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 once again once again once again. No, thank God you're here every week You know, yeah, I always worry you're not gonna show up some night now.

I'm gonna be all by myself Oh, I think you could handle it. I know I could I know I could but you know What happens if I got to go to the bathroom or something and when you're talking? I usually leave and wander around the museum and then I come back and okay pick up from where we left off I'm glad you said that because I wasn't about to hold it To I didn't expect you to Hopefully this is not that type of a show. No.

No, no, not at all. Not at all So you folks are hearing some other voices out there tonight joining us a band called Brookwood Drive How you doing guys doing great? How about yourselves? Great. Great.

Great. Why don't you go ahead and introduce yourselves? Tell us who you are and what you play. My name is Mark Miller I'm the guitar player and a lead vocalist for Brookwood Drive.

All right, a Bob Bob Rowdy's play keyboards And the secondary vocalist for Brookwood Drive Carlos Gonzalez bass For Brookwood Drive, thank God you're telling because now if he said like I'm with some other band to be like, whoa What's going on? And and you notice ironically? What what did we read about him a man of few words a man of few words? Yes on your and your little bio. They're like, oh look at this. It's few words We were gonna have Carlos actually do the majority of the talking today Also, we have another member that couldn't be with us today's At home convalescing.

He's a hill. His name is our Glover, Washington, and he's our fantastic drummer. Let's hear it for Glover I Well, the won't want was for his illness, well, that's why the board that's why the board is going That's why the board's getting out of it.

We're gonna get a new one. Yeah, so lives on Brookwood Drive. I do You know pretty much Sitting around one day, you know thinking about what are we gonna name this project? You know, so we came up with a you know, a bunch of different names and I don't know How do we set on Brooklyn Drive for that? The process is always you can't really decide on something that appeals to the the group It's got to be something generic.

So, you know also to some of these guys are old in our band, you know, so Something just coming up with something that they couldn't remember, you know, what it would have been hard So we rehearsed at Brookwood Drive. So hey, let's call it that So what were some of the names that that got beat by Brookwood Drive Cold shot. All right Bob Rowdy Mark Miller Carlos Gonzalez Glover, Washington project That was hard to find a URL yeah Somebody taking that already So we're coming with a bunch of various different names I like that frosty from one of my favorite songs by Albert Collins, you know, so I kind of like that but People started thinking about that that frosty the snowman thing, right? All right, so we had to feel stay away from that, you know copyright infringement and all that cocaine Yeah, yeah the whole thing.

Yeah, we were trying to keep it legit I Were you really gonna call the band cocaine? No, no, it's just going with the frosty the frosty snowman Because you would have probably got some people go to your shows. Can you see our team tonight cocaine? free of charge Yeah, no cover I Believe that's the that's the reason why bare-naked ladies are called bare-naked late exactly marquees tonight barely naked ladies and everybody's coming in So is it an assumption that you're the one that put the whole band together? How did that how did that all come about? it's kind of like a Maybe Complications of things of other ideas from other people. We've had some other lineup members, you know, it started out I actually hadn't played for years and figured hands, you know getting up there in age Why not still live the dream while it's still in my heart, you know what I mean? so I ran a couple ads and then some of the Local musician search engines and stuff like that, you know and Got a call from Bob and then went from Bob to Carlos from Carlos to Glover and it all just fit Okay, so so Bob you actually then put the band together basically if you started calling everybody, right? No, actually, it was mark.

It was mark. Yeah, it was mark. Oh Understood.

I thought yeah, I thought you got a call from why I got while I actually ran in there Well, like I say before we had a different Let's play with a different drummer and a different bassist and Things just didn't really, you know pan out between us. So I decided to keep it going. So what I did ran an ad We got Bob Bob came on and then Bob kind of took over from there.

He's like our Quincy Jones. So, okay, he does it Okay, well you guys all got together Those are some big shoes to fill I can't believe how many people I fired already Which brings up a point, you know, I was recently in an accident, you know, and I say Eight hours afterwards. He was like well mark.

