Coming to you from the studios at the Illinois Rock and Roll Museum on Route 66. It's the Rock and Roll Chicago podcast Hey everybody, it's Ray the roadie and this is Hollywood Mike good evening. Good evening.

Good evening Oh, yeah, I guess would be good morning because it's gonna come out at midnight when it does come on Well, that's true. It would be good. Yeah, but you never know when people listen to it.

That's right. That's right So what you've been doing since Monday Oh out car shopping again. Yes.

Yep. Yep. Not for me Yeah, not for me for the other half And we went out Friday all day looking at cars and then finally bought one on Saturday good So now we have two new cars in the family.

Oh, that's nice So now I got to get the garage cleaned out so we can get them both in there So now I have another job Well, you've got you've got six friends around the table here the more and help, you know Help to come out do I was planning on and asking them when we're done, you know Or maybe put them on the spot during the interview I asked him and see how many of them volunteer to help out. Yeah, you know, but yeah, we We look we looked at we looked at Kia's at Toyota's and Nissan's and we probably should have looked at flatbed Fords Yeah, you probably should have should have but we did not well Why don't we take a look at him now? We can look at him right now because here they are the flatbed Fords Hi guys, how's it going? All six of you. Yes, indeed.

We're missing our button. We couldn't applaud for now We got to load up some sounds on there, but you know I'm gonna be your third grade teacher and ask you to it's your first day of school and you need to introduce yourself and let The people in the world know who you are. And what do you do with the flatbed Fords? Dean show lead guitar.

I'm Dean show There you go Ron Romero bass Joe de Giacomo keyboards Eric interval drums Jim Soka sitch guitar and Jim Coleman guitar and why are there so many of you? There's a lot of them I think it's the most we've ever had in here Yes, we broke her. Actually, we broke a record Monday and we were five again. Yeah, we have sex Yes, so tell everybody flatbed Fords and there's six to be in here.

So why do you need six people in a band? Come on? Because we don't use tracks Well, that's about that so there's we've got what we call guitar McGinn here We've got three guitar players. We've got a keyboard player drummer and everybody sings So yeah, like I said, we don't use tracks. It's all made by human any mistakes.

You hear are made by us. Excellent Excellent. Do you charge for them? Yes All right, and when you're doing Eagles you got to have that many voices there you go I was waiting for one of you guys to say it's good.

We're doing everybody there. Yeah, that's right It's a girl my lord in a flatbed Ford Love all great. Are you gonna be the seventh guy? All right number seven.

I Don't know. I'm looking around the room here. I'm thinking to myself, but we got to slice up the payment pie one more time That's right.

We'll be doing this for free. So where did this all come together? I know a few of you were together in some other groups and Yeah, Dean and I have been playing together for well shit. I was 27 at the time and I'm now 57 so for quite a long time Dean up We ran into each other Dean called on me He was selling beer and I was running a store and we got to talking and figured out that we both played guitar and he invited me over to his buddy's house and We had a little jam session and when an opening happened up in his band, which was Bullwinkle at the time I'm sure you guys probably heard that.

So they invited me to join and the rest so they say is history So see I knew there was alcohol involved in here at some point Absolutely, Bullwinkle was a really good band until it got a little rocky at the end. Oh, no Where's that rimshot song? We're gonna get we gotta load some stuff up. We're gonna pause for just a second so we can all beat the shit out of Seven beat himself.

So was that the start was that We can't edit everything out So that so was that the start of flatbed Fords or was that just the start of you guys playing that was a start of us actually flatbed Ford's came out when the three of us he replaced Jimmy Herter in Acoustic Avenue, and we we started playing and our vocals were working and we're honestly tired of playing bars and We're like well we should put a tribute together and Jim turned around and said well how about the Eagles since we you know, since our harmonies are right and that's where the flatboat Fords came out because we just wouldn't make it as a As like an 80s hair band tribute Unfortunately, there's not a genre of rock out there is like fat middle-aged guys We were looking at you know, one of the big things right now is of course the the cover bands and Jim I wanted to play in a band with Jim Coleman the other Jim in the band That for some time we've known each other for decades and decades and we've played on gigs together But never actually played in the same band together and about a year prior. I think to this happening we talked about getting together and putting something together and Jim said the same thing I did which was we're getting tired of playing clubs and you know Getting home at two o'clock with a hundred bucks in our pocket So we wanted to do something that we could sell maybe towards theaters and and move that way So we've been working on that for a while. So a couple years ago.

