Duff Rice of DD Booking and Michael Yerke from Live Nation Talk Early Days of Booking Chicago Music

Key Moments: 0:00 Pre Show 1:05 Michael Yerke Clip 1:46 Long Grove Chocolate Fest https://www.longgrove.org/festival/chocolatefest/ 1:51 Long Grove Strawberry Fest https://www.longgrove.org/festival/strawberry-fest/ 1:54 Long Grove Apple Fest https://www.longgrove.org/festival/apple-fest/ 2:47 Michael Yerke Live Nation https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-yerke-4145761/ Joins in 3:42 Show Start 4:15 Duff Rice Duff Entertainment https://www.duffentertainment.com/ DD Booking https://www.doubledbooking.com/ 4:22 Michael Yerke Head of Global Tours Live Nation https://www.livenation.com/ 4:50 Back in The Day History early 90's Chicago music 5:53 Michael Yerke History 6:04 Avalon https://www.facebook.com/AvalonChicago/ 6:37 Tony Bitoy China Club Dance Floor 7:01 George Clinton Show 7:13 Bruce Solar https://news.pollstar.com/2023/06/29/bruce-solar-joins-paladin-artists-reunites-with-steve-martin-and-andy-somers/ 7:28 Mike Yerke First time Meeting George Loukas Owner of Cubby Bear cubbybear.com at Gil Park https://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks-facilities/gill-joseph-park 7:50 Duff Rice early Days of the Cubby Bear 8:45 Gus Loukas relationship with Duff 9:08 Duff tells the real George Clinton Pfunk Booking Story 9:28 Jeff Kwatinez https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Kwatinetz Peter Katsis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Katsis 9:52 Brad Altman clip https://youtu.be/goyPULqQr4w?si=QZRVWX34EWrw-W1G 9:59 Brad Altman Cigar story https://www.chicagotribune.com/1992/02/07/varying-views-in-the-wake-of-cubby-bear-shakeup/ 10:27 Duff and Bruce Solar Mention 11:03 Booking a stinker and facing the owner 11:27 George Spotter Story's 11:41 Dave Matthews at Cubby Bear 12:25 Gwen Stefani No Doubt at Cubby Bear 12:30 Rusted Root at Cubby Bear 12:54 The Oak Theater https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/4539 13:42 Ron Onesti 14:10 Cubby Bear Venue f the Year Pollstar https://www.chicagotribune.com/1992/01/24/cubby-bear-named-venue-of-the-year-by-pollstar/ 15:07 What advice can Mike or Duff give to bands/venue/promoters working their way up? 15:39 Australian Pink Floyd https://www.aussiefloyd.com/ 16:33 Taylor Swift Doing Covers at the start of career 18:19 Noah Kahan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Kahan Alpine Valley Tix https://concerts.livenation.com/noah-kahan-well-all-be-here-east-troy-wisconsin-07-13-2024/event/07005F32D640220E 19:25 Duff Advice to break through at the regional level 19:40 16 Candles Example https://www.sixteencandlesband.com/ 20:20 Each member of 16 candles making well over $150k 21:01 Mike Orfanos thoughts with His Band The Mosquitos Jam Band 21:23 The Mosquitos Jam Band playing Joes Live in Rosemont March 1 22:40 WXRT Mention https://www.audacy.com/wxrt 26:38 Duff Bush Salt Shed Story 27:11 Duff Risk and New Festivals for promoters 27:37 Taste of Randolph https://www.tasteofrandolph.org/ 28:36 Michael Yerke National Perspective 28:38 The Sphere Las Vegas https://www.thespherevegas.com/ 32:17 Mike Yerkes MGM Music Hall Story Fenway Park Boston https://crossroadspresents.com/pages/mgm-fenway-music-hall 32;39 Wrigley Field is an Entertainment Complex 33:45 Salt She Aragon example 33:59 Jam Productions 34:18 Brad Altman Takes Credit for Over paying for Bands That George Loukas Paid For 34:45 "Overpaying a band is a relative term" - Michael Yerke 36:40 "If George Loukas is listening to this" Thank You George From Duff Rice, Pete Jansons and Michael Yerke 37:10 George Loukas Real Estate Michael Yerke Perspective 38:20 Cubby Bear is a Family Involved Business 38:33 George Loukas Back In the Day Podcast https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/back-in-the-day/episodes/George-Loukas-owner-of-the-Cubby-Bear-Chicago-eq80sv/a-a4jrh02 39:50 Michael Yerke Shout Out 40:30 Up and Comer Bands Mike Yerke? Bleachers https://www.bleachersmusic.com/ 40:40 Dayglow https://dayglowband.com/ 41:12 Coin band https://www.thisiscoin.com/