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Friday
Chapman Solo
Unca Po's
Roger Chapman & The Shortlist
Hamburg, Germany
The Riffburglars — Chapman, Whitehorn, Simpson, Burrell, Pentelow, Coulter and Hinkley — playing the Hamburg club Unca Po's. The gig was taped in full and released in 2006 on Mystic as Chappo: The Loft Tapes Vol. 4 – Live At Unca Po's, Hamburg 5.3.1982. The surviving set is a career-outlier R&B revue: 'Free, Single & Disengaged' (Latin-tinged opener with Hinkley's Cuban piano lines), 'I Can't Stand It', 'Slow Down' (segueing into 'Common Touch'), 'Big Roll Daddy' (Chapman original with Simpson slide), 'Got My Mojo Working', 'Live The Life I Love', 'Wang Dang Doodle' (Hinkley organ feature), 'Bring It On Home', Cream's 'Strange Brew' (Whitehorn on lead vocal), a 'High Blood Pressure / Louie Louie / La Bamba / Twist And Shout' medley, Johnny Cash's 'Big River' (Simpson mandolin), 'Stovepipe' (Hinkley-pseudonym title track), 'Sing Em The Way I Feel' and a closing extended '5-10-15-20' rap that quotes The Sound Of Music's 'Do-Re-Mi' on the tongue-in-cheek outro.
