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Horseshoe - Feb 20th 2010 with The Crimebusters
The Crimebusters and I are going to be playing a couple of sets at the Horseshoe - 4115 N Lincoln, Chicago - this Saturday the 20th of February. We will start around 9:00PM.
This is a different sort of thing for us. We usually just play our own music with a couple of cool covers sprinkled in.
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Remember Me?
Hey. What's going on? I haven't been around for awhile. Place still looks the same though. For a long while I could not post anything onto LJ. Don't know why. It was taking forever just to log on. I gave up after a few months.
Anyway, things is happening. We've got a new bass player, Chris Riter, in the band. We've also been working Mr. ( Read more... ) -
Crimebusters at Yak-Zies July17
Man...LJ is starting to really suck. It's hard to log on anymore.
If you are walking around by that ballpark up on Clark Street tonight, stop by Yak-Zies and have a beer on the patio and give a listen to me and The Crimebusters. This is Tom's last gig as our bass player and I'd like to give him a proper sendoff. -
Well...It's Official
Resident artist, killer bass player and all around cool Crimebuster - Tom Benjamin is leaving. Moving to North Carolina as part of the witness relocation program. We had rehearsal last night after a two week layoff and instead of sucking, like he should, he absolutely sparkled which pisses me off even more. Just rubbing it in I guess. In truth we ( Read more... ) -
The Burden of Freedom
I'll be in the Smoky Mountains for a few days during Memorial Day. While I am enjoying the time off with some friends grillin', drinking beer and laying about I'll also try to remember what the whole thing is about.
Breeds Hill
Yorktown
Ticonderoga
Fredricksburg
Antietam
Gettysburg
Belleau Wood
Ardennes
Wake Island
Tarawa
Hurtgen Forest
Iwo Jima
Inchon
Pork ( Read more... ) -
A Way Homer
"Shit, man, think about it! I guess it's what they call a "way homer."
"Why's that?"
"Cause you only get it on the way home."
"I'm already home, Glen." - Raising Arizona
Except I wasn't on the way home. I was riding my bike into work this morning around 5:30AM. With no radio to listen to things randomly pop into my head while dodging potholes, ( Read more... ) -
Alternate Reality
I saw Star Trek Saturday morning. I came in anticipating full on hatred of the thing and left anticipating the next one. The BoR and I saw it in IMAX which was probably a mistake. So many quick edits during action scenes, which are plentiful and long, things got jumbled and confused on a screen that big. The plot really made no sense at all. I ( Read more... ) -
Psycho Mama
I heard some really cool music on the way in to work this morning. One is Eddie Noack's "Psycho". Not your typical old school country song. Man is it bone-chilling. Then, and I find this hard to believe as I type it, a cover of Seven Nation Army by The Oak Ridge Boys. I was never a fan of theirs and I was really wanting to hate them for fucking up ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
A friend of mine over on Facebook asked for music suggestions. My first instinct was to recommend Ray Wylie Hubbard to her because...well, he's so freaking good. He's the Godfather of that whole Austin Bohemian Cowboy Buddhist type of songwriting. I chickened out and said Neko Case.
I don't know why I did that except maybe I felt like Ray ( Read more... ) -
In the Future...
It's a little spooky how new words come into our lives and we just accept them like they were always there. I'm sure If I went back in time to visit my 20 something self in the late 70's and said "In the future it will be necessary to de-friend people on the internet" it would have haunted me until I needed to be locked in an asylum. It ( Read more... )