Comment Archives: stories: Music
Re: “Catching up with Mister Lies”
Inspiring. I see HUGE things for this guy. I saw him in SF last week, and he is definitely doing something special. It'll be fun keeping an eye on him and seeing where he goes :)
Re: “Music of the hemispheres”
Hmm, I wouldn't think that mind expansion involved dismissing something before you've heard it and limiting yourself to one performance venue.
Re: “Music of the hemispheres”
ZZZZZzzzzzzz. I'll try Tritriangle for some real sound and mind expansion.
Re: “Gossip Wolf: Pitchfork predictions,
round one”
I think I overheard the Babies say they're booked for P4K too when they were last here at Schubas.
Re: “Gossip Wolf: Sasha Go Hard won’t let up”
Trip out on this tho: the guy who builds the MakeNoise synths is none other than former Chicagoan Tony Rolando of We Ragazzi.
Re: “People Issue 2012:
Dee Alexander, the singer”
Blessings,
Sister Queen Dee! light of Chi Town's Jaaz scene! Congrats on being one of the best and brightest in Chicago from over 20 years! It has been a pleasure seeing you perform as not only a singer/vocalist, but a sculptured work of art from head to toe! I am proud to have been on the late Malachi Thompson's 47th Street CD with you! And happy to have interviewed you on WCSU's iHeart's Cafe Yeye: Where Monday is the new Friday-internet radio show. Love, love, love reading a 'detailed' history of your progress in Chicago. I have seen, known and enjoyed the work of many of the artists you mentioned. I look forward to more and more great work from you.
Sincerely
Yeye (Marian Hayes)
Re: “People Issue 2012:
Dee Alexander, the singer”
Girlfriend, you totally rocked it at the South Shore Cultural Center..This was my first time seeing you in performance and must admit it was the format of your show that peaked my interest. I reasoned, Dee Alexander is a jazz performer and hmmm, Prince is known for avant-garde rock and James Brown is definitely strong R&B, so how does she intend to pull this off? But whoa... you floored me with your interpretations of their music. I thought it was wonderful interpretation and personalization of both artist. My applause and whenever you appear and I am able, I will definitely put you on my calendar! Good Holiday to you.
Re: “People Issue 2012:
Vern Hester, the photographer”
Nice to see the guys that may get lost in the shadows are getting their day!! Vern and I go way back and glad to see a great feature about him!
Re: “People Issue 2012:
Vern Hester, the photographer”
Vern Hester rocks and rolls.
Re: “People Issue 2012:
Dave Matta, the educator”
nice grime time tee!
on an ill dood!
P.
Re: “Gossip Wolf: GLC anything but silent”
dear god not those rabble rabble kids again...we'll all be begging for the world to end after this one...
Re: “People Issue 2012:
Dave Matta, the educator”
The dude is the best selector in town. If you get the chance to hear him play his records don't fuck it up, GO GET IT!
Re: “People Issue 2012:
Vern Hester, the photographer”
This is an excellent piece about one artist's struggle to do nothing less than transform his life.
I like this part, "My prayer from the beginning was I want to live a normal, fun, engaging, long life. I wanna be a dirty old man and I wanna shoot rock 'n' roll."
Re: “He Loved the 90s”
James,
I am roughly your age and spent most of my life in the Chicago suburbs until moving to the remote area of Rockford about 5 years ago. I bounced around the dial as a college radio DJ, intern at WBBM-AM/FM and WLUP-AM/FM and since 1987 have been doing mobile DJ work. Having ties to “The Loop” I spent most of my radio allegiance to Brandmeier, Matthews, Dahl & Meier and all the other nighttime shows in the revolving door during the height of the 80’s and 90’s.
My dad was a fan of Robert Murphy and I listened to his radio in the car before I was able to drive myself around. I knew of WKQX from a pre-Q101 branding and over the years would tune in to get a taste of things other than talk or Top 40 radio to benefit my mobile DJ career. I didn’t know this until reading your book, but I actually went to the same high school as Lance Tawzer and it really feels like a small world. Wendy and Bill were a great team and I was an occasional listener, after their tenure at The Loop, when Johnny B. was on vacation or just to have some variety.
With the whole shake up at The Loop and Mancow coming to town, I kept up with my old friends from my college intern days, read Robert Feder’s column daily and took on Chicago media on the whole. I knew of a great deal of radio DJ’s and personalities from personal contact or just chatting on the studio lines. Q101 was not necessarily my first choice of listening, due to a great deal of the weddings that wanted more B96/Z95 songs to dance to after dinner.
Having been in college radio, I was familiar with the left-of-center artists that you and the rest of Q101 were playing. I probably have played Bizarre Love Triangle as much as Celebration. I have been enjoying your post-Q101 work on Steve Dahl’s network. Your interview skills, wit and vast knowledge are very impressive. Your latest venture of adding “author” to your list of job titles is also in that same vein, excellent.
I bought the digital copy of “We Appreciate Your Enthusiasm” via my smart phone on the Kindle app. Your book is the first I have been able to devour from cover to cover in nearly a single sitting, barring a flight attendant telling me, we were about to land. This was a wonderful read, very informative from the first line to the end wrap up. I felt like I was there during the 19 year history and knew all of those people. I prefaced my cursory listening comment to stress the point of how easy it probably is to read for the non-Chicagoan, much less someone who rarely listened to that kind of music.
Your words and method of turning the interviews into a very reader-friendly biography of an entity that really didn’t have a cohesive voice, was totally accomplished by your efforts and the help of those you acknowledge in the book. My $7.99 is very happy being gone from my bank account to have been informed and entertained by your book. You are a class act, and I’m sure your next project will be even much better and less of a learning on-the-job venture.
Congratulations and best to you and your family in 2013.
Sincerely,
Rob Wilderman
Re: “People Issue 2012:
Vern Hester, the photographer”
Thanks for this. Vern deserves a ton recognition for all he's done. Those of us in the queer punk scene have especially appreciated that he's helped bring our images and voices out.
- Mark of Homocore Chicago
Re: “Artist on Artist: Honky-tonk torch carrier Dale Watson talks to local country journeyman Lawrence Peters”
You've gotta like Dale Watson and his music. They are both real, unique and a treasure. His music is part of what makes American culture what it is - at it's core: authentic, unapologetic, heartfelt and beautiful. I live in Virginia and I see Dale in Texas and when he plays around Baltimore and DC. I wish he'd come play in our area more often!!!
Re: “Our 2010 Guide to New Year's Eve in Chicago”
Anyone know of a hotel with big band music for dancing on NYE?
Re: “In Rotation: Ken Vandermark on 15 CDs of Ennio Morricone”
It looks like I'm back to Forced Exposure for some more records.
Re: “Gifts for hungry ears”
The best music store to mail order these recordings is Downtown Music Gallery. Better yet, when your in NYC stop off at Chinatown for lunch and walk over to the store. Fantastic selection of just about everything you will never find in Chicago. Downtown Music even carries Vandermark's and all the Clean Feed records which you can't find at Dusty Groove or Jazz Record Mart.
Re: “Gossip Wolf: Sons of the Silent Age do Bowie at a Pablove benefit”
How about Blake Judd stop ripping fans off and actually sending out stuff that i have paid for a year ago fuck him