Hey, this is Paul Martin and Ray the Roadie for the Rock and Roll Chicago podcast. How's it going, Ray? I don't know. I'm having a little crisis.

I see that. What's the problem? I don't know. I think I need some Xanax or something.

Oh, boy. What kind of crisis is this? I think it's midlife. Oh, you're behind midlife.

Hey. Well, maybe a little bit. Is midlife like 40 to 55, maybe? I guess.

Yeah. Yeah. This could be like pre-senior.

It might be a senior moment. It could be a senior moment. I've been having more and more of those.

Well, so the band we're talking to today is called Senior Moment. No, it's not. No, they're not.

It's called the Psychic Psychic. no wait a second it's midlife crisis midlife crisis of course it is so they're from the South suburbs the South the South suburb the South suburbs down there down there by by the jewels by the heights by the heights there in the jewels and over by there and and they've played some rock and roll I see yes they are and keep pretty busy too they got quite a few shows yes they do you see playing a lot around the South suburbs from Tindley Park to to Crown Point to the Heights they play in the Heights they play in the Heights they play in Frankfurt and New Lenox and and they're keeping pretty busy yes they are yes they are so let's get let's see what they have to say for themselves okay let's do it how you doing we're meeting with Mike and Tom and and John and Anthony right I got everybody right oops you forgot the name of the band it's midlife crisis I hit it turn him up because I hit him up midlife crisis the name of the band how you guys doing real good good good so tell us tell us a little bit about the band and where the band got started and and where you were we've been since then we hear you first thanks for having us out here we're really excited because you guys have had some great success with this and some great bands that we all came up with yeah so it's kind of cool listening to them but we actually I'll start it off this is Tom but I'll tell you that Mike chased me for quite a while to get together with him because he and I had played 15 years prior when we were in high school and kind of took a hiatus from it but quite frankly that goes back to 2009 excuse me 1999 and I'll let John and Mike tell you exactly what happened one night this was a couple weeks before I got introduced to the band and you play bass right I do okay yeah it was a it was a cold stormy night yes yes a dark stormy cold night this this is Mike the drummer we we had been John and I were part of a our kids went to the same school together and they had an Oktoberfest and and another member of the band was there and the band was up on stage and they asked the guitar player one of the other fathers to come up and play and it was a friend of mine there and and he yelled out hey have Mike come up there and play well I like Tom said I haven't played in in a while so I walked up to the stage and this other father was already on stage and he looked at me and he says have you done this before and I was like you know I was almost like taking him back by saying yeah a little bit yeah did a little bit I can handle it so we so we play we jam with this band for a couple of songs and when I came down somebody said hey go see John he's sitting right there he's a great guitar player go see what he you know so we walked over there and that's when we started talking about getting together at at my house in the basement and the three of us got together and I think the next year we played that same Oktoberfest like a warm-up band for the other band that was there okay and so what year was this this was 1998 yeah okay right and then they you know and so after after that they were like and and during that time between the first time that we had done this and 1999 I was after him you know kind of touching bass back but hey come on we need a bass player it's because we were playing without a bass player so and then and that's how it started in my basement and my wife came downstairs and she asked us you know what we wanted and as she walked up the stairs she goes you guys are going through a midlife crisis and there came the name right I see so so that original other guitar player was Bob Broderick he was the one that also had children at the same school district and he was something else he was kind of the always the glass half-full guy you know and he was really positive about this and I finally Mike talked me into coming down and I was like man this is this is rough and we get done with a song and John you know John and I kind of look at each other and Bob just like that was great there's always an optimist in the group you know what that would that's what made us keep going and what didn't take long then they maybe two three practices and they sprung it on me that they had some jobs lined up so our official job in 1999 is midlife crisis with Bob Broderick be Tom and Mike John was at st. Agnes Parish in Chicago Heights and we got through it and son of a gun we've been playing that parish