I Get a text message from Ron That said hey want to play keys for the Hall of Fame induction ceremony? I'm like sure and that kind of started us on our way. That's the Illinois Rock and Roll Museum on Route 66 Correct. Thank you, Ray.

Yeah, so Ron and Dean and Jim had already been together But I got pulled into that and then we just kept going. You know, they pulled me into the Electric Avenue Slash the infield band and so forth and so on and then we decided to be coming Eagles tribute band So so there's kind of a the common thread is that at one point or another every one of you guys have played with electric Avenue, is that is that pretty much the deal? Yeah, okay, so we're kind of bringing it we're kind of coming full circle I guess and doing something a little different yeah, and then We were looking for a drummer. We found our buddy back here the quiet one We call him George like from Beatles because he was the quiet one Eric comes to us from Morris and I think he's qualifies as the youngest in the band I think I used to run sound for him back and probably when you were in high school or something Anyway, we we called him up and asked him if he was available to do some stuff and he's also our art director here at The museum he does all the exhibits and stuff, too So it was a it was a bonus for us because we got a really good drummer That could make our business cards and her posters So as a win-win situation say hello So So are you doing like the artwork in the museum here just artwork like promotion and stuff Oh, I'm designing a lot of the exhibits with Larry Williams from Williams graphics and a few other people All right have their input and Ron comes up with ideas and we bring those to life Did you have anything to do with the muddy waters house and stuff right? Yeah, my concept originally Absolutely brilliant the people that have that have been in here and have seen it just absolutely love it and I do too I I think it's the best display in here.

I really do. Yeah, it's all starting to come together now. Yeah Yeah, we should you know, we should probably back up a little bit a little bit for a second here And I don't want to toot anybody's horn or you know or anything like that But we mentioned Ron Romero and we mentioned his name on this podcast a lot everybody This is the brainchild of mr. Ron Romero that's sitting right here for our listeners that are that are listening this he's the founder this is your idea to start this entire museum right to start the entire thing and You've spent a lot of years putting this together and probably yeah, but in talking and thinking about started out as just an idea in About 2015 2016 it was gonna be taken to a museum another museum in his exhibit The president there said it's bigger than this here So you should really go form a nonprofit look for a building And she helped me to start the board of directors and that's where we started right, right Yeah, so it's you know it's good to know for people who don't know who you are and only know of the Museum through the podcast is that the person that started this whole thing is actually music.

Well kind of a musician That's right, that's right, so that's important to know that oh boy so you guys so I mean you guys are Great we have heard you guys rehearsing when we've been doing the podcast and and everything and you guys you guys do a pretty darn Good job. So do you have any gigs or anything coming up on the horizon? Are you guys still kind of putting it together? No, we've actually we've got a couple of gigs already lined up now We're playing at the Roxy theater in Lockport. We're playing at the Morris theater in Morris and after that then Starting next year.

We're gonna start booking some of the theaters and we've got somebody who's interested in booking this at theaters for us But you know we talked about this for a while we want to earn our wings first and take some on some of the the easy smaller theaters to start out with And we're watching a lot of the other the other tribute acts. I mean they put some time into it Oh, yeah, and it's a big thing now, you know, you can you can go see the Eagles if you want I think tickets are going for 450 bucks to $4,500 right right or you can come see us for you know under 50 bucks Yeah, and and actually if you think about the original members in the Eagles and who's left I mean, yeah It's all perspective who is it is it is it Don Henley Don Henley? So Joe Walsh decided he's on he's there. He's not an original.

He's not all that. Well, he's not an original. Yeah Absolutely.

So are you guys focusing more on the older Eagle stuff or the newer? You are we are all over with we do some of the stuff like Individual Eagles when they were on their own and then we also do We also do like early stuff later stuff. So we're all over right, right yeah, so tell me a little bit about your your rehearsal process because I mean you can't really You know work on harmonies and everything at the same time. How you guys doing that? Well, we've kind of been splitting practices up as of the last few weeks where we rehearse without the drummer So we can really focus on the instruments and some of the vocals and harmonies how they all fit together That's being polite by saying so we can actually hear ourselves Probably But then we get together as a whole group and and run through everything to make sure the sounds exactly the way we want it So right, right.

