1997 Announcements

November 25, 1997 From: JT Subject: Mike's URGENT Prayer Request Hello all: Last night in an otherwise relaxed converasation w/ Mike, he got real serious for a couple of minutes and asked that I convey the following to the list and request that you take the same to your friends, churches, pastors, family and anyone you know that will take this prayer request seriously. This is a lengthy post, but please know that Mike wanted the whole of this "story" posted. Mike has a very dear friend, Marc Kielich, who has been, since the age of 16, a student of Mike's. Mike eventually became so impressed with this former student that he wanted to do a project or two with him. As a result, Mike and Marc formed two "side" bands called Helicopter and Orbis (Orbis is an instrumental duo). Mike mentioned that playing with Marc, "has given me more musical joy than almost anything else I have ever done." In fact, Mike was looking forward to presenting to us fans the art of Helicopter and Orbis at an appropriate time. CDs of the work have been shopped to various recording companies and Mike and Marc have caught the attention of Warner Brothers -- they have indicated that they are very interested in the projects. This friend, Marc, however, is desperately in need of our prayer coverage. Marc has had, for the past four years, a very significant brain tumor. Recently, the tumor has been growing and is "closing in on Marc." Obviously, Mike is very concerned. Marc has a wife and a three year old daughter that soon look like they will be without a husband and father. Unless... At this point in our coversation Mike mentioned how the parallels of this situation and that of David Leonhardt's earlier illness are staggering...a former student, a band mate, a life-threatening disease...And, Mike believes that the only reason that David is still here with us is that the fans "prayed him through and God heard the prayers of the fans." Mike is once again asking that the fans, their family, friends, churches, etc. extend their faith and earnestly pray for Marc. He is convinced that Marc's hope rests in the prayers of you and me. Finally, Mike stated that, "This is more important than anything the band is doing," and that, "This is what really matters...what this band is really about." Please pray for Marc and please write to Mike letting him know that your prayers are covering Marc. Just drop Mike a short note at P.O. Box 1441, Citrus Heights, CA 95611. Mike will take the notes to Marc and show him the letters which accompany our prayers. Please allow me to convey Mike's thank you for your concern and action. I'll continue to post updates as I get them. -JT- Jonathan T. Feavel

November 17, 1997 From: Steve Johnson Subject: video and touring comments Thom McKee just posted an interesting tidbit to the 77's discussion list that i definitely wanted to help spread the word about: > Mike and I are on the final stages of putting together the 77's first > retrospective video. It has all of their videos, lots of interviews, > behind the scenes footage, and lots of extra stuff. > > The only problem is that we are looking for some extra footage. We > especially are looking to see if anyone has a copy of some of the old MTV > VJs announcing the 77's "mercy mercy" video. We can't seem to get our hands > on any copies. > > Also, we are looking for any of the old Warehouse footage. It seems to > have disappeared. Apparantly they used to film all of their live concerts > in the 80's including the "88" one. We don't know where this is but we > guess that a zealous 77's fan has it. Please get the word out that we are > looking for this and other footage, and that Mike will be very happy if > someone finds it for us. If you have a copy of this footage or anything > else that you might think is interesting email me privately or contact Mike > at his PO box. > > We don't care what format it is in, and we assure you that we will give it > back to you in the same condition that you gave it to us in. > > Thanks, > Thomas if you were fortunate enough to attend one of the recent Mike Roe "it's for you" tour stops and haven't yet sent me a concert review, please do so soon. i've already put up 29 reviews, but there are still some cities that are completely unaccounted for: Wheaton, IL, Minneapolis, MN, Oak Park, IL, Warsaw, IN, Windsor, Ontario/Canada, Atlanta, GA, Little Rock, AR, Orlando, FL, Jackson, MS, and Tacoma, WA. to see all the reviews point your browser at: http://www.77s.com/concerts/reviews/97_its_for_you_tour.html. JT asked me to post the following info on the website, but i thought it was worth sending to the mailing list also... steve ----------- (1) Promoter's Contest Winners: The winner of the Michael Roe "It's For You" promoter accomodations contest will be announced within a week. Mike has indicated that it is a close race, but that one victorious promoter will soon emerge. Remember, at stake here is the shirt Mike worn on the cover of "All Fall Down." Also, Brian Heydn indicates that he is busily finishing the promoters' "drawing" sweepstakes -- a promoter's name will soon be drawn at random and he/she will win an original Roe/Leonhardt drawing as featured on www.77s.com. Stay tuned... (2) It's For You O' Canada: Canandian promoters interested in bringing Mike to your neck of the woods please contact JT at (812) 886-4637 (h) after 7:00 p.m. central time. Mike is available for winter solo gigs or with a full back-up band (sorry, it's not the 77's). Please call or write regarding serious inquiries. (3) Jan/Feb '98 Mike Roe solo gigs: Mike will be back on the tour trail this winter and is specifically interested in "doing" the East coast. Interested promoters please contact JT. There will be an anchor weekend in New Jersey with a confirmed show in Manville. Other NJ gigs are presently being booked and it looks like Mike will do a 3 day weekend of shows in NJ in Jan/Feb. Dates will be announced soon. If you want in on the action, please call or write for details and regarding questions. (4) The 77's are accepting fly dates from interested promoters as the guys have talked about doing some light touring here in the next few months. Contact JT. (5) Finally, here is your standing invitation to have Mike play your local bar, coffeehouse, school or other venue (although, seriously, churches are discouraged as Mike is more open to testify before society's cross-section than to the "churched"). Fly dates are always accepted for weekend or other shows so long as air fare and minimum finances are covered. Call or write for details. Please, only serious offers or questions. -JT- Jonathan T. Feavel

October 6, 1997 From: Don Bown Subject: Echoes CD's I've noticed I've been getting a few questions regarding the assumed "unplayability" of the Echoes O' Faith CD's. The fact is, some older CD players may not be able to play it, because it is packed with 80 minutes of music. In other words, the CD is PACKED with information. We had trouble finding a manufacturer for these because they are so long. So, regretably for some of you it may mean that you need to purchase a newer model CD player. Have a friend check yours out to see if his/her machine will play it, and this will determine if the CD is defective, which in most cases it is not. Take Care Don p.s. here's the rest of the "It's For You Tour" for those that can make it: 10/6/97 -- Hagerstown, MD 10/8/97 -- Mt. Vernon, OH 10/9/97 -- Lexington, KY 10/10/97 -- Nashville, TN 10/11/97 -- Atlanta, GA 10/12/97 -- Little Rock, AR 10/13/97 -- Orlando, FL 10/15/97 -- Dayton, OH 10/17/97 -- St. Louis, MO 10/18/97 -- Denver, CO 10/19/97 -- Phoenix, AZ 11/1/97 -- Jackson, MS 11/2/97 -- Ft. Worth, TX 11/3/97 -- Manville, NJ. 11/4/97 -- Tacoma, WA 11/5/97 -- Seattle, WA Please don't ask Steve or JT for more details - they'll post them as soon as they know anything! http://www.77s.com/

September 29, 1997 From: Steve Johnson Subject: Full frontal nudity News flash - the full frontal nudity thing was sort of a joke - you'll just have to see the shirt to understand... I just updated the Reviews page and added a page for fan reviews of the It's For You tour. steve

September 23, 1997 From: Don Bown Subject: It's For All Of You!! Hello once again everybody! I wish I was writting you under different circumstances, because we're pretty shocked and in mourning over the loss of one of CCM's greatest---Rich Mullins. He died this last weekend in a terrible car accident in Illinois. When we first heard the news, we were told that both Rich and his drummer were killed in the wreck. As most of you know, 77's allumnus Aaron Smith has been performing regularly with Rich, and we were frantic to find out if Aaron was involved. If any good news is to come out of this, it is that Aaron WAS NOT involved in the wreck. This is not to take away from the great loss those of us who appreciated Rich's music feel right now. Our hearts and prayers go out to Rich's family...he is truly at the right hand of God right now celebrating eternity with the Lord. Please also pray for Aaron, as he is understandably pretty tore up over the whole thing. May God comfort him and his family who were pretty close to Rich, along with Jimmy A's family (pray for them too). For those of you who have written me asking for Brian Healy's email address, so that you may send your congratulations on his new child personally, write him at BrianDAS1@aol.com. Let's inundate him with congratulatory emails!!! One more piece of dissapointing news : It has been official now for several weeks, but Love Coma have split up. If you have not yet purchased their CD "language Of Fools" which was produced by our own Mike Roe you need to hurry and write either Chris Taylor or Greg Carnes : Love Coma P.O. Box 33544 San Antonio, Texas, 78265. I dare say that it is one of my favorite albums, and it should be in everyone's collection! (In my opinion anyway). Mike flies out of Sacramento here tommorow to meet up with Dave Leonhardt and start the "Mike Roe It's For You Tour". Mike and I have made a little sound bite for y'all with my new cpu! (For those of you who care, I finally upgraded my 486SX33 with 16M RAM and 14.4 Modem to an AMD100Mhz Pentium clone, with a stereo sound card, 8X CD-ROM, 33.6 Modem, and 2 more hard drives which brings my total capacity to a whopping 700MB! I still have 16MB RAM, but that will change soon (hehe). Donations of hard drives and the newest version of Page Maker for Win95 on CD-ROM will be gladly accepted.... :P Enjoy! I hope that many of you get to see Mike and Dave on this tour! Be sure to pack the places they play, because they will be recording almost every night. Some of the best performances from the tour will appear on the "It's For You" CD which will be released hopefully in time for Christmas. So go and make as much noise as you can!!!! While Mike is gone, Mark and Bruce are going to start putting together the next 77's album!!!! When they went to Sweden last year, they made several hotel room recordings of new ideas. When all 3 of them rehearsed last week they made a live full band demo of one of the tunes, and if it is any indication of what the next 77's studio album is gonna be like, it's gonna ROCK!!!!! For those of you who got into "tom tom Blues" the new material is "a logical progression, or step up from that material" says Mike. For those of you who didn't get "tom tom", and couldn't relate to it, this new stuff will certainly "Rock the flock and make the devil's horns to lock." I am really excited about the new material, can you tell? Also while Mike is gone, I'll be finishing up the new newsletter which will be called "Mark My Words" featuring interviews with Mark Proctor, Mark Tootle, and Mark Harmon. This will be out and in the mail by the first of November...Mark my words!!!! Speaking of the newsletter, I have one bit of information. Each week I receive on an average about 25-30 new mailing list requests, which is outstanding!! However, each time we write and mail out a newsletter, it literally costs the band hundreds of dollars, which sometimes really drains the old bank account. So, for those of you who have filled out the mailing list request on-line, we ask that you consider sending in a donation of any amount to help befray the costs of printing and postage of nearly 1000 newsletters. If you feel so led to send in something send it to 77's LTD P.O. Box 1441 Citrus Heights, CA 95611. Be sure to make a note saying that the money is for the fan club and newsletter. Of course, this does NOT mean that you won't be receiving newsletters via snail mail if you don't pay. EVERYONE on our list will get them, so if you can afford a few bucks to help those who can't send anything, your reward remains. I realize that in the time I've taken over responsiblity for The 77's Fan Club (going on 2 years now), I have only released 3 newsletters. Some of you have written me scolding me for not putting out as many newsletters as I first promised. This is due to several reasons, one of which being a poor computer. It was hard and laborious to design and print those newsletters on my old machine. Now that I have upgraded to the modern world and am once again excited about computing, look for more frequent mailings and changes to "Fools Of The World". For those of you who submitted artwork for the new newsletter logo, be patient. Steve and I will get them up on the homepage soon so that all of you can vote on which one should be the new "Fools" logo....I haven't forgotten!!!! (Note from Steve: I don't have time to work on this particular project. If you'd be willing to take this on for Don and tally up the votes then please reply to this message and let Don know what your ideas are...) Well, that's all for now. Please pray for Mike and Dave, may God bless them with outstanding performances and keep them safe out there on the road.... God Bless!!!! Don Bown "So long ago I drew a line for myself in the sand. Time after time I moved it when I crossed it again and again...." Mike Roe "Don't let the past control you. Know what the past can show you. Closing your eyes will cause you only to fail again" My favorite line from Vector's CD "MAnnequin Virtue" http://www.77s.com/