picnic every year since so so so so what's your genre of music that you play predominantly we try to focus on danceable type music but I would say it spans 50s through present and with the addition of my son Anthony here it really opens up to some newer stuff from more recent bands and when I say recent you know 2000 for me is pretty recent but and some good 90s yeah yeah but rock and roll pretty much rock and roll and funk and disco we'd like to say AC DC to ZZ Top and a lot of funk in between yeah so so Anthony you're the newest member I take you at the band right that's yeah that's correct about six years now oh really playing with these guys yeah and I play guitar right yeah rhythm guitar okay and a little bit of vocals too yeah this is a who's the singer in the band as split pretty evenly between the three of us Mike yeah self and my dad I only get to do a couple doo-wops in the third set when everybody's pretty drunk and they allow me to sing so what can't look at a bit what kind of guitar do you play Anthony so I've been playing a Fender Telecaster yeah I also have a an Epiphone Les Paul black beauty and then so you gotta get both ends of spectrum coverage and what about you Jen main axe lately is a 57 re what do you call it a repro reissue repro not repo but repro gold top Les Paul nice and I kind of put the the 76 Explorer away for a while also have a Strat at home but primarily the Les Paul this is Paul's getting heavy though very not as heavy as a Fender Precision bass I can't believe you yeah that is so that's your choice right yeah I've got your weapon of choice right the original 78 1978 that I bought when I was playing with in Mike's basement back in high school and they were lighter back then really 20 years later a little bit heavier I get it we're a little heavier though yeah I got it it's called center of gravity yes so as Anthony joined us John I was announced him and said how he's brought down the average weight of the band in the average age hey you're not even old enough to have a midlife crisis yet the weights going up so that so so what is your your your drums of choice I have a DW collectors seven DW collectors seven piece okay white marine pearl beautiful white marine pearl nice W's are nice yeah for my favorite three drummers buddy rich gene Krupa and Louie Belson that white marine pearl is really sharp on stage right yeah it's a nice kid really nice kid my pride and joy nice nice it's and it's a big kid which is kind of rare for some of the the bars and you know most of it I could play when I play jazz I do go with a smaller four-piece but when I rock I play the bigger so so you play in another band or no I I do I perform with another gentleman we do like the standards the classics big band music you can see his name yeah Frank Ross yeah I don't know I perform with Frank all the time oh yeah yeah okay yeah a lot of times during the week so I being retired I have a lot of time nice now you said you're for your retired fireman right correct correct yeah again it was a great gig and it allowed me to gig with the band on the weekends because of our schedule so nice so where did the what's some of your history on when did you start playing what turned you on to the drums or the guitar what where that all come from well the drums I started playing when I was about nine years old and I just turned 59 so I I've been playing for a little bit and I was a huge Beatle fan so I used to sit in my basement with my 1963 gold sparkle Swingerland four-piece which I wish I still had nice and a gorgeous out of Niles you know Swingerland out of Niles Illinois and I just used to play the Beatles music over and over and over again and and I think you know one of the most underrated drummers of all time is Ringo Starr because he was a make-sense drummer you know he had that great when you think of like the song in my life that great offbeat that fit that song perfectly we were talking about that on a recent episode that Ringo was very very underrated yeah he's like George Harrison's leads imagine the Beatles music without Ringo Starr without George Harrison's leads those perfect leads that fit or that and if you listen to you listen to Tom Petty's breakdown right great song listen to the drumbeat in that song yeah that's Ringo Starr's in my life and the drummer will tell you he stole that from Ringo Starr yeah so it's the exact same rhythm yeah you know so he was one of my big influences and then I then I became a more progressive listener I was listening to Emerson Lake and Palmer Kyle Palmer Rush I'm a big progressive fan but Ringo was the one that started me playing in my basement with that with a pool cue with a microphone tape to it so that's my story so no Mike he his basement has seen a lot of musicians down there that's for sure but I met him when he was a sophomore and I was a freshman at Bloom High School and I made it into the most high schools would call the jazz band but we called it the stage band playing trumpet my dad was from the big band era and he directed band at the st.

