Shows/1994-03-12
Fan Recaps and Comments:
TMBG performed as part of a two-week "Spring Break" entertainment series at the Concord Resort Hotel in the Catskills, catering to vacationing college students. Other acts performing included The Lemonheads, Run-DMC, Violent Femmes, Fishbone, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Widespread Panic, and David Spade. (The BG News Spring Break Guide, Bowling Green State University, March 9, 1994)
Evelyn Nieves, "Rockin' the Concord: Electric Borscht Land" (The New York Times, March 15, 1994):
Spring break '94, the Concord Resort Hotel. They Might Be Giants is playing the Imperial Ballroom. Audience members are bopping like pogo sticks. And Billy Vine, walking, talking Borscht Belt history, is patiently explaining the distinction between stage diving and moshing."The consensus here is that we didn't give this idea enough time to promote it," Mr. Vine said. "If we had, people would see this is a fantastic place."
"See, what that guy just did is stage diving," he said, watching a skinny teen-ager who had jumped onto the platform and back off, into a sea of bodies.
"Moshing," he said, "is what we saw with the Violent Femmes and Fishbone. Thrashing, wild dancing, with people passing each other around over their heads."
This is what can happen when the Concord, that enduring Catskill institution, invites some 10 alternative music bands in for more than two weeks of concert dates. A little hipness rubs off. [...]
Crowds have been smaller than the hotel hoped. On Saturday, maybe 350 people floated around the Imperial Ballroom, which can comfortably fit 3,000. The hotel expects bigger crowds for the Lemonheads and the comedian David Spade, coming this Sunday and Monday.
The Concord Resort Hotel was demolished in 2008.