So does everybody sing? I mean, you know, I do you all sing harmonies? First of all, even the drummer No, okay. All right. He sings.

We don't give him a micro. No, not that we don't give him a microphone it's just that we've already got five guys doing the vocals right and Lead in harmony. Everybody sings lead.

Everybody sings harmony. Okay, so But he does sing We just I don't know why we don't we need to give you a microphone. Yeah, there you go now I know one of the Came in late.

He says yeah, I've seen a couple of the of the other Eagles tribute bands that are out there and most of them really They don't really have a specific role, you know, just like can you sing this song? Sure. I can sing this song Can you sing this song? Sure. I can sing this song, right? It doesn't matter if it was a Don Henley song or a or a Glenn Frey song or whatever Do you guys have it kind of split up where okay, you know, you're the Glenn Frey.

You're the Don Henley. You're the Well, it didn't have we didn't set out to do it that way but it's kind of ended up that way where he does most of the Don Henley stuff and then Jim and I will split the The Frey stuff and I sing the Joe Walsh stuff Okay, so yeah, we kind of did fall into those roles and as far as guitar playing he's he's way better than I am so he takes the Don Felder stuff, right right I do the Joe Walsh stuff because It's close, right? But I did notice the guitars are very similar because I did see the double neck Was that a Gibson down there? Was it? It's the Gibson Epiphone. Yeah, whatever but it was white.

It looked like Don Felder's. Yeah, that's that's for sure. Yeah, I'm only using it for one song So, oh, you know, yeah, I couldn't bring myself to spend the money for the Gibson It's gonna take a while to pay that one off.

Yeah for one song at a time I wouldn't even bring that guitar out for one song. I'd go get a pedal Oh I know this guitar. Oh, yeah.

No, I know what it sounds like I I know it definitely has that sound but I'm I'm at the point now where I'm just like gosh I don't want to I don't want to haul all that crap around with me. Yeah, how many guitars you bring out with you? Well, it's gonna probably be about four. I think Dean Dean's bringing half the house with him.

So Okay, right right including a mandolin with Dean Yes, again, I did a pedal for that That one's easy I can put it in my pocket There you go, there you go. Well, I think I think we need to hear these guys do some harmonization Yes, we do. We need to hear a little bit of it.

They brought some acoustics with so Let's take a listen. Yeah, we'll be back in a minute. We'll be right back.

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That was excellent fantastic harmony I recommend saving your four hundred dollars and going to see these going to see he's got holy crap Those were great Really good, those are great harmonies and that's that's that's not an Eagles covered at you here No ever nobody does that because it's a tough song. Yeah, right. Absolutely.

It's very tough Well, honestly when we first started on this journey, that was the first thing I said, I'm like with with these voices I think we could nail seven bridges road and that's gonna be a big difference maker. Yeah, no kidding So who's the person that comes up with the songs and says we're gonna do this on this one this one is it a collab Oh, yeah. Yeah, you just you had it.

You can't all pick your favorite ones. Yeah, it's it's it's there we don't have a You know a person that goes we're doing this this and this it's like someone comes to it and you know And we say yes, and let's call one brings it then we shoot it down, right? And we've been talking about adding some of their solo songs in as well to kind of you know Do some Glenn Frey and Joe Walsh and a little bit of Henley. They have very successful careers as well Okay So everybody seems to be Pushing the microphone toward you when we ask a question about rehearsal and things like that Are you kind of like the honorary band leader or music director? Well? That's not so much more by default because I'm more of a perfectionist and I'm very critical about things So as we start to work on stuff I kind of you know I'm the grumpy guy that we need to do that again.

We need to do it again So and that was that was polite coach where I'm better than these guys. So they're And we need that he actually does keep us on track cuz he'll sit back and I'll go. Okay now, let's do it again It's got to be right.

Yeah, right, right Yeah, you have to have that one person in the band. Otherwise, you know, it kind of goes off the rails real quick Yeah, so what else you guys doing when you're not doing flatbed Fords you got anything else musically going on amongst yourselves Well, yeah, I do some solo shows I play, you know wine bars are usually down at montage down in Morris I'm there once a month and it's oh, yes, real, you know, chill giggle gig a couple hours. That is a nice place It is a very nice.

