Talk:NRBQ

message: I added an infobox for nrbq, but I do not know how to upload wikipedia images, so I hope someone else could do that...       NJMD 18:24, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox 

message: does anyone think that this article should mention that nrbq often do songs for the simpsons?
:Do they?  I know they appeared in an episode as themselves, but I thought Alf Clausen did all the music on The Simpsons.  I think there was a heavily q-influenced episode of Sponge Bob, though.  24.195.17.40 02:09, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: This makes it sound as if they wrote songs specifically for The Simpsons.  Have they ever?  The only songs of theirs I remember appearing on The Simpsons (Me and the Boys, Want You To Feel Good Too, I Like That Girl) were written and released well before appearing on the show.  The text should make that clear. Skyraider 22:56, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Simpsons 

message: The boys are rumored to have performed together at a private party for Mike Scully's 50th birthday.  There was discussion of this on the NRBQ mailing list, but I haven't yet been able to verify this with an independent source.  Anyone else have any leads?--Skyraider 15:30, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: 2006 NRBQ performance?

message: I asked for specifics about what needs to be cited here, and a week later, I haven't heard a peep.  I don't object to the tag, but without a specific list of what needs to be cited in order to satisfy the tagger, it's meaningless.  I've removed the tag for now.
Skyraider 01:08, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Quite after the fact, but if you're still around Skyraider, some of the info you pointed to in the "Clueless" topic could have been used as reference citations to support information in the article. I've added citations (and perhaps went overboard on some) to better support the info presented in the article. THX1136 (talk) 00:50, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unreferenced? 

message: I am proposing the merger because I feel that Tapdancin' Bats does not deserve its own article based on WP:MUSIC: Album articles with little more than a track listing may be more appropriately merged into the artist's main article or discography article, space permitting.--Samuel Tan 03:03, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I just decided to remove the merger proposal from tapdancin' bats, after considering that the album passes WP:MUSIC because of band's notability. The album's article could be fleshed out further, though. :) -Samuel Tan 03:13, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge from Tapdancin' Bats 

message: This whole page reads like a marketing release from the band.
"NRBQ's devoted following has been stoked by years of legendary live shows." 
Which legends do these shows appear in?
"The band never works with a setlist, so fans never know what songs they may hear."
How does the BAND not having a setlist relate to what the FANS know about the show?
GeneCallahan (talk) 14:57, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fanzine Page 

message: Why is there no mention whatsoever in this article about the disagreement/ litigation with Bearsville Records in the early 1980s that kept the band from recording any new material for about four years?  From what I have read it involved Grossman or Warners wanting them to remove a song from "Grooves in Orbit" that had been written by a friend of theirs who was dying and they had already told him they were recording the song, so they wouldn't remove it.  Grossman got mad and somehow this kept them from recording for four years...or in other accounts it has to do with Bearsville going out of business.  Anyway, this was apparently a big enough hassle for the band that it has a large mention in a Rolling Stone article from 1990 that's featured on the RS Coverwall right now ("NRBQ RSVP") and implies that it was very discouraging for the band and without a couple of their friends in the business who supported them, they might have broken up...so it's odd not to see anything about it at all here. TheBlinkster (talk) 06:57, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bearsville dispute with Albert Grossman/ litigation? 

message: There are many puzzled comments above about the extravagant praise for NRBQ. Since 1969 when Richard "The Gap" Lorber heralded them in either Fusion or Rolling Stone, they were spoken of as the Next Big Thing. Somehow NRBQ managed to be the Next Big Thing for decades, without ever creating a record anybody can remember. Or bought. Their fame now rests on having sometimes been studio musicians for the Simpsons? My god, after all those decades of waiting for them to be the next Grateful Dead, if not the next Bob Dylan? There are words for the One Hit Wonders, for the Flash in the Pan, but no words for a band that was always just about to do something, and were admired for that, respected for that, for 40 years, until they passed away in old age, may they rest in peace. "Failure to Launch?" They had a great life. No need to feel sorry for them. They were always treated as the Heirs Apparent no matter what they didn't do. I don't get it. Profhum (talk) 07:05, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: neither do I.66.169.94.145 (talk) 01:51, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Way after the fact, but one word I can think of is "tenacious". THX1136 (talk) 14:53, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  NRBQ had a great life as the Heirs Apparent but nothing ever happened 

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message: I'm going through the article to add supporting cites. I came across a "disagreement" on formation dates. AllMusic and the Boston Globe say 1967, lohud.com has 1966 as the date. Since I have 2 that agree I changed it to 67 with added cites. If I come up with "overwhelming evidence" that 66 is the correct year I will change it back. If another editor can supply more evidence to the contrary, please feel free to do the change. Thanks THX1136 (talk) 01:22, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I have two sources each for the differing dates - 1966 & 1967. I decided to state in the article the differing dates with the cites I currently have for each. THX1136 (talk) 00:51, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of Formation 

message: I removed the following: "In May 1968, Terry and Steve re-formed NRBQ in Miami." as there is no source cited for it. It may be reincorporated into the article when a source is found. All the sources I have make no mention of the group being in Miami in 68 in a "formative" stage. The date I'm seeing at this point is 1967 for the date that Adams reformed the NRBQ (due to a meeting with Sun Ra in 1967 to quote Adams) after he disbanded the group for a short time. Of the sources I currently have it is unclear of the precise dates of the group going to FL and then returning to the NJ/NY area. FYI, among my sources are Rolling Stone, the Boston Globe, Goldmine and AllMusic. THX1136 (talk) 14:51, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Also removed the following as not sourced: "The group relocated to the northeast in late November 1968, and played The Choo Choo Club in Lodi, New Jersey and Steve Paul's Scene in New York City." This may be added back into the article when a source supporting it is found. THX1136 (talk) 15:14, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed Info 

message: NRBQ are..a corporation is not a person 
Anonymous8206 (talk) 20:21, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: You're talking about the lead sentence saying, "NRBQ is an American rock band...", right?  In American English, people talk about a band as an entity and say "is".  In British English they talk about a band as the members and say "are".  An article about an American band should use American English, per WP:ENGVAR.  This question comes up pretty often for articles about bands, by the way.  If you look at articles about American bands and articles about British bands, you'll see that this practice is pretty widely followed. — Mudwater (Talk) 21:41, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The LEAD in this article is grammatically incorrect..just becuase other articles are as well doesn`t change that Anonymous8206 (talk) 20:55, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  incorrect grammar