Agnes grade school in Chicago Heights for 30 years so I had to play the trumpet but I met him there and there was this cool dude playing bass and he just had his eyes squinting all the time and wearing sunglasses so I don't know if he was all what he was doing actually but he was really cool and he I just watched him as I was playing trumpet and I would always get yelled at for not paying attention and sure enough I bought his bass from him so I started me and then Mike and I just kind of hung around for a couple years and then we started playing in a band together when he was a senior and I was a junior and it had horn section and but I continue to play bass so so you said you were in high school when you started yes yeah where'd you go to high school it was bloom in Chicago okay yeah yeah John you're uh yes I started in fifth grade in the school band programs too I went to I was from Madison so I went to Madison schools and who's upper grade center and rich South High School and I was playing sax during those years but when I was about 11 or 12 I picked up the guitar too and it's kind of a weird story we we only had two albums in the house at the time when I was growing up one of them was meet the Beatles and the other one was Bill Haley and the Comets so those are the only two albums I had so it played it back-to-back over and over on the the old Motorola hi-fi which later became my first guitar amp anyway you know but to try and single out influences at that time is so hard because god there's just so much and so many different artists at the time that were very influential you know it was a great time to be influenced yeah Anthony go ahead yeah I think for myself obviously growing up with my father as a early as I can remember I was you know there's pictures of me when I was a toddler with like a small mini electric guitar that they bought me and you know I think from that age and just seeing my my dad grow up in all these bands and his college band and this band obviously I had a strong music influence in my life so that's when I picked up the guitar I think you know regarding my tone obviously hearing some of the bands that my dad listened to Van Halen and hearing Eddie Van Halen's tone it really was an inspirational and kind of inspired my tone today you know with this with the the distortion and the flange and the phaser and the chorus pedals I have all that stuff going on in our in our shows every night so great but yeah that's kind of where my influences started and then you know just growing up yeah so that so the the Van Halen thing kind of inspired my tone and then in high school the the the pop punk and the the punk music you know it was pretty popular so I got into that and blink-182 and you know those types of bands were my influences in high school so it kind of changed from the 70s rock into this you know more fast-paced you know power chord structures and right so that kind of influenced my my playing style and so yeah have you played with anybody else besides your current band yeah so in high school you know my best friends and I got together and we all just kind of picked up these instruments and just started playing excuse me playing and you know puberty first yeah yeah excuse me and then yeah so all throughout high school we I had this I had a band and it was kind of that pop punk John what was the name of that man we were called a couple names that at the time we were called fallout and then leaving Audrey it changed to over the years and I don't even remember why but yeah maybe somebody was leaving Audrey maybe yeah I'm done with her man done she gone she gone it's hard to come up with the name I tell you we were just talking about that with the last interview we just added that it's tough coming up with name a good name I mean Mike kind of told you about the you know he's calling it midlife crisis the wives kind of said hey it's gonna fit but back then in 99 it wasn't the internet as it is now where you can google a name and find all the bands named the same thing sure so it's not an uncommon name but we've been doing it for 20 years and never had any problem but I know there's a another one up in Grand Rapids there's there's been a couple in Illinois that's gonna come and go so yeah we like it yeah I'm gonna change it no no there's no need to if you're the only way I guess somebody said within us I forget a hundred mile area or something it then you're good but now do you still play saxophone yeah yeah we do maybe one or two maybe three songs we do the KC and the sunshine that's right I forgot okay yeah and it works whether we're we're doing three or four piece sometimes we have the opportunity or the necessity to do a three piece yeah that's a good point because when Anthony's first year when he started we did have Bob come in and help out a little bit as he was in with the retirement mode but I think you had 11 weddings that first full year you played with us and one of them was his wedding so he hired a really good band they allowed us to play a few songs and okay the dance floor just filled up it was great okay but I thought you guys actually right to play them I'm not going to a wedding if you're playing it his uncle plays in a cover band and so he got a chance to come up and sing and it was really cool but anyway with him literally having 11 weddings you can imagine this most of Saturday's not available so we did kind of force us to play as a three-piece but what really worked out well we started doing an acoustic show both with and without Anthony and doing acoustic really forced us to get even tighter and we're always been known to be a tight band and I credit that for me and Mike I mean we've been playing with each other since high school you guys are the foundation right yeah you gotta start at the bottom and work your way up that's right and John most