John Trimble Essays on
Music, Bands, and the World at Large

Excerpt from:

Cafe Bombay

It is 1974, it is Chicago, we’re on Gerry Ford’s watch and we stand in front of 6135 North Broadway, a five-story brick warehouse, craning our necks up at it, drunk on the squat industrial splendor of our new home. Windows on only the street-facing side, the second floor newly christened as Café Bombay. No Café, nothing even remotely Bombayish, simply named Café Bombay for no apparent reason other than it is fun to say. Still is.  [ read more ]

Essay List:

  • The Tragedy of Slow Motion
  • Crushing on Vince Mendoza and the Metropole Orchestra
  • The Memory Sherpa Sticks His Thumb Out
  • Joe Radovich
  • Three Weddings and a Tour de Donut
  • The Memory Sherpa
  • Cafe Bombay
  • On Phil Howard and Soft Machine
  • Sound Check
  • John’s Gear
  • Robert Wyatt: An Appreciation
  • It’s the Mole! On Matching Mole
  • JFK: The Fifth Beatle
  • Why Jimi Matters
  • Phantom
  • Squeaky
  • Cosmo
  • The Road Ends in Water