Waxing Poetics - Baby Jane

The biggest hit from their largest selling album, here is a fine performance of "Baby Jane," played for an enthusiastic crowd at Norfolk's Boathouse. This performance is from a short set played at a January 1989 tribute to the late, great Dave Sherry, the man behind the live music of Norfolk's famous (and now sadly gone) King's Head Inn. Waxing Poetics played many a three-set-a-night gig at the King's Head, and it was their launch platform to the larger clubs and colleges of the east coast and beyond during their heyday of 1986-1991.

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Music

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• waxing poetics
• baby jane
• norfolk
• manakin moon
• boathouse

[thenameisbond]

I've always loved this song. I wish there was an upload with better quality sound.

[RelentlessNoise]

The sound for the live stuff is straight from the on-camera mic, and tweaked as best I could. Of course, the actual album track is available at iTunes and Amazon.

[yachtclubfan22]

I actually know where they shot the album cover for Manequin Moon in Norfolk---it is off Tidewater Drive

[RelentlessNoise]

I think they hauled that old metal hulk away years ago, but Northside Park is still there.

[annamclark]

oh my gosh. i was BORN in 1989 (october to be exact!) and i LOOOOOOOOVE this song!!!!! and i'm from Norfolk too-- this song is freaking timeless.

[RelentlessNoise]

Well, Happy Birthday, fellow Norfolkian!

[thewordbeliever]

Can SoMEboDy PlEase UPLOAD The SOng MANAKIN MOON by these guys if they Have It... Thanks

[sofuggit]

Yeah, the description says it was the Boat House. And I was at the show that night so yeah. It was the Boat House. Good Times! Good Times!

[shirleypositive1]

@sonicscrewdriver07

I was there that night, too. Loved Antic Hay.  I was almost 17... too long ago!

[girlpalooza]

I remember this like it was just yesterday... good times...

god I feel old now.

[bomturns]

oh were oh were has the boat house gone and BESSIE'S PLACE

[sofuggit]

@rrb4826 RIP???? No way! I haven't lived in the area since '99. I had no idea. :(

[sofuggit]

@sonicscrewdriver07 Nope, I was there and it was a band called Mary on the Dash. I'd never heard of them and they were really awesome.

[papppie]

my best friend and i were going to cogans to meet a girl that had just moved to norfolk and a mutual friend or parent asked us to go and befriend. i hadn't heard of the poetics yet, but i just genuinely KNEW that they were going to be a extraordinarily vibrant, energetic, presence that night and that i could finally experience

[sonicscrewdriver07]

That was definitely at the Boathouse, I was at that show! Antic Hay and Dreams So Real were the openers. Great night!! Thanks for the memory!!