I think I was further distracted because I was so busy trying to pick out 
all the ELO influences...

Mike Bennett

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>From: "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com>
>Payback, evidently, as Waxwings leader Dean Fertita was in Benson's most
>recent backing band.
>
>Conscience forces me to confess that both Mike Bennett and I kept staring 
>at
>Fertita during Benson's set at the Taste of Randolph Street festival last
>month here in Chicago, wondering, "Who *is* that familiar-looking guy
>playing guitar?" When Benson introduced Fertita, both Mike and I slapped 
>our
>foreheads in chagrined wow-I-could've-had-a-V8 fashion.
>
>Moral of the story: Even if you can work Dave Edmunds back to Ike Turner
>within four degrees of separation, you're still susceptible to sometimes
>being stumped by the obvious (and I think Mike'll agree with me that, given
>the ubiquity of the Waxwings within midwestern power-pop circles, Dean
>Fertita's identity should've been obvious -- or at least somewhere within
>the same zip code as obvious).

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