Category: Past Meetings

Location

• December 4, 2021
• Rose Bowl Tavern
• Urbana, IL

Speakers

• Col. James Presents
• Neoga
• The Autocorrect

Topics

• The Blue Line
• The Mesmerist
• Courtesy Patrol
• The Mighty John Astor
• Checked Out

Notes

• First show at the Rose Bowl, and first proper show in over two years!
• Proper debut of “The Mighty John Astor” (a sea shanty, in space!)
• Roger helped remind us which songs used a capo and which didn’t (they alternated)

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Location

• August 23, 2021
• WEFT 90.1 FM
• Champaign, IL

Speakers

• The Autocorrect

Topics

• The Blue Line
• The Mesmerist
• Asylum
• Courtesy Patrol
• Wallfacer
• Checked Out

Notes

• Originally scheduled for March 2020, but… we were on a 15 month leadership retreat.
• Would have been the debut of “The Mighty John Astor” (a sea shanty, in space!), but… we were on a 15 month leadership retreat.

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See us play our hit!

Location

• September 28, 2019
• CU Pride fest, One Main parking lot
• Champaign, IL

Speakers

• Many acts!
• The Autocorrect
• Many more acts!

Topics

• The Blue Line
• The Mesmerist
• Asylum
• Checked Out

Notes

• SOMEONE kept forgetting which songs needed the capo and which didn’t—surprise key change!

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Location

• June 13, 2019
• Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center
• Urbana, IL

Speakers

• Belle
• Of Course You Realize…
• Lower Automation
• The Autocorrect

Topics

• Asylum
• The Mesmerist
• Wallfacer
• Courtesy Patrol
• Checked Out

Notes

• First show in Rex/Richard/Chris trio form

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Location

• July 1, 2018
• Exile on Main Street
• Champaign, IL

Speakers

• honeymoon
• Two Hands
• The Autocorrect
• Earthholder

Topics

• Ant Farm
• Asylum
• The Mesmerist
• Courtesy Patrol
• Checked Out

Notes

• First performances of “Asylum”.

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Location

• May 18, 2018
• C-U Independent Media Center
• Urbana, IL

Speakers

• Slick Lisp
• The Autocorrect
• Ant Hattie

Topics

• The Blue Line
• The Mesmerist
• Courtesy Patrol
• Weirding Room
• Checked Out

Notes

• First performances of “The Mesmerist” and “Courtesy Patrol”.
• Chris has been promoted!
• We kind of forgot to play out for a year.

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Location

• May 19, 2017
• Cowboy Monkey
• Champaign, IL

Speakers

• The Autocorrect
• Lonely Trailer
• Snayl

Topics

• The Age of Big Business
• The Bureaucrat’s Lament
• Your Brand New Future
• Singularity
• Weirding Room
• Checked Out
• Trans Europe Express

Notes

• CD release show! Buy some!
• Our Consultant Chris sang on “Bureaucrat” and “BNF”.
• Richard did NOT mess up the ending of “Big Business”!
• Hawaiian shirts were worn.
• Multimedia solutions were leveraged, to enhance the experience.
• The Autocorrect loves Bob the Sound Guy. Not only does he make us sound great and clear, he wore a Lazer Cats shirt.

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Location

• May 1, 2017
• WEFT 90.1 FM Studio
• Champaign, IL

Speakers

• The Autocorrect

Topics

• National Security Love Letter
• The Bureaucrat’s Lament
• Ant Farm
• The Moon
• The Blue Line
• Wasteland
• Checked Out

Notes

• Debut of Miniak#2, Richard’s keyboard (used on “Blue Line”).
• Our Consultant Christine sang backup vocals on the first two songs.
• This was a very informal meeting—casual dress code and the humans were allowed to speak between songs. There wasn’t even an agenda printed! Anarchy!
• The ratio of dry to effected Bass VI signal was way too far on the dry side. Another lesson learned. Next time, we just mic the bass amp, nothing else!

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This meeting is on archive.org!

And on UPTV6:

Location

• April 1, 2017
• The Iron Post
• Urbana, IL

Speakers

• Bristle
• “The Autocrats”
• Eric “Big Hungry” Carter

Topics

• The Blue Line
• Ant Farm
• Wasteland
• The Moon
• Checked Out

Notes

• First live performances of “The Blue Line” and “Checked Out”.
• Debut of “Bari White”, Richard’s new “backup” Bass VI.
• In the spirit of April Fool’s Day, we decided not to play any songs off the album we’re about to release; only new stuff.
• On the venue’s calendar, our name got (ahem) autocorrected to “The Autocrats”. We rolled with it.

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Location

• January 20, 2017
• The Accord
• Champaign, IL

Speakers

• Every band in town

Topics

• The Model
• Electric Cafe
• The Robots
• Trans Europe Express

Notes

• It’s the Great Cover Up, a longstanding local tradition, in which bands pretend to be other bands. Plus it’s for charity.
• We were Kraftwerk!
• We were supposed to play “Pocket Calculator”, but the Stylophone died minutes before our set began. The wiring inside those things is totally janky.
• Rex augmented his sample pad with extra triggers and footswitches, as well as a few hand-held devices. He also augmented his voice with a vocoder (the EHX Voice Box).
• Richard used a four string bass and only two pedals (volume and Whammy), and also borrowed one of Andy’s synths (Akai Miniak).
• Andy used his giant Roland Juno.
• “Trans Europe Express” is a blast to play.

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