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The night started perfectly alligned with a style of music I have really been enjoying lately. Only tonight it was the upbeat folk tunes of Greg Greer on the stage at Tommy Nevins's Pub in Evenston Illinois. It was funny. His voice, his kind of start-stop rhythm, repeatedly made me think that maybe Greg was going to launch off into a Brian Bethke song. It was genuinely uncanny.
But, even though he didn't, it was still a great night. Greg has a wonderful voice and can sing a happy tune with an intensity and sincerity that is infectious.
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I knew I was tight on time. I had to make it to the Howard Transit station by either midnight, or one, it depended who I asked, to catch the last train out of the inner city. It was 11:40. Had I not been so tight, I would have gladly caught the next train. Three homeless men, a guitar, a shaker, and some fantastic harmonizing made my wait in the station far too short.
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A friday night, and about 200 people in the auditorium of Chippewa Falls High School for a family friendly concert. Doors opened at 6pm and music must have started shortly after the doors opened. By the time we got there, children in tow, it was mid-way through the warm up set of what turned out to be a great experience.
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A night of violin and guitar. Erich and Gordon Kaufmann and John Abbott having a skills check-in. |
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Ok, let me start out by saying I am not a huge Dave Rogers fan. He plays a light blues. Not the deep, raunchy, rocky stuff that I like. But, that doesn't mean I don't still have good things to say. Dave rocked the house pretty well. The dance floor was full most of the third set. It was a good show and it definitely had musical high points for me.
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Three bands on a Tuesday night. The enlarged stage of the House of Rock. Great entertainment value for your seven dollar admission fee. I would say the bar was at approximately half capacity. Good for a Tuesday night. The band I was there to see, former natives, Megafaun, who's members Brad and Phil Cook, are the sons of Paul Cook, of the most recently reviewed accordion band Squeeze This. Paul was also the first person I remember referring to the Freaks & Geeks, who was not an active member.
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It was a full house at Harmony Corner's Cafe. The warm up piano player just had announced his final song and Paul Cook, half of the accordion band, Squeeze This, leaned over to me. He said "We still get butterflys". Joel Jensen, his other half said, "I heard Barbara Strisand throws up before every show", To which Cook replied, "We could do that, but then we'd have to sing that 'People' song". It is this mix of campy humor and good fun which makes up a Squeeze This performance.
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It's sometimes gotta be tough for a long whiskered, wife-beater-wearin', gravelly voiced blues player to fess up about he lives. Especially when that blues guitarist lives, and owns a bar, in Romance Wisconsin. There is just something about the picture that doesn't seem right. Dave Lambert didn't seem to have much trouble though. Saying good bye to the exiting patrons of the Snout Saloon with a cheery "Come visit us in Romance!"
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