Updated gig schedule

A lot of shows added since a month or so ago ....  There are some new Ridge View Winery in Camp Point dates added to this list, and a few others. As always, double check with the venue on the start times, but this should be accurate.

Date/Band/Venue

Saturday April 26: Travis Hoffman and Rodney Hart, Quincy Brewing Company, 7-9 p.m.

Saturday, May 3: Travis and Rodney, Dogwood Parade party at Lorenzo Bull House, Noon.

Saturday May 3: Prospect Road 2.0, Shorteez, Clayton Ill., 7:30 p.m.

Saturday May 10: Second Stringers, Mayfest, Quincy, 1 p.m.

Saturday May 17: The Whatevers (Allison and Rodney), Quincy Brewing Company, 7-9 p.m.

Saturday, May 24: Prospect Road 2.0, Down On The Corner, Marceline, Ill, 7 p.m.

Saturday, June 7: Whatevers, Private Party, Quincy

Sunday, June 8: Whatevers, Ridge View Winery, Camp Point Ill., 2-5 p.m.

Saturday June 28, Prospect Road, Sportsmen's, Mount Sterling Ill., 8 p.m.

Sunday, July 6: Travis and Rodney, Ridgeview Winery, Camp Point Ill., 2-5 p.m.

Jersey Boys, Quincy Community Theater: July 10-13, 17-20

Saturday July 28: Prospect Road, 19th Hole, Augusta Ill, 2 p.m.

Saturday Aug. 9:  Travis Hoffman and Rodney Hart, Quincy Brewing Company, 7-9 p.m.

Saturday Aug. 16, Whatevers, Pour Haus, Quincy, 7 p.m.

Saturday Aug 30: Prospect Road 2.0, Private Party, Quincy

Saturday, Sept. 6: The Whatevers (full band), Adams County Bicentennial party, Adams County Fairgrounds, more details TBA

Saturday Sept. 13: The Whatevers (Allison and Rodney),  Quincy Brewing Company, 7-9 p.m.

Saturday Sept. 27: The Whatevers, Private Party, Quincy 

Saturday Oct. 4: Prospect Road, Pour Haus, Quincy, 7 p.m.

Sunday Oct. 19: Whatevers, Ridgeview Winery, Camp Point Ill., 2-5 p.m.

Sunday Dec. 14: Travis and Rodney, Ridgeview Winery, Camp Point Ill., 2-5 p.m.

 

Clothes shopping made fun - really

  

What a fab find!

RECENTLY I SAW a post from a local band suggesting it was a good idea to "dress sharp" when playing local gigs.

HAHAHAHAHAH,

Since I can't look sharp, I don't worry about it. Most of my "gig" wardrobe is older than the Lab Brats at Blessing. Combined. And don't ask me to tuck in that shirt with bananas on it.

That's where it started, with the bananas shirt. Who knows where I got it. A week ago Alicia McCarl of Prospect Road said she loved the bananas shirt. So it got me thinking ... maybe I need to update the gig wardrobe.

Who am I kidding? I get chastised on a daily basis for wearing "blue on blue" and donning white socks with black sneakers. That's a bad thing? 

So I decided to update the gig wardrobe, whatever that means. I enlisted the fashionista of girl singers, the lovely Allison McElroy of The Whatevers, to help. "Yes! I love to thrift!" she said.

Thrift?

"We gotta check out the thrift stores," she said. 

"Agreed," I said. "I did not know 'thrift' is a verb."

So, Saturday afternoon, we embarked on a thrifting adventure. I hate shopping for clothes but Allison made it fun. She is very into the fashion thing and she often lets me know what she is wearing before we play a Whatevers gig.

"I'm wearing this and NO you can't wear that," is usually what she says.

Turns out the thrift stores didn't have much. I found a hat that says "Weight Watchers" on it, which makes no sense for me to have, so I got it. And a shirt with palm trees. But that's all we found

"I think we need to go to Kohl's," Allison said, referring to a local clothing store.

"Good idea," I said. "Let's hurry before the tariffs hit so I can still afford it."

Nope. Not gonna happen, girl singer.

This was a great idea. Kohls had tons of cheap shirts perfect for gigs. Allison even found one for herself with a slogan about Old Fashions on it. She loves Old Fashions. 

I found one with a ridiculous cat mosiac theme, another with Garfield the cat, a Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon shirt and a horrendously gaudy dress shirt with something leafy or with birds on leaves on it. Score!

 "That one with the cats is you," Allison said. "Coco will love it too."

We ended up laughing our way through Kohls the whole time and it was a blast. Afterwords we met up with Allison's husband, Ryan, and had ourselves a fine cigar at Lux Stogie. Yup. The girl singer is getting into cigars. I'm still pinching myself.

So now I'm set for a few gig debut "outfits" and very excited. Wait. What the heck is wrong with me? Did I just actually say that?

Ugh. Allison ... you are a bad, bad influence on me. Or a fashionable one, at least.

 

Redo

 SO THE BLOG domain expired a few weeks ago. Not good timing, with all kinds of things going on.

It's been reset.

- First of all, congrats Linda Moore on becoming the first woman mayor in Quincy. She is all fired up and ready to get to work. 

- The Jeff Vankanegan celebration at the Dock Sunday was a roaring success. It was just like falling off a bike playing again with Cheeseburgers John Hodge, Burt Shackleton, Brad Fletcher and Kirk Gribbler. Little Sister was amazing and thank you Eric McKay for the music and putting things together with Rollo Sound. Jeff was and is loved and missed.

- The spring and summer is getting booked up. Saturday is a big night at The Club Tavern with Prospect Road. I'll update the gig calendar in a few days. Let's rock!

- Congrats to Dr. Emily Hart's Florida Gators, the NCAA men's basketball champs. Emily says the campus has been going crazy and I bet there are some groggy students this morning. Undoubtedly the reason the Gators won was because they hired Dr. Hart as a professor. She's planning on teaching again next year, so Florida will likely repeat.

- Hopefully I'll be a little better in doing this blog regularly. Among the adventures coming up are a family wedding, the 10-year men's health medical update (ugh) and how to be nice to difficult people who are idiots. That last one will write itself. Stay tuned!