Letting our Elton John flags fly, down in the Rumpus Room. Professor Ellis and Toby Weiss are joined by Tory Starbuck. Turns out Tory and Toby are both North St. Louis County ex-pats who were major Elton John grade school obsessives in the 1970s. Hence “Harmony.”

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Steve Scariano  is a bass player. He is not a frustrated guitarist who had to play bass to stay in a band. He’s 100% a professional bass player, and what a rare creature that is. Which is one of the reasons he’s been invited into so many bands over the decades (shown above on the […]

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“I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet…” Well, above, I got to live out my Cher Half Breed delusions when I was part of the Finn’s Motel video for “Recent Linear Landscapes.” I did a little singing on their album Escape Velocity, a lot of photography. The biggest kick was one of […]

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