SUDS CITY MUSIC GALLERY

Welcome to the Suds City Music Photo Gallery

MONDAYS
Funky Mondays with Clyde Stubblefield & Friends
King Club, Madison, WI

TUESDAYS
Stein Club Night with Brewhaus Polka Kings
Weissgerber's German Beer Hall, Milwaukee, WI

WEDNESDAYS
Kurt Elling Quartet
Green Mill, Chicago IL

FRIDAYS
Brewhaus Polka Kings
Lakefront Palm Garden, Milwaukee, WI

SATURDAYS
Blue in the Face
Hector's, Wauwatosa, WI

DIGGIN' LIVE MUSIC
I started seeing live bands at my high school sodapop bar, where i pinted mural, hungup coats, swept up & sold sodas.
We had several house bands, but the one that had a little bit of fame was the Shadows of Knight, with their remake of a Van Morrison song, "G-l-o-r-i-aaaaa."

Western Box Turtles @ Puddlers Hall
The Western Box Turtles were one of Gasthaus Zur Krone's "house bands."
Great swing band. Sadly, the "Box of Turds" broke up last year.
Fiddler Danny Smith carries on in Avalon 4.

Here's Western Box Turtles at Pere Marquette Park in 2005.

Salt Creek at The Gig in 2005
They played last Sunday at the Gig, after Locust Street Fest!

Here's the Alewives Reunion with the late great Davey Jones at the Tasting Room in 2004

Here's Voot, Steve & Davey, doing Fresh Sounds at the Tasting Room in 2004

Tess & Davey Jones' Hat at Davey Jones Memorial last year.
Still one of my favorite Surf Bands.
I caught the first Alewives show at the Stork Club, taking a break from Locust Street Day.
Sadly, we lost Davey Jones last year. The memorial, with Tim & Tess & Fly, were a nice treat. We miss yah, Davey.

Alewives Reunion @ Davey Jones Memorial @ Uptowner

Fresh Sounds with Steve & Voot at Davey Jones Memorial @ Linnemans.
The Fresh Sounds were another one of Davey Jones' bands.
Voot can still be heard at the Uptowner, performing as Voot Warnings or.. bartending every now & then...

Brewhaus Polka Kings @ Delafield Brewhaus.
Dah boys started playing at age 15 as the touring backup band for Frankie Yankocvich.
You can still catch them Fridays at 6 PM at Lakefront Brewery Palm Garden & Tuesdays at the Old German Beer Hall...

Here's the Polka Kings at Lakefront with Art Kumbalek, whipping it out on sax...

Dr. Chow's Love Medicine with Andy, Dan & Fly...
These guys are one of the cornerstones for my Zappa Fest
This is the current incarnation of Dr. Chow, with Andy doing his Jaco Pastorius-style bass, Fly whipping it out on guitar, from the Alewives & Dan on drums, from Shinola.

Dr. Chow's "Super Frank," alias Dr. Snowplow," Chandek & Fly's frethand & peghead.
Stay tuned as I dig up a "Frank whips it out" shot, with him on Captain Beefhart-style sax.

Mama Diggdown Brass Band at the Great Taste of the Midwest in Madison 2004 ... they're now Locust Street Fest regulars !!!

Edgar Allan Cash @ Circle A. Caught Desmond, Laurie & crew, filling in for Andy Apricot & The Brew City Rollers.
That's the elusive Andy Apricot on accordian.

Exotics @ Linneman's.
Milwaukee-based instrumental surf band, doing their "reunion" tour.
Yup, that's Johnnie Z, from MSE Friday AM, on bass.

Mike Fredrickson, Dave Brown & Friends @ Linneman's.
Short of getting Royce Hall Jr. again, this is the closest we'll get to a Mosely's reunion.
Freddie is a terrific song writer, currently bass player with Robbie Fulks.

The Bel-Airs with Milwaukee local Steve Cohen on harp at the Up & Under in 2005

Mosely's Reunion @ Linneman's, with the Royce monster on Guitar,
Dave on drums & Freddie on Bass. Lotta originals, some Beatles & a ton of NRBQ.
Yah, every Thursday at Linneman's for a lotta years, about a dozen of us were digging the songs & cutting the rug to the Mosely's.

More Royce @ Mosely's Reunion @ Linneman's

Royce Again

Polkaholics at Copernicus Polish Fest in 2005
"We play Polkas on Guitarrrrrrr"
This was a double header with Polkacide.

San Francisco-based Extreme Polka band, Polkacide,
at the Copernicus Polish Fest in 2005

Next stop, Zakopane Polish Lounge in Chicago,
for the Polkaholics - Polkacide Show

Polkacide at Zakopane in 2005

Dandy Don Hedeker of the Polkaholics cuttin' the rug to Polkacide in 2005

Uptown Savages @ Points East Pub.
Ace Chemical Jack on the ivories, Mad the Rat on bass & Johnnie Z on vocals & rhythm guitar.
Jump blues, swing & rockabilly.

Uptown Savages at Milwaukee Public Museum Food & Froth in 2005, with Dave on sax.

Riverwest Accordian Club @ Foundation
My memory is a little fuzzy, but I think this was from the 2005 Riverwest Pub Crawl.
That's Mike on Tuba, Setzer, Don, Linda & crew.
Somebody told me they broke up. Sad, dad.

Why should you support live music?
This quote is from Bailey Jones from the Sundilla Acoustic Concert Series:
"Somewhere, there is probably someone who lived in England in 1960s who turned down a chance to go to The Cavern Club because he had never heard of the band. "The band" in question was, of course, The Beatles. They went on to have a bit of success in the music business; enough success that the guy who didn't want to go see them play because he had never heard of them is still kicking himself black-and-blue 40 years later. So when you're trying to decide whether or not you want to drag yourself out to see some unknown play... just remind yourself that every musician was once an unknown, and that every musician who sells out arenas for hundreds of dollars per ticket once played somewhere for under ten bucks. And someone who paid hundreds of dollars to sit in the last row of an arena once turned down the chance to sit on the first row of a small venue for next to nothing.
Don't be this person!" Support live music!

(The above from the Lafayette Brewing Company, Lafayette Indiana website.)

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