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“It was a pretty tight space,” DeLorenzo says, looking around. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.

He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.

In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area.

“Last summer Lee Blennis, a Vermont native and real estate owner, took charge,” Luhrssen wrote in his review. Rock!!!!! followed it in 1995 on 'Mushroom Records' but only in Australia (it was re-released globally in 2000). Plus xylophone, shakuhachi, conch, etc. Although nearly all of the band's songs, including Blister in the Sun, credit Gano as the sole songwriter, Ritchie responded with a lawsuit later that year.

The rest, as they say, is history.

El Condor closed quietly sometime around 1990 and – other than a brief run by Ancient Voyage, a shop in which Gil Rasmussen's brother Christopher sold items from Nepal – the space hasn’t been open to the public since.

Some people, who would really get enjoyment out of certain things don't because they don't let themselves'."

The writer also spotlighted Gano's performances.

Instead, the cleaners upstairs, run by an R. P. Hogan, took over the subterranean space and used it for pressing freshly laundered clothing. DeLorenzo asked to rejoin for what was to be a farewell tour, thus reinstating the original lineup.

For the 2002 SpongeBob SquarePants First Complete Season DVD, the Violent Femmes recorded a 34-second cover of the SpongeBob theme.

(Across the street, a young bookseller named Harry W. Schwartz had opened his Casanova Books in the back of Downer Beauty Parlor that year, too.)

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The barber shop appears to have closed by the end of the 1920s and in 1931, Morris Schwartz opened a short-lived tailor shop in the basement location. How have the audiences changed from back then, and how have your performances changed?

The constitution of the audience has remained pretty much the same over the decades, which is almost unique in the rock world.

Me, I'm a superman.

How did you meet?

We were all at a gay bathhouse and we noticed that we had the three smallest peepees.

The earliest tenant, Lincoln Dry Cleaners, appeared to be open by 1914, and almost immediately, the small triangular space below was occupied by barbers. One of the group's concerts at Topps was open only to area talent scouts and music critics!"

“Curtis was a friend of mine from the northwest side of Milwaukee, but that was only a coincidence," Ritchie says.

Victor claims not to eat.

“Store is 8’ 6” below grade level, wherein sale of food stuffs is not permitted,” noted building inspector Leon Gurda.