Show Report · Corpus Christi
The Seagle Come In for a Landing
Nine years, five records, one last show at home. The encore was “Wingspan.” What happened before it stays in the hallway.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. — The Seagle played their last show Saturday in front of a hometown crowd, the same month their last record came out. The record is called Final Approach. Gull Hendricks said the title was an aviation term, and it is.
On final approach an airplane is lined up with the runway, configured and descending. It ends one of two ways: a landing or a missed approach. The band, Mr. Hendricks said, had chosen a landing.
The band has always been two halves. On one side, Rubén “Eagle” Montoya on twelve-string and harmonies and Dale Brennan on drums and electronic pads. On the other, Mr. Hendricks on synthesizer and lead vocals and Kip Lowery on bass. Marisol Treviño stands where the halves meet, on keyboards and keytar and the middle harmony. She has stood there for nine years.
She said she was going to tune the keytar and put it in its case, and she did, while we watched.
This reporter covered the first time these five shared a stage, on the bayfront in 1983, when one generator ran one PA and the promoter asked them to share. That set ran seventy minutes. Saturday’s ran two hours and ten.
They played “Two Birds,” “Ocean Drive,” “Laguna Madre,” “Red Tide” and “Small Craft Advisory.” From the new record they played “Crosswind,” “Minimums” and “Runway in Sight.” “Unresolved” closed the set.
The wait before the encore was longer than usual. We are told it was spent in the hallway behind the stage. We were not in the hallway. Ms. Treviño, Mr. Lowery and Mr. Brennan were, and they have declined to characterize it.
The encore was “Wingspan,” which reached No. 67 on the national singles chart in 1986, as Mr. Hendricks has mentioned in every interview this paper has done with him. He mentioned it Saturday. He and Mr. Montoya sang it at one microphone. There were two up there.
Afterward we asked Mr. Montoya what was next. He said guitar lessons in Kingsville. We asked Mr. Hendricks. He said Rockport. We asked Ms. Treviño. She said she was going to tune the keytar and put it in its case, and she did, while we watched.