September 19, 1997 From: Steve Johnson Subject: Miscellaneous news ok - this is kind of a combo mail message/mini-newsletter so that you can all stay informed. if you're not also on the 77's discussion list (which most of you aren't) then you may not know what JT is talking about when he mentions the "nude" discussion. basically, Mike Roe and Mark Harmon have created a little stir by putting a picture of Mike nude on the "It's For You" tour shirt. it's mostly a joke which you really won't understand until you actually see the shirt. (i'll be putting a picture of the shirt on the website as soon as i get it or after the tour, whichever Mike prefers.) ----- >From David Leonhardt Hey Steve, This is David Leonhardt. Did you know I'm playing with Mike on the "It's For You" tour? I didn't know if you were aware of this and I thought you might want to mention it on the web site (which is looking very cool). Mike & I discussed which songs we would like to play and we decided - all of them. We will literally play any song that the 77's have ever done. It will be up to the people at the show as to what we will play. We might even play other people's songs! I can imagine some of these shows lasting for hours, if the crowd wants it to. Spread the word, we are coming to play at your house. See ya, David ----- >From JT How about steppin' up this "nude" discussion...what if Mike decided to place this pic w/ full frontal nudity on an album cover?! ;-p Would anyone put it past him to engage in such a feat?! Well...it *could* happen. Here's why -- each of the "It's For You" shows will be recorded on DAT and the best of the best will, after the tour, be burned to CD for a new album, tenatively "It's For You." The album *may* have previously unreleased material, but will definately have the greatest stuff from Mike's upcoming tour (only 4 days 'til the first show). So, if you want to hear your voice screaming out your requests, show up at one of the gigs. If your friends are interested in becoming part of 77's history, make sure and get 'em to the shows...and...promoters, if you want your show to make an appearance in the credits, pull out all the stops! Btw, Mike also wants us to get the word out on that project he was working on in LA last week -- Rich Young Ruler. Mike played lead for them in the studio and the project was produced by Terry Taylor and Gene Eugene. Mike said he was really impressed w/ their sound and has high hopes for 'em. -JT- Jonathan T. Feavel ----- >From http://www.77s.com/: The Mike Roe "It's For You" 97 Tour Schedule Date -- City -- Promoter -- Venue -- Contact 9/23/97 -- Columbia, MO (Brian Heydn, E Free Church) 9/24/97 -- Vincennes, IN (JT, 7:00 at Purgatory, doors open at 6:00) 9/25/97 -- True Tunes, Wheaton, IL (John Thompson) 9/26/97 -- Indianapolis, IN (tentative) 9/28/97 -- Minneapolis, MN (Terry Steinmeyer, Coffeeshock) 9/29/97 -- Oak Park, IL (Joel Kircher) 9/30/97 -- Warsaw, IN (Chad Dukas, Street Level Artists) 10/1/97 -- North Manchester, IN (Jabin Burnworth) 10/2/97 -- Windsor, Ontario, Canada (Ryan Richardson, Refuge) 10/4/97 -- Lebanon, PA 10/5/97 -- Anapolis, MD (John Cook, or Clarke Woodfin) 10/6/97 -- Hagerstown, MD (Alan Miller, Faith Chapel, 14 S. Potomac St., Hagerstown, MD 21740) 10/8/97 -- Mt. Vernon, OH (Jeremy Strayer, Mt. Vernon Nazarene College) 10/9/97 -- Lexington, KY (Steve Broderson, Crossroads Christian Church) 10/10/97 -- Nashville, TN (Graeme or Darryl at Jammin' Java 10/11/97 -- Atlanta, GA (Brook Sizemore, The Vybe. Address: 422 E Crogan St. NE, Lawrenceville, GA, located in the same building as Captain Billy's Fish house 10/12/97 -- Little Rock, AR (Todd Brogdon) 10/13/97 -- Orlando, FL (Richard Dolan, First Baptist Sweetwater) 10/15/97 -- Dayton, OH (Curt Cosenza Donet, Canal St. Tavern) 10/17/97 -- St. Louis, MO (Brian Q. Newcomb, Christ Church) 10/18/97 -- Denver, CO (Steve Johnson and Soulhook, The Upper Room at New Heights, Located on the SW corner of Arapahoe Rd. & Colorado Blvd., 3 miles west of I-25 and Arapahoe, 7:30pm, $7 at the door) 10/19/97 -- Phoenix, AZ (Pat Nicellelo) 2nd leg tour schedule: (so far) 11/1/97 -- Jackson, MS (Bell Haven College, contact Jason Spellings at Bell Haven College...number or email to soon be posted); 11/2/97 -- Ft. Worth, TX (Downstairs Cafe @ Willshire Baptist Church, contact Steve Levering); 11/3/97 -- New Jersey? 11/4/97 -- Tacoma, WA (contact Ralph Chavez) 11/5/97 -- Seattle, WA (Madison's Cafe, 3803 Dela Ridge Way, Seattle, WA 98016, -- contact Bill Pritchard) Please don't ask Steve or JT for more details - we'll post them as soon as we know anything! enjoy! steve

September 16, 1997 From: Steve Johnson Subject: new t-shirts The Merchandise page now has two T-shirts that are sure to go fast - the re-released "More Miserable" shirt (they ran out a while ago) and the new controversial "It's For You Tour" shirt which is rumored to have full frontal nudity of Mike Roe. Film at 11. :-) Hopefully it's just a rumor because it would be a tragic decision to make right when he was on the verge of making it big. steve

September 10, 1997 From: Don Bown Subject: The Baby Healy!!!! CONGRATULATIONS BRIAN!!!!! >Grace and Peace to all! >On September 3, 1997 at 5:11 am pst. our son Robert Stephen Healy was born. >He is a healthy 7 pounds , 20" long and seems to like us so far. >Thanks to all for your prayers. >To God be the glory. >Brian & Joy Healy ALL OUR BEST HOPES AND PRAYERS TO YOU AND YOUR WIFE BUDDY! Don p.s. for those that don't know Brian Healy check on the 77's page: http://www.77s.com/music/das/