versatile guitar player I've ever played with and he could just play anything and knows anything I have to we pick a song and I have to go home and they don't know it but I'm practicing you know 24 hours a day on it for three days in a row he just looks at it two minutes later he's playing it exact it's very envious of thank you now you said you said you played saxophone too I was trumpet Oh trumpet yeah I'm sorry it's kind of hard to do that in a base at the same yeah although I will say getting back to Anthony so he has substituted for me a little bit to give my hands a break because I recently had some hand surgery and he plays bass and then we on purpose do a couple songs what one in particular where Mike comes out because he uses a headless microphone thanks I know yeah he comes out from behind the drums and Anthony goes behind the drum so nice mix it up a little bit so it's nice yes he plays a plethora of instruments yeah crossword puzzle word please welcome the plethoras and Anthony's had no actual formal music training I tried to get him to take lessons never take lessons and then he ends up playing three different instruments and singing yeah I don't play the the other instruments very well but I can function with the the basic training I have that that's the one regret I do have though is not continuing the the professional guitar training that I said did you learn from your dad or did you learn from YouTube well that's what I'm starting to do now is learn from YouTube I'm trying to get better at guitar even this even today and that's what I'm resorting to but I wish I had kept going with the with the training when I was younger yeah and had the time to do you to read music or if you read music oh yeah yeah it's still yeah I taught my when I played trumpet for all those years so I knew the treble clef and I taught myself the bass clef in high school when I started playing bass and so when I first got together with these guys you know Michael had mentioned the Beatles so we did a lot of Beatles in the beginning and Bob had this big thick book and I literally read the bass lines as they were learning them yeah the what a fake book the fake book yeah but it was enough to teach me so anyway but yeah John does and Mike Mike actually even learn he plays the organ he doesn't bring that up but he actually taught himself how to play the organ too yeah it's my mom's favorite instrument was the okay the organ so when I was younger I used to perform in my living room for my mom and sure it's kind of cool I did all the standards again and yeah that's why I love when I prefer to perform with Frank Rossi it brings back all those memories of my with the keyboard and Frank is one of the greatest accordionists oh yeah he's one of the top in the country actually really yeah fantastic he's great entertainer oh my gosh yeah I look at him sometimes go how do you remember all these people's names I just smile and shake my head he knows everybody's backstory is fantastic I follow Frank on Facebook yeah yeah yeah yeah so then you've seen me oh yeah yeah yeah I said I think I know that guy I love it I try to stay open to all kind of music that's why I love this band we do such a wide range of music and as a drummer a lot of times I'm constantly looking at the audience where the guys are kind of moving around stage well I'm always facing forward and sometimes I love the reaction of people in the crowd when we go from one song to the next because we do a couple of mashups that are okay really long and I and I love the the effect that has on people when they turn and go wow these guys went from from this genre to that genre and whoa how did they do that yeah that's what I love about the wide range of music that we do yeah it's and we're a hundred percent live there's nothing tracking in the background or anything but we do like Mike said do a lot of mashes so we kind of play like a DJ and don't stop right our feeling is you know a lot of bands that go up there and talk in between songs and you can't really hear what they're saying half the time at a club and right you don't pay attention to it anyway well that's to me that that's this live music one-on-one is is to to to get up there and play at least three or four songs in a row you know don't tune yes now it's good we did learn early on though that you got to keep the women dancing I don't care if it's a big festival or if it's a bar if the ladies are dancing they hire you back and we went from you know playing a lot of a Steve Ray Vaughn because John does a great job at it we did a lot of Beatles as we mentioned and other music that we're just not even playing anymore but over 20 years plus you go through a lot of songs so what's on this latest CD well that's that's not even that's late actually so the original one is from 2000 so once we were playing for about six months we went to Star Trek's and put down some songs and none of those we play anymore are these are these original no no we have had a couple of originals over the years and we have played them live had about four years stint of playing it and just decided not to we got good crowd reactions of it but we only we didn't go beyond the two or three songs who did the writing I I did the writing myself but you know it's hard to say these guys really perfected the songs yeah it was my lyrics it was my rhythm but I'm a bass player so I wasn't out there doing the you know full-blown scale of guitar chord progressions and all of that so everybody contributed so and what's what's what's the latest so that demo you know that was still like pre-mp3 we did some snippets of songs and that was in 2005 so we haven't put anything in the studio since then and that too is all just snippets of cover tunes but most of those we still play and I think we get through we're between 48 and 50 songs a night so if we're doing a