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REP. SCOTT PELATH, D-Michigan City is minority leader for the Indiana House of Representatives.

TIME TO ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT HEALTH CARE BY REP. SCOTT PELATH, D-MICHIGAN CITY // EDITORS@NUVO.NET

ny successful company cannot live Dismantling basic health care for close without one thing. It demands emto 22 million Americans and providing ployees who will show up on time, do nothing in return — all to pay for yet things the way they were trained, and another unaffordable tax break for the very work hard until the day is done. rich — may be a fantasy for some in power. Do tax rates matter for businesses? Sure, Most others do not like the reality so much. if you are already making money. Can What is the answer for those Hoosiers government rules be a pain? Sometimes, who will lose their HIP 2.0 coverage just they undoubtedly are. But these worries because some want to live up to their ralare secondary if folks in the office or out in ly-pleasing campaign slogans? the plant are not cutting it. At least the state legislative leaderIf you want to start or expand a business, ship here in Indiana senses we must gird you need healthy and trainable people ourselves for what lies ahead. A panel will to hire. And once you are meet this summer to gauge up and running, you need the impact of what is being Bad health is bad wrought in Washington. customers who are not too sick to buy your stuff. But will it sway leaders in for business. An economy — especially Washington who have not a state’s economy — is only yet divorced their camas healthy as its workforce. Decisions that paigns from the grim task of governing? make people less healthy mean fewer roWithout considering a single moral argubust workers, fewer motivated consumers, ment, perhaps it is time to consider the core and fewer dollars to invest in something issues: do those in charge of our state and else. Bad health is bad for business. federal governments believe that affordable As the members of the U.S. House and health care is a worthy goal? Do they accept Senate escape from Washington for Indepenthat the health of others reaps economic divdence Day, one would hope that they would idends for the rest of us? Or that emergency tear up their talking points and just listen. rooms are the costliest health care of all? Perhaps then they might grasp that That is the real health care debate that chaos and uncertainty on Capitol Hill will needs to be taking place…and the sooner, make 400,000 Hoosiers on Indiana’s own the better. Enough with the one-liners. HIP 2.0 insurance plan less healthy. Health care is hard, and our health is too Instead of listening to the men who important to remain in the hands of politicrafted the current health care “reform” cal advertisers. N plan behind closed doors, maybe they should meditate on: • Older citizens whose premiums go up 5-times more than younger patients; • Insurance deductibles rising by as much as 20 percent; and • Hundreds of thousands of Hoosiers with no real health care other than the emergency room. For more opinion pieces visit nuvo.net/voices

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BEST TWEET: @PeteButtigieg // July 1

WORST TWEET: @realDonaldTrump // July 1

Hi, hi, Li’l Sebastian.... @StJoeCty4H

Crazy Joe Scarborough and dumb as a rock Mika are not bad people, but their low rated show is dominated by their NBC bosses. Too bad

CIRCLE CITIZEN/CIRCLE JERK CURTIS HILL Indiana Attorney General JERK After U.S. District Court judge Sarah Evans Barker issued a preliminary injunction stopping SEA 404 rom taking effect, Hill issued a statement saying that the challenge to the law was an attempt to give the courts legal guardianship of

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404, but it also belittles the fact that the

The shooting death of an unarmed Black man puts Indy in Black Lives Matter spotlight

courts do have a say in the legal guard-

BY AMBER STEARNS // ASTEARNS@NUVO.NET

children over children. The statement not only ignores the fact that the challenge was over the constitutionality of the SEA

ianship of children when warranted.

CONNIE LAWSON Indiana Secretary of State CITIZEN Lawson issued a statement detailing how Indiana law would not allow the release of the voter information requested by the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, a commission she sits on. It’s good to know that Lawson will put Hoosier law above the ridiculous witch hunt occurring at Trump’s request.

DR. JEROME ADAMS State Health Commissioner (HOPEFUL) CITIZEN Adams has done well for Indiana in his support of needle exchange programs and in removing barriers for access to naloxone for the treatment of opioid overdoses. With the Trump Administration nominating Adams for surgeon general, let’s hope that he maintains a sane, bipartisan and comprehensive approach to the nation’s health issues. Circle Citizen/Circle Jerk is your weekly roundup of people who’ve really outdone themselves. Nominate today! email Amber: astearns@nuvo.net

he Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) is now an active part of a national debate about the actions of police officers that lead to the deaths of unarmed black men. In the early hours of June 29, IMPD officers Michal Dinnson and Carlton Howard pulled over 45-year-old Aaron Bailey at the intersection of Burdsal Parkway and East Riverside Drive. At some point during the stop, Bailey drove away initiating a short pursuit with the officers. The chase ended a mile away when Bailey crashed his car near 23rd and Aqueduct Streets. According to police, as Dinnson and Howard approached Bailey’s vehicle, they saw Bailey reach for something in the console of car. That’s when they fired. Thirty minutes later, Bailey was dead and Dinnson and Howard were on administrative leave, where they will remain until the investigation into the incident concludes. So what part of this scenario puts the story in the middle of the national conversation? Authorities found no weapons of any kind in Bailey’s car. Aaron Bailey was a Black man. Dinnson is Caucasian and Howard is biracial. By Thursday afternoon, IMPD Chief Brian Roach held a press conference that was broadcast on Twitter via Periscope. Roach acknowledged the pain of loss that was currently being felt by Bailey’s family,

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the officers involved and the community as a whole. “I probably screwed up by not having a prepared statement for you, but I wanted to come out here and at least share the feeling and the emotion of [the department],” said Roach. “This is a problem and an issue that not only affects this police department, your chief of police [and] your mayor, but the community as a whole.” Roach broke down how the investigation into the shooting would proceed. Two investigations will run concurrently. Police detectives will investigate this shooting just as they investigate any other homicide, regardless of who is involved. Roach stressed that the fact that officers in his department were involved would not influence the course of the investigation or its outcome. “If you’ve listened to me over the last six months then you know that the number that we discuss are total homicide numbers and not necessarily just the criminal homicide numbers,” said Roach. “Because we believe that every one of those deaths is important. This death is no different and will be treated like any other homicide investigation.” Roach said that while he has questions just like many in the community have questions about the incident, it will be important to let the investigation run its course if we are ever to have any answers. He said that he expects a grand jury will probably be called at some point to determine if

anything criminal did in fact occur. But he also reminded the press and the public that like any other citizen under investigation in America, Dinnson and Howard have constitutional rights. Roach described an administrative investigation, where administrators will look at the policies and practices that may or may not have contributed to this incident. He also explained that any issues that may come from the administrative investigation cannot be used against the officers in the criminal investigation. Ultimately, Roach said that he understands that keeping the community informed and aware of the progress of the investigation is important and that conversations will need to happen. “My expectation is that all of us can have an open and clear discussion as we move forward, to the extent that we can, within the parameters of the process,” said Roach. Despite the police chief’s efforts to be transparent about the process and calm the community, the Indianapolis Congregation Action Network, known as IndyCAN, and LIVE FREE responded to the words of law enforcement with their own social media outcry and outreach. In a Facebook Live stream, people called on Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry to file criminal charges against the officers immediately. Calling for accountability and justice for the loss of Bailey’s life, the groups challenged