August 29, 1997 From: Steve Johnson Subject: Mike Roe here's the latest details for the upcoming national Mike Roe tour. for all the latest news check out http://www.77s.com/. -------------- Spend an evening with the lead singer of the legendary rock 'n' roll band, the 77's. Mike Roe will put on an intimate acoustic solo show that will retrace the history of this great band and much, much more! -------------- The Mike Roe "It's For You" 97 Tour Schedule Date -- City -- Promoter -- Venue -- Contact 9/23/97 -- Columbia, MO (Brian Heydn, E Free Church) 9/24/97 -- Vincennes, IN (JT, 7:00 at Purgatory, doors open at 6:00) Purgatory is located on the corner of Second and Main Streets in Vincennes, IN. They may be contacted at (812) 886-6791. Parking is generally available along Main Street. Seating is limited, so come early. The show starts at 7:00 and doors open at 6:00. Coffee drinks as well as entrees will be available (and cigars in the event you are so inclined!). Only 77 tickets, at $10.00 each, will be sold and approximately 1/2 have gone in the past week -- the remaining tics may not last long. They are available by calling Purgatory, myself or the local Bible Bookstore For additional information, please email me or call (812) 886-4637 for a recording regarding concert details. Directions to Vincennes and Main Street available upon request. 9/25/97 -- True Tunes, Wheaton, IL (John Thompson) 9/26/97 -- Same as 9/25/97 (Lost Dogs show - contact Street Level for more details) 9/27/97 -- Minneapolis, MN (New Union, Lost Dogs Show - contact Street Level for details) 9/28/97 -- Minneapolis, MN (Terry Steinmeyer, Coffeeshock) 9/29/97 -- Oak Park, IL (Joel Kircher) 10/1/97 -- North Manchester, IN (Jabin Burnworth) 10/2/97 -- Windsor, Ontario, Canada (Ryan Richardson, Refuge) 10/4/97 -- Lebanon, PA (Doug Kline) 10/5/97 -- Anapolis, MD (John Cook) 10/6/97 -- Hagerstown, MD (Alan Miller, Faith Chapel, 14 S. Potomac St., Hagerstown, MD 21740) 10/8/97 -- Mt. Vernon, OH (Jeremy Strayer, Mt. Vernon Nazarene College) 10/9/97 -- Lexington, KY (Steve Broderson, Crossroads Christian Church) Mike will perform on Thursday, October 9 at Crossroads Christian Church in Lexington, Kentucky (directions below). The Orphans, a Lexington-area band, will open. The show starts at 7 p.m. Please note that this is a solo performance by Mike. The rest of the 77's aren't with him this time out. Don't worry, though. He'll be playing all your 77's favorites... requests, obscure tunes, as well as songs from his new record The Boat Ashore. And The Orphans may make an encore appearance for full-band versions of 77s tunes. Who knows? Admission price is $5 in advance ($7 the day of the show) PLUS one canned fruit or vegtable. These will go to God's Pantry's Fall Food Drive and Thanksgiving Basket project. Tickets are available at Family Bookstores in Fayette Place (606-273-3314), Lemstone Books in the Fayette Mall (606-273-9779) and the Asbury College Bookstore in Wilmore (606-858-3511). Only 300 tickets will be sold. Crossroads Christian Church is located at 4190 Todd's Road in Lexington (606-263-4633). Todd's Road is right off Man O' War, toward the I-75 exit. Go out Todd's and just after you drive over the I-75 overpass, the church is on the right. You can call the church for more specific instructions if you're coming from another direction. 10/10/97 -- Nashville, TN (Graeme or Darryl at Jammin' Java, (615) 591-4888) 10/11/97 -- Atlanta, GA (Brook Sizemore, The Vybe. Address: 422 E Crogan St. NE, Lawrenceville, GA, located in the same building as Captain Billy's Fish house (it's actually part of the restaurant)) 10/12/97 -- Little Rock, AR (Todd Brogdon,) 10/13/97 -- Orlando, FL (Richard Dolan, First Baptist Sweetwater) 10/15/97 -- Dayton, OH (Curt Cosenza Donet, Canal St. Tavern) 10/17/97 -- St. Louis, MO (Brian Q. Newcomb, Christ Church) 10/18/97 -- Denver, CO (Steve Johnson and Soulhook, The Upper Room at New Heights, Located on the SW corner of Arapahoe Rd. & Colorado Blvd., 3 miles west of I-25 and Arapahoe, 7:30pm, $7 at the door) 10/19/97 -- Phoenix, AZ (Pat Nicellelo, venue unknown) 10/20/97 -- OPEN DATE -- NO FLAKES PLEASE! Note from JT We now have an open date on 10/20/97. If anyone wants to fill it -- if they are in the general area -- they need to contact me NOW. If it doesn't fill, we'll get Mike home early. Also, Mike and I are now planning the "2nd" leg of the tour, those who didn't get in on the first one before the route was planned and those on the west coast. We should be able to put together b/w 7 and 10 dates. Right now it looks like we'll get Mike to NJ, then MS, TX, WA, OR and CA. If anyone is interested, have 'em give me a call ASAP. We have confirmed dates in NJ, MS, WA and OR. Time is of the essence. Unconfirmed 2nd leg tour schedule: 10/31/97 -- PA or NJ 11/1/97 -- Jackson, MS 11/2/97 -- Ft. Worth, TX 11/3/97 -- Billings, MT or Open for bookings 11/4/97 -- Seattle, WA 11/5/97 -- Tacoma, WA or Portland, OR 11/6/97 -- Same as above Still accepting dates as some of the above, undoubtedly, will not pan out. However, the PA/NJ date, the MS date, the TX date and the 11/4/97 Seattle date are pretty firm. steve