We're very blessed to have something like that in Morris. We've got a lot really nice downtown area Oh, yeah, you know, I love Morris Morris has kind of come a long way over the course of the like past 10 years or so Well, it's changed a lot We've tried to keep that and nostalgic kind of downtown theme going and a lot of a lot of towns don't have that downtown, right? Yeah, right. Absolutely.

Absolutely I'm just trying to get an idea about all the influences and stuff and while the sudden The Eagles came around so it's like how did you find yourself here? well, actually probably about 20 years ago Dean and I first thought about doing a An Eagles tribute band and we actually got together with Joey a couple times and just kind of ran through some stuff but it never really got off the ground and it's just always kind of been in the back of my head that I just always been a big fan of American vocal harmony like that, you know and the songs the songs are just outstanding, right? There's a there's a real reason why those guys made a lot of money Oh, absolutely. Absolutely And I mean were they an influence in your life or were you doing something completely different and just decided, you know I've always wanted to try this musically. Yeah.

Yeah, they're definitely one of my influences I growing up on the south side of Chicago REO Speedwagon sticks all the you know, all the usuals cheap trick, right? It's I mean so much great music came out of Chicago in Illinois for that matter, you know, which is Ron's passion, but right All of it, you know at some point or another, you know, you'll take the patchwork of all that you Smash all the glass you put it all together. You get a beautiful stained-glass window of Here it is, you know, here's my final Here's what I become because of all these influences right right and when we started this out We were this kind of came from an Electric Avenue gig and We were putting some different things together. We we had all sorts of songs in there It's classic rock.

Everybody does it and I think we hit a couple that were similar to Eagles and we threw in a couple of Eagles and And it was like yeah, no, no, I'll be so yeah but there were other things that and then it was just like Jim and I had already been talking about doing something and then Couple of songs came up and I'm like, I think we should try this We want to do a cover because one we have everybody that sings The other thing is if you do a Beatles tribute or kiss tribute, you have to dress like them If you're an Eagles tribute you put on flannel shirts and blue jeans Yeah, so I mean we don't we don't have to look the parts we don't have to look dress the the stage gear that kind of stuff, but really the Big part of that band the talent of that band was the music and the vocals and we concentrate on that, right? Right unless you're Joe Walsh because I've seen some Joe Walsh Performances over the course of the last like five to ten years or so and it's like he's wearing his pajamas He's got the big baggie colorful pants in the whole bit, that's why I'm so glad to be the Joe Walsh guy He just rolls out of bed shows up shows up at a gig Yeah, got the little feety pajamas on with the rabbit ears, right? Right, right, right. Mr. Quiet drummer over there Were you always into the Eagles or it always seems to be the drummer that comes out and says I was listening to like Danzig See My dad loved the Eagles when I was a little and I got into him I've always liked those bands of that era and Like Jim Crow. She has a big Jim Crow.

She fan growing up, but then I was in high school in the 80s So it was all hair metal. I played in a lot of cover bands where we just did, you know, Motley Crue and anthrax and Van Halen and all that kind of stuff. So is that what you were doing, you know immediately before you joined flatbed boards? No, I've been in some pretty eclectic bands and some punk rock bands.

And yeah last band before Kovat I was in was actually like a top 40 country band, but I only made it about six months before I couldn't take it But I was gonna say going from a country band to the Eagles that's not a that's not a big leap though But top 40 today's country. It's a kind of big leap. Okay.

Yeah. Yeah I read and really have to learn the songs and I just show up and play the same beat on every song pretty much Well, and that's and how long have you been with him Yeah, I think it's joined in like May or so right before the summer. Okay, so any any week now you should be out of here So so between flatbed for Z, okay, it was originally electric acoustic Avenue and then You guys had a little thing called the infield for a little while Yeah, that was that moment in between that we weren't sure what we were gonna do.

Oh So the story is this so the idea was that we had acoustic Avenue The idea was that we could we could sell the band almost in any formula It could go out as a single a duo a trio a band full band with drums or horn band So we had different names acoustic Avenue electric Avenue and then one was in names because it was touring guys it was in that one, but the idea was, you know, we had been doing that for I think about ten years and One of our principal players with Jimmy Herter who's now retired and in Arizona when he left We brought Jim in and I'm like, okay, this has changed a little bit. We're doing different types of music different styles of music It's not really electric Avenue as it used to be anymore and just at that point we got a call from somebody who said I'm giving you a call and giving you your seat cease and desist I play in a band called electric Avenue, and we're a touring band. I said we've had I we've had this name for ten years Yeah, we've been using it.