NUVO.NET/NEWS Roach’s portrayal of the narrative and The issue of training has been a reocechoed the cries that have been shouted in curring theme over the last few years recommunities all across the nation — people garding law enforcement and lethal force. of color are under attack by law enforceAnd according to IMPD Sgt. Kendale ment in America. Adams law enforcement training varies The sentiment carried through to between the states. Friday, when dozens of people gathered at “The reality is that there is no set stanCity Market during afternoon drive time dard for each and every law enforcement to in the rain to protest the shooting and call follow,” says Adams. “In other words, every for justice. law enforcement may do if differently and The Greater Indianapolis chapter of the with 18,000 law enforcements agencies repNAACP recognized the need for an investiresenting 850,000 law enforcement officers gation before prosecution, but challenged you are certain to get differences.” the objectivity of IMPD in that investigation. Indiana has nearly 500 law enforcePresident Chrystal Ratcliffe called for more ment agencies with a tiered system of accountability in the investigation process. required training. The majority of those “Use of excessive force by law enforceagencies require the full 15-week Basic ment officers can no longer be tolerated in Recruit Academy training with continuing our communities. The lack of accountability education throughout an officer’s career. erodes trust between law enforcement and However some smaller agencies like town the communities they serve which impedes marshals and constables or agencies that the ability to solve are considered law crime,” said Ratcliffe in enforcement but with a statement released to “Use of excessive force limited powers, like the press. “The NAACP the attorney general’s by law enforcement is committed to a Medicaid fraud unit or officers can no longer proactive approach the secretary of state’s to police shootings securities enforcebe tolerated in our and all other forms ment division, only communities.” of police brutality. require three weeks or Our solution to this eight weeks of acade— CHRYSTAL RATCLIFFE, PRESIDENT my training. egregious problem is OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS accountability.” The questions of CHAPTER OF THE NAACP Specifically, the training, protocol and NAACP would like to many others will be a see a civilian review board be created with part of the IMPD investigations that Roach subpoena power; a U.S. Department of discussed last week. However only time will Justice review of IMPD’s pattern and practell the results. Adams, who is also African tice along with a full criminal investigaAmerican, says as a law enforcement officer tion; and for Congress to enact legislation he knows that every encounter and every that mandates standards and training in situation is different. As a citizen, Adams the use of force for all law enforcement says he understands how encounters with officers in the country police are unnerving and uncomfortable. Ratcliffe notes that Indianapolis is not But when it happens, he reminds says stayunique in this issue. ing calm and compliant is the best way to “It is a human and civil rights issue. avoid any type of problem. When there are no systems for accountabil“Stay calm and compliance is the most ity, safety is affected and anyone can be a referred to standard when dealing with the victim,” she said. “Let Indianapolis be the police,” says Adams. “I’m nervous when I’m stopped by the police and even as [a] police last time people lose their lives and families officer and supervisor, I’m compliant, as are terrorized by a police force without acthat is likely to decrease the [approaching] countability. Law enforcement accountabilofficer’s fear.” N ity means safer communities for us all.” NUVO.NET // 07.05.17 - 07.12.17 // NEWS // 5

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Zine fest in Irvington highlights creators BY SETH JOHNSON // ARTS@NUVO.NET

rom a young age, Kelsey Simpson has found satisfaction from putting together her own personally crafted publications. “When I was about 6 or 7 years old, I was told that my grandfather was a war correspondent for the Indianapolis Star,” Simpson says. “I thought that was really cool, and I decided to start a neighborhood newsletter with my grandma. So that was kind of like my first zine, and I did that for a long time as a kid.” Now decades down the line, the 27-yearold Simpson –— who has frequently contributed to NUVO’s pages as a freelance writer — is in the final stages of preparation to host Indianapolis’ second annual Gluestick zine festival in Irvington on Saturday, July 8. After doubling in size since last year, Gluestick 2017 will feature between 50 to 60 zinesters selling and showing off their work, with workshops and live music performances also taking place throughout the day. Due to its growth, the all-ages fest will be a block party of sorts this year with participants

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showing off their zines at 10 Johnson Avenue coffee shop, the Irving Theater and Irvington Vinyl between noon and 5 p.m. On July 7, a zine-themed art gallery will also open in conjunction with the festival at Herron School of Art and Design. Following the days of making neighborhood-centric zines with her grandma, Simpson discovered her love for punk rock, which eventually led her to start a new zine with her friend titled Youth Culture Killed My Dog. Running from 2002 to 2008, the publication served as a gateway for Simpson to get connected with Indy’s all-ages creative community — a community that had a lot to do with her starting Gluestick. “When I was younger, I was involved in the all-ages music community, and it kind of helped shape a lot of what I am,” says Simpson, who now plays in notable local bands like Cheetah Priest and the Gizmos. “I still want to hold that torch for community and arts, connecting people that maybe wouldn’t be connected unless it was for art, music or zines.” Like Simpson, Indianapolis native and Gluestick keynote speaker Mark Murrmann came into the world of zines during a formative time of his life. “I started Sty Zine in 1991 with a friend of mine, Matt Lingenfelter,” says the Broad Ripple High School graduate. “I had no idea what a zine was, but we were trying to start a skateboard company and realized that was a lot more expensive and harder than we imagined.” Over the years, Sty Zine grew in popularity, even after Murrmann moved to Bloomington for college. With his zine work, Murrmann was also preparing himself for jobs that he’d attain later in life. “When I was living in Bloomington, we used to have shows in our basement

WHAT // Gluestick WHEN // Saturday, July 8, noon WHERE // Various locations in Irvington TICKETS // FREE, all-ages

two or three times a week, so I’d be taking pictures of the bands and talking to bands that were on tour,” Murrmann says. “I’d do a lot of band photos and stuff, and that all kind of spurred my interest in photography, which is my main thing today.” Now many years down the line, Murrmann is the photo editor at bimonthly political magazine Mother Jones — a position he’s held for 10 years. In looking back at how he wound up where he is today, he can safely say that zines had a lot to do with it. “Sty Zine has completely driven me to where I am,” Murrman says. “It’s definitely been the catalyst that’s really kicked me off to the career that I have as the photo editor at Mother Jones.” With so much gratitude for his Indy zine past, he was very excited when Simpson asked him to be a part of Gluestick 2017. “Going back to Gulcher or even farther, the history of zines in Indiana has always been pretty strong, so it’s cool that they’re building on the history and tradition of zines in Indiana,” Murrmann says. In addition to celebrating this history, Simpson hopes that some festivalgoers might be encouraged to create their own zines too. “The more creative events that are happening in Indianapolis that are accessible to everyone, the more we’re going to be able to grow positivity and arts in the community,” she concludes. “There aren’t a lot of opportunities for anyone to show up and do something, and with zines anyone can learn how to do it. Kids can do it. You can do it with your grandma. And, it’s something physical that represents you, and you can always have it with you.” N

