I uploaded this picture of Lin Halliday to the gallery today. Yes, that’s me looking like a young dork back there. This photo is from 1992 or 93. We were playing at the Get Me High Lounge on Honore in Bucktown. For those of you who were not around back then, The Get Me High was a Chicago jazz institution. The bathroom was actually ON the stage. Unlike the Green Mill, where you walk alongside the stage to get to the john, at the Get Me High you actually had to walk on stage to get to it. One of the famous stories about it is that Jimmy Carter hung out there once, while he was president, to have a beer and listen to some jazz. I have fond memories of these times. I had just moved back to Chicago from Boston and was so excited that Lin had called me. I had seen his Delmark albums in the record bins back in Boston and knew he was a local legend. He was a trip, that’s for sure. But if you ask anyone who used to play with him you’ll hear that when he was on, he was ON! When I first started playing with him, He used to introduce me to the audience as the “Young Whippersnapper back there on drums”. I’m sorry, I don’t know who took this picture, but it ended up as a record cover for one of Lin’s Delmark records. They just blacked me out of the background so you couldn’t see me.
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