At the Iron Rail Pub in Chicago. 1979 with Tarpon Jam Band.
At Slugger's in Wrigleyville, 1995 with
my Band, "M. F. Tyson".
Our favorite south side bar "Groucho's" with my band
Plus One in 1982.
With "Plus one" at The
Charlie Club in Mt. Prospect in about1982.
With "Plus One" in a studio,
the entire band dressed to kill and wearing our favorite
makeup.
I started out as an underaged (white) blues harp player. Walking
on stage at all the clubs on Lincoln Ave.
It didn't take long to figure out that I had some singing ability.
In 1978 my buddie Mike Lampa and I and his older brother Steve
formed The Tarpon Jam Band. With the exception of a few years,
i've been involved with performing live or recording ever since.Plus
One was the next musical adventure. Plus One was a well rehearsed
music machine. We had a sound crew, a light crew and enough equipment
to require two cargo vans to hall it around. We played the college
circuit as well as the local bars.Somewhere in the middle of all
this a couple members of the band decided they wanted out. So the
core members began the auditioning process. As a result of the
personell changes we all agreed that we should change the name
of the band. It just wasn't Plus One anymore.Enter Last Call. Last
Call was a good time party band. Last Call was my first attempt
at handeling the lead vocals by myself. Up until then we always
had one or two women sharing the vocal chores.All good things come
to an end and so did Last call. I fell out of music for about four
years. At a friends christmas party I met an old band mate. He
convinced me to visit one of his rehearsals with his current band.
Here we go again.M. F. TYSON was born. This would have been early
1994. M. F. Tyson has played in and around the city since 94. The
last three or four years had us in the recording studio trying
to finish an all original project.I started to get the urge to
perform alone. Just me and my guitar. So I put some rehearsal time
in and went out in persuit of solo gigs.
This is Where the Fabulous Dave enters the picture. We were both
booked to do a couple hours at a bar in Naperville called The Cabaret.
I saw his show, he saw mine, and the rest is as they say, "history"...