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GO SEE THIS FIVE BEST THINGS TO DO AT POPCON In a world of cons Gen and Comic, Indy PopCon is a chilled-out respite from swarming Downtown madness. But there’s still massive amounts of fun to be had at this locally grown pop culture and comic convention that takes over Indy’s Convention Center this weekend. Here’s five of our picks for best stuff happening in the fourth iteration of PopCon. Ticket info can be gathered at indypopcon.com.

1. MEET THE CELEBS Guests Greg Gunberg, Troy Baker, Matt Ryan and Charlet Chung headline the list of TV and video game geeks the con features, but there’s a few dozen more booked on the schedule. Most will appear on panels, sign autographs, or both.

2. WANDER DOWN ARTIST ALLEY Need a very (very) early Christmas gift? Comic fans can commission new pieces from fave artists at this gathering of illustrators. You’re welcome for that illustration of you as General Organa, Mom.

3. POST UP PEOPLE-WATCHING We’ve filled our pages with cosplay how-tos in issues past, so we’ll direct you back to NUVO. net if you’re unsure about the ins and outs of costume play, which you’re sure to see plenty of at PopCon. (And don’t miss professional cosplayer Haiden Hazard, who will appear as a special guest.)

4. GET REVENGE Is there a better place to watch cult classic

Revenge of the Nerds than in a theater full of nerds alongside the film’s co-stars Robert Carradine and Curtis Armstrong? Nope! (Note that technically this event is “off-site” at Franklin’s Artcraft Theatre.)

5. YO-YO PopCon plays host to the Mideast Regional Yo-Yo Competition, with world champions Gentry Stein and Jake Elliott attending, too. — KATHERINE COPLEN

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ROLL UP FOR THE MYSTERY TOUR

An evening of comedy and activism to support reproductive rights BY REBECCA BERFANGER // ARTS@NUVO.NET

lthough no vote was taken on the U.S. Senate’s healthcare reform bill June 27, a delay doesn’t mean it’s over. To help you cope with the ongoing uncertainty about the future of the U.S. healthcare system, the Lady Parts Justice League’s Vagical Mystery Tour, featuring “a coven of hilarious badass feminists who use humor and pop culture to expose the haters fighting against reproductive rights,” is waiting to take you away. It’s no mistake that this tour, organized by one of the creators of The Daily Show, Lizz Winstead, has a similar name to The Beatles’ iconic film and album celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2017. Make your own conclusions about any connections. The Vagical Mystery Tour will make a stop in Indianapolis on July 6 at The Hi-Fi. The show will feature actress and comic Maysoon Zayid, founder of The Muslim Funny Fest, who had the most popular TED Talk of 2014: “I got 99 problems… palsy is just one”; Joyelle Johnson of “Night Train with Wyatt Cenac” on SeeSo and a regular at the Comedy Cellar; and Buzz Off, Lucille, an all-women sketch team that performs at Upright Citizens Brigade in New York City. “By showing up and growing the resistance, it shows politicians there is a price to pay for going against the will of the people. We are trying to create that around reproductive rights by growing activist bases during our tour,” says Winstead. At the show, there will be tables with temporary tattoos, a Girl Scout-style activism badge, and “thank you” cards for service providers. The comics will entertain the crowd, and Winstead will lead a discussion featuring

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Wanda Savala, Public Affairs Manager of Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky (PPINK), and Forest Beeley, Director of Surgical Services for PPINK. “Laughter builds community,” says Savala. “The fight to defend access to health care — reproductive or otherwise — takes an emotional toll on those of us on the front lines. We deserve to laugh with our friends, peers and colleagues just as much as we deserve to have our voices heard by those threatening access to health care.” “The Senate ACA repeal/‘defund’ Planned Parenthood bill is delayed — not dead,” she adds. “So keep the pressure on. We need everyone to continue raising their voices whether our elected officials are home for recess or back in Washington to continue debate about this bill. … Turn your posts on Facebook into letters to the editor in your local paper. Elected officials pay attention to what’s published and it is an excellent forum to have your voice heard. If you have been to Planned Parenthood, consider sharing your story with us: HumansofPPINK.com.” Winstead was inspired to start Lady Parts Justice League when she learned that Congress, which included then-U.S. Representative Mike Pence (R-IN), sought to defund Planned Parenthood, national parks, and public broadcasting. “It made me think, ‘Are they performing abortions on ‘Car Talk’ in Yosemite?’” The organization also brings attention to the myriad ways reproductive rights are being slashed by state legislators, including Indiana laws like SEA 404, which would require parents to have a say at judicial hearings when minors seek judicial approval for abortions without parental consent. (The ACLU won a preliminary

WHEN // July 6, doors at 7 p.m., show at 8 p.m. WHERE // The Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave. #4 TICKETS // $15/$20

injunction blocking those restrictions on June 28.) “I often say I felt like an anger fluffer,” she says of her work as a writer for news programs. “I would get people riled up, but it was also a source of frustration. You can be funny and have an opinion, but you can’t cross into that activism lane.” However, with Lady Parts Justice League, “I can bring people into a room and guide the folks in the community providing services to talk about their work.” Winstead and her crew volunteer at clinics and ask clinicians what they need, whether it’s gardening, interpreters, or someone to fix a leaky roof because local business owners are afraid they’ll have protestors for helping an abortion clinic. “People forget they can bring their own set of skills to anything,” she says. “Clinics might need websites designed, pamphlets printed, or you can even make cupcakes or take them out for dinner or drinks,” she says. In other words, “Easy shit you can do that doesn’t seem like activism that you can fit into your busy life to help to shatter the abortion stigma.” “I’ve heard as a result of shows, ‘I got a new nurse,’ ‘Someone in your show signed up to be a clinician,’ ‘I have 40 new volunteers,’” says Winstead. “My life hasn’t changed but focus has. I’m still doing standup and videos and political satire, but I’m doing it with badass women and gender-nonconforming people.” N

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I TOM HENSLEY TAKES A TRIP BACK TO INDIANA' S SUMMER OF LOVE BY KYLE LONG // MUSIC@NUVO.NET

