Thomas the Organ

I have a new toy from the island of little lost instruments: The Thomas organ by Heathkit. It's a small kit organ with the standard cheesy voice selections. Upper and lower decks with some footpeddles as well. Several of the contacts are not working for the keys, so I need some advice on how to clean those off (Donut!). I'm pretty stoked to fiddle with it.

New Single = Books

Due to the excellent rapport the Sac Spokesmen have with The Beneficiaries...here is a sampling of their latest for your consideration.

Tanks Cover No. 2

leftinside breaks for the kids.

Jeremy Jay Diatribe - Spokesmen Podcast 001

Welcome to our first edition of the Spokesmen podcast! In this edition we rant about Jeremy Jay. Burnt Toast wants to know: "Is this guy for real?"...Hilarity ensues...

1)To listen from this blog, just click the play button or the picture below.
2)To subscribe to the actual podcast, do this:
On itunes just go to menu item Advanced/Subscribe To Podcast/then copy the link from the title of this blog post into the URL dialogue box(hover your pointer over the title and then right click "copy shortcut" to save the link address).

Spokesmen Are Streaming!

Check out the new music player on the lefthand sidebar widget thingy! Just click a song and play. I only posted what I had. Please post the rest of your stuff in the dropbox and I'll get it going. I know there's also a way to associate images as well but this is all I could wrap my brain around for the time being. Maybe Donut can take it from here...

Let me know if it works for you!

Also, do we want to post songs from the latest go-around or wait till the official listening party?

Rider Profile - Side Burns

The man and the machine. Here's a few shots. I'll let Brian describe his own bike. I was fortunate enough to be there when he first picked up from Mission Bicycle and even got to see the color rendering beforehand.

Best of Times**

We just got back from our latest ride and had a great opportunity to MEET and GREET with Dennis DeYoung from STYX!! Can you believe it?

The band is currently on tour and playing nightly at the California State Fair. Of course, we all gathered up the wives and rocked hard to a sampling of all of their greatest jams the opening night of the fair. What made this even better was that Brian had won backstage passes for all of us to meet the band from a contest put on by 96.9 The Eagle. Thanks Eagle! We couldn't help but mention our fun loving bike club to the guys and we were so surprised to find out that Dennis DeYoung is an avid rider, too! He thought it might be a great way to pass the time during his stay in Sacramento and joined us on a 10 mile loop of the American River Bike Trail and followed the amazing ride up with some great food at Adalbertos. We even brought along an extra club uniform for Dennis to wear and had somebody take our picture. We couldn't wait to share it with all of our readers and fans alike. Thank you Dennis for taking us on the ride of our lives. It truly was The Best of Times!

Above Photo (from Left to Right): Bill, Matt, Brian, Dennis DeYoung, and Jason.


Your song selection for coversong #5 is The Postal Service "Brooklyn Blues."

** The following events were just what Brian told me. Don't blame me if they actually didn't take place.