To our own
amazement and the astonishment of anyone with a bit of musical
sense, The Geezers Jug Band won the 22nd Annual Battle of the
Jug Bands on Sunday, February 8, 2004 at the Cabooze, 917
Cedar Av. S., Minneapolis.
Geezer Pix from
the Battle
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Described in
the Minneapolis Star Tribune as "the best of the Twin Cities'
bottle-blowing, washboard-scratching, acoustic-pickin' music
jammers in loosely configured groups," our little group took the
stage in the middle of an 8 hour extravaganza, with something like
25 bands scheduled to perform. We have no idea what
happened, but the crowd seemed to like us, and the rest is
history.
We are now the
proud possessors (for the next year) of the trophy waffle iron,
onto which our names will be forever inscribed. (Unless the
waffle iron is lost, in which case our bragging will be
emboldened, since we'll be able to lie about the significance of
the event.)
The Geezers
appeared right before last year's winners, the Chieptains.
Other bands included Slipped a Mickey, the Spandex Kazoo
Orchestra, Grateful Jugs, Saggy Bottom Girls and the G-String
Band, and Spider John Koerner's jug band, known as "Outside John
and the Sears Catalog," a band created on the spot, including our
own Peter and Tom on mandolin and lager-phone. (It would
have been a shame for the lager-phone to be used only once during
the day.)
February
2005 Battle Update
We didn't
win the 2005 battle. Since we didn't expect to win in
2004, we had the same expectation for 2005. In fact, we
were told that no one wins in consecutive years, but maybe they
said that just to mollify us. In any event, we had a great
time, performed well and basked in the glory of defending
champs, returning the coveted waffle iron. However, we
returned it late in the day, because nobody told us to have it
there early.
