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▄▄▓██████▓▄▄▄▄ artist..: robert fairweather ░ ▀ ▐▓▌
▓███████████████▓▄▄ album...: blizzard in chicago ▓█▓
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▓████████▓▓ ▀█▓ genre..: blues ███
▓████████▓▌ █▓ ripdate: 01.08.2005 ██▓
▌ ▀▓███████▓▄ ▐▓▌ reldate: 00.00.2005 █▓▒
▓ ▀▀▀▀██████▓▄ █▓▓ ripper.: Team SSR ▓▒░
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▓▓███████▓▓ Fairweather's interest in music showed itself ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ early for this rock blues guitar phenom. A ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ three-year old Robert was often found on the ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ kitchen floor, tapping the beat on the pots and ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ pans pulled from the lower cabinets. He was ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ intent on jamming to the music from the ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ radio, television and his parent's record ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ collection. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ Then came the Chicago Blizzard of 1967, as ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ notable as the Chicago Fire -except with snow-. ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Add a large helping of rock and roll ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ music and things would never be the same for ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Robert or any Chicagoan. The Doors were about to ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ spin their blue voodoo on the ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ world and the first song Robert remembers ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ hearing at a very young age was "Light My Fire", ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ along with the songs written for The ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Monkees like "Last Train to Clarksville" and ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ "Daydream Believer". He also mentions that many ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ of the guittar theme songs from the ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ crazy tv shows of the 60's and 70's still ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ inspire him today. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ Robert's interest in the percussion instruments ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ and "music time" in grade school was apparent. ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Clave was one of his favorite ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ instruments with it's snappy hard wood tone. ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Music and instruments and singing were plentiful ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ in Robert's home. "My dad was in ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ the church choir, we had a piano, some ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ percussion stuff and an old Regal guitar my ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ father bought when he was a kid, that guitar ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ intrigued me but we (my brother or sisters) ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ couldn't touch it or we'd get scolded if you ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ know what I mean". ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ On the television, a host of great musicians ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ including Dizzy Gillepsie and Satch were regular ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ guests and Robert recalls, "Even as a ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ kid I understood and had a feeling for the music ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ these artists played and I wanted to do this ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ too". Then, out of nowhere, comes Jimi ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Hendrix. Robert continued to hear this ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ mysterious music from an early age. It sounded ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ so different than any other music. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ The next instrument Robert went for was the ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ trumpet in about the 4th grade. Learning the ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ national anthem and his future high ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ school's fight song, Robert picked these up by ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ listening to the high school band on his front ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ porch any fall afternoon when the local ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ high school football team was playing a half ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ mile away. Robert later attended Glenbard North ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ (ironically, alternative rocker Billy ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Corgan's Smashing Pumpkins alma mater) and ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ graduated in '83. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ In the 70's, REO Speedwagon, Styx, Yes, Led ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Zeppelin, AC/DC, KISS, BAD Co, and a host of ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ other rock bands caught Robert's ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ attention. This is when a guitar and amp were ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ spotted at a local garage sale for $25.00 for ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ the pair. Robert had been working the ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ local Carol Stream Daily Journal paper route and ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ had the money to buy the rig. Now, all he had to ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ do was convince his mother and ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ father to let him buy the guitar. And, more ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ difficult, to learn how to play it. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ Well, he bought the guitar. "Smoke on Water" and ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ a few chords later and Robert had his baptism in ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ electric guitar. Jamming with ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ other electric guitarists after grade school ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ became a passion. And, early on these boys would ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ open up the electronics of the guitars ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ and amps to see what made 'em tick. Playing ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ records and trying to decipher Rock and Roll ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ with guitar in hand was the game. "It ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ might be sunny out, but we're in the bedroom ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ working on being rock stars". They didn't become ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ rocks stars. Later in high school, ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ girls, beers and pranks became Robert's ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ obsession and the only musical event he ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ participates in is a Cool and the Gang lip sync ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ band ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ with several classmates. It's the high school ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ variety show, with Robert on drums, the band was ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ an easy winner when the frontman did ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ a front flip and started into Cool's "Too Hot". ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ First place. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ College (Robert was a radio dj for three years a ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ WIUS 88.3 Macomb, Western Illinois University) ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ came and went quickly for this ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ LEA graduate. Again, Robert's first love music ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ took a back seat to his pursuit of a law ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ enforcement career. Working odd jobs for low ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ pay and trying to support a new family while ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ making applications to Chicago area police ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ departments was tough. Sometimes 1500 ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ candidates would show up for two police officers ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ positions. Robert always ended up in the top 5 ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ or 10 and tried for a couple of years ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ before deciding to forget about a career in law ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ enforcement. This is when he went out a bought a ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ new guitar. He just wanted to learn ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ a few Neil Young songs on this cheap applause ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ guitar to satisfy his soul. Working as an auto ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ repossessor, after a long night of ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ stealing cars (legally), Robert and his partner ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ would sit around and trade a few licks in ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Robert's apartment. This lead to the purchase ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ of a used electric guitar and full pursuit of ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ the blues and rock music. Ironically, this is ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ when Robert met Robert. Robert picked up a ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ copy of the Robert Johnson collection and was ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ stunned to find nearly the entire catalog of ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ popular rock music was drawn from these ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ musings and those of his contemporaries. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ Robert made a concientious decision to learn how ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ to play blues music after spending many of his ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ formative years sneaking into Chicago blues ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ clubs with his fake i.d., "They (club owners) ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ knew we were young, but they knew we were cool ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ and our money didn't hurt them neither, Chicago ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ just has a great vibe". There is nothing like a ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ blues show downtown Robert comments, "the energy ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ is high and the people are all just real cool. ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ There's a lot of dancing, drinking and smokin' ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ goin' on and the music is full of feeling, humor ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ and sexuality - just a total release". Robert ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ has spent the last several years learning, ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ listening, watching and playing rock and blues ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ music. His respect for the music and it's ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ history is apparent. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ After years of corner bar gigs, several band and ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ band names, multiple attempts to record in a ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ professional studio and a zillion let ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ downs, Robert finally had his chance to complete ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ a cd. The three Roberts record a full cd ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ begining on June 7, 2004, with a ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ completion date of August 14, 2004. In the ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ summer of '04, Robert completed his debut cd ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ "Blizzard In Chicago" which traces a life ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ of an aspiring blues rock musician. And what ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ about the Luv Machine? With the help of Chicago ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ music scene veteran, Bobby Midnight on bass ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ guitar, and MI California educated Robert ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Wimmers on drums, Fairweather's Luv Machine has ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ come up with a fun and exciting new blues rock ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ album of original songs. This cd is an ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ autobiography, detailing the low and high ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ points, the dreams and aspirations for a blues ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ guitarist from Chicago in 2004. These are ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ exciting times for Robert with the new release ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ and the attention great music brings. As Robert ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ says, "I'm sure there's somethin' on there (the ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Blizzard In Chicago" cd) that everyone can like ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ because we put such a variety of music in there. ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ This is ten years of my life in 60 minutes. ▓▓███████▓▓
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