NRBQ & the Whole Wheat Horns
The Stanhope House
Stanhope, NJ

1/23/82

audience recording

A very rough audience recording, probably only for the real Q hard-cores. The recording is pretty noisy in spots and there's a backround noise that makes it sound like there are airplanes taking off and landing in close proximity. So, be forewarned, this is probably a "C" quality recording at best.

BUT, the reason I think the real Q nuts will dig it is...they play some weird stuff (like the instrumental "Georgia On My Brain" and an absolutely smokin' cover of James Brown's "Good Good Lovin'"), they do the Magic Box and........Terry says several times that he doesn't feel like playing any music, so he takes a few extended talk breaks...until the crowd starts to get a little bit restless and the "play some music!" taunts start- then, in response, Terry starts what sounds like a classical piece on the clavinet, quickly switches to bits and pieces of West Side Story that then turns into the James Bond theme, then a brief snippet of Little Rootie Tootie, then a Chet Atkins -like country picker, then a Tommy drum solo........)and THEN the Magic Box.

I later heard that this show actually got them banned from the Stanhope House because the owner said something like " When you play the Stanhope House, you play MUSIC!"


1 New Tune ( only about 1 1/2 minutes worth- sound starts out rough, then gets better)
2 That's Neat That's Nice
3 My Baby ( I think it's a Louvin Bros song)
4 Precious Memories
5 You and I and George
6 Want You to Feel Good Too (Gotta hear Al on this one!!!!)
7 This Ole House
8 Donn's announcement about a police roadblock on Rt. 80
9 Let the Good Times Roll
10 Cecilia
11 Ain't It Alright
12 Terry talks
13 She Got the House
14 Good Good Lovin'
15 C'mon Everybody
16 Never Take the Place of You
17 Georgia on My Brain
18 Instrumental ( can't think of the title- the Q did it fairly often back then)
19 Terry talks and asks for audience questions about the band
20 Kitchen Sink Medley (as described above)
MAGIC BOX
21 AL explains the rules
22 Your Feet's Too Big ( short snippet)
23 Little Red Riding Hood
24 Moondance