NRBQ live at The Doug Fir Lounge in Portland this Friday (tomorrow)!

For those living in or near Portland Oregon, NRBQ will be performing live at The Doug Fir Lounge on Burnside this Friday, with another cool band---The Minus 5---opening. 

I haven't seen and heard NRBQ live since their heyday in the 80's/90's (twice at The Roxy Theater on Sunset Blvd. One of the handful of best bands I've ever seen and heard live.), and founder/keyboardist/songwriter/singer Terry Adams is the sole remaining original member. Drummer Tom Ardolino died in 2012, and bassist/songwriter/singer Joey Spaminato (picked by Keith Richards for the band he assembled to back Chuck Berry in the live performance seen in the documentary Keith made on Chuck:  Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll. Keith offered Joey the bass chair in The Stones when Bill Wyman resigned the band; Joey turned him down!) was diagnosed with cancer in 2015, and has been battling it ever since. Guitarist/songwriter/singer Al Anderson left the band in 1993 to concentrate on songwriting, moving to Nashville.

If you are also attending the show, come up and say "Hey". You can't miss me: I'll be the 6' tall guy with real long salt & pepper hair (now more salt than pepper ;-) .