2 feet on stage!!!
12/14/90	Milwaukee, WI	Shark Tank w/ Every Mother's Nightmare	Club was right across from Miller Brewery - so I asked for Budweiser OOPS!!!.
12/15/90	Roseville, MI	The Ritz w/ Every Mother's Nightmare	Cool club! Railing down the middle to allow under age peeps in.
12/16/90	Cleveland, OH	The Empire w/ Every Mother's Nightmare	Last show wEvery Mother's Nightmare After the show, as we were leaving the hotel EMN showed up with every hot chick in OH in tow.
12/19/90	New Haven, CT	Club Heat	Mirrors EVERYWHERE!!! Boy that makes a club sound like SHIT!!!.
12/20/90	Waterbury, CT	Nightlife	We had dinner with the promoter's parents -- a little weird but kinda nice.. also.
12/22/90	Manville, NJ	Vision's	A movie theatre painted completely black - all ages show.
12/23/90	Huntington, NY	Spark's	Great crowd - I drank 12 cokes and had hallucinations while driving back to Baltimore arriving at 7 AM.
12/26/90	Washington, DC	The Bayou	Our Second SOLD-OUT DC show and Brian didn't show up!!! So I sang most of our set.
12/27/90	Pittsburgh, PA	Graffitti	We cancelled - Brian still MIA. We were supposed to support Sweet F.A.
12/28/90	York, PA	Swizzle's	We cancelled - Brian still MIA.
12/29/90	Newark, NJ	Studio One	We played and Brian brought up Suave to sing - UGHHH.
12/31/90	Baltimore, MD	Hammerjack's	New Year's Eve - Bummer night. Brian's girlfriend or ex-girlfriend got WASTED and cussed me out in front of my girlfriend and my parents! NICE! Happy frickin' New Year.
01/??/91 01/??/91	Baltimore, MD	Max's	2 SOLD-OUT Acoustic Shows!!! Our first ones ever, we had a blast.
01/12/91	Boston, MA	The Channel	BRRRRRRRR - Boston in January!!! Harding's truck got citied w/ a giant orange sticker on the windsheild!
01/18/91	Rochester, NY	Backstreet's	We drove all night to get to Rochester in a rental car, hit a snow squal about an hour outside the city.
01/19/91	Toronto, ONT Canada	Rock-n-Roll Heaven	All I remember was Idzi driving us home at 100 MPH - he had a HOT date that night.
01/25/91	Baltimore, MD	Network	No memory of this show - we played that place sooooo many timest.
01/30/91	New York, NY	Cat Club	No memory from this show either.
02/01/91	Newark, NJ	Studio One	Maybe this is the show that Brian brought Suave' up to sing one of our songs - bad very bad!
02/02/91	Norwalk, CT	Monkey Bar	Small town but we drove around for an hour looking for the club! "We'll come into your town and then we'll drive all around"!
02/03/91	Baltimore, MD	Hammerjack's	Our first ALL AGES show at HJ's!
02/06/91	Washington, DC	The Bayou	3rd DC Sell-out!
02/08/91	Ocean City , MD	Scandal's	We did an IN-STORE at a mall in Salisbury and a few people actually showed up!!! It was slightly better than the Spinal Tap in-store.
02/15/91	Wilmington, NC	Mad Monk	I loved this place - I don't remember much about this particular show though!
02/16/91	Greensboro, NC	The Carousel	An old HoJo's Lounge! Show was hot and sweaty and our cool-ass label chick from the Southeast branch came out to hang!
02/17/91	Harrisonburg, VA	The Back Room	Hmmmm - another motel lounge - things are starting to look bleak! But slutty girls showed up.
02/22/91	Springfield, VA	Zaxx	Hmmmm - another motel lounge - things are starting to look bleak! But slutty girls showed up.
02/23/91	Staten Island, NY	The Red Spot	Ugghhh. 12 Bands in front of us (Battle of the Bands) we started drinking way too early = meltdown on stage!
02/24/91	Baltimore, MD	Hammerjack's	uuuuuuhhhhh. Another Hammerjack's show....
03/15/91	Cleveland, OH	Flash's	Cool place, big stage, awesome light show...
03/16/91	Cleveland, OH	Al Rosa Villa	Love that place...
03/17/91	Indianapolis, IN	The Ritz Theater	Somehow our manager convinced Sweet F.A. to open up our show in Indy... It was their home town so I think they were trying to help us with the crowd in a 1200 person venue!
03/18/91	Owings Mills, MD	Painter's Mill Theater/ Hammerjack's	Painter's Mill BURNED down while we were driving back from Indy! It sucked cuz in my mind this was our big home coming. Painter's was a 4000 seat venue outside Baltimore and the show was moved to good ol' Hammerjack's-our home away from home.
03/20/91	Grand Rapids, MI	Club Eastbrook	Huge club...We thought that no one would show up on a monday night in the freezing rain but, 800 kids showed and when we got back for the show the place was rockin' out!
03/21/91	Detroit, MI	Blondie's	Small stage - couldn't really fit everything on it...
