(Groovestress): "Shufflemonster, our Summit Station Gig is this Thursday, 9/01/05, 8-11PM - (1/2 Price Beer Night)."

(Shufflemonster): "You mean the totally cool brew pub with the best micro beer in the region, live music by GrooveQuest, and no cover charge?"

(G): "Exactly right, Heir Shuffle. And in that regard, I was wondering if ---you can sum up the meaning of GrooveQuest in a couple of words?"

(S): "No."

(G): "Well, how about a sentence or two?"

(S): "Nope."

(G): "A paragraph?"

(S): "Not that neither."

"Besides our obvious qualities of being fun, danceable, good-natured, ‘groovalicious', exuberant, and entertaining, GrooveQuest is deep, vast, expansive, and transcendental. The 'GrooveQuest' may become anything that (human?) consciousness can dream ABOUT (take FROM, make OF, or perceive IN) phenomena such as Beat, Pulse, Heart, soul, Syncopation, Rhythm, 'Grooving', 'Groovy', 'Groove'. GrooveQuest is spontaneous, organic, dynamic, and interactive. It takes songs from 'Roots Rock n' Roll'/Rhythm & Blues that celebrate life and/or depict the human condition. Then, by means of Groove Mojo/Rhythm Magic, plays a tribute to the Spirit of the song, and therein Creates a 'Groove Dynamism' --- an entity possessing of special powers. And then, by means of phenomenology, encounters, embraces, beholds, celebrates, basks in, and glows and grows from -- the new Creation."

(G): "And then phenomenologizes, encounters, interacts with all that. It all seems to form some type of --- spiritual --- loop.

Let me see if I have it:

** The [Roots Rock] Song expresses and possesses the Spirit of America - the free Spirit of man! - tons of exuberant Spirit!

** The Groove expresses, possesses, enhances, rejuvenates, and reanimates the Spirit of the song.

** The 'Quest' expresses, possesses, explores, unleashes, and channels the Spirit of the Groove, Spirit of the songs, and the Spirit of the land, and the people of a Free-Spirited day-gone by."

(S): " You're right on target Groovestress. And all of the above enhances the band members' artistic vision, good karma, and heightened Spiritual powers and inspiration in the music and at the gig --- in Performance Art! GrooveQuest expands and raises consciousness. Attempting to artificially reduce the meaning of GrooveQuest would lack integrity, could be misleading, and " ---

(?) KNOCK** KNOCK*** KNOCK***

(S): "???"

(G): "???" "What's that??"

(S): "I'll handle it."

(G): (a few moments later) --- "Who was that Shufflemonster?"

(S): "An 'Endangered Species' representative from the Wax Museum -- They're still hounding me. "

(G): "What did you tell him?"

(S): "I told him not to come back until our next installment."

(G): "Be sure to stay tuned folks. You won't want to miss a single episode of the Adventures of GrooveQuest".

"Meanwhile, GrooveQuest invites all of you good people to come to Summit Station for good times, great brews (1/2 price), and to enjoy, encounter, and understand that GrooveQuest is:

--- From the Heart---From the Soul---Essential Spirit of Rock and Roll--- Through the Groove---To You! --- "

Please join GrooveQuest Thursday Night, September 1, at Summit Station, 8:00-11:00 PM 227 E. Diamond Avenue, Gaithersburg, Md. (301) 519-9400

Your Endorphins will Thank You for it!

Steve O'Brien - Lead Vocs & Occasional Elvis Jump Suit
Gene Meros - Tenor Sax, Flute
Al Steele - Lead Guitar, Vocs
Lisa "Groovestress" O'Brien - Bass, Vocs
Shufflemonster - Drums