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The above pic was in a TRI Studio email I just received, pretty cool pic. A decent rendition of Death or Glory is at the TRI site, too. I think 89-90 stands up pretty well up against the best of the rest of the eras. It all depends on the day on which time period I listen to. It's one of the reason why I dig the Dead so much - a wide range of sounds/songs/styles throughout their career. Not many other bands have that. I suppose the different styling of Miles throughout his career comes to mind.

http://www.chicagotr...,5394604.column I will be catching a Dylan show in Ft. Wayne on the 28th. Hopefully they put together a memorial concert at some point. I also realized on the 20th that Teddy "The Bear" Thomas and Von Freeman's Rhythm Section played at Room 43 (south side club) on the 19th, of course I was out of town. It's good to see them playing together, perhaps this would have been their first gig, since Von's passing. My neighbor runs the Sunday shows at Room 43, need to ask her how the 19th went.

Well, not in my book. They both are horrible songs.

That's a great link - thanks.

Doing a quick search, it looks like you (Lou) put together 4 or 5 VC excursions to the Lounge - well done. I did participate in one of them. Of course, this current site only goes back to 05 and the Archives are still down, so perhaps there were more...

I thought we couldn't talk about Chicago anymore on this site. Remphish1, if you have not done so already, you may want to check Price Line, Orbitz, etc. You may find some downtown deals. Coming here over Labor Day is going to make it more difficult to find a deal, though. But, my wife and I have found some good deals when we decide to stay downtown for an anniversary or such. Jazz Fest will be going on that weekend - it's free. As far as hot dogs, being a vegetarian, I can't help you much - haven't had one in a while. The White Sox will be town, you can catch an game and have a hot dog

Does Von's former back-up band still have a regular gig there?

By way of CNN, below is Romney's 5 point plan to tackle the economy. Nice article. I think we need some new ideas... http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/08/15/romney-economy-plan/?iid=HP_LN

Nice encore, too.

I wouldn't mind hearing the below show - anyone attend the concert? Doesn't appear to be a source out there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_career_of_Barack_Obama

Below is a Suntimes piece. http://www.suntimes.com/14466939-761/chicago-jazz-icon-von-freeman-dead-at-88-walked-tuff-to-the-end.html

Hey Lou, I did find a trailer/clip of the U of C interview/performance that the filmmakers put together (see below). It doesn't look that WBEZ has yesterday's segment up, yet. Wish I made it down to the New Apartment more (only went twice), especially since it was so close to my place. He definitely was an interesting player. Would be cool to hear some of his stuff when he played with Jimmy Reed, but thus far I can't dig up any recordings.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/chi-von-freeman-dies-chicago-jazz-music-20120813,0,4655061,full.column LouieB should be the one starting this thread. Sad day for the Chicago jazz scene - he has been quite sick as of late (and quite old), so obviously not a surprise. Glad I caught him live a few times. WBEZ had a very nice segment this afternoon.

Like Springsteen - what an "abortion" ..... (i keed, i keed)

Rock Springs was a book I had to read in a college course --- great, great book. Speaking of Colorado - Kent Haruf (while at Southern Illinois University) was the one who assigned Rock Springs - Kent wrote a couple of books set in Colorado - both worth reading. Speaking of SIU, I am reading the below book - this is her first book of short stories - she is mostly writes poetry and also has a book of essay that focuses on her Multiple sclerosis . Not only is she a great writer - she was a great teacher. - Man, SIU had a great creative program in the early nineties. Rodney Jones and Ricardo Cruz

http://www.moogis.com/moogislive/ Moogis is running the Peach Fest today and tomorrow.

Same here - amusing as hell. I need to make it over to Sweden some day. The Oberhofer dude took it all in stride - which I thought was cool of him.

Seems like a nice late Friday afternoon choice.

Thanks for the heads up.

I am having fun with the Google homepage activities.

That's Steve Earle.

It started in 1967-8: George Wilcken Romney - go figure. Why? I suppose just for the "full disclosure" reasons. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Romney

Though I had it on, I had stuff going on during the first part so I did not catch a lot of it - the bit with Hidalgo was pretty cool - never heard the 58 Strat story before - it is a bit of a bummer that the guitar had a string missing. I missed Micky Hart's bit and the only time I saw Keys was while he was jamming with 7 Walkers - I am not sure if he gave an interview. I didn't catch any rude comments, though - hoping to catch it again in its entirety, though. I did catch quiet a bit of the performance - unfortunately I thought it was a little underwhelming - a bit boring if you will. It wa

Speaking of dough, now there is going to be new Garcia series. I was never a huge fan of this version of JGB - mainly because of the keyboards. http://jerrygarcia.shop.musictoday.com/Product.aspx?cp=640_57727&pc=JYCD49