Can you still sing if we replace you on guitar? I was like eight hours man It's not even 24 hours Yeah, it kind of hurt We had six gigs lined up for you know, I was a floor Gigs lined up now too bad, you know two weekends back-to-back So yeah, and I was in Seattle and I got that news in the morning And then of course, you know, I pretty much just woke up So I got into a panic and didn't have my coffee to start off the day. I'm sorry I really apologize. When did this all come together? How long ago when when you fired me? I've been on board for about a year and a half.

Okay, so Bob and Mark had been doing this for at least two and a half years. I want to say no No, no to maybe to you to kind of put this together during the pandemic. Yeah.

Yeah, this isn't like 2021. Okay What kind of backgrounds you guys you said you hadn't played in a while. Yeah, you two guys.

Have you been playing with anybody? I took it. I took a break after 2016 Decided to get back into it prior to that. I was you know Subbing for other bands, that's something I usually do but it was kind of the thing that brought me out of where I was.

Okay background of country rock blues There's a lot of work for bass players that you know are available. Mm-hmm Yep, and can play right and I'm not saying I'm the you know answer to everything but There's a demand like like drummers and bass players if you can find one stick with it. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, right, right So when you guys came together was it was it a consensus that we're gonna go Rhythm and blues route or did you have that discussion decide what kind of band you guys wanted to be? Yeah, I want to say it was it was There in the beginning, but then there's there's different elements to which kind of attracted me in a sense where it's not just one lane Of rhythm and blues. There's there's a rock element. There's there's a jazz element.

There's a reggae song that that mark has You'd have to hear it sure. Sure. No, it's it's not just one one lane of music Right.

This is a you guys do original music. Yes. Yes.

Okay, predominantly or we mix them We mix the two, you know originals and covers, you know, and that way I think by using some of the covers And most of the covers that we do play a more obscure covers, you know things that You might not have ever heard from that artist, you know besides right, right, right and we make them a side Is it's just a tone, you know for our genre that we're trying to feel, you know I know we're not just a blues band But we are blues band if you can understand what I'm saying, right? I'm gonna do a little bit of everything right, right, right So give us an example We just want people to understand who you are and what to do So give us give us an example of like a cover song you would do that would be more like the b-side of a of a band I Don't know good saying groceries. We actually open up. Yeah, we open that one off that song on our sets Yeah, so we'd be yeah, it's and it's it's a hot version.

Who's whose version do you do? We kind of mix it, you know versions kind of like John me. Oh See, that's mighty wedding to the bird, you know, but gotta have wet willies too, though Yeah, right, you know, so we kind of mix it only with a little bit more funkier. I think right, right, right I love John male.

I love everything that he does and I don't know what it is I was in I was in San Diego, California about 10 years ago and I was there for of all places like a scientific Research convention and somebody says there's this place you can walk to from here was like this triple level You know, like it was a bar in a restaurant like fourth and B or something like that Something like that, right and I get there and there's this long line out the door and the cover charge is $30 And I was like, well what's going on here? So I walk up the person I said, why is this a $30 cover charge? And they said well John male and the Blues Breakers are playing here tonight I was like you got to be kidding me for $30 cover charge and I walked in here and all these people are standing in There supposedly John male fans, right and I walk in there's John male Sitting over at the corner of the bar completely by himself. Nobody's talking to him as you sit at the car He's literally 20 feet from the front door. These people don't know who he is.

He's drinking a dr. Pepper He's got a stack of his CDs that he's selling. Oh I walked I walked over to him and introduced myself in the whole bit and he Pushed the chair out and sat down and I sat down there for 20 minutes talking to John male drinking a doctor But I hate dr.

Pepper when I got you ever gonna meet you. I was gonna trick that damn dr. Pepper And I bought a bought a CD signed it for me.

