Moonalice at Union Square Park, July 12, 2017

Union Square Live presents Moonalice
Union Square Park
333 Post St, San Francisco, CA 94108-4901 USA
6:00 PM, Wednesday, July 12, 2017

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[6:05 PM announcements from Big Steve, band out]

1. [6:06 PM] Summertime Blues (PS) »
2. [6:11 PM] Live a Little (That's Right) (RM)
3. [6:16 PM] Someday Soon (RM) $
   [RM dedicates t03 to Leah; RM & PS swap instruments]
4. [6:22 PM] Last Frontier (PS) ß&
   [PS moves to the keyboard; RM back on guitar]
5. [6:30 PM] Hesitation Blues (RM) %
   [PS swaps back to bass]
6. [6:36 PM] Lazing on a Sunny Afternoon (RM) » [6:40 PM] snazzy jam » [6:43 PM] Lazing coda
   [BS busts a string towards the end, so RM announces him 'on the 5 string guitar']
   [PS swaps back to the keyboard]
7. [6:46 PM] Lady of the Highlands (PS) %
   [PS swaps back to bass]
8. [6:53 PM] Lost at Sea (RM) >
   [RM dedicates the next tune to Tracy]
9. [6:58 PM] Blink of an Eye (RM)
10. [7:07 PM] Bad Moon Rising (JM)
    [RM dedicates the next tune to Doug Clifton and wishes him a quick recovery from his emergency appendectomy]
11. [7:11 PM] What a Wonderful World (RM)
    [RM swaps to bass; PS swaps to keyboards]
12. [7:17 PM] Down the Road a Piece (PS) ß%
    [RM swaps back to guitar; PS back to bass]
13. [7:22 PM] Rainbow Stew (RM) $
14. [7:26 PM] Mr. Spaceman (RM) $
    [another RM dedication]
15. [7:34 PM] I'm Glad You Think So (RM)
16. [7:40 PM] Keep on Growing (RM)
    [RM dedicates the previous tune to 'Alice Moonalice' because of her trippy glasses]
17. [7:47 PM] Paradise (PS) »
18. [7:58 PM] Summertime Blues reprise (PS)
    [set ends 8:02 PM]
     
    Encore
19. [8:03 PM] Revolution (RM)
    [show ends 8:07 PM; RM tells today's story: it's a real doozy!]

Moonalice

• Chubby Wombat Moonalice AKA Roger McNamee: guitar, ß bass, lead and harmony vox;
• White Cloud Moonalice AKA John Molo: drums, lead and harmony vox;
• Sir Sinjin Moonalice AKA Pete Sears: & guitar, bass, % keyboards, lead and harmony vox;
• Jesus H. Moonalice AKA Barry Sless: guitar, $ pedal steel guitar.

West Oakland BART station is crazy busy with folks circling around and gumming things up, but I slide into an open spot before finishing my first go round. Yeah! That's the way you do it! Walk inside the station, climb to the platform, then wait a couple minutes for the next westbound train to arrive. Ten or fifteen minutes later I'm hustling through the crowd at xxx station; gotta move it if I'm gonna get to the square on top. Four blocks later and it's just now 6 ok on the dot. I grab a seat dead center in the second row, and a few minutes later Big Steve is proposing his own Universal Health Care initiative: unlimited free weed for everyone! Bet that one will go over great with the numbskulls in DC!

Moonalice is onstage and ready to rumble, and with a drum roll from Molo, we're off! It's a fun time, even as the fog blows thicker overhead, adding an edge of wind-chill on top of the high 50's air temperature. Summer in San Francisco: be sure to wear some flowers with your leather jacket!

Roger seems unusually talkative today, offering many tune dedications, and stopping to make chit-chat while Pete swaps from bass to keyboard and vice-versa. I tried to note them above, but I'm sure I missed a few, and it's entirely possible that I got some wrong … that darn auto-derange function on my not-so-smart-phone is hard to work around.

Like most shows, this one gets stronger and stronger towards the end, and my favorite for the day is the Revolution finale. Yay! Beatles!

Sooner or later audio and video will get posted on the Moonalice website in case you want to see or hear things for yourself!

Back to the previous event! ☸ Up to the 2017 yearbox! ☸ Up to the 2017 event list! ☸ On to the next event!