August 26, 1997 From: Don Bown Subject: EMAIL ONLY NEWSLETTER With enough time found along with the steady reminders from JT, I finally sit down here to write you all about my experiences surrounding the trip to Cornerstone '97. Only those of you on this email list and those of you who read this in the future on the homepage (should Steve decide to archive this there somewhere), will be the only ones to read this for several reasons, one of which being I want this to be my words free of editorial control...so the opinions expressed in the following belong solely to me, and are not necessarilly the opinions of Mike Roe, or any member of The 77's past and present (I hope that satisfies JT)... "It Was A Great Tour To Be A Fool" (A Fool Realizes A Dream Pt. 2) EMAIL ONLY NEWSLETTER Summer 1997 I had decided right after the "tom tom Blues Tour" to commit myself to taking the guys' equipment to Cornerstone '97. I had never been there, and it has almost always been the biggest draw for the guys every year since they first started to go way back in '84 I believe. So, in effect I kept myself unemployed from a regular job for almost another year just to go to Cornerstone. I hoped that I would be able to meet several bands and maybe hook up with one of them who may be out on tour, or maybe ready to go out on one soon. Anyway, during this wait Bruce started getting heavily involved in another local group here in Sacramento called "Zoppi", a decidedly mainstream alternative rock group. During December '96 and January '97, Zoppi signed a publishing deal with Warner-Chappell Music for (are you ready for this?) $30,000!!!!!!! Thirty Grand! My Gosh! Why in the world did they get this deal? Well, all thanks to their manager which The 77's are desperately lacking. So, I started to "road" for Zoppi, well actually I should say I started to "road" for Bruce who happens to be in Zoppi. At least I got paid, albeit not much, but it was money. They (Zoppi) started getting quite a bit of attention locally, and finally booked a showcase for all the major record labels in Los Angeles....the same week I wanted to leave for Cornerstone! I couldn't leave until after the showcase anyway, because Mike was going to use Scott Reams, Zoppi's keyboardist on this Cornerstone gig, and I needed to take his keyboards, plus Bruce needed to pack some of his things too. I was going to go to Los Angeles with Zoppi, then right after that leave for Bushnell, Ill and "Lallajpusa".... "Glamorous" Hollywood I left Sacramento for Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 24 at about 1 in the afternoon in my little 4 cylinder Nissan Pickup, pulling a 4'X5' U-Haul trailer full of equipment with no air conditioning!!!! And it was HOT!!!! I sweat the entire 8 hour drive. I also didn't realize until I got into L.A. that we would be staying at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood on Hoolywood Blvd!!!! When I got there, checked in and had one of the bell hops take me to the room, I had another surprise for me...I had my very own room!!!!!! This was a $150/night room and it was ALL MINE!!!! This was by far the very best accomodations I have ever had as a roadie....I guess snoring has it's advantages sometimes...hehe. The hotel was almost right across the street from the famous Chinese Theater, and you knew you were in Hollywood because they were filming on the roof of the Hotel Roosevelt. Since all the production people tied up the elevators causing almost ungodly delays, I decided to go up to the roof and see what was going on. Bruce had just given me a new Drum Workshop T-shirt and hat he got while touring the factory that day, which I was proudly wearing, and which someone on the roof thought meant something. I guess they thought I was a rep from DW or something because I got free reign to roam wherever I wanted (The guys from the band were immediately kicked off when they went up...I LOVE IT!!). This fall look for a show called "Fame L.A."....I watched part of the opening sequence filmed...when you see these dancers with tight tops squirm around in funky light and smoke in time to some lame disco tune..I saw it filmed....when you guys out there see the opening sequence and those female dancers, you'll know why I wasted almost four hours on the roof of the hotel.....I had a lot of time to myself while down there, I did do a little sight seeing...didn't oogle at women all day.... Thursday 6/25, Zoppi had their first showcase at the Whiskey A Go-Go in Hollywood. The show was pretty good, had a bout of nerves performing to such an important crowd, but they got through it. Friday 6/26's show at The Viper Room just down the street from "The Whiskey" was magical. Bob Zoppi has an incredible voice, and when he gets into the music and really starts bouncing around the stage, it makes for one heckuva show. They got quite a response from this show, and are negotiating now with several mainstream labels....look for them soon!! God Is My Co-Pilot Left for Sacramento right after the show, at 2 in the morning, alone again..Don't remember when I got into Sacramento, but I do know I had to hurry to get all the last minute things done, unload Zoppi's equipment, and load Safe As Milk's equipment, take a short nap, and left that night right after the Tyson-Hollyfield match...immediately tuned in every AM sports talk station I could get and listened to how appalled everyone was that Tyson bit off "The Real Deal's" ear, quite a positive way to start a cross country trip...don't ya think? I spent a lot of time in prayer, listened to the entire Civil War Book On Tape, a few select tapes I listen to...a.k.a. "Road Music" such as The Boat Ashore, Joni Mitchell's "Don Juan's Reckless Daughter", a few instrumental mood tapes I picked up along the way, and even Garth Brooks' Greatest Hits, and spent a lot of time in prayer, oh yeah I already mentioned that. Although I love having the hours upon hours to spend with God, let this be my public statement that I WILL NOT DO A TRIP LIKE THIS ALONE AGAIN...no way, no how...that trip made it two times within a year's span that I drove 3 days and more alone....too boring..I do thank God that I had no gas problems this time like I did during the tom tom tour, don't think I could handle that particular piece of lightning twice! "CornerBlown" Got to Des Moines late on Monday the 29th...almost made the whole trip non-stop. I had gotten to North Platte, Nebraska when I called my buddy Mike Webb and said I would be there in less than 8 hours...sleep deprivation caught up with me no more than an hour later, I pulled over at some rest area, crawled into the back of my pick up which was now covered by Mark's shell and passed out for almost 12 hours....thanks Mark!! (This would prove to be the first of many nights I would spend sleeping in the comfort and security of his camper shell). So, after sleeping a few more hours at Mike's house Monday night/Tuesday morning I got up and started paging JT. He was supposed to already be at Cornerstone and have the "7's Camp" set up, I was hoping to get a hold of him so that he could tell me where on this large converted farm he was set up. I paged atleast 6 times, and when it got to be 2 in the afternoon, I gave up and decided to head out to Bushnell from Des Moines, a trip which I figured to be about 4 hours. Got to Cornerstone at about 6PM Tuesday evening, went to the check-in trailer and proceded to let the powers that be that I had arrived with band equipment, and would anyone know where the 77's Camp was? WELL, my name was not on the band's list!!!! WHAT!!!???? I was also supposed to be a volunteer to work the Encore One Stage, I wasn't on the volunteer list either!!! They charged me $50 to get in.....I wasn't happy already. So, I started to drive my little truck and trailer around the entire festival grounds looking for JT. Please note that this was the night prior to the festival starting, there were tons of people arriving, driving around, walking around, the entire grounds was like a huge herd of cattle roaming around aimlessly. I drove around the entire grounds no more than 5 times which took me no less than 5 hours, and there was no sign of JT that I could see. I asked several of the security people who were driving around in their little golf carts if the had seen any type of 77's sign or banner that JT said he would put up to mark the camp, none of them had seen or heard of any "77's Camp". It soon got to be 11PM, it was dark, no one in the trailer knew who I was since I wasn't on ANY of their lists, and I simply could not find JT. Needless to say I was furious...it had happened to me AGAIN....I got shafted again!! First no cash, now no one to meet me. I felt extremely uncomfortable sitting at the entrance with MY 77's banner draped over the trailer in hopes that JT would walk up and find me, but I was announcing to the world that I had The 77's equipment, and I don't trust anyone...even if it is a Christian event with the band's equipment. I sat at the entrance for about an hour sprawled out in the back under Mark's shell thinking out the options that I had..... "I'M NOT GOING BACK!!!!" I'm not a hot-head, and it takes a lot to get me mad, but by Midnight on Tuesday I was absolutely in a rage. I was furious with the people at Cornerstone for not having my name atleast on the volunteer list, and charging me $50 (which was just about all I had). I was mad at Street Level Artists (the band's booking agent), for not having my name on the crew list...come to find out they DID have Don McKinney's name on the list.....Don McKinney???!!!! He hasn't been involved with the band actively for over 10 years!!!! How in the world could Street Level confuse him with me?? I will never figure it out. I was mad at JT for what I perceived at the time to be a gross lack of organization on his part, I was just mad at the world. I called Mike, who luckilly wasn't home and left the most angry and hatefull message I have ever left ANYONE....I regret the tone I had now, and Mike has thankfully forgiven me for basically calling him a dope. Anyway, the message stated that in no uncertain terms was I going to stay there not knowing anybody, and that he could reach me at Mike's back in Des Moines. I made the Cornerstone people refund my 50 bucks and drove the 4 hour trip back to Iowa at about midnight, with full the full intention of not going back to what I perceived to be hell on earth until the band got there on Saturday. I was woken up by a frantic call from Mike Wednesday morning begging me to go back...I did have merchandise to sell and was technically loosing money by not being there, but I was still adamant about not going back. Towards noon I finally got the call from JT, he had driven back to Indiana to pick up his youth group, and was at Cornerstone the whole time. Unfortunately, we didn't know that his pager wouldn't work in Illinois, so when he left and crossed the border into Indiana, his pager starts going off frantically with all my pages from the previous day. After some mild persuasion from a very calming JT, we agreed that the Cornerstone organizers had their heads stuck somewhere unpleasant, and I would simply ignore them and the commitment I had made to them to volunteer on one of their stages, and just spend the entire time with JT and his group. I drove back to Illinois that day. So I had left and came back within 12 hours and drove almost 8 of those hours... I had beaten JT back to the festival, and easily found the "7's Camp" and the sign he had out that no one on the security staff had seen, although JT had spoken to a couple of them the day before asking them to be on the look-out for me. I set up up my tent and began to relax knowing that I wouldn't have to work a stage every day now, and try to sell some merchandise... Me And The Other Fools JT and his wife Amanda brought 11 kids with them!!! At first I thought JT and his wife had lost their marbles..How could they handle 11 tenn-agers??? But these weren't your average, everyday teens. They had the fire of Christ in them and it was obvious. They got up early every morning on their own to attend the various seminars that were held, as I found it difficult to get up before 11. We did seem to catch on quickly though, and had a great time swimming, tossing a frisbee around, and generally had a blast the whole time. The whole group (guys and gals) became honorary 7's roadies for a week. They helped me with the trailer, merchandise, and equipment, and each received a one of a kind, very limited edition T-shirt which says "77's Roadie Tour '97" on the front and in big bold letters on the back "It's A Great Tour To Be A Fool". JT had them made up as a little special reward for the kids helping me out. I developed some good friendships out of Mike, Justin, Donlee, Cassie, Amy, Jackie, Josh, Steven, Andrew, Stacy, and Rachel, and look forward to seeing all of them again next year hopefully. The only bad thing I suppose with the camp was that we were too darn close to the Encore 2 stage which had these really bad heavy metal bands playing sometimes until 2 or 3 in the morning....so none of us got an overabundance of sleep. While walking around the Main Stage area On the 4th (Friday I think) checking out the merchandise, and waiting for The Waiting to play, I saw that Rich Mullins was scheduled to play because he had his merchandise table set up. But I saw an old familiar shirt for sale there...The A-Train shirt! I asked the guy behind the table "what's Aaron's shirt doing here?" I found out that he would be playing with Rich, then I saw Jimmy A's CD on the table, yep he was playin' with Rich too! I immediately walked back stage...ran into Angie, Candida, and gang who had been looking for me for the past two days (they were going to sell Merchandise for the band in the Merch Tent), then knocked on the band's trailer, found Aaron and Jimmy and proceded to spend the rest of the evening with these two guys and their families....I hadn't seen Jim in over 10 years, Aaron in almost 5, so it was a HUGE blessing to spend some time with them again...Aaron called Mike later that night at the hotel and told him about our meeting and that I hadn't changed a bit.."it was like it was 1983 all over again.." me hanging out with him and Jim...it was GREAT!! The show was amazing, and to be honest I would never have had Rich Mullins high on my "must see" list of Cornerstone artists. Just seeing Aaron and Jimmy play was for me, a very moving experience. When The Boat Came Ashore Mike & Co. arrived early Saturday evening to a waiting Donlee and I who played frisbee for several hours at the entrance wasting time. Mike and old pal Keith Rintala came down to our camp and held the campfire sing along that we put together. It went rather well, so well in fact, that Mike wants to make it a yearly thing (as long as the Cornerstone folk invite him back). Sunday was spent getting the merchandise table set up in the tent and tending to the needs of the band as they went through their sound check, interviews, autograph sessions, etc. Met up with Brian Heydn and his wife who were going to video tape the show, got them set up with a board mix for his audio, a few people I was supposed to have shared my tent with....we learned a lot from this experience believe me!!! The show went rather well considering that this band had only rehearsed less than a half dozen times. The crowd was all seated inside the Compassion International tent, and really couldn't get into the show all that much. Mike even mentioned during the set that it felt like a recital, the crowd was polite but really didn't get into the show until the guys tore into "The Stellazine Prophecy", and went bezerk during one of the 3...count 'em THREE encores when just Mike, Mark and Bruce came up and rippped into some rockin' 77's tunes...here's the set list, including encores: The Boat Ashore Billy Paul Said Blue All Over I Buried My Heart At Bended Knee Love Like Gold Honey Run Some Kind Of Dream The Stellazine Prophecy Tum Tum Tum I Want Never Gets Encore #1 Ache Beautiful Flowers In The Sand Tall Trees Encore #2 Nobody's Fault But Mine Go Your Own Way (yeah, the Fleetwood Mac tune) Encore #3 Thanks A Million Ba Ba Ba Ba Ping Pong Over The Abyss One GREAT Show! I was able to get JT and the gang seats back stage just off of stage right, so the guys were real close and got to see quite a bit!! They dug and helped me out quite a bit that night. Couldn't have done it without them...thanks guys!!!! After everything was loaded up, it was time for the band to leave, so after another influx of cash into my pocket for gas on the way back, the boat called "anchors aweigh!" and they were gone...off to catch an early flight back to California. The End Of A Great Week Once we made it back to camp, the guys and I decided it was still early, so Donlee and I went swimming at the beach that closed hours earlier. We snuck in of course, and after a few minutes were greated by the rest of the guys who were on shore shooting off bottle rockets at us...not directly at us, but close enough to cause some riotous laughter. When we got out and dried off, we discovered that Andrew had brought a whole grocery bag full of these bottle rockets that were several years old. Some of them were duds, so instead of playing around with them we lit them all off at the same time. I had brought a gas can for emergencies, so the whole lot of us took the fireworks and this gas over to the main stage area and piled the bottle rockets in the center of the bowl, once some gas was poured on it I lit it before anyone was really ready. We were all running frantically away from this pile of exploding gunpowder laughing as hard as our winded bodies would allow. It was quite a spectacle, and filled the entire bowl that was main stage with smoke...however, now that I think about it....I deny the whole thing, it wasn't me, I don't know who did that!!!! (hehe) Woke up early Monday morning to JT frantically packing away the group's tents and related gear....I didn't feel like dealing with it all and just threw the tent and whatever else was mine and not already packed into my truck and trailer. We caravaned out to a Hardees or something and had a "last lunch" together. I absolutely hate good-byes, so made this one as quick as possible. I miss those kids...had a great time with them, and will never forget the whole experience with them.....hope to do it again somehow next year!!! "Traveling Beautifull I-80" That's a quote from two Post Cards I found describing the experience of driving through Nebraska and Iowa. I am biased to Iowa, spent a few days there with Mike and Robin and my little buddy Matthew before I started the treck home, but I wouldn't describe the experience of driving through Nebraska as "beautiful". I left at about 10PM headed home from Des Moines, and I wasn't in Nebraska for more than an hour or so when I hit a huge storm. I had just started on my drive and wasn't tired, but I couldn't drive through this storm...I couldn't see the road. So, for the 2 hours or so that I was stuck at some truck stop watching the power go off and back on again to the rhythm of the lightning strikes that were eerily close, I wrote the outline to this little diary...sorry that it has taken so long to type, but now that I am closing this thing, I am noticing that it has taken me almost 4 hours to write...with several breaks of course!!!! Now that I'm back and have had time to reflect on the whole experience...I had a blast! Although I have thoughts about the organization of Cornerstone and Street Level, I can't hold much against them for what I see as incompetence. That's all I'll say about the whole thing..it left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth, so I'll shut up before I get in trouble. I want to thank the guys in Zoppi for making my experience with them in Hollywood by far the best as far as accomodations go, they're a great bunch of guys to hang out with too. Also thanks to Mike, Mark, Bruce, Carey, Michael, and Scott for making Cornerstone one that I won't soon forget!!! So what's next Don? You may ask. In less than a month, before Mike goes out on his tour we will release our fourth newletter via snail mail....it's subtitled "Mark My Words" because it will have interviews with original 7's drummer Mark Proctor, we'll finish "Big Bass Balls" with Mark Harmon, and will hopefully have something from former 7's keyboardist/guitarist/vocalist Mark Tootle.....chock full of Marks!!!! Look for it soon!! I promise! Don Bown "So long ago I drew a line for myself in the sand, time after time I moved it when I crossed it again and again.." ROE "'Tis a great day to be a fool" me The 77's : http://www.77s.com

