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The bad news is that Adams is carrying on without his former bandmates, notably Joey Spampinato, the founding bassist who has been the Lennon to Adams's McCartney for 40 years.
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NRBQ returns without Joey Spampinato, leaving fans to wonder
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Raitt wishes Spampinato, Ardolino, and Anderson were still playing together, but she says band dynamics get thorny after four decades.
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In the early 1970s, drummer Tommy Ardolino and guitarist Al Anderson joined Adams and Spampinato, creating the band that would tour and record relentlessly over the next 20 years, several times seeming on the cusp of commercial success.
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Onstage, the silken-voiced Spampinato was subdued, while Adams resembled a mop-topped muppet, playing the piano or clavinet with his fists, elbows, or even feet.
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The Rolling Stones's Keith Richards enlisted Spampinato to play on his solo album and in the all-star ensemble he formed to pay tribute to Chuck Berry.
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Mr. Adams, who founded NRBQ originally the New Rhythm and Blues Quintet, later Quartet in 1967 with Joey Spampinato on bass, survived throat cancer and started his own four-man band in 2007; that group, with Scott Ligon on guitar, Pete Donnelly on bass and Conrad Choucroun on drums, has been renamed NRBQ.
NYT > Home Page By JON PARELES 2011
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For a while Mr. Ardolino and the other two members, the brothers Joey and Johnny Spampinato, toured under the name Baby Macaroni.
NYT > Home Page By PETER KEEPNEWS 2012
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Adams had told virtually no one about the illness - his parents didn't even know - and swore Spampinato and the rest of the band to secrecy.
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While Terry Adams is the band's most prolific writer, Joey Spampinato and Al Anderson also made major contributions to the NRBQ catalog.
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