Comments on: Monday: The day after Sunday, when I often blog. http://blogfreespringfield.com/monday-the-day-after-sundway-when-i-often-blog Con maldad hacias sombreros rojo. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:37:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: marvel vs capcom 3 http://blogfreespringfield.com/monday-the-day-after-sundway-when-i-often-blog/comment-page-1#comment-3911 marvel vs capcom 3 Sat, 22 Jan 2011 08:00:27 +0000 http://blogfreespringfield.com/monday-the-day-after-sundway-when-i-often-blog#comment-3911 hi you guys, I was just checkin' out this blog and I really admire the foundation of the article, and have nothing to do, so if anyone wants to have an engrossing convo about it, please contact me on twitter, my name is ray johnson hi you guys, I was just checkin’ out this blog and I really admire the foundation of the article, and have nothing to do, so if anyone wants to have an engrossing convo about it, please contact me on twitter, my name is ray johnson

]]> By: Tammy (your wife) http://blogfreespringfield.com/monday-the-day-after-sundway-when-i-often-blog/comment-page-1#comment-2813 Tammy (your wife) Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:44:30 +0000 http://blogfreespringfield.com/monday-the-day-after-sundway-when-i-often-blog#comment-2813 My favorite live music event(paid or free) we've ever seen together (pre-SBBS) would have to be Belly!xoxo But, if Ed n Denise Deters had not crashed our first date, it could've been Julianna Hatfield. Great show, but too many chaperones! My favorite live music event(paid or free) we’ve ever seen together (pre-SBBS) would have to be Belly!xoxo

But, if Ed n Denise Deters had not crashed our first date, it could’ve been Julianna Hatfield. Great show, but too many chaperones!

]]> By: Mike de la Loyola http://blogfreespringfield.com/monday-the-day-after-sundway-when-i-often-blog/comment-page-1#comment-2808 Mike de la Loyola Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:20:33 +0000 http://blogfreespringfield.com/monday-the-day-after-sundway-when-i-often-blog#comment-2808 Your hipness quotient is actually enhanced if you've never heard of it ... but sadly, if you've had a few beers with Rob you've heard it. As for Rogers Park - ah, the Heartland. I remember their beer menu was the most extensive I'd ever seen, back before microbrews and wacky imports were de rigeur everywhere else. I also recall really tasty vegetarian chili - which seems like an oxymoron but isn't. It's still there, I guess ... Jefferson Starship, Pete Best (yes, that one) and Greg Ginn are some of the upcoming shows. Ah, the old 'hood. Now, as for Rogers Park institutions, what about the Oasis? Per a google search, still there, still open till 5am, and still the same crowd (from one review: "Here's the scene: regulars that have been planted at the bar for almost 8 hours. Sloppy drunk undergrads. And a weird mix of others that don't fit into those two categories...)... now THAT is amazing! Your hipness quotient is actually enhanced if you’ve never heard of it … but sadly, if you’ve had a few beers with Rob you’ve heard it.

As for Rogers Park – ah, the Heartland. I remember their beer menu was the most extensive I’d ever seen, back before microbrews and wacky imports were de rigeur everywhere else. I also recall really tasty vegetarian chili – which seems like an oxymoron but isn’t. It’s still there, I guess … Jefferson Starship, Pete Best (yes, that one) and Greg Ginn are some of the upcoming shows. Ah, the old ‘hood.

Now, as for Rogers Park institutions, what about the Oasis? Per a google search, still there, still open till 5am, and still the same crowd (from one review: “Here’s the scene: regulars that have been planted at the bar for almost 8 hours. Sloppy drunk undergrads. And a weird mix of others that don’t fit into those two categories…)… now THAT is amazing!

]]> By: nancy http://blogfreespringfield.com/monday-the-day-after-sundway-when-i-often-blog/comment-page-1#comment-2807 nancy Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:13:13 +0000 http://blogfreespringfield.com/monday-the-day-after-sundway-when-i-often-blog#comment-2807 Dan You know it. You've heard it. It features such great hits as "Free James Brown" and "White Boy, Plastic Soul", a tribute to Rick Astley. Dan

You know it. You’ve heard it. It features such great hits as “Free James Brown” and “White Boy, Plastic Soul”, a tribute to Rick Astley.

]]> By: Dan http://blogfreespringfield.com/monday-the-day-after-sundway-when-i-often-blog/comment-page-1#comment-2805 Dan Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:20:11 +0000 http://blogfreespringfield.com/monday-the-day-after-sundway-when-i-often-blog#comment-2805 What is this "Guitar-B-Que" of which you speak? Is my hipness quotient taking a hit for not knowing of this? What is this “Guitar-B-Que” of which you speak? Is my hipness quotient taking a hit for not knowing of this?

