okay---backta planet earth. I got a sudden urge ta drive ta Arthur, Illinois to see this hot country cover band, where they are booked for one night only. Arthur is an Amish town about 280 miles from mee, so the nightclub prolly won't be too crowded. Anyway---admission(tickicks) are 20 bucks, which seems a lot, but hey---it may be worth it. (see photo). later in Sept, is when. Talk mee down from the ledge.
I think you should go for it! Twenty bucks is pretty cheap.
I'd really like to see that band, however--it's a 560-mile round-trip, mostly interstate through Zurra and Ill-Annoy. Playing bumper tag with 18 wheelers for about two months worth of mileage on my 18-year-old subcompact that I got from the wreckin' yard 8 years ago. Plus, there could be other expenses. So, I'll wait until they are booked for a show closer to where I live. Besides---i made an investment in precious metals, today, that used up some cash. A set of cylinder head cores, casting #14022601. A guy had 'em taking up space in his garage, and placed an ad on F-book Mkt place. I was thinking just the other day that if i should happen across a set for cheap, i better get 'em. Can't hardly find 'em at the wreckin' yard anymore; and then hafta pull 'em and pay their price. Nope.Originally Posted by rosarugosa
okay---here's some old music i've been listening to on my phone: it's a group of youngsters playing a cover of a song their Grandparents might've listened to, when they were that age. They do a splendid job of: "The Logical Song" by Supertramp(1979). A note-for-note, very very excellent. The kids are The Graystones(or is it with an "e"?), from out there in NorCal. Some people disliked Supertramp, but I believe "Breakfast in America" the album, was a masterpiece! Along with some of of their other songs, like "Even in The Quietest Moments". But yeah---listen to the kids. Hope that helps you some. Thankk mee.
OK, the 560-mile roundtrip would definitely give me pause too. I like to wait for the band to come to me. We're going to a concert next week (Oteil and friends) at my favorite concert venue (The Cabot), which is only 14 miles away.
okay----i was listening ta some tunes, dude, late one night. So anyway---i happened across one i never paid much attention to back in the AM radio daze, but now i've heard it through headphone on a youtube remix. <meaning it sounds vastly better. But yeah---it's "Wishing you were here", by the group Chicago. It's a very moody-sounding record, and lyrics be damned(i don't pay much attention to lyrics), the music alone conveys the mood. The record features the usual "Chicago" horns, the usual two "Chicago" vocalists, and backup vocals--very significantly so---by three members of the group known as "The Beach Boys." It was recorded in 1974 out in rural Colorado, but that is a different story for another time. There were some comments online about whether there was a theremin used as well(per " Good Vibrations"), though others claimed it probably was a synthesizer. Anyway----littlebittybobby rates this one as pretty cool. Yup.
Chicago was a good band. I saw them live once in the seventies.
I always liked Chicago. There is a group called Leonid and Friends that does Chicago covers almost as well or maybe better. They are from Russia and the Ukraine. They played near by on a US tour this summer and I would have like to see them, but it didn't work out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVwOb8KU1aM
"I spent the summer traveling: I got half-way across my backyard." Louis Aggasiz
I spent a day or so hanging out with the 90's version of Chicago nearly 30 years ago.
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"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." ~ Albert Einstein
great photo Alan!
the only “band” I have ever hung out with, and I put band in quotes for a reason, was The Rock Bottom Remainders.
It is a band made up of famous writers: Stephen King, Amy Tan, Scott Turow, Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson. They got together for fundraisers to raise money for their favorite charity about poetry and soccer or something like that.
I spent a day with them when our friend recruited us to help with their fundraiser in St. Louis. Stephen King was absent that day. Dave Barry was hilarious. Scott Turow was very nice and I was his assistant during the book signing portion of the evening.
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