We have a website. We've been there. He goes.

Well, we actually trademarked the thing in the name we've opened up for Pat Benatar and you know, some like some really big touring acts and And I laughed and he goes well, what's so funny about that? I go. Well, we were just thinking about changing the name Just before he called so maybe there was some divine and now we're not You know that painful period of what do you call the band and There's so many names out there. I don't even know what we came up with There's there's one of them is there's a band of course called the outsiders from the 60s in the 80s There was a band called the insiders in the 80s.

There was a band called outfield. Why not do the infield? That's kind of how it came along. Yeah, right if anybody's interested Electric Avenue was episode 35 of the rock and roll Chicago.

Okay, no kidding. Yeah Very now we're on what? You have a so this is this episode. I believe will be episode 162 Wow Wow, we've come a little ways.

Yeah. Yeah, so I don't know I mean, I don't know how true this is. I've heard it I've heard it enough times to think that okay, there's got to be some truth to this But at least you guys didn't break up, you know And just completely disband at that point because my favorite country band was a band called Shenandoah, right? and The rumor is that the reason they broke up is because they got a ceased-and-desist letter from a trucking company Of the same name and it's like yeah Cuz you're gonna confuse a five-piece country band with a trucking company and the guys in the band just kind of went I'm tired of doing this.

Anyway, it's good It was no more the tough the tougher name was the Coming up the name for the Eagles tribute band when we started looking at all the tribute bands that are currently out there Right most all of them have already taken song titles and covers Yeah, so we were scratching our heads for a while trying to figure out what we were gonna do and we came up with I think very suitable Solution that we just stole probably one of the most famous lines from one of their songs, you know, yep borrowed it Borrowed it borrowed it fine line between you know, plagiarism and that's right. Yeah inspiration I was actually just thinking about that exact same thing because you're right all of the other tribute bands, you know And that seems to be the thing I don't care who you're paying tribute to you grab a name of their song and and make that the name of your band I it's I think it's more clever to go with flatbed Fords cuz Yeah, everybody's gonna associate it with the Eagles But it also kind of leaves it open to playing other stuff not just the Eagles because I mean flatbed Fords could be a rockabilly Band from wherever, you know, and they just decided to choose that name so that we actually took it a step further Besides the band. We're actually a company.

We're a limited liability company. And the name of the company is Winslow Entertainment. Oh Wow, why not take it a step further? Yeah Okay, so what's the big difference between being in just a regular run-of-the-mill cover band that that covers about 40 different bands and Being in a cover band that has to have a specific sound all the time Believe it or not.

It's way tougher Because you have to be You know with in a cover band you can you can you have some liberties, right? We've all taken liberties and cover bands and But in this you have to really be You know Spot-on with what you do. That's why we brought on we brought on another lead guitar player so we could do help just Hotel, California the right way, right and You know, so we it's it's a lot more Lot more work a lot more personal work than I think I've ever done right and I'm sure that you know I've known Jimmy forever. I know this is more work than he's ever done because He just shows up and it works You know, but I I do think it's a lot more to it because you're We're each holding ourselves more accountable and we hold the other people more accountable than we ever would in a cover band, right? Yeah, you've got to figure that your audience that's coming to see you They want to hear exactly what they hear when they press play on the CD.

Yeah, and that's that's what we're That's what we're about delivering. Yeah, especially if you're gonna if your vineyards are gonna be more theater, you know You can't forget about that theater aspect of the performance and yeah in a way you're playing characters in a way So so does that mean when you when you show up? It's like, okay, it's time to flip the switch, right? It's like a light switch now or Eagles right and then after you're done you go back to being your individual selves, right? Yep. Okay.

What do you have to do to prepare for stuff like that? Is it like back is it like in the locker room pregame and you're psyching each other up or what? How's that going? Such drugs and rock and roll we're trying to be the Eagles in the early 70s Although our choice of drug has changed since the 70s. You were more like Yeah Take one for diabetes and one for prostate. Yeah.

No, just kidding Does somebody come in and pick on each other so you start a fight and you're ready to kill each other before you go on stage when we I Take a handful of Advils before the show. Yeah, right Yeah, so so turning that switch and having to focus on one specific sound. Do you think that's continually helping you guys grow as musicians? Absolutely.