typical bar three sets we get through almost 50 songs so you got hard to handle ain't too proud to beg don't you know what are some of your top songs off of this or or that you play it okay some of it what do you think John I mean some of the 70s funk are just just I don't care we do a lot of stuff that have horns and we don't play the horn section and we play it so tight I don't think anybody notices you know horns aren't there but we brick house always gets them going yeah play that funky music let me just say the mash that one mash that we we continually tweak and I think people think it's a brand new song but we just add like 30 seconds of one thing to it and it makes us look like we're practicing really hard and learning new songs but currently it starts off with another one bites the dust then it actually that's not even true there's about four songs before that that merge into it but officially the mash starts with another one bites the dust then it goes into what goes into Aerosmith walk this way then it goes into everybody dance now and then it goes into rappers delight and it comes out of that we eventually get back to end of another one bites the dust and that's probably about eight nine ten minutes long right there right right John come some of the video and some of the Steve Ray Vaughn and things that we used to do couldn't stand the weather tightrope oh yeah I'll pull one out from the past Anthony Gomes high-calorie woman yeah you don't do that one anymore we do play a few weddings throughout the year I mean we get a couple so we can't book too many because those you got a book many years in advance and these days at least 18 months in advance and Mike's the only retired one so it's hard to do that yeah but we do pick up a couple weddings every year and we keep the floor full so makes us feel good it's kind of funny how disco which of course we kind of a board back when it first came out it's some of the best stuff we play oh yeah yeah it's kind of funny you know yeah did you you do any Van Halen I mean because Anthony you said that was an influence of yours you guys do anything and you Van Halen not currently yeah we don't right now yeah oh that's that's right we run with the devil we experimented yeah but we do we do we do some we do rock a little bit we please that one yeah we pull out some Zeppelin we pull out some Ted Nugent so kids get sugar no stranglehold yeah we pull that one out of the box once in a while nice the standard column standards now Jesse's girl oh yeah summer of 59 or 60 so now we call those standards yeah no cheeseburger in paradise pretty diverse but we don't go there yeah we used to do many years ago we did you know there's there's certain songs that that you have to play because the crowd really likes it but they're not necessarily your favorite right you know or there's a there's songs that just I don't fit in my wheelhouse but you have to play them you know you have to play them well and one of the songs we used to do many many years ago before Anthony was with us when Bob was still as we do after midnight and that song went on for like how long John about two and a half months when we played it it felt like it was like two and a half months long and it was one of those songs where it was like oh my god like a funeral dirge for me back there I'm going to you know sign on the list he turned around from the front of the stage you go we're gonna skip the next song and and the two song Creedence yeah mashup that went on for like 20 minutes straight oh we used to do what was it Susie Q and oh yeah okay but it was like again for me as a yeah born out of for me as a drummer it was like a funeral dirge back there it was like just it went on and on and that happens if you play a song for so long and it's there there are those songs out there that that are great tunes everybody wants to hear them and as a musician you're compelled to play them but they're just songs that you're just like man we need to put this one don't play this one unless ten people requested Mustang Sally yeah and there's some songs that we've played and tried and went out and did it live and they're great and we sound great at it but it just doesn't quite fit so we end them you know we did a Foo Fighters song that really went over I thought it sounded amazing I mean it's something I would have recorded as just a you know for fun to hear us play it and but we played it live and it just didn't really click with their crowd so whether we like it or not we just drop it confidentially I since Anthony's been with us I don't know if Mike and John know but I'll go ask him every once in a while maybe every three months so what do you think we need to get rid of you gotta get rid of this let's try this now he's need some new blood yeah and what should we add and that's Anthony that's why we're not doing the Lichtenstein polka anymore yeah we did play a polka sure and we used to do what was that sitcom that back in the day when someone would say hey you guys know any country we'd go into green Mike would be behind the drums and he had that boa and he'd say New York is where so about how many shows a year you guys do we we've always had a plan to do 25 shows so twice a month and we stuck to it and I think that's what really helped us survive because we're all on the same page doing that it was 2004 I think we had just by happenstance we actually booked three jobs a month so not four in one month and one in one month but we literally had three in a month so they were spaced out nicely so that was 36 shows and just by coincidence we printed up new shirts and on the back of the shirts of course said midlife crisis in the front but it said middle-aged men gone wild 2004 tour and then we went back to our 25 shows until yeah last year for some reason it was our anniversary year our 20 year anniversary and we did 