]]> By: Mike de la Loyola http://blogfreespringfield.com/monday-the-day-after-sundway-when-i-often-blog/comment-page-1#comment-2804 Mike de la Loyola Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:54:52 +0000 http://blogfreespringfield.com/monday-the-day-after-sundway-when-i-often-blog#comment-2804 Ahh, Jim, Jim. Dan is right, not exactly your tortured artist type ... I always thought he was in it more for the girls and cars, but on top of all that he had a titanic ego. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, and -- as with political candidates -- it's probably necessary for making it to the top, but I think it made it really hard for him to deal with the end of Material Issue's 15 minutes (OK, really, like 3 minutes of fame). Jim was the main producer of the now-legendary (since it never came out and nobody ever heard it) "Guitar-B-Que" album, so Rob and I (and other non-readers of this blog) spent a lot of time with him during the summer of - yikes - 1989. Jim was, pure and simple, a rock star waiting to happen. I remember him as about 6'3", skinny as a fencepost, with tight black jeans and a borderline pompadour ... as far as he was concerned, the rock world was waiting for his three-piece power pop to rescue it from the doldrums of late-80s crap, and it was just a matter of time. I never knew him during the semi-famous years, but it seemed like MI got some radio play, some minor hits, but then kinda stalled. I was really sad when I heard about his death, since despite his ego he was never a jerk, at least not to me. I was even sadder when I saw how cheesy his gravestone was: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pis&GRid=2347&PIgrid=2347&PIcrid=107685&PIpi=77404&ShowCemPhotos=Y& Ahh, Jim, Jim. Dan is right, not exactly your tortured artist type … I always thought he was in it more for the girls and cars, but on top of all that he had a titanic ego. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, and — as with political candidates — it’s probably necessary for making it to the top, but I think it made it really hard for him to deal with the end of Material Issue’s 15 minutes (OK, really, like 3 minutes of fame).

Jim was the main producer of the now-legendary (since it never came out and nobody ever heard it) “Guitar-B-Que” album, so Rob and I (and other non-readers of this blog) spent a lot of time with him during the summer of – yikes – 1989. Jim was, pure and simple, a rock star waiting to happen. I remember him as about 6′3″, skinny as a fencepost, with tight black jeans and a borderline pompadour … as far as he was concerned, the rock world was waiting for his three-piece power pop to rescue it from the doldrums of late-80s crap, and it was just a matter of time.

I never knew him during the semi-famous years, but it seemed like MI got some radio play, some minor hits, but then kinda stalled. I was really sad when I heard about his death, since despite his ego he was never a jerk, at least not to me.

I was even sadder when I saw how cheesy his gravestone was:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pis&GRid=2347&PIgrid=2347&PIcrid=107685&PIpi=77404&ShowCemPhotos=Y&

]]> By: M.B. http://blogfreespringfield.com/monday-the-day-after-sundway-when-i-often-blog/comment-page-1#comment-2799 M.B. Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:30:53 +0000 http://blogfreespringfield.com/monday-the-day-after-sundway-when-i-often-blog#comment-2799 Ahhh, Rogers Park, where my apartment was broken into once and my car twice.....all in one month. I remember it fondly. Ahhh, Rogers Park, where my apartment was broken into once and my car twice…..all in one month. I remember it fondly.

]]> By: Dave http://blogfreespringfield.com/monday-the-day-after-sundway-when-i-often-blog/comment-page-1#comment-2798 Dave Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:27:18 +0000 http://blogfreespringfield.com/monday-the-day-after-sundway-when-i-often-blog#comment-2798 "Tracto capulum" might be close. “Tracto capulum” might be close.

]]> By: nancy http://blogfreespringfield.com/monday-the-day-after-sundway-when-i-often-blog/comment-page-1#comment-2797 nancy Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:40:21 +0000 http://blogfreespringfield.com/monday-the-day-after-sundway-when-i-often-blog#comment-2797 Talk to Rob, and Mike de la Loyola might chime in too regarding Elison. That's too bad about the Drovers singer being a jerk and about the poor turn out. That is one fun show if you have a good crowd. My favorite show was at a little vegetarian restaurant in Rogers Park called Heartland Cafe (anyone? anyone?). Talk to Rob, and Mike de la Loyola might chime in too regarding Elison.

That’s too bad about the Drovers singer being a jerk and about the poor turn out. That is one fun show if you have a good crowd. My favorite show was at a little vegetarian restaurant in Rogers Park called Heartland Cafe (anyone? anyone?).

]]> By: Dan http://blogfreespringfield.com/monday-the-day-after-sundway-when-i-often-blog/comment-page-1#comment-2796 Dan Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:54:39 +0000 http://blogfreespringfield.com/monday-the-day-after-sundway-when-i-often-blog#comment-2796 I did remember your Drovers connection. When they played here several years ago I mentioned it to the lead singer after the show. He was kind of a jerk, but I think he was pissed because there wasn't a very big crowd for the show. It was some ill-fated downtown fall festival, but it was cold and rainy that evening, and Tammy and I were about the only ones there that seemed to have heard of them. I didn't know Rob was friends with Jim Elison. I had read that his suicide was completely unsuspected because he wasn't a tortured artist, i.e., Kurt Cobain. I did remember your Drovers connection. When they played here several years ago I mentioned it to the lead singer after the show. He was kind of a jerk, but I think he was pissed because there wasn’t a very big crowd for the show. It was some ill-fated downtown fall festival, but it was cold and rainy that evening, and Tammy and I were about the only ones there that seemed to have heard of them.

I didn’t know Rob was friends with Jim Elison. I had read that his suicide was completely unsuspected because he wasn’t a tortured artist, i.e., Kurt Cobain.

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