I went upstairs at dinner was a fantastic show I'm standing everything and I think I got lucky that night cuz that night he had Coco Montoya guitar with all right All right. All right. Yeah.

Yeah, it was a good time. But but yeah, no, that's a good song I absolutely love grits and groceries. It's a great song.

So who's the writer in the band? Bob and I both right, okay Well Mark and I both write the original material. So we're waiting for Carlos to you know, kick in with some stuff I know Glover's been talking about some stuff, you know, he's been bitching about work and We all we need to write a song about them. I will go ahead Wait, I think there's been about a hundred thousand blue songs bitching about work But see our blue songs are about bitching about work or about that yeah Yeah, like if I hear this man talk about his job one more time Okay, so so what's the what's the whole writing process for you you guys get together on a regular basis Did somebody come up with an idea and you say okay you write your drum part you write your keyboard part I mean, how does it come up come up for you guys? We'll come up with the Basis for a song or I might have an idea or something like that You know, I kind of write a little bit different than Bob, you know, I'm music first then Lyrics like the night before we go to the studio You know, it's just a pressure thing for me because my lyrics to me they have to mean something to me, right? You know, not just something spacey or whatever like that, you know Once we present it, you know guys like it we work from there, you know add your own feel to it your own You know parts to the song.

That's what gives us the brookwood drive flavor, you know, right, right, right That's what all comes in. Yeah, usually I end up just at home. I end up coming up with an idea I came up with a story or I see something and then I kind of start getting some words put together and I put the music in there Kind of put the basics down bring it in and play it and then everybody kind of puts their own stuff to it, right? I like why baby why though was different? Yeah, whatever wasn't there that night and all of a sudden Carlos and and marks are putting this riff together So I hop behind the kit.

I just started putting a beat to it And he starts putting the words to it like right away I Just came right out right really? Yeah a lot of times I guess it's um You know for me it's easy to write if I don't think about writing right, right, you know It's like playing us being musicians all of us here at the stable here, you know I never made money playing until I stopped worrying about making money playing right? That's how it happens man, you know, so it's the same thing with the writing process You know, if I really try to hammer something out, it just didn't work, you know for me like that Yeah, yeah, I gotta have a feeling at that that you know, you know, I'm saying yeah No, I can't sit down and say okay You know what? I haven't written a song in a long time. So from 8 o'clock to 10 o'clock tonight I'm gonna go sit downstairs and I'm gonna write a song right? Nothing, that's like sitting on the toilet without having to go. Exactly.

Exactly That's the title of your next song that's Only our songs gonna be about bitching about sitting on the toilet and don't have to go I'm sitting on the toilet at work Gotta get the work. Oh, that's funny. So what's your what's your favorite song Carlos that that you guys perform? And I would have to say it's one of one of Mark's creations it's called addiction train addiction train Yes, okay.

All right, and you'd have to hear it I thought we'd be listening to some of this this material and I brought it with but oh, it's we will add it Okay. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, it'll be it'll be it'll all go into it for sure Yeah, so it's it's it's it's musically.

It's it's challenging for all of us and Lyrically it it it's very expressive. It's it's it's a story in itself. Okay, describe it.

What's what kind of rhythm? upbeat How would you describe it It's got a rock feel to it. It's kind of a rocky blue feel but it's a good groove though Okay, you know, it's not nothing, you know, nothing too fast. Nothing too slow, but just Nice I Attribute that the Rocksteady beat to Glover Glover, Washington the drummer just he just holds it real tight and every just falls in it's it's It's an accomplishment something tells me that there's a little bit more to all of your backgrounds You know, we interview like the band that was in here before you guys are a bunch of young guys You guys are more seasoned like we are I'd like to know a little bit more about where you guys came from And what inspired you at first to play music? I've been playing Off and on since I was a kid since about eight years old.