August 22, 1997 From: Steve Johnson Subject: latest tour info hi everyone, just thought i'd give you the latest tour schedule in case you haven't checked the website. this is the most complete list we have - there is now contact info for each date so you can get all your friends, co-workers, family to go. also, there's a note from JT at the bottom in case you want to be a part of the new 2nd leg of this tour... steve http://www.77s.com/ ------------ The Mike Roe "It's For You" 97 Tour Schedule Date -- City -- Promoter -- Venue -- Contact 9/23/97 -- Columbia, MO (Brian Heydn, E Free Church) 9/24/97 -- Vincennes, IN (JT, 7:00 at Purgatory, doors open at 6:00) 9/25/97 -- True Tunes, Wheaton, IL (John Thompson) 9/26/97 -- Same as 9/25/97 9/27/97 -- Minneapolis, MN (New Union, contact Street Level for details) 9/28/97 -- Minneapolis, MN (Terry Steinmeyer, Coffeeshock) 9/29/97 -- Oak Park, IL (Joel Kircher, venue unknown) 10/1/97 -- North Manchester, IN (Jabin Burnworth, venue unknown) 10/2/97 -- Windsor, Ontario, Canada (Ryan Richardson, Refuge) 10/4/97 -- Lebanon, PA (Doug Kline, JAVACASA) 10/5/97 -- Anapolis, MD (John Cook, venue unknown) 10/6/97 -- Hagerstown, MD (Alan Miller, Faith Chapel, 14 S. Potomac St., Hagerstown, MD 21740) 10/8/97 -- Mt. Vernon, OH (Jeremy Strayer, Mt. Vernon Nazarene College) 10/9/97 -- Lexington, KY (Steve Broderson, Kentucky Theatre) 10/10/97 -- Nashville, TN (Graeme or Darryl at Jammin' Java, (615) 591-4888) 10/11/97 -- Atlanta, GA (Brook Sizemore, The Rave. Address: 422 E Crogan St. NE, Lawrenceville, GA, located in the same building as Captain Billy's Fish house (it's actually part of the restaurant)) 10/12/97 -- Little Rock, AR (Todd Brogdon, venue unknown) 10/13/97 -- Orlando, FL (Richard Dolan, First Baptist Sweetwater) 10/15/97 -- Dayton, OH (Curt Cosenza Donet, Canal St. Tavern) 10/17/97 -- St. Louis, MO (Brian Q. Newcomb, Christ Church) 10/18/97 -- Denver, CO (Steve Johnson and Soulhook, venue unknown) 10/19/97 -- Phoenix, AZ (Pat Nicellelo, venue unknown) 10/20/97 -- OPEN DATE -- NO FLAKES PLEASE! ---------- Note from JT: We now have an open date on 10/20/97. If anyone wants to fill it -- if they are in the general area -- they need to contact me NOW. If it doesn't fill, we'll get Mike home early. Also, Mike and I are now planning the "2nd" leg of the tour, those who didn't get in on the first one before the route was planned and those on the west coast. We should be able to put together b/w 7 and 10 dates. Right now it looks like we'll get Mike to NJ, then MS, TX, WA, OR and CA. If anyone is interested, have 'em give me a call ASAP. We have confirmed dates in NJ, MS, WA and OR. Time is of the essence. -- JT

August 13, 1997 From: Steve Johnson Subject: Final (sort of) Tour Schedule before i give the pre-release tour schedule, here's a few more concert dates JT just informed me of: August 28, 1997 - Tom Tom Fest, Portland, OR, 1:00pm, Mikey Bridges - 503.254.6458 September 12, 1997 - Santa Cruz, CA, Cornerstone Cafe, Don Eppenbach - 408.427.2390 September 13, 1997 - Koinonia Coffee House, Winchester Ave, Campbell, CA - Mike Dow, 408.226.4323 and the moment we've all been waiting for... IMPORTANT NOTE: if you live within a 4 hour drive of Williamsport, Maryland and want to have Mike Roe play in your town/church/bar/etc please contact JT IMMEDIATELY at! 9/22/97 -- Columbia, MO 9/23/97 -- St. Louis (Brian Q. Newcomb's Church) 9/24/97 -- Vincennes, IN 9/25/97 -- True Tunes/Chigago, IL (Mike Roe solo) 9/26/97 -- True Tunes/Chicago, IL (Lost Dogs, w/o Gene) 9/27/97 -- Minneapolis, MN (New Union) [Lost Dogs w/o Gene] 9/28/97 -- Minneapolis, MN 9/29/97 -- Oal Park, IL 10/1/97 -- North Manchester, IN 10/2/97 -- Plymouth, MI OR Windsor, Ontario (whichever confirms first) 10/4/97 -- Lebanon, PA 10/5/97 -- OPEN DATE -- MIKE WILL PLAY W/I 4 HOUR RADIUS OF WILLIAMSPORT 10/6/97 -- Williamsport, MD 10/8/97 -- Mt. Vernon, OH 10/9/97 -- Lexington, KY 10/10/97 - Nashville, TN 10/11/97 - Atlanta, GA 10/12/97 - Little Rock, AR (MIKE'S B-DAY!) 10/13/97 - Orlando, FL 10/15/97 - Lexington, KY OR Cincinnati, OH (whichever confirms first) 10/18/97 - Denver, CO 10/19/97 - Phoenix, AZ 10/20/97 - Tucson, AZ ******** - Possible later dates on the west coast as they develop. There will be later shows in Tacoma, WA and Portland, OR as dates are confirmed upon Mike's arrival back home. the final confirmed dates will be posted to http://www.77s.com as soon as possible. you will also be able to see who your local promoter is and offer to help put up posters, spread the word, etc. steve

August 4, 1997 From: Don Bown Subject: Where in the world is Don? Hello everyone! Well, it's been a few weeks now since I've been back from Cornerstone, and I have been grossly negligent in my email responsibilities; I currently have over 150 messages in my mail box...quite a few dating back to June. I will continue to stick to my policy of answering all of them, however we are trying to put together a tour which means that those messages get first priority. So, for those of you waiting patiently for me to write you back I WILL..that's a promise. Please give me time. I could write a novel as to the reasons why you haven't heard from me, and to avoid boring all of you with the twisted details behind it all, suffice it to say that I have been homeless since June 23. There was nothing keeping me from going to Cornerstone this year, including a landlord who couldn't tolerate my "Rock N Roll lifestyle" of being gone up to 4 or 5 months a year. Thank God for Mike and my best friends Tim&Jenny and their daughters Kylee and Coree, and their respective couches and floor space....in a way I'm still on tour...the couch tour '97. But things are getting much better, I got a job installing windows with Tim and his neighbor. Who wouldn't pass up the opportunity to work with your best friend on this planet (besides Mike of course) and make good money? I hope to have a secured place of residence within a week which will allow me to get my butt in gear getting this tour put together with JT & Steve... Look for an email only newsletter which will be the tour diary of Cornerstone and my trip with Bruce and his other band Zoppi to Los Angeles just prior to my departure to Cornerstone....I've got some GREAT stories I want to share with all of you, just please give me some time... It certainly was a "Great Tour To Be A Fool" :) God Bless Don Bown "So long ago I drew a line for myself in the sand, time after time I moved it when I crossed it again and again.." ROE "'Tis a great day to be a fool" me The 77's : http://www.77s.com

July 25, 1997 From: JT Subject: Mike Roe "It's for you and you and you...it's for you and you, you too..." Fools of the World, 77's Ltd., and 77s.com are very pleased to announce the: Mike Roe "It's For You" 97 Tour It is for you, the fan, the die-hard, the individual who accepted the 88 raincheck to wait patiently for Mike to come to your town to play. The "prayer and promise" has been answered! And, you have the opportunity to play promoter. Check this out: How would you like for Mike Roe, and, on some stops, David Leonhardt (former 77's guitarist) or Derri Daugherty (The Choir's frontman and fellow Lost Dog) to play your home town, high school, youth group, church, private party, wedding or living room? Still breathing? How do you feel about entering a concert "promoters" contest where you may have a chance to win an all request Mike Roe concert, the shirt Mike wore on the cover of "All Fall Down," or some other really cool collector's items? For some time, Mike has been wanting to do a tour for the fans, of the fans and by the fans. As a result, the "It's For You" 97 Mike Roe Tour has been initiated. Mike will be accepting serious (read legitimate) offers for tour dates from late August through September 1997. Here's the deal: this tour will not be organized by Street Level or any other "mainstream" agency. Rather, this is to be the first set of Mike Roe/77's gigs organized and promoted directly through Fools of the World, 77's Ltd and 77s.com! What an opportunity. How's that? Read on... Are you interested in your city making the list of tour stops? Are you tired of reading the concert schedule only to find the nearest gig is 9 hours away? Are you willing to do some serious promotion for the greatest guitarist / singer / songwriter in recent history? Are you willing to set up a concert venue and get the word out? In short, are you a die-hard? If so, "It's For You!" You have the opportunity to be the local promoter responsible for bringing Mike to your home town! What you need to do is contact Don Bown or JT (or by phone after 7:00 p.m., central time, at (812) 886-4637) and tell us who you are, where you live, what you can do to set up a tour stop, how many folks you think you can get to the show, and where you'd like for Mike to play. You can also write to us at Box 1441, Citrus Heights, CA 95611. Please, serious offers only. And, you might want to drop us a line asap as the appointments will quickly fill! After you've made the contact, we'll send you a promotional package and a tour "checklist" to help guide your efforts, although we'll never be more than an email or phone call away. Together, we'll firm up the date, contract, venue and other details. The Mike Roe "It's For You" 97 Tour. This is your tour; this tour's for you! Keep an eye on http://www.77s.com/ for up-to-the minute details.

