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| From | "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> |
| Subject | Re: Bob's Top 10 |
| Date | Mon, 05 May 2003 01:10:05 -0500 |
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> Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 17:15:09 -0600
> From: Not Lame <popmusic@notlame.com>
> To: <audities@smoe.org>
> Subject: Bob's Top 10
> Message-ID: <BADAFB1D.BFE9%popmusic@notlame.com>
>
> > Highlights of my Chicago stay this time around:
> >
> > 1. The Shazam (see above)
> >
> > 2. The Millions - 2nd best band I saw over there. Not really power-pop
> at
> > all, but a really good rock band who obviously enjoy playing on stage,
> fun
> > to watch even without the pyrotechnics. Great CD too (with bonus AC/DC
> > cover version of Highway to Hell)
> >
> > 3. Locking myself out of Jennifer's apartment and getting an ear-bashing
> > off her when she had to come back from work to let me in
> >
> > 4. Greg's devotion to duty on the merch table
> >
> > 5. CVS digging Starclock while lying face down on the floor
> >
> > 6. Dan the photographer falling asleep during Sunday afternoon show
> >
> > 7. Jocelyn's sidewalk tantrum when I told her she'd missed The Pages at
> > Evanston (I thought they'd already played, but had mistaken The New
> > Constitution for them)
> >
> > 8. Patti's Sweet Bitch sticker
> >
> > 9. Bruce Brodeen's dancing
> >
> > 10. Exchequer baby-back ribs
>
>
> I WILL try and make it to the TOP 5 next year, Bob......and make it worth
> the trip from za UK for ya! :-)
>
Y'know, Double B, it's pretty sad that your John Travolta routine
was ranked five spots down on Bob's list from seeing my sorry butt behind
the table for five hours every night!
My IPO '03 highlight would definitely have to be standing guard with
John Borack over all of the stage gear as it sat on the sidewalk outside of
the Double Door at 3 a.m. yesterday morning as the drunken demimonde of the
Wicker Park neighborhood sauntered around us, while Jocelyn and Tammi kept
us marked from a parked car across the street. David Bash's van got towed
last night, which makes twice in one two-week festival that a certain club
booker, whose personal identity and establishment shall remain nameless, led
David to run afoul of the Chicago gendarmerie for parking violations.
Scanning up and down N. Milwaukee Avenue waiting for David's van to
reappear, while wondering if some local lunatic would be crazy enough to
snatch a high-hat stand and sprint down the street with it (or club me or
John over the head with it) made for a very rock'n'roll experience.
> Bruce @ Not Lame, who really had no idea that those Saturday Night Fever
> crowds were parting for him to shake his booty that night
>
I had no idea, either. I was behind the merch table at the time. ;-)
Incidentally, the IPO show at the Double Door on Saturday night
really tore it up. The Flashcubes were even better than I had remembered
them being back in my salad days in Syracuse, and it was great to get a
chance to introduce myself to my homies Gary, Artie, Paul, and Tommy after
the show -- although my wearing my "Orangemen 2003 National Champions"
t-shirt was a self-admittedly shameless attempt at sycophancy. But
headliners Off Broadway really brought the goods. They did all of the
highlights off of their two immortal early-eighties albums on Atco, *On* and
*Quick Turns*, and threw in a brace of Beatles covers ("She Said, She Said",
"Rain", and "Bad Boy") for good measure. Cliff Johnson is one of the oddest
frontmen I've ever seen in terms of stage mannerisms, but the man has a
killer rock'n'roll voice that hasn't lost any of its grit over the past
twenty years.
The festival wrapped up this evening with something of a stylistic
departure for IPO: An all-ages show highlighting various punk-pop acts from
the B17 management agency. I thought that a Sunday evening show would be an
anti-climactic wrapup following the packed house at the Double Door last
night, but it turned out to have been a wise move by David. It's exposed the
IPO brand name to a younger audience that probably isn't very familiar with
it or with most of the bands that play the festival; the vast majority of
tonight's crowd at the Bottom Lounge consisted of high school and college
kids, a marked departure from the significantly older crowds that usually
frequent IPO.
Gregory Sager
(disappointed that Bob didn't spot any German porn stars among this
year's IPO lineup)
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