Renditions in March 2007

March was a very busy month for us.
6 shows!! We’d like to acknowledge our “Sixth Man” (well, actually he’s our seventh man, unless of course you take in to account Kristi is actually a girl…) Anyway, when bassist Neal occasionally can’t make it to a one of our gigs because of his busy schedule, Matt Soukal fills in for us on bass guitar. He did so twice in March and did a great job, first at Westside Club (3/3) and then at Manhattan’s (3/9). Thanks for pinch-hitting, Matt. We look forward to working with you again.

We finally got back to Rolling Lanes in March and played there 2 times. We drew nice crowds for both shows, especially the second one on March 24th. It meant a lot because we don’t get to the South side as much as we’d like. It was fun to see some of you who don’t always get a chance to catch our show.

The 31st show at Ki’s was especially energetic. Not only did many of our favorite Rendfriends make it out to the show, but we got a chance to visit with many of you between sets and take some photos of you, too. Some of those pictures are posted here.


It was special, too, for our new keyboardist, Gary. As we mentioned in last months blog, Gary has been working for several years with New Colony 6 and one of his NC6 bandmates (whom many of you know), Mark Eskin stopped out to catch The Rendos for the first time. We asked him up to sit in with us and he, graciously, did so. “Beatle Mark” played and sang lead on Carl Perkins’ “Honey Don’t”, then played guitar with us for most of Set 4. I would be remiss if I didn’t also give a big shout out to Rob”Roy”Eddy, who performed another spot-on version of the Big O’s “Pretty Woman”. Thanks, Rob.

In April, we return to Dimitri’s in St. Charles on Friday, the 13th (hopefully, that will be good luck for all us.) It’s a top notch restaurant with great food and lovely atmosphere. Then it’s up to Green Bay Road, near the Lake, for Bertucci’s on the 20th. We close out April with our monthly visit to Ki’s.

Rendfriends, thanks for all of your support! See ya in April.

Greg, Jerry, Neal, Kristi, John and Gary