Flyer for calendar listings at Somerville, MA rock club Johnny D’s, May 1990.
This flyer, as with many of those in my collection, do not include the year anywhere on them, so I have to do some sleuthing, Thankfully, I can figure it out pretty easily using one of those “days of the week” lookup web sites. And since there was only one May 1st which landed on a Tuesday during the time period this blog covers, this has to be the calendar listings for May 1990.
If you take a look at the show listings here, you can see that the kind of music Johnny D’s tended to book—blues, folk, jazz and even a little polka—was not really my bag. And yet I have this flyer. I was scratching my head about that until I remembered that I saw The Cavedogs play there sometime around this time. Because Johnny D’s would also book local acts of all stripes, as represented in this month’s listings by “Treat Her Orange,” consisting of two members of the band Blood Oranges and two from Mark Sandman’s pre-Morphine outfit, Treat Her Right.
If your eyes were drawn to the gig with “Slant Six” on the 20th, that’s not a misspelling. Not only would Christina Billotte’s power trio have been unlikely to play this venue, in 1990 she was still making music with Mary Timony of Helium in Autoclave.
