🎶🎸🎶Rockin' Out Before Rainfall (Part 1)☔️

The awesome Northern New Jersey band Quality Living took center stage at "Applause in the Plaza" this evening, July 12, 2024. Location: Newark Avenue Pedestrian Plaza.
I could have listened to these great musicians all evening, but, alas, rain was in the forecast. While I headed back to my humble abode, where there is zero air conditioning (but several excellent, oscillating fans), I savored Quality Living's mellow notes and ultracool attitude.😎
Oh, and after filming Part 1, I placed a donation inside the box.😃
Thank you for watching my video. Enjoy this weekend!💋
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[@P.Brocklehurst]

Wonderful footage. Quality Living are a fun band, very engaging to the audience and their music is really cool. Looks like it was a good time 😊

[@gabrielapaulinho1luv]

Thanks so much for liking my coverage. I was just heading home from work and had stopped near the bus stop to place a pizza order. When I began walking in the direction of my place, I heard guitars strumming and turned right around.😄 Yeah, this band really knew how to engage its audience with humor and great stage presence. In certain songs, Quality Living reminded me of Steely Dan in that slice-of-surburbia kinda way. I sure do appreciate your comment on this impromptu footage! ☺❤

[@davejefferynf]

That was very nice 👍👍

[@gabrielapaulinho1luv]

Awww, thank you, Dave.🫶🏻

[@WeGoPlacesTours]

The band is really good!!! I enjoy a band that plays instruments and they are super fun and entertaining ! 👍😊🇨🇦

[@gabrielapaulinho1luv]

Heyyy, Christine, thanks! Yeah, this band (they call themselves Quality Living) really loves to engage with their audience. And me too, I enjoy watching bandmembers play their instruments.😃 I also like to watch instrumentalists go through a range of emotional facial expressions, showing how much they're getting into a groove. During this perfornance, I got a kick out of watching the guitarist to the far right (from the stage's perspective, the far left) jumping around to the song's rhythms and every now and then extending his leg.
Meanwhile, the bearded guitarist to our far left was quite animated -- ooohhh, I just loooove that! He was the bandmember who joked the most with us audience members. At the moment when he got close to his mic and said, in a deep, booming voice, to let the storm come, I had a feeling that the universe was listening. Sure enough, Mother Nature sent a downpour about a half-hour later.
Thanks again for appreciating Quality Living! I'd definitely watch them perform again whenever seeing their name on a concert roster in Northern New Jersey or in New York City -- as long as public transportation can get me there and the show doesn't end too late at night.
By the way, I'm a non-driver. The last time I was behind the wheel of a car was during driving lessons. At the end of my second morning of lessons, the driving instructor placed his hand on my left knee. I was 20 years old. I promptly removed his hand and told him: "No more driving lessons." Back then, all of the driving instructors in my suburban town were men. So instead of chancing that another instructor would get fresh with me, I decided that I wouldn't learn how to drive. Within a year I moved to an urban part of New York City, where there were lots of subway stations ... and no parking spots. There aren't many places to park in my current neighborhood, so there really hasn't been encouragement for residents (those whose apartment buildings and condo complexes don't have parking garages) to own cars.😏
Have a super day, Christine!🌝!🤗