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: GARY CAMPBELL, STEVE BLUM, STAN GAGE AND TOM HENSLEY OF THE MASTERS OF DECEIT //

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t was 20 years ago today… scratch that. It was 50 years ago today. It was 50 years ago that The Beatles released their psychedelic genre-smashing Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club concept album. And it was 50 years ago that a convergence of underground-countercultural-political-social-artistic movements blasted into the mainstream American consciousness for a revolutionary season known as the “Summer of Love.” This anniversary is important business for an alternative paper. I mean NUVO had to cover this, right? Well, it’s certainly been on my agenda anyway. The question for me was how to cover it. I grew up in the ’90s obsessed with ‘60s culture. From the Velvet Underground to the Black Panthers, my entire being was absorbed with all aspects of the era. As a curious young Hoosier, I’d ask any adult within earshot to paint me a picture of Indy in the ‘60s. Surely we had our own homegrown versions of Bob Dylan and Bobby Seale? “No” was the response I typically received. I was led to believe the whole “Summer of Love” thing had somehow blown over our dear old conservative Indiana. That seemed improbable, but my research into mainstream historical materials covering Indianapolis during that period largely corroborated the story. I bought into this line for a long time. But fortunately, I now know it’s a load of shit. This awakening of consciousness I experienced was largely induced by my immersion into alternative Indiana newspapers of the 1960s. Over the last couple years I’ve been devouring any issue of underground papers like the Indianapolis Free Press, or Bloomington’s The Spectator that I could get my hands on. Through these papers I’ve learned that Indiana was a relative hotbed of countercultural activities in the 1960s. I learned that Fred Crawford established an Indianapolis chapter of the Black Panthers in 1968. I learned about massive feminist demonstrations on Monument Circle, and monumental immigrants’ rights actions at the State House. I also learned about the wildly talented ringleader of Indiana’s greatest psychedelic circus: Tom Hensley. It was 50 years ago that pianist Tom Hens-

ley rallied a crew featuring some of Indy’s most daring visual artists and musicians to form The Masters of Deceit — Hensley’s Electric Jazz Band & Synthetic Symphonette. The inventive music and wild happenings the group staged in Indianapolis rivaled anything happening in the celebrated ‘60s West Coast scene. Yet Hensley’s story remains largely untold here, buried deep beneath the dust of Hoosier history. That has less to do with the importance of Hensley’s work, and more to do with Indy’s disturbing tendency to dynamite its past. (See Indiana Avenue for an example) Though the Masters of Deceit remain a footnote in the history of Indy’s music scene, Tom Hensley has had an enormous presence in rock and roll. After leaving Indy in 1970, Hensley carved out a niche as a major session player in California. You can hear Hensley’s keys on a variety of humongous sessions, from John Lennon to Ringo Starr. You love Hall and Oates’ “Rich Girl”? Hensley is on there. You have a fascination with the notorious 1977 Phil Spector-produced Leonard Cohen oddity Death of a Ladies’ Man? Hensley was among the army of musicians who played on the disc. And I haven’t even mentioned Hensley’s main gig yet. For the last several decades Hensley has been playing arenas around the globe as a tenured member of Neil Diamond’s band. While Hensley’s post-Indianapolis work may be more far more prominent, I contend that the Masters of Deceit self-titled 1969 album is a lost psychedelic classic. The record features consistently interesting songwriting, which veers from impressionistic surrealism, to subtle social commentary. Hearing the late-great drummer Stan Gage is a revelation — his jazzy polyrhythmic patterns switch directions on a dime. The man truly was a master. Gary Campbell’s bass provides a funky root to the experimental excursions and Steve Blum’s scorching acid guitar delivers the requisite psychedelic atmosphere. But the centerpiece of the show is Hensley’s dynamic keyboard wizardry. From Black Sabbath-heavy clavinet riffs to jazz-infused organ flights, Hensley conjures up a tour-deforce performance on the keys.

NUVO.NET/THEBIGSTORY So, I’m absolutely ecstatic to present a conversation with the great musical maestro Tom Hensley, as he sketches a tableau of Indianapolis during the psychedelic ‘60s.

KYLE LONG: I’m so grateful that you made time to speak with me. I’m a huge fan of the Masters of Deceit album. TOM HENSLEY: When you contacted me, it really reminded me, you know I’m in the midst of the Neil Diamond fiftieth anniversary tour, and I was sure that was what you wanted to talk to me about. But I didn’t really realize that this is also the fiftieth anniversary of the Masters of Deceit album. KYLE: Is it? I thought the album was released in 1969? Did you start recording in ’67? TOM: It was released in ’69, but we started working on it in ’67. We actually did a whole version of the record before that with a different producer. It went on for quite a while. After you contacted me I had a “Where are they now?” moment, and I sent off emails to the two remaining band members who were part of that album, Steve Blum and Gary Campbell, and I got back responses from both of them. I thought they’d just say, “Oh, don’t remind me of that! That was a couple of years wasted out of our lives.” But no, they were actually enthusiastic to chat about it.

KYLE: I’m very curious to learn more about your time in Indiana. TOM: I grew up in Bloomington. I started working when I was 16, playing Dixieland at the Hideaway on Woodlawn Avenue, and getting paid in pizza. I played with Al Cobine’s big band for about six years or so, and then moved to Brown County, and then on to Indianapolis. I had the house band at The Embers on Meridian Street, which was the big nightclub where all the famous acts would come perform. There would always be a comic, and a singer. Stan Gage, the drummer on that Masters of Deceit album was one of the people that played with me there at The Embers. I was also on a TV show in Indianapolis.

being a very straight-laced character, so I was interested to understand how you fit in with his program. TOM: [laughs loudly] Yes, he was kind of Mr. Square, and the audience of that show was probably mostly women of the age I am now. Jim would always have guests on the show, and he took pride in never having read their books. [laughs] He liked to approach it as a tabula rasa, and not have prior opinions about their work. That caused him a lot of grief when he tried to interview Mel Torme on the show, and asked him “What are some of the songs you’ve written?” Mel said. “Well, besides “The Christmas Song” there’s…” And Jim interrupted asking, “Oh, what Christmas song was that?” Mel lost his temper and said, “Jim, have you been living in a cave for the last 50 years?” It was one of those great moments in television. The rest of the band, we were all over at the side trying to keep from laughing. That band was fabulous. Jack Gilfoy played drums sometimes, and sometimes Stan Gage, and sometimes John Von Ohlen. So we never failed to have a good drummer. The Jim Gerard Show band was led by a guy named George Nicoloff. The last time I had any time in Indianapolis, I called him. He’s still around. He’s in his nineties and he’s working for the public schools, maintaining instruments for them. He was a very good clarinet player. A very nice guy, and very patient.

