No slam dancing, no stage diving, no spikes
Subtitle: an oral history of the legendary City Gardens
By: Amy Yates Wuelfing, Steven DiLodovico
Contributors: DiLodovico, Steven
Publisher: DiWulf Pub.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Morrisville, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780991344703
Subjects: City Gardens (Trenton, N.J.); Punk rock music; Alternative rock music; Rock music; History and criticism; Music-halls; History
Other titles: Oral history of the legendary City Gardens
Description: Presents a history of the New Jersey alternative and punk music club of the 1980s and early 1990s, with a listing and description of each band's appearance and interviews with band members, club regulars, and employees.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 401).
Table of contents: title: Introduction. How did it come to this? (May 3, 1987 ... The day the Butthole Surfers came to town); title: Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey. No America without Trenton ; It begins : 1979-1982 ; 1983-1984; title: Things take off. Radio, raconteurs, and record stores ; 1985-1986 ; Hey ho let's go; title: again! : the Ramones in Trenton; title: Come as you are. Every Thursday, it's 90-cent dance night ; 1987-1988 ; 1989-1990; title: This is the end, my friend, the end. 1991-1992 ; 1993-1994.