Okay start off playing violin then bass and guitar so and that you know, it took me out of The element that I was in growing up, you know I grew up on South Side Chicago and it was kind of tough back then as it is now But it also gave me I was a little different, you know, I mean I was listening to like Black Sabbath man Yeah stuff like that, you know the guitar players, you know, oh, yeah, and it was fantastic, you know So but that kind of kept me going it also gave me Gave me Something different, you know, I mean, especially growing up in city sometimes, you know, you get caught up in the city You know something different than just doing the sports thing and stuff like that all the time music was considered being more maybe nerdy Yeah, definitely, but music was a lot easier getting the women than you're out there being busted up on the football Worked out pretty good with that From there for me was University of Illinois from University of Norwich United States Marine Corps. I'm a former Marine Corps one officer From there to Department of Justice. I retired from the United States Border Patrol You know now I am I work at one of the VA hospitals in Chicago, okay Yeah, gotcha Yeah Any of you guys ever do any touring as a musician or has it always been more kind of like a hobby type kind of Thing for you.

I've done some touring thing back in the day I guess a in-between I'm fortunate enough to have like government jobs where I could take two months off You know for my vacation, I would do like mini tours and stuff like that So yeah, and you know hung out like George Clinton back in the day, you know things like that Worked out pretty good for me. You know and After a while, you know life took over man family kids, you know, yeah Did you actually tour with George Clinton or just I've done some of the funk fest with them you have okay? Yeah, I knew you had something else going Guess how about the stage outfit? Oh, we're gonna go ahead and steal Parliament's diaper scene from a man I When is that gig I'll make sure that that's when we don't go Sponsored by Depends. Yeah.

Yeah. I what about you Carlos? What else you got going on? geez Lee started playing guitar at about nine and dropped it because I didn't catch on the sight reading or doing that Picked it up again when I was 14 playing by ear before the Internet You had to sit down with a record scratch your record, you know, trying to learn trying to learn the riff over and over discovered that I was a better bass player than a guitar player Once when I got a four-track recorder I had to do all my own parts with a drum machine and guitars and yeah like wow, I really like bass Well, there's there's too many extra strings with guitars with the bass. You only got three Yeah It's exactly how it worked out but it before the ones for show.

Yeah, it's just made more sense to me I've always I've always gravitated towards drums and that you know to me to just be there to Translate the melody into a beat. It's always been It's fulfilling right, right? So it's been it's been 30 40 years. Okay, you know Yeah, just local bands.

Nothing really serious any torn for you The islands the islands Blue Island You're listening to the rock and roll Chicago podcast It's kind of boring I started when I was six my mom saw me like plunking away at my grandmother's player piano So my dad and my uncle brought it back from her house. They took it the whole thing apart Built it back up into the basement. I started playing so I got the lessons and It was all classical for years and years and years and got into got into high school the high school teacher music teacher heard me play and Also, she got all crazy excited and signed me up for this music competition to compete to get into Juilliard Well, I'm freaking out because I'm 14 years old and I don't want to play classical me because this was a drag, right? I'm playing classical music.