KYLE: You mentioned that you started out playing Dixieland music at 16 years old in Bloomington. I assume you were playing the piano at that time? TOM: Yes, I played piano all along. I started piano at age six. I was one of two non-Catholics in a Catholic school. Every day they would say, “Now let’s all pray for Tom the pagan.” I didn’t like that, but I got five years of free piano lessons. So I can’t really begrudge them too much, because they really gave me a chance to make a living.

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endary New York producer named Shadow Morton, and it was produced by his company. He assigned one of his people to produce the session, Vinny Testa. He was a cool guy and he put up with our madness. In fact, he encouraged us. So that was good.

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KYLE: With your great skill as a jazz musician, I wonder if you spent any time on Indiana Avenue? TOM: Absolutely, when I was in high school I would drive to Indianapolis to catch the after-hours, last set at 2 a.m. with Wes Montgomery at the Missile Room. It was Wes, with Paul Parker and Melvin Rhyne. None of Wes’ records ever captured the excitement of what he did live in those days. I was there on the night, there was one of those stars of jazz touring shows that came through Indianapolis and played at the Murat, and afterward I was at the Missile Room when Cannonball Adderley walked in. He had a table right next to where I was sitting. I think it was the first time he’d heard Wes, because he was doing these kind of bowing down gestures at Wes. The next day, as I understand it, Cannonball called his record company, which was Riverside, and got Wes his first record deal. KYLE: That’s wild! You were at that legendary show were Cannonball “discovered” Wes? TOM: Yes, I must have told that story before. But it’s one of my favorites, because I regard hearing Wes as my musical education. I did play with a bunch of those guys. I played with Mingo Jones, who I heard passed away recently. He was a great bass player. I also remember playing with a big band when I was really young, I’m not sure who all was there, but I remember Virgil Jones. It was a bunch of the great Black Indianapolis players

of that time, and I was clearly the youngest, and whitest player there. They were passing around some kind of flask, and I remember thinking, “Man, I better drink some of that or I’ll be totally out of the picture.” I have no idea what it was I drank, but it didn’t kill me, so I guess it made me stronger. [laughs]

KYLE: From the Masters of Deceit to Neil Diamond, you have such an eclectic history in music. I’m curious what you were listening to as a young person growing up in Indiana. TOM: Everything. I’ve always listened to everything. But my main thing was Spike Jones. KYLE: So you were drawn to the humorous elements of music? TOM: Well yeah, I’ll plead guilty to that. KYLE: When I listened to the Masters of Deceit for the first time I thought maybe Frank Zappa was an influence, but the darker humor in the band goes back a little further to Spike Jones? TOM: Yeah, we were doing that, at least maybe contemporaneously with Frank, if not a little before. I certainly wasn’t so aware of him then. For instance, the unreleased album that preceded the ’69 release, which you’ve not heard probably, that had a piece on it called “Venetian Blind Cords Hazardous For Children,” and all the lyrics were assembled from newspaper headlines. I should mention

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that the guy who was kind of responsible for making me think of what I did as “art” was an artist from Indianapolis. His name was David Thompson, but he rearranged that name for what you’d call a nom d’ art as Davi Det Hompson. He was at Herron when I was living in Indianapolis. I met him entirely by accident, but we discovered that we had a lot of mutual interests. He wrote lyrics for us, though none of them are on the album you heard. There was a piece with his lyrics called “Reassessment” which we performed live on The Jim Gerard Show. That’s quite a rarity! Davi Det also did the visuals for that. Davi left Indianapolis around the same time I did, and he moved to Richmond, Virginia. He became rather well-known; he’s got pieces in the Museum of Modern Art. He was a Fluxus artist, and that was kind of the direction of where I was going at that time. We collaborated on shows at Herron. We would do a concert, and he would do an exhibition that would go with it, and he would help us write little theatrical pieces that we’d do when we played live. You know that the Masters of Deceit started out much bigger? There were probably 13 or 14 people in it, and people just sort of dropped out as their interest waned, or they didn’t see any future in it. So we got down to a four-piece [band] by the time we went to New York to do the album for Vanguard Records. But the original album that we did before that had seven of us on it, I think. There was a leg-

KYLE: It’s not too surprising that the Masters of Deceit were signed to Vanguard. They were not a typical commercial record label. TOM: Vanguard kind of recognized our strangeness and encouraged it. There were two brothers who ran the place. When they started out they had their first success by buying up cheaply [made] European orchestra recordings of classical pieces, and reissuing them in America at very little cost. They sold a lot of them, and made a lot of money. Then they signed Joan Baez and that got them into doing modern music. Then they went on to sign Country Joe and The Fish, and other acts that reached a certain audience. So we kind of fit in there. Later on, many years later [1974], I produced an album for Vanguard of a band from L.A. called The Roto Rooter Good Time Christmas Band. They were a street busking band. It was a horn section without a rhythm section, and they were very funny. They appealed to my Spike Jones interest. Years later I got to know Peter Schickele, who produced the P.D.Q. Bach concept. He told me that he’d called up Maynard Solomon, the president of Vanguard, and said, “Hey, my friend just produced this album by The Roto Rooter Good Time Christmas Band. Could you send me a copy?” And Maynard said, “Sure, would you like five hundred?” [laughs] So that gives you an idea of the audience size. KYLE: I don’t want to jump too far ahead in the story. Getting back to Indiana, do you remember when exactly the Masters of Deceit came together, and when you put that name on the band? TOM: I believe it would’ve been in the summer of 1967. We had subletted a house in Rocky Ripple. It was a big, old house that had been a gun club. I wanted to do something big and crazy. I was doing a lot of side jobs in music, and I remember I was hired for a job playing some kind of a function that was happening at the

NUVO.NET/THEBIGSTORY Indiana State Teachers Association building Downtown. We were having a party at our house that day. It was very… [pauses] let’s just call it a hippie party. At the party I issued instruments to everybody. I was supposed to play at noon at this function on the top floor of the Teachers’ building, so we had a bunch of vans, and I had everybody assemble at the ground floor of that building, and we took the elevators up to the top floor simultaneously. The people at this event are eating their lunch at this place, and when they introduced us, everybody came out of the elevators playing. It was one of my favorite musical moments ever. We did two songs during our 45 minute set, and one was a free jazz thing, and the other was a free rock thing. Then we all went into the elevators and disappeared simultaneously. The audience just sat there wondering, “What just happened?” We kept that as our model for doing gigs from there on.