44 I think Wow record and it was a hell of a pace but unlike the other years where it was kind of steady it was it was up and down so we'd go a month without anything and then the next month we'd have six jobs so you guys do your own booking or yeah Tom does the we do we've been uh there was a couple places we wanted to get into and we couldn't so we had to introduce ourselves to Joey they joined him I guess he's great his name has come up several times in this back here in our podcast he's great I mean we we use each other appropriately yeah I kind of the pimp whore relationship yeah he's a good guy actually no he's really good yeah he's gotten us into some places that we wanted to get into and you just you know couldn't without him right so we help each other out actually he will contact me every once in a while and ask if we can do something and vice versa I'll let him know that we've got a slow month coming up and and actually we've done some acoustics things through him to some some smaller okay so so now you told me that you recorded this this CD in 2000 it at my buddy Jeff loose to you that's right it's Star Trek's did you do this one the second one there do know that was axe yeah axis music in Orland okay also doubles as a studio right so it's it's kind of a store school is all the rooms they do the lessons in and then all all the rooms are hooked up to the main board so he just records okay right there in the store you know after hours right right very good yeah so we I assume you guys ever do anything at Star Trek's in Russia oh yeah of course oh yeah yeah so we actually there was a Homewood days back when of course that festival doesn't happen anymore but we actually we like to say we opened up for you but we played the hour before you yeah at where Homewood days oh yeah yeah yes we played in front of you guys at Homewood days once okay I don't remember that but I bet you know I'm just like it moves it was in the middle of the street over here and it was the middle of the street in next stages it was in a parking lot at one time there and it's it's a melody mark yeah yeah yeah well he did it right to and you had time in between because they had two stages and you had time in between stages so we probably didn't get in your way or anything but we did hang around and watch you guys yeah and plus you guys just celebrated 20 years yes I'm in our Russia celebrating 47 post midlife crisis yeah they're assisted living I remember getting back to that CD I remember it's at track studio I remember putting my 12-piece double bass oh yeah Tama monster kit into that yeah drum yeah a room having to like crawl understands to get into it probably probably have that at some stages to know yeah well you know that's the nice thing about it's my own little world back there yeah it's kind of cool to be back there the one issue sometimes in it now with Anthony coming up and getting behind the kit so I can come up front it's kind of hard to entertain from behind the kit right I do get a kick out of when people are looking at the stage to try to figure out who's singing right yeah I get a kick out of that but it's it's yeah it's my own little world back there so sometimes it's kind of cool and sometimes they'll come back and get caught I don't even know they're there they'll be looking at me and my head down or whatever and well then you've getting that with the coronavirus you've get this six foot of distance Eddie Van Halen used to have used to have fire extinguishers on his kit I think from now on I'm gonna have Lysol cans yeah yeah so okay what kind of places yeah where have you got coming up so this month actually tonight we're at Smokey Joe's okay out in Crete and unfortunately people are gonna hear this tonight I see you'll be back there again in May right yeah so we got like three or four shows throughout the spring and summer and then the following Saturday the 21st of this month we're at the Holstein's okay thinly and then the following Saturday from that we go out to a buddy and pals yeah yeah so we kind of those are some of our favorite clubs that we do and you know you play the clubs because you want to get some of these festivals and we don't we don't work hard to get the jobs I mean what we get we like and we hang on to as long as we can we kind of followed the Moe's and when we first started and wherever they were playing we figured that'd be a cool place to play yeah and actually we met them we were supposed to play with them at a on stage together like a broad stage at worth days and got rained out but I tell you what Jose taught me how to negotiate that day because we went up to collect the money in the rain and we did it we got it but we also played with them they always Friday nights at the big Frankfurt festival and we were always Saturday nights for a dozen years that may be the first six years we were in the afternoon but then we moved up to the Saturday night slot so that was always a big festival for us but the organization that ran it for many many many years folded and so the Chamber of Commerce took it over and they made some changes so we haven't been back since so we had a brush of greatness with replay I had a big show set up for the Will County Forest Preserve and again we were doing like a dual stage them on a set we're on a set and right we use we play that set up the equipment and we were just you know sharing the event and it got rained out so yeah so we've got a joke if you're going through a drought book us we guarantee will bring rain and that's why we don't play couldn't stand the weather by Stevie Ray Vaughan I see you played st. Agnes is a period yeah talk about st. Agnes earlier yes we've that was the first show that we officially did as midlife crisis back in the day and we've been doing that every year I think except one for 20 years so very good we also do st.