All my friends are playing a Mozart when you're gonna come out and play football You're gonna say did they really call you Mozart? Yeah, you know one guy called me Mozart the other guy called me Beethoven I was surprised they even both knew what who they were So if you're both listening you're an idiot So Classical teacher was was actually he played with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Right, so he worked work kind of rushing around trying to find two pieces I got one classical piece and the other one I played was Deep-purple smoke on the water Wow, and I had to improvise for a Juilliard for Juilliard, right? I had to improvise so and by that time I already started picking stuff up by ear Playing along with WLS and I'm playing stuff like back off boogaloo from Ringo Starr, you know, just picking it up and I have that 45 The judge asks me who my favorite composer is and I'm freaking out thinking oh, man I don't want to go play a classical music for the rest of my life And I said Elton John and the guy took her glasses off and he goes Elton John I said, yeah, and I knew I who was a classical pianist, by the way So I killed my chances there which you know, which is really stupid in retrospect and after that it was just wedding bands and some other You know garage type bands playing locally all over the place did a actually made some good money playing the wedding wedding stuff And then prior to prior to these guys that was with the Southside Exiles Yeah, so we we had a number of years there actually two of the guys there were high school friends Okay, so we started we were in our first band together, too So then I decided I needed to play some more and saw this guy and saw his face on an ad and thought I'd try it out Wow, just on my face Yeah, you look like a blue sky, I don't know I look old he's pretty he is so pretty Now see I knew there was more I knew there was more to the story see if I were if I was telling if I was Telling Bob's story. I would have started off with well see at six years old I was a child prodigy and then I built and then I built my own piano in the basement And the first time I played was for it for a teacher and I just completely blew him away and he said you need to be in Juilliard and We're putting that on the website, but on the website, that's your new bio But yeah things, you know things just It's kind of like faith man. Yeah, we all came together.

So yeah, I think it's working out pretty good We've got a great sound. Hi. I'm Rick Anthony I'd like to thank my radio brothers Ray the roadie and Hollywood Mike for allowing me to tell you about my podcast The someone you should know podcast we spotlight musicians authors and interesting people and we like to say We're making a difference one artist at a time The podcast is heard twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays and you could check it out on your favorite streaming platforms and on the web At someone you should know podcast.com. That's the someone you should know podcast with me Rick Anthony making a difference one artist at a time I'm Christy from crime cave podcast I've had a huge interest in true crime since my days of watching marathons of snapped back in the mid 90s I needed an outlet to talk about the cases that have haunted me for a very long time With each episode under 20 minutes.

I shine a light on some of the most bizarre cases in the last 50 years Join me in the crime cave Bob's gonna tell you guys when our next show is gonna be next show's coming up October 6th at the Hardrock Casino in Gary, Indiana, then we got October 13th at Q bar in Darien and then the 20th at the Moonlight Theater in st. Charles and then November 9th will be at Buddy guys nice nice, and you'll be healed by then hopefully I'm hopefully I'm healed by the end of the month So that was recent that we almost fired him yes, right, yes Three weeks ago to this day. Yeah, no, that's good.

Then he heard his hand and they felt sorry for him. Yeah. Yeah That's rough.

It is rough. It's really rough. You know, I mean from you know, what guy and it also brings a New concept to me as far as I I really feel for those who don't have the full mobility You know, I mean just having two hands one day the next day just one right, you know It's uh, yeah, it puts a lot of things of perspective, you know, I mean, so Won't take a lot of things for granted anymore.

That's for sure So and even to I look at this as a blessing, you know, we needed some time We were taking a month of September off anyway, right, you know So if this is gonna happen, this was kind of like the almost the perfect time for it to happen, you know But in the shows that we had to cancel definitely we will rebook, you know once we you know get back at it So the whole thing is is about just taking my time and kind of a blessing and doing it the right way, right? You know, so I'm just come along pretty good Tomorrow and I should be able to start a physical therapy off that and should be back ribbon like yourself, man Should be back riffing here in a couple weeks I'm kind of envious of you that you guys are playing these pretty pretty good venues and you're playing a lot of original music Yes, that's a that's a fantastic thing. Yeah, we've got our debut album be coming out Well, hopefully it'll be it done and out by October So we just have a couple of things to clean up and get everything all mixed and mastered and we'll have it out It's got a name. Yes sitting on the toilet when you don't have that's right Nine tracks nine tracks nine tracks.

No, I believe we got you guys copies of those too. So yeah Excellent. Is it can you pretty much? Can you everybody else? Can they find that you know on Spotify? Where can you find the music? We haven't put it out just yet because I want to get the whole thing kind of put together as one album and then after that if people want to start getting through Spotify and Sound cloud or any other places, you know, that's that's fine But I just want to get everything complete and done and not piecemeal it out, right? We can give them a little teaser though Yeah, like a two-song teaser or something.

