(the Rev) Vince marked his place with a scripture ribbon and intoned: >Oh memories... I haven't thought of Illinois Speed Press in years!
I only think of them when I reflect that Paul Cotton later joined Poco. This of course triggers another memory, of seeing a triple bill at the Hollywood Palladium of Pogo, the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, who not only performed "Death Cab for Cutie" but famously parodied the next band, The Who. >A lot of the CTA players were from the next neighborhood over from mine. >Some of my friends remember them from when they played at the Deep End, teen >age hangout of all time. Was James Pankow as amazing on trombone then as he was when I saw him at the Free Clinic Benefit? >"Saturday in the Park" was always a favorite of mine >as it is about Lincoln park in the year of the Summer of Love, 1967. That kind of connection is always to be envied. >NPIMH; Take me back to Chicago Last time I was in Chicago was at Ravinia to see Steve Reich. Long before then I spent a chunk of my adolescence living 90 miles north of Chicago. Gil