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see their shows. It was really fun.”
So much fun that the retooled Street Legal became not so much a band as a bunch of musical carpetbaggers, migrating southward from their old home base of Providence, R.I. to Northern Virginia.
Or Washington, D.C., if you prefer. But that’s not entirely accurate.
“We like to say we’re based there, but none of us live there,” says Beckstoffer by phone from Fairfax. “We practice down in Warrenton. We play a lot in Warrenton.”
Quite often, that place is Molly’s Irish Pub, where Hughes works as a bartender.
“We don’t do set lists unless it’s a really big show,” says Beckstoffer, who tears up on the congo drums during the band’s frequent performances. “We play what the audience wants to hear. Most of the Warrenton crowd knows our songs, so we don’t have to worry about them calling out something we can’t play.”
Speaking of “play,” it’s about this point in the phone conversation that the regularly scheduled interview turns into an amusing little playlet called “Waiting For Beckstoffer.” A partial transcript:
BECKSTOFFER: (continuing from previous thought)
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