Let's do that. So how we want how we want to put it out on our website or on our Facebook or on our That's the teaser man That's the motor with those engines man driving on the drive Are you gonna have anything physical or is it just gonna be digital you can have any CDs or an album natural vinyl or well I know vinyl vinyl at this point vinyl is kind of it's it's not cheap. I know so But there's some good deals actually to do the CDs I think it's nice to have those when you're at a show to have something to sell But yeah, I mean both and there are places it'll do that'll press the CDs and also do the digital stuff and have all the whole Package put together and you can get it all done.

Yeah, you can online and physical so there's just something, you know merch wise You know, we've got our t-shirts, but something in addition to that, you know, we've got got something to hand out You know, I went to a show a couple weeks ago I can't even remember the name of the band, but they had they had an eight song album On a jump drive like that and I asked the guy where he got these things from it I don't know what the service is But they will put everything out of the loaded all in there and they paid like four dollars apiece for these things and that's what They were selling. That's what they were selling. Okay shows We actually we actually did our our demo like that, you know that our introductory Package that when we sit down to the venues and stuff So I'm gonna drive like that and came up pretty good, you know from from one of our live shows, right? Right, right Yeah, that's that's the wave of the future there and believe me.

I hate that. I still have my vintage stereo at home I got I got the side-by-side tape deck and I got the CD player and everything. God, I hate Okay, where do I plug my phone in? I hate that man.

I just want to give me I want a record He's got he's got the stack of matchbooks for the 8-track player. I've got a track in the caddy outside right now I've got an old stereo. It's from the 70s.

You remember the brand Lloyd Yeah, I've got an old Lloyd's. It's got an 8-track player on it. It's good Oh, it's got a dial built into it the whole bit It's just the excellent amp and the receiver and I got a turntable and a tape deck and a CD player and everything Yeah, I still have all that and I still do this and I also do the streaming I do the whole thing Yeah, but yeah, I've got one eight.

I've got one eight track tape. I've got one eight track tape I found it and I think a flea market I said I gotta buy this thing because I have to see if the 8-track player works and it does I got the village people 8-track Didn't they win a Grammy That's right, aren't they millionaires They are gosh, you know how much money that they make every single year off that off that YMCA song. Yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah make a ton of money It's all right.

So you guys out playing like every weekend usually when you're well, we're pretty much You know, it's another thing good about this man, you know We're a project that rehearses Twice a month. Yeah, literally, you know and we started off playing just weekends, you know, Friday and Saturday night Said that some fantastic venues too. So and that's kind of like Not only a testament to us as a band but a testament to the music audience of the Chicagoland area Thank you Outstanding.

Do you guys do your own booking? Yes I There you have it No, I've been contacting venues, you know through Facebook through looking looking through their websites I've got the whole spreadsheet out You know who to contact who I've talked to when a follow-up and who's basically told us to drop dead and other guys who's saying You know, we got to have you guys in so it's it's uh It it's turning out to be some as I mean I've spent I would spend like, you know Six to eight hours going through everything and you know through the whole week So you're not finding any problems with being an original band people Yeah, well, yeah, cuz there's so many tribute bands out there. So yeah, we're getting that. Yeah, it's like, okay Well, we're only doing the tribute bands.

I'm like, okay, that's fine you know, I still send them some stuff that we had actually it was What was that one? Oh Actually the agent that booked us for Heroes West and Q bar initially was talking about You know, and we're just do really cover bands, you know I sent them our stuff and he took a chance in us and booked us at Q bar in Lamont I'm sorry, you know Heroes West in Lamont and we opened up with another band of That played in front of us of friends of mine and the place was packed Yeah, they were saying that they've never seen anything like that in a couple of years So we ended up now we ended up getting Q bar and I think we're talking about possibly I'll be talking about maybe getting booked at cubby bear next year. Nice Yeah, so so that kind of it was kind of a turnaround and then same thing with moonlight theater She was asking about all the covers and then I sent her the original stuff and she's yeah We gotta get we have to have you guys in here, right? Right? That's great. That's great.

