Local bands include Alter Ego, Rocker, Grayson Rogers Band and Deb & the Dynamics. Children ages 12 and under are free, and free parking is available. The fundraiser is open to the public and will feature local music, several local barbecue restaurants, BBQ competition to name the Best BBQ in town and kids activities. at the Lee County Alliance for the Arts, 10091 McGregor Blvd. WIRED: Your band manager, Alvin Izoff, notoriously overhauled your image-going from a Chicago blues band to your signature California style.The Lee Building Industry Association (BIA) is hosting the fifth annual BBQ, Bands and Brew to benefit its nonprofit charitable arm Builders Care on Sunday, April 6 from 11 a.m.- 6:30 p.m. It's almost like you took a pair of blue jeans, cut two circles out of them, and glued them over the front of a pair of glasses. Some people say the expression, "to see through rose-colored glasses." We see everything through blue jean-colored glasses. There was a studio engineer who jokingly called us that, and it just kind of stuck. How did you get that name?ĪLLEN: That's the way we dressed at the time. WIRED: The name "Blue Jean Committee" has had such legendary influence. There are many meat bands from Chicago who have brought that history into the light: Sausage Men, Meat Guys, Meaty and the Meats, The Meatball Twins. WIRED: How do you envision Blue Jean Committee's role in highlighting that art? Are you alone in bringing it into the popular consciousness?ĪLLEN: Well, it isn’t just us. In ancient times, there was gold-making, painting, and the making of sausages. Do you see sausage making as an art?ĪLLEN: I absolutely do. Please put that in bold headlines for the article. It's almost like I would consider myself a visual tape recorder. It's hard to put into words how much that has inspired me as an artist. I'd like to eventually be someone who sings to people who are dressed up as animals.ĪLLEN: That's a very internal journey. All the animals were coming out of the forest, and I thought, wow, I'd like to fall into that. WIRED: What was the moment when you first realized that you wanted to be a musician?ĪLLEN: I saw a tapestry-a sort of quilt-of a person playing guitar and singing to animals. ![]() Another thing I like to talk about is people who think they're classy and high class, and they're really not. I put the emphasis on lyrics, more than really anything else. My early lyrics would be about the freeway, and trees, hair, driving, sunsets, sunrises, the midday sun, the sun behind a tree, the sun behind the waves, pictures of the sun, polaroids of the sun, depictions of the sun, the sun at a great distance, the sun close up, the sun on a t-shirt, the sun painted on the side of a car or a van, that kind of thing. ![]() ![]() A lot of imagery, a lot of words put together to evoke, a lot of verbal painting. A real wordsmith, a real sentence structure king. Do you think those early influences informed your songwriting?ĪLLEN: I consider myself a brilliant lyricist. WIRED: You're known for such poetic lyrics. Names like that were really important to me. ![]() You know, names like Thomas, or Mary-Anne, or Mary. Then when I started getting into folk, anything having to do with proper names was really good.
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