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From Bob Dylan in \u201964 to The Front Bottoms in \u201914, TCNJ has brought in some sweet acts through the years. We asked readers to tell us what shows rocked the most.<\/p>\nFrom Bob Dylan in \u201964 to The Front Bottoms in \u201914, TCNJ has brought in some sweet acts through the years. We asked readers to tell us what shows rocked the most.<\/p>\n
Here are their stories\u2014and their ticket stubs:<\/p>\n
The Isley Brothers<\/strong> \u2014Betty Schmitt Busch \u201967<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Number of votes, respectively, for Vanilla Ice and Bruce Springsteen as the greatest concert ever held at TCNJ.<\/p>\n Percentage of respondents who sent ticket stubs from their favorite campus concert.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Number of signed mementos submitted. Tommy Conwell\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m Not Your Man\u201d was in heavy rotation on MTV when the singer played the Rec Center in 1989. This is what they had to say…<\/p>\n The Ramones<\/strong> (1982). They came onstage to the music from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.<\/em> Then Dee Dee shouted, \u201cOne, two, three, four!\u201d and the room went from dark and quiet to sun-like brightness and bone-crushing volume. It was the coolest rock-and-roll experience of my teenage life.<\/p>\n \u2014Randy Marsola \u201990<\/p>\n The Kinks<\/strong> (1977), with Ray Davies wearing those crazy masks were truly great. And who could forget seeing Bonnie Raitt for 25 (or was it 50?) cents when she first started? Truly amazing.<\/p>\n \u2014Pamela Rudin Smith \u201975<\/p>\n Bob Dylan<\/strong> (1964). After the show, my friends and I were returning to our car when we met some guys on their way back from a Princeton game. One of them, Frank, became my future husband. When people ask us how we met, \u2014JoAnn Maestreli Donlon \u201967, MEd \u201977<\/p>\n <\/p>\n From Bob Dylan in \u201964 to The Front Bottoms in \u201914, TCNJ has brought in some sweet acts through the years. We asked readers to tell us what shows rocked the most. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-up-front","category-winter-2015"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe show, in Phelps Hall cafeteria, was either in fall 1964 or winter 1965.
\nBy then the group had had two singles on the charts: \u201cShout\u201d and \u201cTwist and Shout.\u201d I remember the band members all wore white suits and sang and danced on a long, elevated stage, while the crowd sang and danced below them. A few years later, I realized that Jimi Hendrix<\/strong> had played with the band during that period. Was he with them that night at the college? I can\u2019t be sure. Regardless, this was the most memorable show of the many I saw on campus between 1963\u201367.<\/p>\n![\"shutterstock_155161172\"](\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/shutterstock_155161172-150x150.jpg\")
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\nConwell hung out with students after the show, says Jeff Horowitz \u201990<\/strong>, who scored the Philly native\u2019s autograph.<\/p>\n
\nI always say, \u201cBob Dylan introduced us.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Screen](\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-02-at-2.17.14-PM-150x150.jpg\")
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