KYLE: What sort of venues were the Masters of Deceit playing in Indianapolis? TOM: There was a club in Fountain Square called Le Scene. They were willing to have us and we played there a few times. And we played some concerts at Herron, and we did a few in Bloomington. We always tried to stage some kind of an event in connection with performing. I remember one of them, maybe it was at Le Scene, we began our show by playing a dirge, and somehow or another we’d gotten a coffin, and a bunch of people carried this coffin from the back of the room up through the audience to the front of the stage. Slowly the coffin door was lifted, and inside was a belly dancer. [laughs] We went into some kind of Arabic music, and she started doing the belly-dancing thing, and handing out cigars that said, “It’s a girl.” A few weeks later — and this is the punch line — our belly dancer, whose name was Daphne Lovegrove, she appeared in Newsweek magazine and caused a scandal in the Nixon White House by being photographed sitting on the lap of Vice President Spiro Agnew at a club in Greece. We just loved her for that. We thought that was the coolest thing anybody in the band had ever done. [laughs]

KYLE: The name Masters of Deceit, that was the title of a 1958 book by J. Edgar Hoover, which was a paranoid anti-communist rant. Was that the source for the name? TOM: Yeah, that was where it was from. But also, I was doing magic tricks early on with the band. I used to wear a wicker top hat, and during the show I would pour milk into the wicker top hat, and then put it on, but I had a thing that made the milk not actually come out onto me. I also had scarves that would change color, or I’d throw them up in the air and they would disappear, the kind of effects you could purchase at a magic shop. We kind of lost that particular conceit as we went along, and focused more on the music. KYLE: From what I’ve read about the Masters of Deceit live show, it seemed like you were staging multimedia experiences with film, performance art and psychedelic light shows. TOM: Yeah, we had a light show. The name for the light show was the Lunatic Fringe, and my wife worked on that. That was a lot of fun. I almost wished that I could be out there doing the light show with them. We did this one disastrous show in Madison, Indiana where my brother lived at the time. He was a politician. He was in the state legislature, and he later became a judge, and he’d been the prosecutor in Madison. The only election he ever lost was the one right after we played there. [laughs] They hated us so much that they not only wrote a bad review in the paper, they wrote an editorial on the front page of the Madison paper condemning us and referring to us as being like those “New York posers like Andy Warhol.” I took that editorial and sent it Vanguard Records, and that’s what got us our record deal. They said, “Well, if he’s like Andy Warhol they must be good.” That Madison show was one of the strangest moments ever. While they were doing the light show, the people out in the audience who were handling the projectors said they could feel the waves of dislike rolling towards them. [laughs] I think my brother lost that election by the same number of votes as the number of people who walked out of that concert. KYLE: I read an excerpt of a review of that show from the Madison Courier in 1968 and

the writer said, “for members of the audience, the experience will likely be the closest they will ever come to that experienced by taking the drug LSD.” TOM: [laughs] I remember seeing that. Of course we loved that.

KYLE: One aspect of your live show I wanted to ask you about, and this really fascinated me, I read from a couple different sources that you would have real flames shooting out from the horn instruments. Is that right? TOM: Oh yes, that was when the band was larger. Warren Grimwood was playing tenor sax and on his own — it was his own idea — he rigged up his tenor sax with some kind of stuff that would cause flames to shoot out of it if he touched a certain key. Actually he ended up getting divorced because he kept testing this thing out in his house, and he ended up burning up their kitchen. Warren still lives in Indianapolis and he plays organ these days. I haven’t seen him in a very long time. KYLE: You mentioned the disastrous response to your concert in Madison, Indiana. I’m curious if audiences here in Indianapolis were receptive to what you were doing. TOM: Absolutely, and we had our ultra hip crowd in Bloomington too. Bloomington was our turf. KYLE: Were Masters of Deceit playing much outside of Indiana? TOM: I remember one of the only times we had a gig outside of Indiana, we were booked at a club in Portsmouth, Ohio. I can’t remember if we actually went there, or whether the place went out of business before we got there. But I think we drove all the way there, and the place was closed. KYLE: So you weren’t touring at all on the Vanguard album release? TOM: We thought we were going to, but it just never really happened. They weren’t really all that enthusiastic about spending any money. It was interesting. There was a great review of the album by Robert Christgau, who was the leading music critic of the day. He began the review by saying when he first got the album he really liked it, but a lot of time had gone by, and as he listened again, he couldn’t remember NUVO.NET // 07.05.17 - 07.12.17 // THE BIG STORY // 13

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why he liked it. [laughs loudly] I think that kind of summarized the reaction to the album.

KYLE: I did see an article in the April 12, 1969 issue of Billboard magazine reviewing a showcase Masters of Deceit played in New York. The writer Fred Kirby referred to the band as an “Indianapolis group with solid instrumental values.” TOM: Yes, when the album came out we went to New York and played at Ungano’s, and Steve Paul’s The Scene.

KYLE: So you were more interested in creating one-of-a-kind live performances with staged theatrical elements, rather than playing random club gigs? TOM: Right, and the live shows were kind of involved, so we weren’t just doing them every night. We were planning them as concert events. But then after the album came out, we realized that we were going to have to play clubs. But that didn’t really last very long because guys were starting to drift away. Stan Gage went off and he played with Mose Allison, Chet Baker and Stan Getz. Steve Blum went away, he was only in Indiana for a while, he was really a New York guy. Then Gary Campbell went to Florida and he taught there, and still has a teaching job there.

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KYLE: You were getting mixed reviews in national publications at the time. How was the album received by your fans in Indiana? TOM: A lot of people were disappointed at the smaller size of the band by then. They really liked the group when it was bigger. I mean when it started out it was huge, I compare it the Polyphonic Spree in that anybody who showed up could play. That was really a very fun thing, you could never tell the difference between a concert and a party. The concert was just a party with an audience. Then, after I moved to L.A., when I first got out there, I did a similar thing and I formed something called Tom Hensley’s Biggest and Best Band Ever Yet, and it was about 40 people. I bought the library of a dance band that went out of business in the 1960s, and they obviously went out of business because they seemed to only have songs that nobody knew. This was before the days of copy machines, so we didn’t have enough parts for everybody,

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the people who needed them got parts, and everybody else would just play along. To this day I run into people who say, “You don’t know me, but I played in your band.” I did that for a couple years. Like Masters of Deceit, it was a sporadic thing. We would play an occasional Monday night at the Troubadour in L.A., and that was a great place to play. They loved having us there, because they normally had nobody in the place on Monday night, but with all those musicians there they were selling drinks. We started getting a crowd that came in to see us. I remember I had worked a week or two at the Ice House in Pasadena with Diane Keaton, just a piano and vocal thing. She came down to the Troubadour to hear the big band, and she came around afterward and said, “Hensley, I always thought you were crazy. But now I know, you’re crazy!” That was the perfect comment. [laughs] I haven’t heard from her since.

