Hey, sound opinions listeners. If you support us on Patreon, you the 1,000th episode of Sound Opinions.

I'm Jim D. Regatus.

And I'm Greg Cott.

Against all odds, we've hit a big milestone.

We'll take a walk down memory lane to mark the occasion.

So, Greg, for those who don't know the pre-history of sound opinions.

I had started doing guest slots on the loop with Bill Wyman of the Chicago Reader,

the weekly in Chicago in the early 90s.

And that turned into a show of our own called Sound Opinions.

We then moved to the local New Rock Alternative, Q101, and you started doing your own version of two critics talking about music.

Yes, it was magically called The Rock Tonight or something like that.

But it was, we had fun, and it was Michael Harris of the Illinois entertainer,

the editor of

the right entertainer was fun and they they kind of left us alone but they

didn't really like what we were doing because we were bringing and talking about

artists yeah w l u p typically did not i i remember a conversation about why bill

and i were spending so much time on this album called 10 by a band called Pearl Jam

when meatloafs bat out of hell too had just come out. We had our priorities all wrong.

I left the Sun-Times for a while and went to be the deputy music editor of Rolling Stone.

Hootie Gate. Look it up, kids.. Didn't last long. Then eventually, after freelancing

for a while in Minneapolis, I came back to the Sun Times. And literally from on the road with the

U-Haul trailer behind my old Mitsubishi Montero, I stopped and called you and said, hey, we should

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