Yeah, yeah, I mean this has kind of been something that's been rolling around the back of my mind is doing this something like you know with the Eagles, but You didn't have we you know, the other bands and and people I was working with We just didn't have the personnel to do it. And now this is really a dream come true to have all these guys that can fill all of those spots and And take on those parts and make them sound like the like the record, right? Excellent Well, I think it's time to hear another one. It's time to hear a second song from these guys So let them get their stuff together and we'll be right back.

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You got me close your eyes. You're like, oh, yeah, no kid That that's really nice. Is this the part I should ask but clean my garage or no not yet Yeah, I was figure we save that afterwards.

Okay next door something like that. Okay. Yeah, I heard the flatbed Fords are buying tonight Are they I think that's what I heard Yeah, yeah, so I mean guys know where we're gonna be later.

Yeah, you do. Yeah So that's that's obviously one of the more popular songs do you guys make sure that you play all of their big hits or Do you do that, right? Yeah, we our first pass at a set list was what's the top 50? Eagle, you know, okay Popularity you just go to Spotify. Look at how many likes it's got right and that's dead.

Okay, right Yeah, the cool thing you're such a catalog of music from them that you've got so many albums filled with music It's it's not hard to find music to play right? Right? Yeah Yeah, you absolutely have to hit the keys, you know the key songs there's no doubt about that I mean, I've seen a lot of tribute bands where it's like, yeah, we're gonna be a tribute band But nobody wants to hear those songs that have been on the radio for 10 years So they're playing all the peace signs and stuff like that. Yeah, I can't imagine you're gonna get people going out. Yeah I'm pretty sure if we didn't do Hotel, California, they don't demand their money back now Now do you do the original recording or do you do that version where they kind of? Wimped it out a little bit It's pretty much like the original recording.

Yeah, you do. Okay. All right, that's good He can't play the other one.

Okay, sure. Sure. Yeah Yeah, what was it when they did that that was from the hell freezes over Yeah, something like that cuz I remember when I heard that for the first time and I was like what the hell is this? How do you take that guitar solo out of the end of this thing what do you do but no, that's good I'm glad to hear that.

Do you have you guys ever done it? Have you done the acoustic version live and kind of messed with it at one point? But we ended up going back to the original a we were trying to You know worried that the transition because people want to hear the recorded, you know The version they know and some of the folks would you know trying to figure that out? We might do that at some point but right we're gonna stay true to the original one for now Cuz that's the one I would be curious to you know Be a fly on the wall in the auditorium and they hear Hotel, California and everybody's wondering Okay Which one are they gonna do and I can imagine that you're gonna have half the crowd are gonna be like, oh man That's that's so cool that they that they changed it, right? They did the later version of it and you're gonna have the other Group like me going what the hell, right? We have an acoustic portion of the set plan. So maybe that would be something we could slide in there. Yeah, no kidding Yeah, that sounds sounds good.

Okay. So how do people find you? Maybe we should ask who's your webmaster? Who's the person doing this? That's me It's me I take care of the website But like all the merch stuff is actually Eric. That's part of the website to he takes care of that Yeah designs that was all the truth That website is flatbed Ford's comm Pretty simple easy to find you're also on Facebook because I see your posts on Facebook all the time Yes, I and I I absolutely love your Facebook posts.

Are you the one doing those? We've kind of split it Well, you kind of put up you put up facts about somebody from the Eagles or whatever I actually I love those. Those are like pieces of trivia throughout the day. Those are nice I like those and your merch is pretty cool, too Yeah, do you guys have any kind of demos recorded where people can actually get you off a Spotify or anything like that? I'll have this for sale before the night is out Yeah, no, you know what? We haven't really gotten to that because we've been concentrating on Going to these gigs if funny thing is acoustic Avenue electric Avenue as we booked those for the ten years No exaggeration for the ten years that we booked that I never gave out any Any demos at all? We never had we never gave a tape or CD or anything.

We just booked it those days are over So yeah, yeah, but eventually we'll get to the studio. We did some studio recording just kind of for ourselves so that we can kind of Divide and conquer those songs so we knew where we were but it's nothing that we're gonna use as demos again Yeah, yeah No, we talked about that on the podcast all the time those days of you know having a box of you know promo packs in the back of your car when you see a bar or someplace and you pull over To the side of the road and want to hand out a promo back That's over just have a business card tell whoever it is where they can go and listen to your stuff electronically or here's there's videos On our Facebook page. I mean that stuff was great I don't miss the days remember two days when you have to go around and put flyers under windshield I'm I wouldn't share that stuff That's over and done with man and the younger bands nowadays don't realize you guys did what? Yeah, we actually went out and worked Yeah, we actually did that you know awesome and you mentioned a couple of gigs you have coming up what were those dates again the first one is November 17th.

