Wasn't I a cute kid? ...what the hell happened!?!?!	THE ONLINE HOME OF WEBMASTER ED computer consultant, web designer, network administrator, gardener, songwriter/musician, graphic designer, creative assistant, recording archivist, publicist, father and husband More stuff to come...just be patient, dammit! For now enjoy a rambling work in progress full of stupid stuff and in-jokes which you won't understand unless you are me. It's probably best to move on and forget you ever stumbled on this site. (May I suggest the Dr. Phil website instead?) Hey, it's your time...I warned you.	OUR HEADQUARTERS
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Amajority of my time is spent designing and maintaining developing websites. The DSO site has been a labor of love ever since I launched it back in February of 1998. I like to think that it was essential in their growth from a local Chicago band to a national touring act. It now has tens of thousands of visitors a day and links to pictures, MP3s, tour diaries and CDR-quality downloads from over 800 DSO shows.

I began taking photos at concerts in 1978 in high school after signing up for a photography class to fill a science requirement. My first major assignment was shots using contrast. I had seen the Dead shows at the Uptown in March and returned for the November shows armed with a nikon filled with black and white 35mm film and a 135mm instamatic with color film. I worked my way up front several times only to be moved back by the maroon uniformed "Andy Frain" security. Finally one of them confided to me "just wait until we clear the aisle then go up front and take some pictures because we won't be back again for ten or fifteen minutes." Best advise I ever got. I took many pictures at concerts throughout the eighties. I made some copies for a friend's brother and thought nothing of it until half a year later when I met C.E. (see below). Unfortunately I was never able to find the original negatives of the early Dead shows.

	The Allman Brothers Pictures from Alpine Valley June 21st 1980.	The Police Some pictures from the March 22nd 1982 show in Austin, TX.
	Elvis is King Some pictures from the Jan 17th 1981 show at the Uptown Theater.	Getting the Kinks out Some pictures from the Sep 18th 1980 show at the Uptown Theater.

FROM CE TO LBSC: a short familiar trip I took piano lessons in 1969, the highlight of which was a recital of Mancini's Pink Panther Theme. I picked up the guitar ten years later in High School. Cryptical Envelopement (or C.E. as it became known) was the first real band I played in. We were both surprisingly good and, at times, astoundingly bad. We were young...what did we know. Stevie was something like 14 years old. All the same, we were immensely popular with the town's kids and had gigs every weekend. As I remember it, Tommy would call up whoever was rumored to be having a party and ask "well, do you have a band?" and a terse negotiation of free beer for entertainment ensued. Then we would show up with 25 of our friends and play until the cops came. It was great fun while it lasted. When I went South in 1982, Tom Macaleer played in CE and I returned to join Broken Water which became The Howlin' Coons which became Yer Neighbors which appeared briefly as The Grinders which led into Lonely Boy Supper Club (LBSC). I've found some old photos, memorabilia and even recordings of that formative part of my musical education. Enjoy!

	DRAWINGS, DOODLES AND DUMB STUFF

My first vinyl album was The Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour" which my older brother bought me for my thirteenth birthday. He was listening to Black Sabbath and Deep Purple at that time and I remember him giving me a hard time for asking for such wimpy music. So my next album, which I bought myself, was The Who's "Tommy". Since then I've accumulated and sold (hey, you get pretty broke at college) hundreds of records. My current collection is around 2500 albums (about 700 are duplicates) but I still miss some of the discs I let go for a couple bucks at Wuxtry Records. Also on PDF

When we bought our new house I inherited what I refer to as "the rock garden". In reality it is a pile of rubble taken from when they broke up the old sidewalk about twenty-odd years ago. The previous owners had dumped dirt all over it and planted a variety of plants which eventually were overtaken by the creeping periwinkle. The whole thing lay untended for a number of years before we moved in. I finally reined in some of the vinca, removed almost all the spreading yucca plants and completely replanted some areas. Take a look at the progress. I have also separated some digital shots of the flowers as they bloom and have collected them all in one photo gallery.