KYLE: It sounds like there was no dramatic breakup with Masters of Deceit, more like everyone went their separate ways as the natural turn of events ran their course? TOM: That’s exactly right. Certainly there was no, “I quit!” No one ever said that. There was just no more work, and we were all doing other things. We realized that it was done.

KYLE: I know you have some unreleased tapes of the Masters of Deceit, but for the general public that 1969 Vanguard album remains the only existing document of the band. Looking back today, how do you feel about the record? Did that album capture something important, or memorable about the Masters of Deceit? TOM: I just listened to it before you called, I thought I should listen to refresh myself. You know there are parts of it that sound really good to me, and other parts that don’t sound so good. I don’t much care for the recorded sound, there’s echo on everything. But that was what we did in those days. Then I hear my vocals, and I just shudder. KYLE: The 1969 Masters of Deceit album has had a pirate/bootleg reissue in Italy. Have you received any serious offers for an official reissue of the album, and would you like to see that happen?

TOM HENSLEY NOW After many years of limiting his public musical expression to work as a sideman, or session player, Tom Hensley returned to creating music under his own name earlier this year. Hensley’s latest collection Jazz Time: The Music of Neil Diamond is available now on all your favorite digital music platforms. As the name implies, it’s an 11-track collection featuring Hensley’s jazz arrangements of his employer’s compositions. Even better news: later this year Hensley plans to release a collection of compositions based on previously unpublished Davi Det Hompson lyrics from the late 1960s.

TOM: [Did] you know that Vanguard Records was absorbed a few years ago by the Welk Music Group? I had a lot of laughs about that. I thought that this album ending up with Lawrence Welk was just the height of irony! [laughs] I haven’t really given a reissue any thought. When they put out the one in Italy, I really respected them because they painstakingly matched the original album package in this tiny, little CD size. Of course if you knew about the original, then you know that you would be unable to read any of the liner notes on the CD version. But I admired them for being thorough enough to actually reproduce the original form of that, Davi Det did the drawing on the inside cover, and that whole layout of stuff. But I love the psychedelic revival people who are posting it on web sites with information about the band, and of course you can now download that album from dozens of torrent places all over the world. So it probably has more of an audience now than it did then. N (Editor’s note: This story is dedicated to the wonderfully mysterious Patrick O’Hara, for anonymously leaving grocery bags full of vintage Indianapolis underground papers for me at the NUVO headquarters. Thank you, Patrick!)

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moaned when I heard that yet another Spider-Man franchise was about to bloom. Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield had our Spider-Man needs sufficiently covered. Do we really need another? Then I saw the new Spider-Man's first appearance in the Avengers movie (mystifyingly dubbed Captain America: Civil War). The kid was terrific. First of all, he was a kid, 15 years old! Watching that boy eager to jump into battle with a bunch of middle-aged super heroes was a treat. He had boundless enthusiasm, and was ready to throw wisecracks in all directions. Turns out the latest Spider-Man (Tom Holland) was a kid, just like in the comics! We learned that Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) was serving as mentor for young Peter Parker. Don’t know how that relationship was formed. Don’t care. It was too much fun watching the kid steal the movie. In Spider-Man: Homecoming, young Peter lives with his Aunt May (Marisa Tomei) in a humble apartment in New York City with a window just beckoning him to climb out. At school he’s bright and able to brush off any teasing or bullying from other classmates. He’s in love with Liz (Laura Harrior), the head of the academic club. His best friend is Ned (Jacob Batalon). We get to know a number of his classmates, all of them bright, well-defined and ready to move. Meanwhile, there are dark doings going on in New York City. Michael Keaton works cleaning up the damage from superhero battles in the city. He has acquired a number of futuristic objects while at work, and is waiting to make a move. Keaton does his usual grand job, taking what could have been a routine character and giving him authenticity. Spider-Man will get involved with him soon enough. Right now, he gets periodic visits from Iron Man, and a really cool Spider-Man suit. Spider-Man: Homecoming jumps between three storylines: his fighting bad guys, Michael Keaton preparing to fight a lot of people, and his ongoing adventures and drama at high

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school. Could have used less of that. The film is 2 hours and 15 minutes, and it would have been leaner and more effective, I think, with a pared-down high school storyline. At times I felt like I was watching virtually any of the teen-based shows on The CW. Peter Parker’s conflict with Iron Man keeps coming back to one central thing. Tony Stark wants the kid to lay low. If he wants to take down a few bad guys, that’s fine, but make them middle to lower echelon crooks, not anyone who’s going to focus international investigations. Spider-Man is juiced. He’s fought well and wants to do some more with his new superstar, Avengers friends. The film is good. Director Jon Watts keeps Spider-Man close to the ground. Remember those glorious shots in the first Spider-Man trilogy, of the web-slinger swinging through the tops of buildings in Manhattan? They’re gone. I’m not sure whether confining Spider-Man to the lower levels is a move by the director to remind viewers that this is not your Sam Raimi Spider-Man, or to reflect Peter Parker’s frustration at having to stay at the lower levels. Either way, it works. The casting is impressive, especially with Jon Favreau as Happy, an extra mentor for Parker when Iron Man is away. There is another costumed bad guy in the film. I didn’t catch his name. Bottom line: Spiderman: Homecoming sags in the middle, but delivers where it counts. It makes you feel good, it holds your interest (mostly), and it makes you laugh a lot, in the right places. N NOTE: There are two bonus scenes in the film. The first comes just a few moments after the credits start running, and the second comes all the way at the end of the very long credits. Stay. Those patient enough to hang in there to the very end will get to see what is possibly the best bonus scene Marvel has ever done. NUVO.NET // 07.05.17 - 07.12.17 // SCREENS // 15

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Through July 25, Tuesdays at participating Hamilton County restaurants Hamilton County has recently created a new Indiana fixture, the Tenderloin Trail and on Tuesdays for the next month you can find deals on tenderloins at almost 30 restaurants around the county including Stacked Pickle, Rosie’s Place, Alley’s Alehouse and more.

August 5, 1-4 p.m. on Georgia Street Spend the day making your way down Georgia Street tasting different burgers from over a dozen Indianapolis restaurants. There will also be samples of local beers as well as pints available for purchase. As with every year, the event is a fundraiser for Building Tomorrow a nonprofit that helps build and maintain schools in impoverished countries in East Africa. Swing by and say, “Hi!” to (me!) NUVO’s food and drink editor Cavan McGinsie who will be there participating as one of this year’s judges for the competition.

