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anybody know if he's still in chicago? doing well?

I'm not from the Chicago area, but my band played there a couple of times, and the Thax took a shine to us (as he did many'a'band, as I understand it). I saw him not three months ago at the Built to Spill concert, and talked with him for a while. He seemed just fine, and read a poem before the show.
Ike in Kazoo

Yes, Thax is still kicking it out. I have seen him at a bunch of shows lately. He is sporting a longish beard.

A few months ago I recorded about 2 hours of Thax reading his writings, about 60 pieces in all. Hopefully this will be released in some way at some point somehow.

i don't know why, but i laughed out loud when i saw this thread.
...yeah, he's always around here somewhere, i saw him recently, too, although i can't remember which show it was. once i rode to carbondale with him and my old pal rich, and we talked about who the worst band in chicago could be. ha, that was a funny conversation.

regards,
jet.

Mayfair wrote:Yes, Thax is still kicking it out. I have seen him at a bunch of shows lately. He is sporting a longish beard.

A few months ago I recorded about 2 hours of Thax reading his writings, about 60 pieces in all. Hopefully this will be released in some way at some point somehow.

that's actually what made me wonder how he was; thinking about the recording of his spoken word stuff that steve did however many years ago that was... i was looking for info on a cd, and one of the links that came up in google was somebody's site dedicated to listing all the stuff steve's ever done, music, engineer, producer-wise. and looking through the list, i was utterly shocked to see that thax's spoken-word demo wasn't on there. well, maybe not shocked so much as... what's the opposite of shocked?

if you see him, if you would, tell him i said "hey" and hope he's doing well.

Here is Thax's email:

thaxdouglas@hotmail.com

muchas muchas, amigo!