You guys got you guys got a great Calendar, that's fantastic. You're playing some really good places. Thank you.

Thanks Yeah, I'm gonna have to get out and see these guys gotta come out and see it. I'm a feeling I like of them. Oh, yeah Matter of fact, you know and a lot of our shows.

I invite a guitar player to come on stage and do the shuffle with me Man, oh do you own shuffle? Heard that is written in stone. Absolutely. It's in stone.

Yeah. Yeah. No, I love that.

That's great Oh, yeah, so even you know, and we're doing it like all these are headline headline shows But we're also open to opening up for other bands too So, you know, we'd like to collaborate with others and and you know and get as much You know as much audience as possible for both bands, right? Right, right. Well, I'll tell you what you're you're actually close You said you're in Homer Glenn. Yeah, I would love to have you come out and sit in with the house band I host an open blues jam every Sunday night at the studio in Lockport.

Okay. Yeah I've played there actually when it was the like the martini bar. Yeah port noir.

Yeah Yeah, I've been hosting that for the past few years every Sunday night 8 o'clock. Come on out Martini bar. Yeah.

Yeah. All right But come on, I'd love to have you come in and sit in with the house man when that great So somebody's listening to this podcast and saying I gotta hire these guys. How do they find you? Well, you can find us on Brookwood dot live you can context contact us that way there.

There's also Brookwood Drive and five at Gmail.com right in Brookwood Drive band on Facebook on Facebook and YouTube. Yeah. Yeah, of course I got locked out of Facebook and somebody hacked into it.

So I gotta have you another song Yeah, I got the blues cuz I got hacked on Facebook Social media blues I Wonder if I wonder if it's remember that ZZ top song. I heard it on the X Now there's that new social media flat flat formats called the X Take on a whole new meeting. You know, it could you know, I think it's stupid things like this.

Don't mind me Yeah, it's all right. You guys talk Well, everybody except Carlos because he's a man a few words Nodding his head. He's getting ready to come to life guys.

I don't have a microphone. Here you go Yeah, you got a mic. Are you sharing one? All righty guys, well, thanks a lot for coming out appreciate a lot of fun I look forward to seeing you guys too, and I just like that's right And they played a lot of a lot of local places around here so easy to see you awesome.

Well, thanks for having us Tell Ron tell Ron I said hello and to put me back as friends. I can't get all of them on Facebook Again thanks for having us definitely Thank you, and there you have it Brookwood Drive those guys seem like a lot of fun a lot of fun a lot of fun I mean naming after your your street. That's pretty cool.

Yeah. Yeah I used to know another band they were called Lois Lane and it was same thing It was but it was it was they were it was their street name. This is their street Lois Lane.

That's pretty cool Yeah, I got to hear his singing voice. We I we got to hear some of that stuff that they gave us Well, it sounds like Barry White. He does you'll never find But yeah, he's some guys sound real good all original.

I mean we're getting a lot of original people in here I'm absolutely loving that. Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty crazy.

I mean all you know every time you turn around Oh, no, we're just predominantly original like wow yeah No, they're gonna go through that tribute thing and cover band and now we're getting Originals again right right I'm absolutely loving that we're having original music in here I think that's what's speaking to people right now, and I think so he's hearing it Yeah, I hope yeah, I just hope that the club owners listen to right you know so because it's hard to get in when you're original Right yeah, I'm done with the tribute stuff. Yeah exactly so once again We want to thank Brookwood Drive And you our listener for joining us every week on the rock and roll Chicago podcast and we hope to see you next week Now we won't see you But we hope you join us next week for the next exciting episode of the rock and roll Chicago podcast Bye bye 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