Walter Egan and The Malibooz - featuring The Quarrymen - Live at The Cavern Club, Liverpool.
Walter Egan and The Malibooz playing at the legendary Cavern Club, Liverpool.
Walter Egan and The Malibooz - featuring The Quarrymen - Live at The Cavern Club, Liverpool.
17th thru 18th May 2019
By Robert Corich
Hail. Hail. The Malibooz invade England with secret weapon in tow. 1960s American wunderkind The Malibooz, USA’s answer to The Beatles on surfboards, invade England to team up with US magnet muso Walter Egan.
Purpose: Zambetti to capture some Quarrymen
A special series of gigs at Liverpool’s iconic birthplace of Beatles live music.
John Zambetti has had a plan in place to work again with longtime associate and friend Walter Egan, in conjunction with The Quarrymen: a band that in part nurtured the early Beatles.
This was finally achieved this year, some 55 years after The Malibooz’s first recordings were laid down in New York and LA.
The Malibooz, a surf band obsessed with Beatles, big red double decker buses and all things English are working once again with founder member Egan; who is an artist revered by Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.
Walter Egan’s rock ‘n’ roll pedigree is assured by his multiple hits including ‘Hot Summer Nights’, the yacht rock staple ‘Magnet & Steel’ and ‘Hearts on Fire’.
The current lineup of The Malibooz hosts an array of successful musicians including leader Zambetti on vocals and guitar, Spirit keyboard player Scott Monaghan, Bob Henrit drummer for The Kinks, bass player Mike Steed of Marmalade and, of course, Mr Magnet & Steel himself, Walter Egan on guitar and vocals who was also a former member of Spirit and The Burritto Deluxe band working with Emmylou Harris and Gram Parsons.
Fans were treated to an eclectic mix of Malibooz numbers and several of Egan’s highly identifiable and enjoyable songs including the two aforementioned hits.
They rocked this legendary place and surely dislodging bricks in the arches of the famous Cavern Club.
To top it off, The Quarrymen joined them on stage for an encore of ‘Twenty Flight Rock’ and ‘Blue Suede Shoes’ played over several sets.
No doubt the ghosts of John and George were rattling their jewellery in their seats in the ether.
Separately, Walter Egan also performed a wonderful solo set.
A very special live presentation that was live streamed for Californian radio and a privileged audience and I hope they return to these shores soon.
Alive and kicking on a festival stage is where these A-class musicians should be.
Live rating: 10 stars out of 10 - this was a total one off weekend of r’n’r.
Setlists:
The Malibooz & Walter Egan featuring The Quarrymen on encores - combined double sets:
She Comes Around
Free
Just A Little Bit
I’ve Got A Line on You
Magnet and Steel
Hot Summer Nights
Resist
Blue Suede Shoes (encore)
Twenty Flight Rock (encore)
Walter Egan solo slot:
Sweet South Breeze
A Bit of Awright
Crazy Reign
Hearts On Fire
Love in a Time of War
Lobster
Fool Moon Fire
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Extra performances with Rod Davis of Quarrymen and Chas Newby who played bass for The Beatles for a few months after Stu Sutcliffe stayed in Hamburg.