03/22/91	Chicago, IL	Chances R	Packed show but I think our Chicago label rep was not impressed - we were supposed be supporting our video for "Wind" on this tour but the label reneged.
03/24/91	Minneapolis, MN	Mirage Theater	Awesome Club - we did 800 kids on a Sunday. Apparently the club was playing our video every Sunday during the All Ages Shows.
03/25/91	Cedar Rapids, IA	Shades	Cool old club that was probably set up for Big Bands back in the day. It had an orchestra shell for a stage and a balcony all the way around it.
03/26/91	St. Louis , MO	Brian's	A former ice cream parlor!!! Our soundman mixed from the kitchen: "Hey John make my burger medium-rare!".
03/27/91	Fayetteville, AK	River City	The radio station was playing "Wind" so we did this show in what I think was a dance club - NICE!
03/28/91	San Antonio,TX	Showcase	HUGE place - I think it had been a grocery store! Pariah opened - cool band - nice guys.
03/29/91	Dallas, TX	DLC	This one was a LIVE broadcast on Z-Rock! WOW... that was a lot of pressure but it was good.
03/30/91	Houston, TX	After Dark Club	Fun show but I did a different end to our set and my tech pulled my seat out like usual so when I went to sit back down at the end- all the audience saw was the soles of my shoes!.
04/01/91	Austin, TX	Backroom	Easter in Austin - it was fun - a couple of days off.
04/03/91	Metaire, LA	Guitar Alley	NORLINS!!!! We had too much fun the night before and our soundman carried Brian to the bus - no encore - which sucked cuz the kids wanted one.
04/04/91	Jackson, MS	W.C. Don's	We cancelled, I never saw the club but I heard that it didn't have P.A. and that it was a very interesting place with a very interesting person running it.
04/05/91	Atlanta, GA	International Ballroom	This place was ENORMOUS!!! We had a few hundred people there but it looked like 30 or 50. I think it was an old 84 Lumber!!!
04/06/91	Tallahassee, FL	ROCK FEST I @ Smitty's	We drove by this place and almost wound up back in GA! Our bus driver had a hard time turning that thing around... We wound up having a good time. It was like playing a backyard party.
04/07/91	Tampa, FL	Rocket Club	I don't remember this show very well. I know Rick Allen didn't show up again - damn!
04/08/91	Orlando, FL	The Station	I always liked this place. Cool people...
04/10/91	Augusta, GA	Dynasty	Wow, this part of the tour has been real sketchy as far as clubs go...this one was noooo exception. A lot of them were suggested by our local label guy - OOPS!
04/11/91	Myrtle Beach, SC	The Rock Burger	I always loved playing Myrtle Bch. But, I do miss Castaways, this place was like playing an ice cream parlor! The local station was cranking Alice in Chains... hmmmm.
04/12/91	Winston Salem, NC	Baity's	We cancelled. Didn't seem like the place was even open for bizness.Back in Myrtle Bch is where it started to sink in that the label was through working our 3rd single "Wind". Ya see the new Pat Benatar record had been released and the company had to make that work. But it didn't - it was her "blues" record and it flopped almost as hard as our record did.
04/13/91	Columbia, SC	Rockafella's	We cancelled. We got off the tour bus. Threw our luggage in the equipment truck and piled into a couple of rental cars for the all night drive to VA Beach. I always do the last shift driving cuz, I can't sleep.
04/14/91	Virginia Beach, VA	Peppermint Beach Club	Driving the last bit onthe toll road into town we saw Stumpy Joe driving our truck the wrong way!!!! We tried to get his attention but couldn't, I guess he figured it out!
04/19/91	Baltimore, MD	Hammerjack's	Don't remember this one at all but there were so many! we loved that place.
04/20/91	Blacksburg, VA	VA Tech	This was their outdoor spring concert thing. Well,, it was rained out and we were about 2 hrs late. The crew was pissed.
04/21/91	Springfield, VA	Zaxx	All Ages show that rocked. Hot crap!
04/22/91	Rockville, MD	Manny's	Acoustic show... We weren't really an acoustic act and the opener were AWESOME so we just got wasted and had good time!
04/23/91	Brockton, MA	Derringer's	No recollection of this show. I guess we made it through without getting shut-down this time.
04/24/91	Boston, MA	The Channel	I liked playing here. All the musos from Berkley School for music would show up and we would just rock out. We weren't virtuosos - we just put on a show. Great crowd.
04/25/91	Manchester, NH	Decadence	Another New England disco. Don't remember the show except for this Miss America type runway in the front center of the stage. GAY.
04/26/91	Providence, RI	Gallery II	This place rocked! It was on the second floor above a Dunkin Donuts so the crew hated the load but it was a cool place with a cool owener.
04/27/91	Portsmouth, NH	Music Hall Theatre	Wow, Old opera house built in the 1800s. Very cool place but there were12 opening acts!!!! Arggggh, it was a battle of the bands competition. It was still empty even with all those bands (the place held about 3500). Ahhh, and it was over.