3/2/01:

John Fields has put up more unreleased studio stuff from sessions at Funkytown Studios. You'll find them on the sounds page of this site.

5/28/00:

An mp3 of a live recording of the original version of "Vitamin U" (by Beat the Clock, the band SpicyT was in before Greazy Meal) is now available on the "sounds" page.

5/1/00:

An mp3 of the first take of "Love One Another" (with scratch vocal) is now available on the "sounds" page.

4/17/00:

New from the StrawB archives: an mp3 of the original mix of "Forgiveness". It sounds radically different from the song on Gravy!

12/27/99:

StrawB has just sent me an mp3 of the unreleased Greazy Meal track "Supermodel" from the "Gravy" sessions. Go grab your copy now!

11/24/99: Anania and Jim have been offered the gig with Shannon Curfman. We may lose them to the road for a while. Check Shannon's official website for tour dates (she'll be out with John Mellencamp in December).

Meanwhile, there's an mp3 peek at some pre-Greazy roots on the sounds page.

11/5/99: Dean Magraw, Jim Anton, and Dave Anania will be playing a show at the Cedar Cultural Center this Saturday. 416 Cedar Ave S., 612-338-2674. tix $7-$9.

10/25/99: Greazy Meal (or most of them: Anania, Jimmy, StrawB, SpicyT, TommyB and Julius) played an impromptu version of "Old Soul Cafe" at Bunker's, during a gig by the legendary Combo. No chance to let anybody know in advance -- the players themselves only got 15 minutes' warning...

10/5/99: A host of new live mp3's on the sounds page.

9/27/99: With the help of some righteous GMF's, some samples of the live Greazy Experience are becoming available on the web. Follow the Sounds link at left for details.

6/6/99: Greazy Meal has disbanded. Read about it here.

12/30/98:

Greazy Sundays are over. Read all about it here!

12/28/98:

Last gig of the year: I've just learned that the "Peace In the Hood" gig tonight is an all-ages event. If you're under 21, this is a great chance to see Greazy play. It's kind of pricey, but it's for a good cause. See our gigs page for more information.

11/17/98:

FUNKYTOWN IS COMING... The long-awaited movie "Funkytown", featuring Greazy Meal and others, will open in the Twin Cities on Friday, December 11th at the Suburban World Theater (3022 Hennepin Ave S., (612)825-6688) in Minneapolis.

Be sure to check out the Funkytown web site for the latest press releases, reviews, etc. Hope to see you there!

11/11/98:

We had a lot of fun in Canada, and two of the most....exciting border-crossings that we've ever had. Time to calm it down while The Big Freeze takes ahold of our state. Greazy Sundays continue through the end of the year...be sure and get your fix. (Play "spot the Viking" during the break between sets!)

10/15/98:

The Greazy Cabaret Weekend: We're gearing up for our visit to our friends up north in Winnipeg (at the Pyramid Cabaret) and North Dakota (at the First Avenue Cabaret). (see the gigs page for details. Gravy is selling very well in town and via mail-orders. We've placed a re-order with the manufacturers already.

9/23/98:

If you missed our KTCA appearance, it's available in RealVideo Here, at http://www.ktca.org/newsnight/newsnight.html. Click on "September 21", and skip ahead to about 19 minutes (it's a 30-minute show).

9/19/98:

the Photo Gallery has been updated quite a bit. Have a look! (and there's more coming)

9/16/98:

Greazy Meal will be on local television twice next week! Check the "gigs" page for more information....

9/9/98:

Check out the nice writeup of Greazy Meal and Gravy in Minneapolis' City Pages!

8/20/98:

If you can't make it to the Cabooze on Sunday (8/23/98), tune into KQRS's "Homegrown" show for a Greazy Meal interview and live performance!

8/18/98:

Just for fun: check out this RealAudio Sample of Greazy Meal from last Sunday, playing a Zapp tune...with Jimmy on guitar, and PapaG and Juice on drums?!! Love that vocoder action from Jeremy and SpicyT!