Yeah next Friday Friday November 17th at the Roxy and then December 8th at the Morris Theatre Okay, more selling on you know. I haven't been in them into the Morse theater theory yet, but the Roxy The rocks is cool place you guys are good. Have you guys played there yet? No no We I think we sold that and sold that out in about a week week and a half something like that It was sold out so one pretty quick.

I love that love that theater. Yeah, it's great We we actually we actually had the manager of the theater on a podcast Jessica on the podcast and Cadillac group has played there a couple times For the people who are gonna come out and see you I always like people to let them know that the inside of this place looks like an old movie theater from the 40s Art Deco yeah, and there's even they even have the original film projector right at the front door when you walk in and When you walk into the building you feel like you're transported back in time. I mean yeah, it is but a classy speakeasy like The first time we played there we requested that everybody showed up wearing you know men We're wear a nice pair of pants wear a coat wear a tie if you want wear a hat ladies put on a dress You know dress up you know to come out And we were absolutely shocked how many people walked to the door men were wearing suits a couple of guys rented tuxedos Women were wearing either wearing evening gowns.

It was fantastic. It really was so yeah promote the show I hopefully I don't have anything going on so I can see you guys Be a lot of fun. Yeah great Alrighty well, thanks for coming out tonight even though you were here to rehearse anyway Thanks for having us in our studio That's right folks they were here anyway, yeah, that's right.

That's right. Thank you guys for doing this and thanks for doing the podcast I know you said 165 or whatever 162 you're gonna 162. Yeah, so congrats on the long run on your show and stuff, too So thank you for this wonderful studio very happy to have it here and have you guys here Yeah, we have a lot of fun doing this yes.

We do Alrighty well. We'll see you out at the theater. I'm good.

Thanks guys. Thanks Well I forgot to ask them if they're gonna come and clean my garage. Oh, we forgot that yeah, no kid Yeah, bring the flatbed forward haul away some stuff That's all see that would be perfect to get rid of all the crap out of the garage so I can get the cars in yeah But that was a lot of fun.

What they really sound good their harmonies are spot-on. I was impressed. I there's there's at least two other Eagles tribute bands that I know of They don't have the harmonies like that no that was you can tell they worked on the harmonies They put a lot of time and effort into this and it shows tracks.

No nothing nothing fantastic No fantastic excellent, and I like the whole the theater gig that they're doing yeah, no bars No, it's just a theater atmosphere. It's kind of cool right right like that so the Roxy if you guys are in the area go and Go and check them out at the Roxy because I think they said there that might be sold out, but oh that's right At least Morris. You know our theater They may have sold out all the tickets, but I bet you if I mean there's tons of stuff to do in that downtown Oh, yeah, right if you just went there and said hey, I want to get in I don't think they turn anybody probably not I don't think they do There's a lot of theaters out there for them to play.

I mean as what we were talking I was thinking of like the acorn out in Michigan. Yep. Yeah, you get the Hobart Arts Theater, and Indiana's there's there are theaters out there There's the Hemmings auditorium over in Elgin there you go.

That's another good one. Yeah, but you know the Roxy though When they say that they sold out, I think what they're referring to because there's two rooms There's the there's the performance room the theater, and then there's the bar area, so I think they've sold out the seats Right in the auditorium, but there's still a bar area Oh, you can go into the bar, and they've and they've got video monitors, and so okay You know throughout the bar as you haven't been in there yet I mean and then there's big double doors that open up so even if you're sitting all the way in the back of the bar You can see through the doors, and you can see the band on okay very cool All righty well we recommend you go to see these guys They've been playing for a long time, and they just seem to be getting better and better at it Yeah, absolutely and as usual Thanks for listening to the podcast and make sure you check us out every Tuesday for another exciting episode of the rock and roll Chicago podcast see ya The rock and roll Chicago podcast is edited by Paul Martin theme song courtesy of M&R Rush the rock and roll Chicago Podcast does not own the rights to any of the music heard on the show the music is used to promote the guests that are featured