July 23, 1997 From: Steve Johnson Subject: Site updates Brian Healy just sent me the lyrics to "Happy Hour" - if you want to check them out click on the D.A.S. link on the Music page. Paul Ballard also just sent me some awesome photographs of the 77's from their Pray Naked days. steve

July 18, 1997 From: Steve Johnson Subject: Demonstrations of Love just wanted to spread the word that Mike Roe donated a brand new song to a new compilation album by ESA: http://www.77s.com/merchandise/demonstrations.html. i also included the ordering information below if you're interested. also - if you haven't been to the 77's website http://www.77s.com/ in a while, i just made some changes to it yesterday and today. there are now 12 brand new video samples and 2 new audio samples. you can now get full-length versions of 6 of their official videos, and there are some fun interviews and bootlegs as well. enjoy! steve ---------- Prism Magazine And Evangelical for Social Action are proud to announce the release of Demonstrations of Love A recording for the benefit of Prism magazine and Evangelical for Social Action Including new songs from: Jimmy A Ashley Cleveland & Kenny Greenberg Rick Elias Nick Giaconia Brian Healy with Sean Doty and Derri Daugherty Mark Heard Phil Madeira Dave Perkins Michael Roe Randy Stonehill Noel Paul Stookey Steve Taylor Plus songs from: Jan Krist The Rich Mullins Project Romona Silver Vigilantes of Love CD & one year of Prism magazine $20.00 CD only $17.00 Available From ESA/Prism 1-800-650-6600 For Visa/MC Or Send Check or money order to ESA/Prism 10 E. Lancaster Ave. Wynnewood PA 19096-3495 Also Check out the web page http://www.esa-online.org/

July 17, 1997 From: Steve Johnson Subject: New Quicktimes on website What's this? I'm actually updating the 77's page? Can it be? Actually, I never really stopped (you'll notice the Concerts page is always up-to-date) - I was just busy being depressed about not getting to go to Cornerstone this year so I did some heavy-duty bootleg watching. I've now made a TON of new Quicktimes on the Movies page and also added a couple of Sounds because the video on those songs wasn't that great. If you're wondering what in the world has kept me from spending time on the 77's shrine, you may want to check out my latest website creation: Reunion Records. They have some very cool artists including All Star United, Third Day, and Carolyn Arends that you may want to check out (assuming you already have all the 77's, Lost Dogs, and Strawmen albums of course...). steve

June 21, 1997 From: Don Bown Subject: Chuck Berry Cancelled Quite a dissapointment........Mike found out today that the promoter for the San Diego gig with Chuck Berry on July 3rd screwed up and neglected to tell Mr. Berry that he had a band to play with him. Chuck is arriving with his OWN band now, because he assumed the San Diego promoter had failed to book another group. Mike is extremely bummed about the whole thing. I woke up today with a message on my machine stating "Hey man, call me. Disaster has struck". However, Mike may show up to Cornerstone earlier now if he can get the ticket situation resolved. As it stands right now, Mike is out $600 in airfare to San Diego on a non-refundable ticket. Pray that his travel agent is sympathetic and works out some kind of arrangement. God Bless All Don "You've got frogs, and princes and elves, Pretty boys and madamoiselles, But if you don't want to see them in Hell, BE YOURSELF BE YOURSELF BE YOURSELF!" M ROE "'Tis a great day to be a fool" me The 77's : http://www.77s.com

June 11, 1997 From: Don Bown Subject: 77's TO PLAY WITH CHUCK BERRY! OK, do you guys want to talk about a group of three very anxious musicians!!!! Mike got a call from a pal in Los Angeles last week asking the question none of us would have ever thought would happen...."Would The 77's be interested in being Chuck Berry's band for a concert featuring Chuck B. and Jerry Lee Lewis??"...!!!! Hello? Would they be interested??!!!! So, on JULY 3, 1997 The 77's will back the legendary guitar player in El Cajon, California...just outside of San Diego. It's at a place called "Sylvan Casino" at 5459 Dehaso Road, right off of I-8 down there. This will be a chance for those of you out here on the "Left Coast" to catch the boys over the fourth of July weekend, and are unable to attend Cornerstone. Speaking of Cornerstone...we're trying to get all of us "7's-Heads" who plan on camping assembled in one general area (which we know may be next to impossible), but Mike may come out Saturday night of the festival to lead a late night campfire sing along....if you're interested in finding out exactly where we all plan to congregate email "JT" at feavel@ns.kensco.net. One more show to mention...a last minute sort of thing for me in a way....THIS WEEKEND The 77's will be in Rockford, IL. SATURDAY NIGHT....PLEASE CALL STREET LEVEL ARTISTS...... That's all the news that's news for you to use for now..... God Bless Don "You've got frogs, and princes and elves, Pretty boys and madamoiselles, But if you don't want to see them in Hell, BE YOURSELF BE YOURSELF BE YOURSELF!" M ROE "'Tis a great day to be a fool" me The 77's : http://www.77s.com

May 23, 1997 From: Don Bown Subject: Cornerstone '97! Hello again everyone! Just wanted to write a quick note to everyone before the big Memorial Weekend and try to get those of you on the verge of deciding whether or not to go to Cornerstone to actually decide to go. This year is kinda special for Mike because they asked for his solo stuff to be performed this year, rather than The 77's material. We just put together a set list this week and have made tapes of all the songs for the new musicians we're bringing.....(Mike, Mark, Bruce, PLUS guitar Wizard Michael Gregory, ace percussionist Carey Avery, and "the wonder kid" keyboardist Scott Reams). The set list we put together is AMAZING! Rehaersals for it start in two weeks, and we simply can not wait.....I hope you guys can't either! If there is ANY way for you to go to Cornerstone this year.....DO GO!!! The Mike Roe Group (a.k.a. Safe As Milk) will be performing on the "Compassion Stage" Sunday night of the festival. In other words Mike and Co. will be the last act of the last night at Cornerstone........this show will be THE one NOT to miss this year....so if you have an incling to go...PLEASE DO! WOULD LOVE TO MEET ALL OF YOU THERE! Have a great weekend everybody! Don Bown "You've got frogs, and princes and elves, Pretty boys and madamoiselles, But if you don't want to see them in Hell, BE YOURSELF BE YOURSELF BE YOURSELF!" M ROE "'Tis a great day to be a fool" me The 77's : http://www.77s.com

May 14, 1997 From: Don Bown Subject: 77's & Mike Roe Photos!!! FINALLY!!!! We FINALLY got a shipment of 77's band photos as well as Mike Roe solo pics printed out on high gloss paper (the pics are B&W). Done by Street Level Artists for promotional purposes, the guys bought a ton extra to offer to you guys! So here's the deal..... You can get either/both promo photos (of Mike and/or the band) unsigned for $3 each plus postage....(the pics are 8 x 10's so postage means an extra $1.50 or so if you want to receive them in good shape). For $5 plus postage you can get either/both photos personalized with the guys' John Hancocks signed especially for you! This offer will be good for as long as we have them in stock (which assuredly will run out before you know it)...so order today! (Or as Mike would say at a moment like this "Buy! Buy! Buy! Spend! Spend! Spend!" hehe). God Bless! Don Bown "You've got frogs, and princes and elves, Pretty boys and madamoiselles, But if you don't want to see them in Hell, BE YOURSELF BE YOURSELF BE YOURSELF!" M ROE "'Tis a great day to be a fool" me The 77's : http://www.77s.com

May 12, 1997 From: Don Bown Subject: The Late Great 88 Greetings everyone from 90 degree plus Sacramento!! It's been hotter than hades here!!! Anyway, I write all of you with sadened heart. We have permanently run out of the live CD "88"..it's out of print...no longer available...(Steve will remove it from the online order form shortly). HOWEVER, for those of you who have yet to hear this classic live rocker, we still have about 40 cassettes available, which we are still gonna sell for $5 each, so if you don't have this album, print out the order form and order the cassettes before they're gone for good..... One last thing....a fan by the name of Brian Heydn in Ohio sent me a drawing he did of the 77's from photos he took while we were in St. Louis for the tom tom Tour, I've sent it to Steve, so that should be up for all to see soon...it's a GREAT rendering of the guys live!! http://www.77s.com/fans/ That's all the news of note for now....God Bless. Don Bown "You've got frogs, and princes and elves, Pretty boys and madamoiselles, But if you don't want to see them in Hell, BE YOURSELF BE YOURSELF BE YOURSELF!" M ROE "'Tis a great day to be a fool" me The 77's : http://www.77s.com

April 23, 1997 From: Steve Johnson Subject: TLeM 1996 Reader Favorites Awards http://tlem.netcentral.net/features/9704/reader_faves_full.html the results are in - and our efforts to stuff the ballots weren't entirely in vain: ;-) - Mike Roe got 5th place in two categories: "Favorite Male Vocalist" and "Favorite Guitarist" - Mark Harmon got 4th place in "Favorite Bass Player". cool! - the 77's website got 4th place in the favorite websites category (which was my category idea - hee hee...). they came in behind Jars of Clay, DC Talk, and Rebecca St. James, which is fine by me because those are all excellent websites (well, Rebecca's graphics are kind of cheesy) and i'm honored to be listed among them... although - J. Warner - could you fix the link to the 77's page? you have it as http://77s.com when it should be http://www.77s.com. thanks! also - i discovered a new review of Echos in TLeM's Indies section: http://tlem.netcentral.net/indie/9704/echos_o_faith.html. steve p.s. if you want off this list for any reason or are getting two copies instead of just one, please send me e-mail and let me know. p.p.s. did you know there are now over 500 people on this list? p.p.p.s. did you know that 10 of those people have "77" in their e-mail address? (besides those of with 77s.com aliases) cooooool...

