It’s Summertime in Chicago and what more could ya want, need, or crave than some delicious Deep Eddy Vodka as you ride in style to Lolla?!
Well, Deep Eddy Vodka naturally had you in mind Chicago when they decided to throw the day party of Lolla weekend!! And to get the festivities started on Saturday, August 2nd, they decided to share with you and your fair city their brand of naturally handcrafted vodkas from Austin, Texas.
Join the
Deep Eddy Vodka team as they rock away Friday’s hangover with tunes from Johnny Stimson, Parker Dodson of Greensugar, Peter Manhart of Molehill, and Jessica Paige at Reggies Music Joint before heading to Grant Park on their sweet Double Decker bus! All Deep Eddy Cocktails $4
Bus will run from 11:30 to 6pm, there will be a DJ on board, & you’ll get a drink ticket for one complimentary cocktail on the bus. (Must be 21+ to enter the bus)
PARKER DODSON
Born in Chicago and deflowered in the abyss known as the LA Basin, Parker Dodson is the sole surviving original member of GREENSUGAR. After spending his youth locked in a cage listening to such masters as the Captain and Tenille, Men at Work, and Silverchair, he honed his song writing chops on an old Taylor acoustic guitar while selling rotgut to the rogues in West LA. Dodson’s a fender man thru and thru wielding a 74 Strat thru a 68 Bassman head to create a sound he likes to refer to as, “Liquid Murk.” He is 68 years old.
GreenSugar is a 4 piece Rock N Roll quartet from Chicago IL. The band was born in the Great West after singer/guitarist Parker Dodson rode a three legged pack Mule across the Great Plains and through the Rockies to LA. After years of intense worship in the Ancient house of Troy, a group of priests were brought together to begin spreading the Gospel of Rock that Dodson had unearthed. These sage characters stormed the Sunset Strip and much of the Southern California coast for many moons until they realized that the diseases of modern society had poisoned the good people of this land so totally that their words could simply not be heard…and so this dreamer left for greener pastures…
Upon returning to Chicago, Dodson promptly tracked down his childhood friend Jon Patrick Luby, a former Buffalo rider and freelance wildfire fighter, to provide rhythms and power. The two then set off around the Midwest gigging for the better part of a year with nothing but an oxen pulled cart and a roaming minstrel named Ubaldo.During their travels the band met a young saint named Michael “Swedish” Starcevic inthe bowels of one of Chicago’s largest holy houses. St. Swedish had been raised studying many of the same scriptures as these men and despite a harrowing flight aboard an ostrich named Carroll he continued to worship the Gospel. Thus after a three day Walkabout in the woods of Wisconsin to cleanse his Inner Soul it was decided that he would join the cause. This band of brothers now numbering four foraged on; spreading their words of wisdom for thousands of lost souls until one night after an exhausting three hour ceremony a man arose from the crowd and introduced himself simply as, “the Pope.” He offered his services as the Bassman to Patrick’s pounding thunder and after calling upon the ghosts of Lord Vildamont Jameson it was ordained that his Holiness take his seat as the Ying to Patrick’s Yang.
Since that fateful evening the band has wandered the streets of America delivering its message to the needy and consequently slaughtering its enemies along the way. Their songs speak of hope and irony, and the experiences the band have under gone and are now the foundation for the band’s explosive live set, which has been seen alongside such Rock N Roll Icons as Warren Haynes and Gov’t Mule, Les Claypool, and The Black Crowes. The band is now currently on tour throughout the Midwest andhoping for the opportunity to change your mind…about everything.
