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January 25, 2013

Tompkins Square Tomfoolery

No great backstory here, but I stumbled upon this on YouTube, and thought I'd share it. Here's some footage of a concert in Tompkins Square Park circa 1981. Bands performing at the long-since-demolished bandshell: Pierce Turner, Essential Bop, Liquid Liquid, Science, and Certain General. 

Posted at 08:25 PM in In the City, Tune Talk, Vanished Venues, Vanishing Downtown |

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mark coleman

catch a glimpse of yours truly at 0:48 - guy in green t-shirt standing behind the dancers. my first summer in nyc, this concert was quite the ear and eye opener!

Posted by: mark coleman | January 27, 2013 at 09:15 AM

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