Very cool to be playing our first Cake Chicago show on Sept. 4th. Ripley Caine started this several years back, and this is the first time Boys' Entrance has been operating as a live unit and could play. Cake Chicago is an intimate and welcoming, friendly event at the Red Line Tap. I have only been to one, but I had such a nice time at the bar (in the Chicago Roger's Park neighborhood), that I instantly wanted to play there. Come early, have some cheap beers, play some pool, dig the tunes by us and other queer artists.
When I booked this gig, the plan was for this to be a "big" version of Boys' Entrance- 3 guitars, drums, bass, keys, and of course me singing. What is the saying, "Man makes plans and God laughs?" She always was a bitch. Instead, this is going to be a presentation by the two surviving members of the original Boys' Entrance trio: Mike Ferro guitar god, and me running the synths and playing rhythm guitar. Mike was the original rhythm guitarist in the band, and Cie Fletcher was the lead guitarist. As you may know, Fletcher died of AIDS, and the band continued on with various configurations of musicians. Mike was there right up through the recording of "The Queer Punk Folder". I broke my pelvis that same year and essentially stepped away from Boys' Entrance as a band.
Mike and I lost track, but I contacted him about a year and a half ago when I had a solo show booked at Homolatte', the Scott Free monthly series. Mike and I started working on the material and I can tell you, there was something instantly present that had been missing. More importantly, Mike and I were never close- but we began building a bond on top of a history. Now when I am with him, I relish a warm feeling of shared experience and familiarity. The show went really well, and Mike handled almost all the instrumentation.
After the Homolatte' show, we again went our separate ways. Last October, after returning from the March for Equality in DC, I got a call from Mike. He had been driving around one day and had a mix cd in the car. "Moses", a song from our cd, "In Through The Out Door" popped up. He told me that it sounded so good, he wondered if I would like to put the band back together? Now 10 months later, we are finally doing just that.
Will there be more Boys' Entrance gigs? I don't know. I am going to concentrate on this one. I am going to stay in THIS moment. And I am going to enjoy every song we play together.
Tim Cain/8/17/10
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
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