Mark,

I just found this thread again. I've got tapes of some of those times at Lackey's. Artie P. and Fleming and Steve Wade jamming with Davey Prine. Doug Montegue too I think. and unique tapes of Hobart Smith---recorded while sitting on the couch in George & Gerry Armstrong's livingroom. Someone--not G. & G.---put the mike under the couch. Lackey's place at Lunt & Glenwood was across the L tracks from the No Exit in those days. The space is now THE HEARTLAND CAFE owned by Mike James--who just bought the No Exit---cleaned the place up pretty well and reopened it. Probably the longest running coffeehouse in the U.S. I played there for 37 years. I guess they've been around under all the different owners for 43 years.

Art Thieme

Art Thieme