NRBQ at the Chapel, July 30, 2022

(((folkYEAH!))) presents NRBQ, with opener, the Minus 5
the Chapel
777 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110-1734 USA
9:00 PM, Saturday, July 30, 2022

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{I'm a little bummed that I missed this set, but it's hard to be in two places at once!}

[10:01 PM] {band onstage; light's down; let's go!}

1. [10:01 PM] Captain Lou
2. [10:04 PM] Where’s My Pebble?
   [10:10 PM] {TA introduces Five More Miles, begins with hand-claps}
3. [10:10 PM] Five More Miles
4. [10:14 PM] Pannonica
5. [10:18 PM] Over Your Head
6. [10:23 PM] (unidentified tune: “thing called yesterday”)
7. [10:25 PM] Do You Feel It?
8. [10:30 PM] Wild Weekend
   [10:33 PM] {false start! Terry stops so that Scott can fix a loud buzz from his pedalboard}
9. [10:34 PM] Imaginary Radio
   [10:37 PM] {TA: “Let's rock a bit Scott, c'mon!”}
10. [10:37 PM] Get Rhythm
    [10:42 PM] {TA: thx to crowd; thx to Minus 5; merch pitch for Dragnet}
11. [10:44 PM] Dragnet
    [10:47 PM] {Terry introduces the next tune}
12. [10:47 PM] the Moon and Other Things
    [10:50 PM] {Terry's shoelace get's caught in his fan! Roadie Dan to the rescue with scissors while Terry bravely plays on!}
13. [10:51 PM] Feel So Fine
    [10:56 PM] {Terry explains the shoelace incident to the crowd; Casey: “He risks death for you people!”; Terry calls John out front to sing his new song; John & Scott swap instruments.}
14. [10:58 PM] Shaggy Dog (JP)
    [11:03 PM] {Scott swaps to Terry's rig; everyone else offstage for the next tune; long pause to fix the piano pedal}
15. [11:07 PM] Great State of Texas (SL)
    [11:09 PM] {Scott back to guitar; Everyone else back onstage; False start; Terry comments (?sarcastically?) on the crowd}
16. [11:11 PM] I Want You Bad
17. [11:13 PM] Advice For Teenagers
18. [11:16 PM] 12 Bar Blues
19. [11:20 PM] A Girl Like That
20. [11:23 PM] That's Neat, That's Nice
    [11:27 PM] {long pause}
21. [11:28 PM] Crying
22. [11:31 PM] Red’s Piano
    [11:35 PM] {Terry: “Are you having fun?” (crickets);
    “We have time for two more songs,” (no reaction from aud);
    “We have time for one more song,” (groans from aud);
    “We're all out of time”… and he begins to bang away on the clavinet}
23. [11:36 PM] Me & the Boys
    [11:38 PM] {encore break}
    
    Encore
    [11:40 PM] {Terry bonks playfully on the keys while the other guys get back onstage;
    Terry: “I've wanted to sing sing this song for a long time, and I've always given it to our drummers, tonight I'm doin' it”;
    Everyone front and center for an a capella number;
    Terry (and the crowd) tease the other guys about their vocal harmonizing}
24. [11:41 PM] You and I and George
    [11:43 PM] {pause for everyone to get back on instruments}
25. [11:43 PM] The Wilderness Road
26. [11:48 PM] This Love Is True
27. [11:51 PM] Music Goes 'round and Around
    [11:54 PM] {final applause and bows; all off by 11:55 PM}

NRBQ

• Terry Adams: keyboards, vox;
• Scott Ligon: guitar;
• Casey McDonough: bass;
• John Perrin: drums.

NRBQ was good: I was really glad I went.

Terry is losing a little steam (no dancing on top of the keyboards this time), but for a guy in his 70's, he's still rocking hard, and they played pretty close to 2 hrs.

I think the show would have been better with a bigger, more enthusiastic crowd (it wasn't a sellout … maybe 1/2 to 2/3 full?), but it's hard to imagine the Q is going to draw many folks under 50 … and an older crowd isn't going to go crazy dancing and hollering the way they did 20-30 years ago. Heck, I mostly stood really really still myself…but I was dancing inside my head!

Today's photo gallery comes from ol' squinty!

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