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Play or Pose Reunion…get on the bandwagon now!

I should really be in bed. Somehow Icame across this Myspace page dedicated to Titanic Love Affair. What’s that about?

I think most of you know of my disdain for most rock and roll, or more accurately, guitar-based “alternative” rock. I mean, if you have to listen to guitars, it had better be something  meaty like Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Big Black, etc. Honestly, I had never heard, or listened to TLA before, but I was pretty impressed with “Planet Strange” and the cover of Carole Kings “It’s Too Late.”

So going back to my original question. What’s the background on this page? Whom is behind it? Does Lars (and the rest of the former band) know he/they are being stalked?

Here is the link:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=61383489

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/

…relive those glorious memories HERE

About three years ago I asked Rick for permission to use a Didjits tune (any one) in a promotional video for Cold War Skateboards that was going to be included on a DVD being given away to subscribers of a skateboard magazine called Concrete Wave. He said it was OK, but then I didn’t end up using a song. Three years later we got a last minute call to be included on the 2007 DVD. We didn’t have anything ready, so we went out and shot some footage for about three hours one Sunday, and I spent the next three nights after work looking at old footage, cataloging, digitizing, and editing. It was actually nice to have such a tight deadline since it prevented me from spending too much time on it. Anyway, here it is, and Rick, I hope it’s still OK to use a Didjits song.

Many, many years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the land and The Farmboys were a common name around the fiefdom of Champaign and Urbana, I heard a song. “That’s when I reach for my revolver,” would ring thru my head. Sweet baby jesbu, The Farmboys have a hit! Then around ‘97 I heard it again. This time it was Moby. Moby, covering a Farmboys song. Maybe Pink Floyd was right, and pigs do fly. Finally, a few weeks ago, while building a shed, a friend popped in a Mission of Burma CD, it was good, But then, the song, again. It had found me.

So I am happy. But I’ll be happier when I can find the Galva beat-up mix and the Secret Goldfish bootleg cassettes. There’s also that Timble tickle tape.

Geriatric “punk rockers”, Naked Raygun, have announced an upcoming concert at Chicago’s House of Blues (HOB for super cool hipsters like myself) on April 27th.

Also on the bill are The Effigies, Bollwevils and some other band or two I have never heard of.

Tickets are on sale now. $21.50 per person.

I thought some of you should know.

Perhaps Randy will fly in to touch himself inappropriately at the show.

I’m sure I will see you in the mosh pit doing my new dance where I shake a lot in honor of NR.

Check it out. My friend Mary Cory, the publisher of the DI, sent this to me.

DI Link

If you were to enter (and I advise strongly against it) the cavernous, campustown drinkery that is the Clybourne you may get the vague sense it once was the building which housed Eddie’s, Chins, et al.

But that is about it.

The Christmas Fish and blowfish lights and photographs of George Chin Sr. holding up his prized, orange “Money Talk, Bullshit Walk” T-shirt have all long since been removed. From what I saw at his visitation it would appear much of it filled out the space not taken up by George’s 87-pound frame in the casket.

Across the alley where the R&R (?) once stood is a bar, the Firehaus, in which you may purchase beer which is to be dispensed from a fire-hydrant. Although, to be fair, the garage doors can be opened in fair weather which make for a pretty neat atmosphere (I actually have only been there once).

Mabel’s is now Brothers. Kam’s is still very much Kams.

(so is Mabel’s a gay bar now? And have you seen Galva at Chester Street?)