April 15, 1997 From: Don Bown Subject: Last Minute Tour Dates Received this fax from Perry today, here's the last dates of the Perry & The Poor Boys (with Mike Roe) tour: Mon 4/14 Peace Portal Alliance Church, White Rock, British Columbia, 7:30PM Tues 4/16 Northview Community Church, Abbotsford, B.C., 7:30PM Sat 4/19 BUSY DAY!!! 1) 2-4PM House Of James Christian Books, Abbotsford, B.C. (acoustic gig) 2) 6-7:30PM Northview Community Church (2 evening services with Mike&Perry) 3) 8PM St. John's Anglican Church, Vancouver, B.C. (Full Band) Sun 4/20 1) Northview Community Church, Abbotsford, B.C. (2 morning services with Mike&Perry..please call for exact time) 2) New Life Church, Abbotsford, B.C. (evening service with full band concert) Mike wanted me to thank you guys who have traveled far and wide to catch these shows....you guys are blowing Perry away with the power that The 77's web site and email list has....thanks a ton guys!!!!!! God Bless Don Bown "You've got frogs, and princes and elves, Pretty boys and madamoiselles, But if you don't want to see them in Hell, BE YOURSELF BE YOURSELF BE YOURSELF!" M ROE "'Tis a great day to be a fool" me The 77's : http://www.77s.com

March 28, 1997 From: Don Bown Subject: Logo Contest Recently, a few of you have been sending me logos that you've designed for "Fools Of The World", some have been pretty cool! SO, I've decided to hold a contest of sorts for those of you on this email list! Your task should you accept it : Design a new logo for the Fools Of The World newsletter......it must be saved as a PC compatible .jpg, .gif, or .bmp, and can be either in color or black and white. Attach your logo(s) to an email and send it to me. MAKE SURE THAT YOU USE "BINHEX" ENCODING, I will not be able to convert your image if you use MIME or any other means of encoding. NOTE!!!!! DO NOT SEND MORE THAN 2 LOGOS! I don't want my email server to be full of redundant material. PLEASE submit your entries prior to the end of April....this gives you guys a month to come up with the coolest logo! OK DON, WHAT'S THE PRIZE? How about a personalized, autographed copy of Safe As Milk on CD (PLEASE no substitutions)? And of course, the winner's logo will appear (with credit) on the next Fools Of The World newsletter, and may become the new, permanent logo!! This will give you guys on Spring Break a chance to do something creative, and give me the opportunity to work with a new design for the newsletter. Now get to designing!!! (haha) Go with God Don Bown "You've got frogs, and princes and elves, Pretty boys and madamoiselles, But if you don't want to see them in Hell, BE YOURSELF BE YOURSELF BE YOURSELF!" M ROE "'Tis a great day to be a fool" me The 77's : http://www.77s.com

March 26, 1997 From: Don Bown Subject: New Michael Roe song This is a first in Mike Roe/77s history! Last night Big Bass Stud Mark Harmon laid stand-up bass tracks to a song Mike recorded during the Drowing With Land In Sight sessions. Word has it that Mike wrote the song (titled "Audrey") for Aaron Smith's daughter as a birthday present. Regardless of this, it is definately a beautifull song and one that will rival "The Treasure In You" as one of his prettiest ever. The historical point to this is that it will be the very first track Mike has donated to a charitable organization! It will be on an album called "Demonstrations Of Love : A Recording for the benefit of PRISM Magazine" which I am guessing will be out in June sometime. All benefits go to PRISM so that they may continue their magazine and ministry. Other artists on this project are : Brian Healy (D.A.S.), Noel Paul Stookey (of Peter, Paul and Mary fame), Derri Daugherty, The Choir, Steve Taylor, Jimmy A, Randy Stonehill, and Rich Mullins...there were a few others on the list but were unconfirmed. I'll be sending Steve a sample of it to put on the web page soon (as soon as I can get my DAT sampled to a .wav or .au) so you guys can download 30 or 40 seconds of the song to see what it sounds like atleast. Well, that's the latest from Sacramento..... God Bless Don Bown "You've got frogs, and princes and elves, Pretty boys and madamoiselles, But if you don't want to see them in Hell, BE YOURSELF BE YOURSELF BE YOURSELF!" M ROE "'Tis a great day to be a fool" me The 77's : http://www.77s.com

March 25, 1997 From: Don Bown Subject: Confirmed concert dates, etc... Well, I must start out by saying that you folks in the U.S.Northwest as well as you Canadians are in for quite a treat in April! Mike has agreed to tour with Canada'a own Perry And The Poor Boys all month long, and the bonus is that they will NOT be playing all of Perry's material during the show, they will also play a few 7's as well as some solo stuff from Mike! Perry sent me a fax the other day with all the dates he has so far....I've got phone numbers for all but one, and only a few addresses (please direct all criticism toward Perry..hehe), anyway, this is it so far...... Thursday April 3 Kamloops, B.C. - University College Of The Caribou (Heroes Bar) Friday April 4 Kelowna, B.C. - Trinity Baptist Church Saturday April 5 Kamloops, B.C. - Valley View Bible Tuesday April 8 Issaquah, WA - Lutheran Bible Institute Wednesday April 9 Oak Harbor, WA - Oak Harbor Christian Reformed - (360)675-2511 Thursday April 10 Seattle, WA - Madison Cafe - 2803 Delridge Way (S.W. Seattle) - (206) 935-2412 Friday April 11 Vancouver, B.C. - Broadway Church - 2700 E. Broadway - (604)669-2695 April 12-17 TBA (Dates unconfirmed as of 3/21) Friday April 18 Victoria, B.C. - (250)721-5052 or contact darrell@islandnet.com >>>>>MIKE AND DERRI RECORDING<<<<<< Last weekend, Mike and Derri (from Choir fame) both flew to LA to lock themselves in some secret hotel down there somewhere laying some basic tracks for the duos upcoming album! Derri brought a few mics, a small board and his ADAT to record with...it's nice to know that even though these tracks are being recorded in some hotel room, they will be of atleast near digital quality! Mike will fly to Nashville here after the Perry tour to continue recording. He already has 3 tunes ready to go, and I'm sure Derri has just as many if not more, so I'm sure this album will come together rather quickly once they get down to actually doing it... >>>>>>>The 77's<<<<<<< As far as The 7's go, Bruce has started the ball rolling to record another album. This will be the first 77's album since the Warehouse days to be recorded piece-meal. They will be recording here and there over the next several months, and will hopefully have something before fall......Keep your eyes and ears open, because this album contains another first...no major (or even minor for that matter) record label will be backing this project. Plans are to release it on Fools Of The World, which means it will be mail order only (like Echoes O' Faith). This will truly be a 77's album made just for the fans!!! We plan on doing some rather creative things with the promotion of this album (like maybe a pre-release cassette of a few of the tunes,.....who knows, it's all in planning right now). Be sure to keep your eyes on the web page....and on these infrequent (albeit attempted frequent) emails, cause it may be the only way to get this album (not counting True Tunes ofcourse! God Bless all!!! Don Bown "You've got frogs, and princes and elves, Pretty boys and madamoiselles, But if you don't want to see them in Hell, BE YOURSELF BE YOURSELF BE YOURSELF!" M ROE "'Tis a great day to be a fool" me The 77's : http://www.77s.com

March 4, 1997 From: Steve Johnson Subject: more concerts there have been a number of new additions to the 77's concerts page thanks to a number of fans that have kept me well-informed. i've heard many good things about Mike's solo concerts either alone or with Perry & the Poor Boys so don't pass up a chance to see them just because he's not with the 77's! from: http://www.77s.com/concerts/ _Concerts_ Mike Roe solo acoustic shows: Fri., March 7, 1997 - San Jose, CA - Koinonia Koffeehouse - Michael Dow - 408.226.4323 March 8, 1997 - Roe flies to Chicago to perform at True Tunes - John Thompson - 630.665.3913 April 12, 1997 - The Lost Dogs perform at The New Union in Minneapolis, MN Friday, April 25, 1997 - Wilmore, KY - Ichthus Festival. Contact: Jeff McDowell at 606.858.3001. Saturday, May 10, 1997 - McPherson, KS - Central College. Contact: Rob Wolcott at 316.241.0723. Cornerstone '97!!! July 2-6, 1997 - Bushnell, IL. _Rumors_ From: Dan Tripp - According to: http://www2.zoom.com/personal/petert/5min/screem.html Mike Roe will be playing on Saturday, March 15 at the Screem in Concord with Sherry Youngward (who I think he produced stuff for). The show starts at 7:30pm and tickets are $5. (dtripp@netuser.com) From: Rick Brannan - I just learned that Mike Roe and Perry Springer (of Perry & the Poor Boys fame) will be in concert in Oak Harbor, WA at the Christian Reformed Church, on Wed. April 9. There's a 7:00 show for the Junior Highers, and another show at around 8:30, after the junior highers have gone to bed.. If you need further info, feel free to contact me. (rick@logos.com) From: Walter Gorlitz (on rec.music.christian) - Mike will be playing in Vancouver, BC, Canada with Perry and the Poorboys. April 11 at 8pm at Broadway Church (formerly Broadway Tabernacle) 2700 East Broadway, Vancouver. Tickets: $9.50 advance ($8.00 for groups of 10 or more). These prices are obviously Canadian. Available at Christian Book and Music Stores. Email Soundworx for tickets over the net at: swxtk@uniserve.com. Email me if you're coming from out of town and need a place to stay. Or just call Perry at 604.669.2695. (walter_gorlitz@mindlink.net) From: Jeff and Matt - You may want to post on your page that Mike and the rest of the Sevens will be in Phoenix on May 16th. It is billed as the 77's, with "special music" by Mike Roe. The show will be at "The Gathering", and the # for more info is 602-665-7605. I'm sure you'll get his info by the band later on, but I wanted to let you know as soon as I heard to get the word out. (Jeff77s@aol.com) steve

