Andy, Tim, Michael

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Welcome to the web site for Silkworm (1987-2005).

R. I. P.

MICHAEL JERMAN DAHLQUIST

22 DEC 1965 - 14 JULY 2005

 

09-09-1999

Shit! Andy is opening up for Joel Phelps and the Downer Trio at the Empty Bottle on Saturday! Boy did I forget to mention this!

That's the Empty Bottle on Western in Chicago. Andy's playing acoustic, Joel's playing electric. You should go there and say hello and tell Joel to let Andy lay down some hot licks on one of the rockers. Dig it! If I was in Chicago or thereabouts, I'd check it out!

Tim and Vickie are on their way home from Chicago - say hello if you see them at the truck stop. I'm back to work and it ain't so bad. I am indeed happy to be home. We did some recording and it sounds good, we're not quite done but we'll finish up soon enough. Go to Andy's show!

More news as it arrives.



09-02-1999

Well, I said no more before the week was through. If you've been reading the tour journal you'll know that life has been good, life in Canada was good and things are well. Now we're in Chicago to record a bunch of songs - some of which some of you heard on the tour, others of which no one knows - and that's going well, too. Recording is enjoyable and we don't record like many bands, we generally just play our songs, roll the tape and leave it at that, but still it takes time, lots of time, and much of that time I spend sitting on my ass, which is growing larger after ten days in the van and another week on this or that couch.... I am falling apart! Physically! I am falling apart and my ass is growing larger and oh it is a tragedy!

No my ass is not so large. But I entered this studio on Sunday night and it is now Thursday night and I have yet to step outside. Days go by and it's suddenly 11:00 PM and I have not seen the sun. It's been a fine trip but I am prepared, I am truly prepared to make my way back home.

More about the trip when I get there.



08-15-1999

Sorry for the blackout. There's been plenty of activity, or at least there's plenty of activity coming up. We're getting ready to plow through Canada with Shellac - I forget the name of the tour, it's the "Canadian Sponge" or the "Canadian Tractor-pull" tour or something. Andy's in town, he got in yesterday. He's dying to spoon me. Tim and I moved all our crap from my basement to his, and we set up last night and rocked out in a sort of test-the-new-neighborhood way. It's Sunday morning and a storm is brewing. It's an action-packed world!

The Silkworm/Shellac Canadian tour starts on Friday in Seattle. We're playing opposite Ministry, they're at the Paramount just down the street. The show is EARLY, it starts at SEVEN O'CLOCK so the club can get their disco show running on time. It should be a riotous time. The whole trip should be a hoot. I'm gonna try to get the tour-journal thing fixed in time so I can post updates for those concerned with our well-being.

We'll do some recording when we get to Chicago. It should go well now that the heat wave is over. I will have more to say before the week is through!



07-10-1999

This is what Andy said about his rock show. That's all!



07-04-1999

Happy 4th of July! I hope you are having fun and aren't out getting your fingers blown off. I've got to mow the lawn and take care of some errands but I want to finish this up first. It's actually a nice day and it was supposed to be miserable, so I've got to get outside.

I'm writing to tell you there's news. We're touring Canada with Shellac in late August - thrills! This will hopefully make up for the time a few years back when we were heading out to do some shows with them and we wrecked our van and got stuck in Cheyenne somewhere, it ended up being a very depressing Spring and oh I don't want to talk about it. So I've posted the first stab at tour dates. I hope you're happy and I hope you all come to the shows.

The other big news is that Tim and Vickie have moved from their nice friendly apartment building to a big scary house in the rough part of town. Shit! Scary! It's exciting. It's a character-building experience. But it's changed the mailing address for ordering stuff, so make a note of it.

Andy hasn't told me how his show went, so I can't tell you anything about it yet.



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