Gatorators at the Grate Room at Terrapin Crossroads, February 27, 2020

Terrapin Crossroads presents the Gatorators
the Grate Room at Terrapin Crossroads
100 Yacht Club Drive, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA
8:00 PM, Thursday, February 27, 2020

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[8:30 PM lights down, band out after a minute or so, getting everything plugged in]

1. [8:36 PM] ? “Just a little bit harder” (DM) (setlist says “Everything U Work”) »
2. [8:38 PM] Never Let Your Fire Go Out (DM) »
3. [8:43 PM] Blue Monkey
4. [8:50 PM] Confidential (DM)
5. [8:59 PM] Rain Dancer (MS)
6. [9:09 PM] Dreaming Out Loud (DM) 07. [9:17 PM] _King Earl (DM)
7. [9:25 PM] I Don't Speak Love (DM)
8. [9:34 PM] Fat Tuesday (MS)
9. [9:43 PM] Like Dreamers Do (DM)
   [set ends 9:49 PM]

[10:20 PM lights down, band out]

1. [10:23 PM] Papaya (DM)
2. [10:31 PM] Too Busy Thinking 'bout My Baby / I'll Be Doggone (DM)
3. [10:37 PM] Smoking Hole >
4. [10:42 PM] Done Changed My Way of Living (DM)
5. [10:51 PM] Willin' (DM)
6. [10:57 PM] On Your Way Down (DM) >
7. [11:04 PM] Wild & Free (MS)
8. [11:09 PM] Crazy 'bout You Baby (DM)
9. [11:15 PM] Last Getaway (DM)
10. [11:21 PM] Lucinda (DM) » [11:26 PM] Theme from the Magnificent Seven » [11:29 PM] Cissy Strut
    [set ends 11:32 PM]
    
    Encore [Yack from Mitch, band introduction]
11. [11:34 PM] Domino (DM)
    [show ends 11:44 PM]

• Camile Baudoin: guitar, slide guitar, harmony vox;
• Eric Bolivar: drums;
• Dave Malone: guitar, lead and harmony vox;
• Reggie Scanlan: bass;
• Mitch Stein: keyboards, Hammond B-3 organ, lead and harmony vox.

8:10 PM and only 30-40 people in the house. Guess we're gonna have plenty of dancing space tonight. Shouldn't complain about that!

Nice to have time to chit chat with the other early birds too: it's funny how many folks we get to see, but then don't take time to really interact with. Easy to be lazy instead of strengthening or reestablishing old connections!

Reading the setlist, I think most any fan would say, “Holy Crap, I shoulda been there!,” and well yeah, you shoulda! There's no substitute for getting your shit together and congregating with like minded maniacs. And while tonight was lots of fun, it wasn't the sort of show I would use to try and recruit new fishes to the pool – it just didn't radiate enough. I'm guessing that between travel weariness and the light crowd, the boys were thrown off their A-game. Am I glad I made it? Heck yeah! Was it a show for the ages? Well, nah… but you can't really expect every night to be an epic adventure, can you?

Care to give a listen? Thanks to Jon Hart, you can! He mixed down his multitrack recording to stereo and uploaded it to the Live Music Archive, yay!

Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery!

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Back to the previous event! ☸ Up to the 2020 yearbox! ☸ Up to the 2020 event list! ☸ On to the next event!