[bomp] More on NRBQ/Wax Museum

["E Innes" <heyeddie@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

NRBQ actually played three shows there with J Sebastian opening, technically 
six because they probably did two shows per night.  Other acts that opened 
for NRBQ there were Carl Perkins, Professor Irwin Corey, Rev Billy C Wirtz 
and the best of all, Henny Youngman. All killer shows.
I also saw Fats Domino there and a bunch of other great acts.  It had 
actually been a wax museum... a failed tourist trap that was turned into a 
huge club with many of the wax figures intact, and astronaut suits etc 
hanging from the ceiling, with a stage at one end with cool sunken 
ampitheater style seating.  After the club closed in 84 it was interesting 
to come across the wax figures here or there; I remember a record shop 
bought the Louis Armstrong one and a restaurant had the Sinatra.  The 
property (4th&E SW) was recently redeveloped
Regarding NRBQ inventing "we'll play any request", i know they started doing 
it in early 1978, I always wondered if the Tonight Show "stump the band" 
started earlier than that

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