They strap on or sit at their instruments, as the case may be, and move to their mics as the crowd comes to realize they’re onstage.

Before a din can erupt, or even the entirety of the audience knows the players have taken the stage, the band explodes with the opening chords of Thin Lizzy’s “The Boys Are Back in Town.”

With McCade singing lead.

Needless to say, the crowd went berserk.

The Roadmasters’ set lasted two hours and thirty-seven minutes and the crowd demanded three encores.

They played their hits.

They played their B sides.

They played covers, including “Life in the Fast Lane,” “Maybe I’m Amazed,” “Lovesong,” launched into an epic, ten-minute version of Steppenwolf’s “Magic Carpet Ride,” and added more recent (for that time) artists including the Gin Blossoms’ “Follow You Down” and “Wonderwall” by Oasis.

They played minimal tracks from their new album.

They did not perform “Give Then Take.”

As the concert video is coming to its end, Lynie McCade wanders into the room, going directly to her father. She settles herself on the arm of the double-wide chair he and her mother are sitting in, winding herself around her dad’s shoulders.

Her mother is sitting so close to McCade, she’s almost in his lap.

Perhaps he’s been called, perhaps there’s a familial sixth sense of what is about to happen, and an understanding it isn’t to be missed, therefore Jesse McCade also returns to the larger group.

He moves to sit on the floor at his father’s feet and does not hesitate to rest back against his dad’s leg.

In fact, all the younger generation eventually filters back into the living room to watch the final songs of the concert.

The penultimate being “Your Eyes” from the Follow Your Star album, an up-tempo love song that nevertheless has melancholy lyrics that detail a searching man’s lonely journey to understanding, and the only thing that keeps him sane along the way is “Waking up and going to sleep seeing your eyes.”

This would be the first single released from that album.

It would reach number eight on the charts.

And go on to win four awards.

There is no ribbing and no speaking as the Roadmasters perform this song on the television while the Roadmasters and their loved ones in that living room watch.

The next song will bring tears.

The concert ends on a cover which is arguably, but not curiously—and if the feel of that room was appropriately assessed, this does not offend the band—what Preacher McCade and the Roadmasters are known for the most.

Their seven-minute rendition of a two minute and forty-four second song that was played with massive energy and almost palpable electricity, even on video, at the end of a balls-to-the-wall concert.

It was understood deeply by their fans and served to launch the band to a new generation of the same.