CHEFS’ NIGHT OFF - EX LONGBRANCH July 11, 6:30-9:30 p.m. at Bent Rail Restaurant & Brewery A reunion of the people that brought us an incredible restaurant that didn’t have nearly a long enough run. The event is a five course dinner crafted by Chef Adam Ditter including fried smelt, dan dan pockets, a coconut and lemongrass ice cream float and more. Along with Chef Ditter, Steve Simon will be creating a cocktail menu for the evening and LongBranch’s former General Manager, Scott Lowe, will be the host for the evening. If you have a General Tso’s sweetbread-shaped hole in your heart, or if you never got the opportunity to taste LongBranch, this may be your last chance.

BURMESE FOOD FAIR July 16, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at Southside Adventist Church Have you had Burmese food? If you haven’t, you’re missing out and this annual fundraiser will be the perfect opportunity to get a taste of Myanmar’s (Burma’s) national dish, Mohinga, a delicious blend of fish soup with rice noodles. The menu also will have yellow tofu salad, vegetable tempura, chicken biryani and more. Entry is free and the fundraising will come through the purchase of food and through donations.

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July 16, 3-6 p.m. at Garfield Park Tater Tots & Beer Festival, also known as me drunk in my kitchen on Saturday nights, is a touring festival and all it offers is in the name. If that doesn’t excite you then maybe we shouldn’t be friends anymore. There will be various tater tot creations alongside beer tastings that you mark off on your passport as you wind your way around the fest. Tickets are on sale now; there are only 1,000, so get ‘em soon.

July 22, 12-4 p.m. at Flat12 Bierwerks The annual Pinko Imperial Russian Stout Release is maybe better than Christmas in December — there’s more sun and you get to keep this gift all to yourself. The full list of releases hasn’t been announced but so far a Pinko aged in Four Roses barrels, a chocolate and orange Pinko, a rum barrel-aged Pinko and a cinnamon Pinko have all been announced. Every year seems to be better than the last and its always a great day to get some of the most sought after beers in the state.

INDY TACO WEEK July 17-23 at participating restaurants Half-off tacos for a week at over a dozen (and counting) restaurants. Don’t mind if I do. Get out around Indiana and get a taste of all these tasty tacos, and with those savings go ahead and buy yourself a cerveza to wash ‘em down. This is also the perfect opportunity to try some new spots maybe you haven’t been to like La Lucha Café, Cafe at the Prop, Caballo Loco or one of the many other participating restaurants.

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22ND INDIANA MICROBREWERS’ FESTIVAL July 29, 3-7 p.m. at Historic Military Park You rated it as the #1 beerfest of 2015 and 2016 and this year it will be even bigger and better, there will be more breweries to try serving 300+ beers and hopefully more beer drinkers to chat and cheers with. Tickets are on sale now and it will be returning for the third year to the Historic Military Park.

August 5, 5:30-9:30 p.m. Bring the whole family for a day and a 100 percent locally-sourced meal at beautiful Tyner Pond Farm in Greenfield. There will be all-you-can-eat, whole-roasted hog and plenty of chicken and sides to go around. Spend the evening chatting with fellow local food lovers with live music in the background and a beer in your hand. White Pine Wilderness Academy will have outdoor activities for the kids to enjoy.

BROAD RIPPLE VILLAGE SEAFOOD BOIL August 20, 1-5 p.m. at Sangrita Saloon As true to a N’awlins seafood boil as you’ll find in the Midwest, this is a celebration of the delicious shelled-creatures of the ocean and the awesome Broad Ripple neighborhood. Spend the evening munching on unlimited shrimp, crawfish, corn, potatoes and locally crafted Turchetti’s Salumeria andouille sausage. If you feel like really down’ the damn thing, go VIP and add some crab and lobster into the mix. If you don’t feel like eating but still like to party, entry is only $5 and there will be plenty of stiff bevins for those non-teetotalers. N

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n the afterlife you’ll be headed for some serious strife if you missed out on your chance to get a ticket for the sold-out show to see Squirrel Nut Zippers at the Melody Inn next Monday. In one of the legendary venue’s biggest last-minute bookings, the band will bring its revival tour of 20-year-old album Hot through Indianapolis on July 10, and lead singer Jimbo Mathus says to expect the unexpected. “I’d heard a lot about the venue over the years,” Mathus said in a phone interview. “We needed an additional show on our tour, and since we got the revival going, for the Zippers it’s mostly been bigger places [we’ve played]. But the small places tend to be, frankly, a lot more fun. All packed up in there. All the members of the band play a lot of small clubs on their own, you know, my-

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self included, so big, small, we do the same show. It’s just fantastic.” Mathus and his revived Squirrel Nut Zippers reissued Hot last year for the 20th anniversary of the popular album, which unexpectedly sold 2 million copies during the mid-’90s swing revival (bolstered by the surprise hit status of single “Hell” which earned top ten status). But he said they did nothing to modify the album’s sound for the reissue, mostly due to the fact that, because of the way they recorded the album in the first place, they really couldn’t update it. “There was nothing we could do with it,” he laughed. “Some of those songs were recorded on just a few mics, you know, we

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used the old techniques, the old microphones and bleed, there’s just really nothing you can do with that stuff. It is what it is. So we never were big on manipulating the music. We were big on getting it down right and recording it in the old technique. We had a good recording staff back then and they did a great job, you know? [And] it did help to capture our energy more than trying to pull it apart and do it that way. That was never an option for us, that was never something that I’m interested in as a producer of music.” The Zippers have long supported circus and burlesque acts while traveling the country, dating back to their mid-’90s heyday, but Mathus says it is refreshing to see the artform taking off in ways he hadn’t necessarily anticipated when the band was originally successful. “With the Zippers, stuff we were always perfect for that because our music is so visual,” he says. “It’s got elements of satire and dark humor, fringe characters and so it’s very character driven songwriting. So we were always really perfect for that. And over the 20 years we’ve been kind of inactive there’s been an insurgence of alternative burlesque and circus, and that really wasn’t happening back then. So, for

example, a lot of burlesque dancers use our music now to accompany them, male and female, so it’s just one of those things that fits well together.” Despite what you may have read from former members of the Zippers, this was never meant to be a reunion tour. Mathus has always meant for this to be a new band, reviving and expanding the Zippers sound, including a new album expected early next year. “I put [the band] together very carefully and with a lot of thought and preparation, picking the right people and some people just materialized for me,” he says. “But I used a lot of contacts I’d had from producing and working down there over the decades and just really put together what I thought would be the most exciting, most talented bunch that I could get my hands on. When I started reforming it I was looking at it as a cast that’s gonna perform a play, a theater production, you bring in fresh people to play characters. And that’s the way I looked at it. And like I said, it was a little scary for me, personally, not knowing how it would be accepted. But when we hit the stage looking and sounding like we do, and doing the material we have, it’s on and popping.” N NUVO.NET // 07.05.17 - 07.12.17 // MUSIC // 19

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