Tim Stopulos

Happy New Year Everyone!

2009 looks to be a great year. We plan on playing more often and in more places, and when we get there, we plan on rocking your faces like never before.

Be safe, and we'll see you soon.

TS3

Reggie's 12.28.08

Loose Ends (transition)
Count Me In
Too Close
Big Shot
Normal
As
I'm Over It
Play It Cool (as requested by She's So)
Pride and Prejudice




photo courtesy of She's So Devine

Full band tonight, December 27th! It's our last show of the year, so get your TS3 fill for 2008 tonight at:

Reggie's Music Joint
2105 S State St
Chicago, IL
9:00pm
21+
Free!

See you tonight...

Awesome crowd last night...you guys killed it.

Thanks to Craig Bentley (fantastic guitarist), Joe Stopulos (rocking pianist) and Steven "Golden Voice" Kretschmer for jumping on stage with me.

Thanks also to DJ Dirt McGierk and JJ Condon for putting this thing together and inviting me.

Stephanie De Pasquale, who writes for the Go 'n Do section of the QC Times, scribed a beautiful recap of the evening. Follow that fresh link below. Thanks Stephanie:

http://ads.qctimes.com/articles/2008/12/23/entertainment/stephanie_depasquale/doc4951c212da50e553387275.txt

Check out Connie Wilson's review of our 12.19.08 show at the Redstone Room on weeklywilson.com. Connie was the Quad City Times film, book and music critic for 15 years, prior to moving to the Illinois side to interview local media for the Daily Dispatch. Thanks Connie for the kind words!

First, here's the setlist for 12.19.08:



Second, here's some sweet pix from the show:

We had a great time. Everyone that came to the show is cooler than Miles Davis.

Ok we're doing an experiment and we need your help. We're trying to decide what band name works the best. We couldn't think of a better way than asking our friends. The more votes we can get, the better, so please, please email at info@timstopulos.com or comment with your favorite name.

The Candidates:

Tim Stop Trio
T Stop Trio
Tim Stopulos
Tim Stopulos & The Trio
Tim Stopulos Band
Tim Stopulos Trio
TS3
Tim Stop

Also, if you have an unbelievable idea that you absolutely need to tell us, you can write in a variation. Still, we encourage sticking to the list, just to make it simpler.

Once you decide, just reply or comment and include the name you like in the response.

Don't forget this Friday, December 19, we're back at the Redstone Room in Davenport and would to see you all there. In case you're near Chicago, we're playing an acoustic show at the Bad Dog Tavern on North Lincoln the very next night.

Thanks so much for helping us with the name! Look forward to hearing from you...

Regards,

Band to be named later.

Determined to redeem himself from Johnny Silverscreen and the Worst Concert of All-Time, Justin, along with Tim, Seville and Michael, played three consecutive shows for the second week of December.  Short-profiles of all three:

Acoustic show tonight, December 13:

Tim Stopulos
(With Justin Hooks & Seville Lilly)
Lucky's
3472 N Clark St
Chicago, IL 60657
(773) 549-0665
10:00
21+

Last show was epic. Don't miss out!

Setlist from Underground Lounge 12.11.08

Full band tonight, December 11 at:

The Underground Lounge
952 W Newport Ave
Chicago, IL 60657
(773) 327-2739
10:30pm
21+

See you there...

We at TS3 are a considerate group. We're more than willing to help out someone in need.

Thursday at 3:30pm I got a call from a frantic Mr. Johnny Silverscreen* in desperate need of "a rhythm section." A friend of mine recommended me to fill in. I ask, "what are we going to play?" Johnny tells me, "Oh we'll play some Black Crowes, some Zeppelin...straight rock stuff, it'll be cool. Show's at 10:30." I said to myself, "Self, how bad can it be? I'll play some tunes with some Chicago musicians. I'm not doing anything tonight, what the hell." I agree to help a fellow musician out and tell him,"I'll be there at 9:30."

Upon hearing this Tim looks at me and reminds me that I don't know Johnny Silverscreen. I don't know what we're going to play, and not only have I never rehearsed with these people, I haven't even met them. I scoff at Tim's disbelief and continue to enjoy my Victory HopDevil.

I pull up to the venue with my kit in tow and grab my bass drum and a few other items and walk in. The place is empty. Literally empty. Instead of music, the TV's and audio are tuned to The Daily Show. After a minute or so a big door guy comes out and points me to the stage. It's a decent sized stage, probably pretty tight for 4 guys. I proceed to set up my kit and Johnny comes in. Johnny kinda looks like Iggy Pop, except not as wrinkly. Johnny is as friendly as can be and has an energetic and enthusiastic disposition. It's getting closer to 10 and Johnny assures me that this place gets hopping later on. He also tells me that the bass player should be here any minute. Thankfully Tim and Shannon show up to help keep me sane. Here's the crowd in its entirety:





Around quarter to 11, Johnny calls me up to the stage along with a rousing round of applause from the 5 people in the room (Tim, Shannon, and the 3 people that are being paid to be there). The bass player never showed so it was just electric guitar and drums. He wants to open with "Desire" by U2. I don't know U2 at all and he tells me what beat to play so I obliged. It just gets worse from there. There was no low end and each song had long and pointless solos. Each song is less coherent than the last and at one point, Shannon texted me with, "Are you OK?" I replied with, "I want to die." It was just a constant barrage of noise. Even between songs he'd just let the chords ring and immediately go into the next song. When he did address the crowd, he acted like we were playing the United Center. He was yelling at the top of his lungs, "Give it up for Johnny Silverscreen and Justin Hooks!!" Tim looked at me with utter disgust for the embarrassing scene on stage.

Thankfully, Johnny decided to take an intermission, and after successfully getting (fake) email addresses from everyone in the crowd for his mailing list, he left to go to 7-11 for some coffee. I saw this as my opportunity to leave with some shred of dignity and packed up my kit and got the hell out of there. Since I didn't know how soon Johnny would be back, time was of the essence. Here is a picture of me literally running away from this gig:





We got back to Tim's and my phone rings. It's Johnny. I don't want to take this call. I felt bad about bolting on the gig but, give me a break, it was the worst concert of all time. Tim convinces me to answer the phone and Johnny asked me why I left. I told him, "I thought it was over." "Oh, you thought it was over, right, OK...well, hey man, great show tonight, next time we'll have a bunch of people, you know, like, my friends, your friends, it'll be awesome!" Johnny went on and on about our imaginary next gig for quite some time and I told him to call me tomorrow. I haven't heard from him since. Hopefully I never will.

*Name (just barely) changed to protect the innocent.