Karen's in Chicago Heights area but we it's nice we at least have a couple shows a year that it's a good thousand-plus crowd so we're hoping that nothing you know prolongs to the summertime here because we have our first big one that is always over a thousand people is Fridays after five it's at the Commons in New Lenox at that big stage and they have a food truck event and they run one in June July and August in between their triple play concerts and so we've been opening up the June one for the last couple of years and that's gonna be on June 19th and so that's always a nice show you just bring your own beverage and chairs and sit on the grassy knoll and they have about ten food trucks pull up and it's really cool nice and then another big one we have this year is that it's actually a summer fest that CD and me and that's a money raiser for the Lincoln Way High School District 2010 foundation and you know what's going on I get a feeling that it's just gonna be important year for them to raise some money so we're looking forward to that that that's not until July see it on our Facebook and our website speaking of that where do we find you on Facebook in and what's your website website is midlifecrisis1999.com okay just look us up on Facebook midlife crisis yeah it's important to put that 1999 on there you get right to us yeah okay I see that yeah otherwise you get to psychology sites all right well thanks guys thanks for coming in thanks for coming out and thanks for having us no problem thanks for not bringing a coronavirus with you wait we got one thing for you though virus so we got some official midlife crisis awesome awesome I'm sorry they're extra-large that's okay that's right thank you and we have we have these wonderful rolls of toilet paper for you just grab one because out of the way but it seems to that seems to be the thing right now all righty guys thanks a lot okay that was Mike and Tom and John and Anthony of midlife crisis of midlife crisis that was I'm feeling a lot better now after that interview I think they've calmed my midlife crisis you should start a band called senior moment I think see we talk about you know coming up at band names and here we're coming up with them left and right it's a bit difficult it's that the senior moments yes yeah we could we could do like the assisted living places sure yeah you know you go in there dressed like a reaper's yeah I don't think you could do places now we can't even go visit them no we can't because that damn coronavirus yes well you know what though weren't you saying something about Mexico doesn't have any I haven't heard of one one a case in Mexico and I think it's because of tequila that could be the subject I've been drinking a lot of it lately that's I'm gonna start then I'm gonna start maybe that'll help you with my midlife crisis it might it might you know so anyway we talked with midlife crisis yeah and and they've it's a great stories and and in learning a little bit about the band yeah they they've been together cool you know 20 years now 21 years yeah and even got a young young Anthony there who's the youngest member who's also having a midlife crisis I guess yeah I guess he is but yeah they've done a lot of shows over the years still doing a lot of shows throughout the South suburbs like Frankfurt and Orland Park into Indiana and Creighton even they're down by the heights they're over by the jewels yes they are yes they are well thanks for listening everybody make sure and check us out on the road to rock radio every Monday night at road rock org is the museum is a museum Road to rock radio net is the radio station catch us at 6 p.m. on Monday night okay and thank you to the Illinois Rock and Roll Museum for having us yes thank you I think I think I'm having a moment again we better go okay we'll see you next week thanks folks