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I am very sorry, Jim.

Lillith from Cheers?

Or Dallas. Or Chicago.

St. Louis doesn't even count as a road trip. That's 3-4 hours from Chicago.

You can! Look at the bottom of my page. You can click to our myspace and hear most of our CD. I'm trying to figure out how to get some DVD footage of us onto You Tube. Then you can even see us live in the comfort of your own home. Not that you shouldn't come out to see us, but, yeah. yeah, but the reason that I got all giddy and made a thread about it is because it never happens. We're just an odd little band with bongos. You guys are known WORLDWIDE! sounds like a triple bill to me!

Hey Joe, any chance we can open up for Organissimo somewhere?

Chuck, thanks for the thought. I hope to meet you/buy you a beer at some point!

Don't know if there's much interest amongst the Chicago area O-boarders, but if there is, I'm playing a bunch. We nailed down another stint at Andy's and we're playing some new places this month. So, for anyone interested, here 'tis... May 4th: Cary's -- 2215 W. Devon, Chicago (West-ish Rogers Park) 8p-11p May 5th: Andy's -- 11 E. Hubbard, Chicago (River North) 5-8:30p May 9th: Salt Creek Wine Bar -- 8900 Fairview Ave, Brookfield, 8-11p May 12th: Andy's 5-8:30p May 19th: Andy's 5-8:30p May 22nd: private event May 23rd: Joey's Brickhouse -- 1258 W. Belmont, Chicago (Lakeview) 8p-12a May 24th: Embrace -- 29 E 1st St, Hinsdale 8p-12a May 26th: Andy's 5-8:30p May 30th: Chapin's -- 701 Liberty St, Morris 8p-12a Hope to see some people make it out! Thanks for reading...

Well if its true, then I think they'll reverse the curse soon, since the cross-town rivals who undoubtedly threw a World Series ended their futility three years ago. And will of course, be world series champs again in '08. It's what happened the last time they were in first place in April.

congrats mang! Your yet to be named baby and Elaine should get together for a playdate some time!

I know, I know, it's only April, but my White Sox are looking good so far. And while I am sure it will be short lived, it's nice to see my guys back in first place again...

shocked that English Bulldogs are the 3rd dumbest. Especially because all of the breeds bred from Bulldogs tend to be pretty smart: staffies, bull terriers, boston terriers, frenchies, etc.

the ultimate and intimate series seem like total jive, but did you check out the single albums that they've got? Benson's Beyond the Blue Horizon and Live at Carnegie Hall? Zawinul's self titled album. There's some goodies in that bunch. I only hope that the Benson and Farrell album will finally see a re-release.

did someone hack your account, Chris? Never known you to be such a Ron Popeil type guy.

does look tantalizing...

amen. Hank's probably my single favorite tenor player ever.

I can't be certain, but I think that's a shot.

The Dead selling their entire live catalog to Rhino has got to be one of the most fan-unfriendly things ever done to such a loyal fan base. I was just starting to dig through all of that stuff, too. I guess it'll save room for more important things on my hard drive. At least I got a handful of really good sounding '69 shows before it closed down. Sad.

at the onset of a cold, I have a little routine that I do... 1) get sushi. slather wasabi on everything, let the sinuses open. If you're crying and gasping for air, even better. 2) once sinuses are open, take advil cold and sinus, meth lab edition (translation: with pseudophedrine). 3) stop off at convenient store on way home, get orange juice. 4) when home, mix orange juice with tequila and grenadine. drink till thoroughly ripped. 5) water 6) sleep. wake up the next morning without cold.

not to cast aspersions on your hypothesis, but i mean when i do laundry i wear dumpy clothes, not stuff i would wear in public. i wear a thin t-shirt so short that tufts of stomach hair jut out of the bottom and i wear oregon state basketball shorts which make it look like i am a very serious basketball player. if i wore this outfit outside, i would look like an idiot. my point being maybe billy dee was wearing jeans because all of his slacks were in the wash. did you ever hang out in his apartment? did you snort a rail so large that your eyes watered and you emitted a moaning sound as you tilted your head back, making sure it all went up your nose while billy dee put on the newest peech boys record and the two of you then headed off to plato's retreat? i bet he did not wear jeans then. early front runner for post of the year...

Really? One of my jobs is to write reviews for Chicago Jazz Magazine. And we have an agreement: if something is bad, or it just rubs ME the wrong way, I don't write a review. Why? Because what's the sense in slamming an artist for putting out what they thought was their best effort? Aren't we all, as musicians, just trying to get ahead, play gigs, shoot our artistic wads, make a statement and hopefully a little scratch in the process? What good does it do to say, "artist "x" put out a shitty record"? Sometimes, if you really want to say something sucks is to not say anything at all. No press = no alerting the public to a mediocre release. But you seem to get off on telling people that they suck. Even when they don't. I reckon that that's just one of many, many, many differences between us.

Replace 19 with 14 and 31 with 33, and you have my story. There is so much TRUTH being spoken in this thread that there's no reason for me to add anything. Kudos to Jim and Jim for getting it right (yet again)...

It's kinda funny that this has stirred up 13 pages and 180+ posts. Who cares? We're all here now, aren't we?

well, it's not SO bad if you don't have to live in the city proper. While buying in Chicago is still pretty much insane, you can still find bargains in Forest Park, Berwyn, Brookfield, North Riverside and maybe even Elmwood Park. None of those places put you more than a half hour out of downtown, and Forest Park has an el line that'll get you there in 15 minutes. I'm assuming that prices are still lower than even these suburbs, but $225K for a bungalow in Berwyn is a far sight better than $400K for the same house on the Northwest side.

If I hadn't been playing, there's a good chance that we might have driven out for this one, since Christina has an aunt who lives minutes down the street from Trios. How was the gig?