8/15/98:

GRAVY is HERE! Check the Gravy Page for samples and how to buy it!

The public has spoken.... in a poll of their favorite Twin Cities Dance Band at Sidewalk.com, Greazy Meal took the lead!

8/11/98:

Greazy Sundays are back for August. The first two have gone great! Enthusiastic sweaty crowds of Greazy MFs are just what our lives have been missing....

Gravy is complete. Jimmy's going to pick it up from the manufacturers tomorrow. Everybody pray that the credit card can take the strain....

7/23/98:

The artwork for Gravy has gone to the printers, and the final mastering has been approved. We're really close now...

I forgot to tell you -- if you prefer French to English, there's a French Version of this page available at http://www.schkopi.com/greazymeal/default.htm (now a dead link). Thanks, Raphy!

7/15/98:

GRAVY is complete...it is currently being mastered, and we're waiting for the artwork to be printed. We should have it in our hands in a couple weeks.

6/30/98:

We are back from our week in Canada, and it ROCKED!!! Stay tuned for a complete report.... Meanwhile, we're looking forward to FRIDAY at Taste of Minnesota, Sunday at Milwaukee's Sommerfest, and next Tuesday & Wednesday in Montreal....click on "GIGS" for more details.

6/13/98:

We're working hard to finish our third opus, Gravy. You know about the fan's title suggestions already. Click here to read SpicyT's account of our personal attempts to name the album.

6/8/98:

Greazy Meal played Grand Old Day in St. Paul last Sunday. It was good to see all the Greazy MFs out there in the sun! Sorry that it wasn't all-ages -- hope nobody got shut out.

5/19/98:

Check out the website for the movie Funkytown, featuring Greazy Meal and other Minneapolis bands! Also, we're confirmed for Taste of Minnesota at the KQRS stage on Friday, July 3rd.

4/14/98:

3/28/98:

Greazy Meal is featured in "Funkytown", a movie shot in Minneapolis by Steven Greenberg (who also wrote and performed the hit song from 1980). Check out a

Greazy Intro is available here in RealAudio format. If you don't have a RealAudio player, then go get it at http://www.real.com.

Tracking has been completed for the third Greazy Meal album, "Gravy", expected in Spring of 1998. Now, it's mixin' time!

2/22/98:

Greazy Meal debuted a new song from the 3rd album at last Friday's gig: "You Might Find a Man." Great fun that night. Next week, we return to O'Gara's Garage in St. Paul for another night of sweaty vibes. Wallace Hartley and the Titanics open. Then on Saturday, another Cabooze greazefest.

2/18/98:

Thanks to everyone who came out last weekend for their helping of the Meal. Valentine's Day at the Fine Line especially was a steamy, sweaty, seething packed mass of Greazy MF's. It was a real kick. We'll see you back at our regular crib, the Cabooze, this Friday, the 20th.

2/8/98:

Greazy Meal is gearing up for the coming weekend: The Red Carpet in St. Cloud this Thursday the 12th, a special all-ages show at the Cedar Cultural Center on Friday the 13th, then Valentine's Day at the Fine Line. We'll see you there.

1/24/98: STOLEN GUITAR

StrawB's Gold-top Les Paul guitar was stolen out of his car last night while he was visiting a friend in the Seward neighborhood of Minneapolis. Please help us!

1/20/98:
For those of you who don't yet have the albums, RealAudio excerpts are now available on the "Visualize" and "Digitalize" pages. (Sorry, we can't stream it to you live -- you'll have to download the sample and play it on your home computer.)

SEASON'S GREAZINGS -- GREAZY SEASONINGS!

The Teenage Rampage at First Avenue was a great success! We rocked, and we rocked hard. The crowds snapped up the free Greazy Meal Sampler cassettes. Look for a portion of GM's performance, and some band member interviews, on KARE-11's "Whatever" this Saturday morning, 10 am.

Hope you'll join us at the Cabooze for New Year's Eve.

Greazy Meal's "Away Delilah" (from "Visualize World Greaze")has been selected as the title song for MTV's new "Night Jammers" video program, coming soon.

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