(MR. QUAMP'S CONCERT MEMORIES)

January 1986:
Oingo Boingo performed at the Arcadia theater on the Dead Man's Tour. The opening act, Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians, didn't show up because of one of Edie's famous fits she had at the time.

Anyway, The band opend up with Dead Man's Party and proceeded to run through their catalogue backwards. They ended up closing with Goodbye, Goodbye, and the house rocked!

Best of all was once we got home, the Rock and Roll Alternative was on, and they had the band in the studio. I recorded the interview (and I'm looking for this tape) but I've heard it over and over enough to remember certain parts of it. The Rock and Roll Alternative was gracious enough to open the phone lines (!) and allow callers to ask questions of the band. (I didn't get through, though...) :(

They talked about the infamous Budweiser commercial and said they were paid with several cases of Bud and Bud Light. In the course of one weekend, they had a very wild party and drank it all with their friends. They were asked what Oingo Boingo meant, and Danny said it was "A Japanese slang phrase meaning 'I like your breasts.'" They were also encouraged by one fan to release all their LPs on CD. Lastly, there was talk about a lawsuit they were involved in at the time. According to the band, on their Halloween 1985 concert, a woman had brought her teenage children to see the band. The suit alleged that the band incited the crowd to pick up this middle aged woman and throw her in the air, then allow her to fall on the concrete ground. She suffered a broken arm as a result. I never did find out what happened to that lawsuit...

November 1987:
On the Boi-ngo tour, Oingo Boingo played at the then recently reopened Longhorn Balloom in Dallas - a site best known for hosting goat-ropin' country acts and the Sex Pistols. The band opened up with a cover of the theme to Rawhide. Many of the regulars there were very confused when a bunch of punks and new wave types showed up to support the band. The set list was pretty much the same as the Boingo Alive LP except for the cover of Rawhide and they didn't play The Winning Side. It was very fun for the most part until the very end when a fight broke out between the regulars and the punks. By that time the band had left the stage and people were starting to file out of the place.

1990 (Can't remember the month):
The band played at the Bronco Bowl in Dallas and this time, nothing bad happened. The set was pretty much the same as the rest of the 1990 tour. I got pretty wasted afterwards.