Scotty! I miss you Scotty! I was reading Holly's comment and after I finished pissing myself with laughter, I realized I had totally forgotten that you waited at SS.
Wow Scott, I remember that night of the jump! I was with either Scott Gremel or Alex Cosby and had been with you until you ran off! Serious blast from the past. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you went on a serious nut and berry binge after that!
Scott, I've dredged up my favorite scenario from when you waited at Second Story. I can't remember who was playing, but the band had drawn somewhat of a frat demographic (might have been Johnny Socko) and a couple frat guys were hanging around by the bar right in front of where I was standing. I could hear them discussing how hot some girl was and which one of them was going to hit on her. I looked to see who they were talking about and realized it was YOU! You were standing a little bit away with your back to us, wearing that white, blousey poet shirt with your hair cascading down your back. I nudged one of the guys and said, "Go for it!" They got all hyped up and then *BAM* you turned around and you could hear their libidos go crashing to the ground. They actually said, "That's a guy???" before shuffling off to pick on some other hapless "female." Makes me laugh every time I think of it.
In chronological order: lived at 614 N. Grant with Gremel, Perny and Eric K Peters, and hosted many fine Cave Lords shows, until the incident with the Indiana Avenue overpass (one friend calls it my "bridge faux pas"), 10/17/1987. Uptown busboy. Rockits pizza driver extraordinaire. Second Story waiter. Ryder editor. Owned a 10x50 trailer outside of Spencer. Became wildly successful web entrepreneur, retired at the age of 32, then blew all the money and had to go back to work. I pretend I'm OK with that. Opened a wildly successful ice cream parlor in Columbia MO: it's fuchsia and chartreuse and pink and serves booze. I'm a dad.
What bands are you or have you been in?
I sang in The Bag of Elbows! Four shows: our debut gig at 33 Steps was to an improbably packed house of inexplicably crazed fans -- but that's how great the scene was in 1990, any new band in Bloomington could play a stadium.
Andy, yeah, I know what you're saying...the Lemonheads then instantly faded into multi-platinum obscurity. That's such a great perspective when most people have no idea the band even existed pre-1992.
If anyone bothering to read this hasn't heard t…
I'm not crazy about Michael Jackson or modern-day indie rock, but I will sing the SHIT out of some prime Manilow.
Burd, you nailed me.
I write the songs that make the whole wooooorld siiiing....
ahhhh Bullet Lavolta,their 1st 12" almost bordered on being the new Jerry`s Kids !!! Then they hit the UK with the Lemonheads & they both fell away.....those were the days lol
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Burd, I would never accuse you of being shy about speaking your mind. And I doubt anyone would have thought me anything but a raging snob from way back. And with the anti-Manilow snobbery of the post below, we continue to have plenty in common. FTR:…
John, it didn't seem like good natured to me when I went back and looked. It reeked of pretentious snobbery. Haughtiness. The funny thing is; I'd probably step up and say something if someone was doing it to you. Incidently, there are all sorts of t…
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