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| From Roxy Art |
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| From Roxy Art |
As explained in the listing for Wonderworld, Mr. Monopoly had elected to use eccentric, single-word titles for the 1988 tour shows. This one uses interior and back cover artwork of Bry from that tour, but the front cover image is actually a blown-up and heavily filtered picture of him from the '94 tour. You know how you can tell? It's the jacket. Seriously. Each tour, he had a fantastic, incredibly cool jacket.
As noted on the back, there had originally been a Firefly Records CD-R by the name A Stranger in Your Town, which we may or may not come back to. This was redesigned for four reasons: like some of the other Firefly Records, it was all typed out in the lazy Mistral font, the name didn't fit Mr. Monopoly's single-word title conceit, it featured a girl on the front (solo Bry should have him - or a horse, I guess - and Roxy should have a girl) and the girl was rather more naked than Mr. Monopoly wanted to distribute at the time. Strike four, Firefly, you're outta here.
That said, this professionally-recorded show has certainly and naturally made the rounds, as any show should when it was performed with as much energy as this and available in such nice sound quality. It is invariably traded under the name A Stranger in Your Town. Not once has Mr. Monopoly seen his much sillier name in use by other traders!
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