From 2004:
Thursday, October 7
Friday, October 29
July 30th
Yo, cats!
The Underground Railroad will be playing a place called Cool Beans in
Denton this Friday, July 30th. We'll be playing two sets starting at 10pm.
The club is located at 1210 W. Hickory. The phone number is 940 382 7025.
See ya there,
Bill
Ken Golden of The Laser's Edge, our label boss, has kindly donated a bunch of
Laser's Edge releases to be given away as door prizes at Ridglea Theater's Sunday night UR gigs!
We'll hold drawings throughout the evening for recent releases by Island, McGill
Manring & Stevens and other L.E. recording artists.
See ya Sunday!
Bill
Hi, folkses. Just in time for July 4th, here's some Underground Railroad-related
news.
UR will be playing the Ridglea Friday, July 9th. We'll commence
the rocking around 9:30pm. The mighty
Shaolin Death Squad will be playing downstairs that night, as well.
Our July Prog Night will happen on Sunday the 18th. Usual time, 7-10pm.
Also, I, Bill Pohl, will be playing with a few other musicians (including Mark Cook from
Minefield and 99 Names of God) at the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth for
a series of improvised performances with a group of dancers. Those shows
will be:
Sunday, July 18 @ 1pm
Saturday, July 24 @ 12pm
Sunday, July 25 @ 3pm
These are really short performances, not longer than 15 minutes or so, probably.
There're free, too.
New album news: Kurt is recording vocals finally. This is the last step before
mixing, so we may finish this in the next couple months.
I look foward to seeing
you at a show this month.
All the best,
Bill
June 11
UR at Monte Carlo's
June 13
The Underground Railroad at the Ridglea. Show starts at 7pm.
We're going to start doing Prog Night just once a month instead
of trying to do it every week, so this will be it for June.
We'd love to see you there.
Bill
Friday, May 7
Saturday, May 15
at The Black Dog Tavern
Mad Jack McMaddd
903 Throckmorton St.
Fort Worth, TX 76102
817-332-8190
Saturday, May 22
Mad Jack McMaddd at Monte Carlo's
Saturday, April 24
March 28
Tomorrow, being the 28th will probably be the last Prog Night at
Ridglea Theater for a few weeks. Mad Jack McMaddd will be playing.
Also, Kurt Rongey, John Livingston, Mark Cook and I will be playing
some music together.
Music starts around 7pm.
See you there.
Bill (3/27/2004)
A regrettable update
I've had to excuse myself from the evening due
to
other commitments. I'm sad I won't be there, as the apostles John,
Mark,
Bill and Jack will surely testify righteously.
My apologies,
Kurt Rongey
March 25 (Thursday)
Underground Railroad, 99 Names of God, Mad Jack McMaddddd* at Division One in Arlington.
Division One's address and phone number:
1725 E Division
Arlington TX 76011
(817) 265 - DIV1 (3481)
Show starts at 9:30pm
*d
March 14
February 27 (Friday)
February 15
Underground Railroad at the Ridglea Theater
7-10 pm
February 8
Mad Jack McMad(d)d and 99 Names of God at the Ridglea Theater
music starts at 7pm
January 25
January 18
January 4
Ridglea Theater.
doors open at 6pm.
Also playing is Mad Jack McMadddd
From 2003:
December 21
Mad Jack McMadd and de Sonata at the Ridglea Theater
Doors open at 6pm.
December 14
December 7
November 30
November 23
November 16
Fellow proggers and friends of old,
The Underground Railroad will be playing The Ridglea Theater Lounge again
this coming Sunday, the 16th. We play early, about 6pm.
Playing immediately after us will be 99 Names of God, who sound fantastic.
I'd love to see you all there. Thanks again to those of you who made it
out last time.
Take it easy,
Bill
November 9
Bill Pohl playing in Eric Martin's show at the Modern Art Museum in
Fort Worth. 1:30 and 3:30pm
November 16
November 23
Bill Pohl in Eric Martin's show at the Modern Art Museum again. Same
show times as on the 9th.
UR at the Ridglea Theater. Shows start at 6pm.
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Past gigs:
October 5
Ridglea Theater
UR will be playing with 99 Names of God. This will be the first
of the Sunday night prog shows at the Ridglea. The show will
begin at about 6pm and wind up at about 10. We'd love to
see you there.
November 15
CANCELLED.
Review of Mad Jack McMaddd's appearance at Cattle Prog 2002
From Expose; Issue No.26; February, 2003
by Sean McFee
Next was Mad Jack McMaddd, the only other
band I was not familiar with. Turns out it's a side project of Bill
Pohl and Michael Richardson from Underground Railroad, along with Dave
Gryder (Storm at Sunrise) on drums. It's basically a guitar/bass/drums
fusion trio, playing a mix of covers and originals, pretty much for
fun. Given the nature of the project I'm wondering if they were
covering for another band that couldn't make it, but I never got the
scoop. The question is somewhat irrelevant anyway, because they smoked.
Pohl's guitar playing reminded me of John McLaughlin circa Mahavishnu
Orchestra's early days, and Gryder was positively hyperactive on the
kit, evoking comparisons to Billy Cobham or mid 60s Tony Williams, or
even Furio Chirico of Arti e Mestieri. Gryder leaves no room to breath,
with fills for any conceivable interval that silence might otherwise
occupy. Covers included a Mahavishnu tune as well as Steely Dan's "King
of the World" with Richardson on vocals. (which I actually had to ask
around to find out, which shows what I know). I was quite impressed how
Pohl and Richardson, who obviously wear the sympho hats for Underground
Railroad, could shift gears so effectively into this musical style. The
set was on the short side, around 55 minutes, but too much more than
that probably would have defeated my attention span so I can't
complain.
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