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Play or Pose Reunion…get on the bandwagon now!

…no, really…they built big buildings there.

For some reason, I did a search on Youtube for Leroy Bach.

Here is some video that I found, recorded at The Rainbo in Chicago.

Here is the link. Perhaps someone else knows how to post this properly so the video player pops up. I’m actually too lazy to figure it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KQU9yXzwdk

Leroy will be on The Late Show with David Letterman on Friday night.

Leroy has joined Iron & Wine for their upcoming tour and they will be on Letterman Friday night. Actually, it was taped this past Monday but airs Friday.

I know all this because Iron & Wine’s manager, Howard,  is our neighbor. His daughter plays with my daughter. His wife and my wife talk shit about us behind our backs and, actually, right to our faces.

I guessIron & Wine needed another multi-instrumentalist and my neighbor Howard thought of Leroy and by chance, he was not presently engaged and decided to join up.  I don’t know if it’s a longterm thing or not.

Other interesting former C-U music people living on my street are Phil Rockrohr and Brian Krumm of The Great Crusades, a band whom Brian Leach is a member.

www.ironandwine.com

www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/show_info/pants/

Hey, we were no Dead Relatives, but McWilson burned brightly for a few months. Formed expressly to open for Naked Raygun’s (Thanks to Oreo!) first show in Champaign at Mabels. Members include Evil Tom, Randy, Neil, and Don Gerard. Not shown is sometimes guitarist Dave Titlebaum, or Dave Uglybum as we used to call him. He kind of thought we were a joke (we were!) but when he found out we were opening for Raygun he got interested real fast. The good reception we got at the show convinced him to stick it out for a few more gigs. Click the image to see it bigger. Photo by Ted McDougall

Here’s the story of how I learned that Galva wasn’t his real name. This picture is from the early Propaganda days.

One time an old lady called the house and asked for Brian Robinson. Who? I told her there was nobody there by that name. She insisted that her grandson did and then sounded kind of confused after I quite firmly and possibly even rudely told her there was absolutely nobody living there by the name of Brian Robinson. When someone asked who was on the phone I told them it was some confused old lady with a wrong number looking for her grandson Brian Robinson.