February 28, 1997 From: Don Bown Subject: Upcoming shows and new cancellations Well, As some of you may know by now (since you found out the hard way), but The 77's gig every Thursday night at JB's here in Sacramento has been cancelled indefinately......sorry guys, but I'm just as miffed about the whole ordeal as you may be. Mike is doing some solo acoustic gigs here soon though...Friday Feb 28, he will be at the California Baptist College 8432 Magnolia Ave in Riverside, CA..show starts at 7PM......Saturday Feb 29, Mike will be at Uncle Milt's 410 NE Grand Blvd in Vancouver, WA......next weekend he plays in the Bay Area and in Chicago, I'll pass along the info as soon as Mike gives it to me (which usually means he doesn't have the exact info yet either..hehe). Anyway, have a GREAT weekend everybody!!!! Don "You've got frogs, and princes and elves, Pretty boys and madamoiselles, But if you don't want to see them in Hell, BE YOURSELF BE YOURSELF BE YOURSELF!" M ROE "'Tis a great day to be a fool" me The 77's : http://www.77s.com

February 12, 1997 From: Steve Johnson Subject: New pictures on website John Landrum sent me some great pictures of Mike and David from 1993. I can't list his e-mail anymore because he had to sell his computer to pay off some bills. So, John, if you're reading this from the library - thanks bro! I put the images on the Members pages. I also added everyone's birthdays and e-mail addresses and a new page for David Leonhardt. steve

February 3, 1997 From: Don Bown Subject: GREAT NEWS! (Finally!) [note from Steve - i just added some new stuff to the 77's page so check out the "What's New" page and go exploring!] I am pleased as pie, or should I say "milk" to announce that Mike FINALLY has all the contract garbage over with, and we are expecting the first shipment of 12 song "Safe As Milk"'s next week!!!!!!! Mike changed the color of the original CD (which was a milky-yellow) to a "hot red", to match Mike's (and all of our) anger over the rediculous ordeal of re-releasing this. The old VIA label unfortunately remains on it, because it would cost even more money to have masters re-done with "Fools Of The World" as the label printed on the CD and cover, but ..... can't have it all sometimes. ALSO, starting in two weeks The 77's will be performing EVERY Thursday night here in Sacto. at JB's lounge near Cal Expo, if you live near here and need more detailed instructions, feel free to email me..This is exciting for me 'cause not only do I FINALLY get to go back to work setting up and maybe doing sound every week, this means the guys are back in the mood of jamming together on a regular basis, which means (hopefully) they'll get the resources together to record another 77's album! Mark has been writting TONS of material, and Bruce's obligations with another local band are finally waning, and he too is back behind his workstation composing new jams.......looks like the pendulum has finally swung back in an upward motion, could be a good year! Don "You've got frogs, and princes and elves, Pretty boys and madamoiselles, But if you don't want to see them in Hell, BE YOURSELF BE YOURSELF BE YOURSELF!" M ROE "Wish I was facing 15, maybe even 25, I've taken a few licks which have left these bags beneath my eyes, but I've still got my life, and people who really care. To escape I've got my Rock N' Roll, so why am I so damned scared of turning 30?" me The 77's : http://www.77s.com

February 3, 1997 From: Steve Johnson Subject: Site updates I've made a few changes to the website if you haven't already noticed. The Lost Dogs "Little Red Riding Hood" page now has complete lyrics thanks to Rod Boerm and Jeff Bickley. (The Lost Dogs discography can be found on the music page...) Mark Fordice also sent me a cool Quicktime movie of Bruce Spencer - it's on the Quicktime movies page. And finally, some fans sent me some concert reviews from the recent concert in Atlanta that you should check out. steve

January 22, 1997 From: Don Bown Subject: Upcoming 7's and Mike Roe Shows Greetings once again from Sack of Tomatoes everyone! Just wanted to write a quick note to y'all with some new and CONFIRMED show dates: OF COURSE FOR EXACT DETAILED INFO CALL STREET LEVEL ARTISTS AT (219)269-3413 : February 7, 1977 The 77's are backing up musician Darren Robbins in Los Angeles, CA for one show only. Mike Roe solo acoustic shows: March 1, 1997 Roe performs at The Underground in Vancouver, WA March 8, 1997 Roe does a gig in San Jose March 9, 1997 Roe flies to Chicago to perform at True Tunes Also have ONE Lost Dogs show for y'all April 12, 1997 The Dogs perform at The New Union in Minneapolis, MN UNFORTUNATELY, that's all the concert info that I can conform for you...if you are near any of these towns, and would like to have Mike perform at your church, bar, etc during those first few weeks of March, call Chad at Street Level for booking!! New newsletter done! Look for it on the homepage as soon as Steve "webbifies" it! http://www.77s.com/whatsnew/newsletter/ God Bless! Don Bown p.s. Steve would like to ask that if anyone gets more specific details on any of these shows that they send him some e-mail so he can update the 77's concerts page: http://www.77s.com/concerts/. Thanks! "You've got frogs, and princes and elves, Pretty boys and madamoiselles, But if you don't want to see them in Hell, BE YOURSELF BE YOURSELF BE YOURSELF!" M ROE "It's a great day to be a Fool" me The 77's : http://www.77s.com

January 21, 1997 From: Steve Johnson Subject: tom tom Blues lyrics well, it's only 6 months later than i originally promised, but all the lyrics for tom tom Blues are now on-line! check them out on the 77's discography page: http://www.77s.com/music/77s/. the band still has some CD inserts for sale if you'd like to have the lyrics in your CD case. just send them $2 and a SASE (that's big enough for a CD insert) and they'll mail one off to you. (their address is in every CD...) steve

January 14, 1997 From: Steve Johnson Subject: Atlanta show back on! good news for everyone within 8 hours of Atlanta! details below... -------- from Mark Harmon: I know there has been some confusion with this show. It does appear that we're going to do it acoustically since Bruce has prior commitments. I don't think we're going to use a "fill in" drummmer. We'll do it acoustically with David Leonhardt. Later, Mark -------- from David Vanderpoel <radioWDOT@aol.com>: Just wanted to drop you a line and inform you that the show at Pterodactyl in Atlanta HAS NOT BEEN CANCELLED. As of today, Street Level, Pterodactyl, and Mike confirmed that the show will go as planned on Sat, Jan 25. Opening up for the Sevens are Loudflower and Crooked Smile, and tix are $10. To confirm this, you may contact Petrodactyl, where I am house engineer, at 770.384.0003, fax at 770.384.0002, email at pteroclub@aol.com, visit the site at http://members.aol.com/pteroclub/index.html Sitting in on drums that night for the Sevens will be Matt Goldman, former drummer for Jacob's Trouble, and current drummer for Piltdown Man and The Hurst Peacock Soundtrack. Thanks, David Vanderpoel Pterodactyl -------- so there's still some confusion as to whether there will be a drummer or not, but the important thing is that the show is still happening. i sure wish i could join everyone that's going... steve

January 13, 1997 From: Don Bown Subject: Atlanta show postponed...again I regret that I must inform all you good folks near Atlanta, that the show has been postponed once again. We ran into conflicts with other obligations that the band members have......it is not cancelled! Just postponed, I'll let you know as soon as I hear anything when this show will actually be. Don Bown "You've got frogs, and princes and elves, Pretty boys and madamoiselles, But if you don't want to see them in Hell, BE YOURSELF BE YOURSELF BE YOURSELF!" M ROE "It's a great day to be a Fool" me The 77's : http://www.77s.com

January 9, 1997 From: Don Bown Subject: New Year Beginnings... Hello once again all! As with everything in life, I've been down and out for a few ticks there, but I'm ready to go another round.... Cool news on this front! (Even though Mike is still without a vehicle..) Mike and Derri from The Choir are going to do an album together! No, not a Lost Dogs album, a Mike and Derri album which is sure to be full of some awesome harmonies! It hasn't been decided if they are going to record at Derri's studio (Neverland) in Nashville, or our beloved Spray Bomb here in Sacramento. The guys are still thinking of what to call themselves....any ideas? AND it is gonna be released on The 7's label...Fools Of The World...which means it will only be available at shows or by mail order...keep your eye open for release dates...I'll keep y'all posted! Mark and Bruce aren't keeping quiet either, there will be a 77's album this year...trust me. The "band" is getting over its annual winter downtime... Well, The 77's WILL be performing in Atlanta this month..on the 25th at The Teradactyl.....wish I had a number for you, but I'm sure the club's number is in the yellow pages. Until next time all.....!!!! Don Bown "You've got frogs, and princes and elves, Pretty boys and madamoiselles, But if you don't want to see them in Hell, BE YOURSELF BE YOURSELF BE YOURSELF!" M ROE "It's a great day to be a Fool" me The 77's : http://www.77s.com

January 8, 1997 From: Steve Johnson Subject: Not much new going on... well, things still seem to be pretty crazy over in Sacramento - Mike's car still hasn't been found by the police plus some other problems may have come up. i don't think Don Bown is checking his mail during his "roommate crisis" so keep him in your prayers also... if you haven't heard of The Lighthouse Electronic Magazine (TLeM) then you should check them out sometime. i have links to all the articles they've done about the 77's on the reviews page: http://www.77s.com/reviews/. they have a survey every year to determine who the most popular artists were for the previous year, and you can go vote at http://tlem.netcentral.net/. let's show the world just how many fans Mike Roe and the 77's really have! steve