TEAM SATAN
"The Devil made us do it and he made us do it well"

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http://www.myspace.com/teamsatan

DISCOGRAPHY

For Kim: 666 Devil Rock 3 song cassette (RoosterCow)1995
"Devil Made Us Do It" b/w "1996" 7" (OFF-White) 1997
Jr. Wing EP 6 song cassette (RoosterCow) 1997
Team Satan 1996-1998 CD-R (RoosterCow) 1999
Farewell Reunion (Live at Lounge Axe) (RoosterCow) 1999
"Apocalyptic" 0 to 60 in 73 Bands comp. (No!No) 2000

LINE-UP

Phase I:
Mike Wing: drums, vocals
Chris Auman: guitar, vocals
Lori Kolb: bass
Todd Uzel: guitar, vocals

Phase II:Team Satan (phase II):
Mike Wing: drums, vocals
Chris Auman: guitar, vocals
Lori Kolb: bass, vocals
John Peters: guitar, vocals

REVIEWS

LYRICS

BIOGRAPHY

CHICAGO-Team Satan rose from the basement of an Uptown apartment building in the sweltering summer of 1995 when hundreds of people perished and untold numbers suffered from the oppressive heat and constant black-outs. The seed was planted and the Team was assembled and the rest, as they often say, is history.

Where are they now?

Mike Wing and Lori Kolb got married in July, 1999 and moved to Fort Collins, Colorado. Tthey have two sons, Joe and Jake. Wing and Kolb first played in the Southern-fried, good-time, rock & roll band, Leghorn as well as the surf/western band, Booker Noe. While those two bands are inactive, Wing continues the rock tradition in Harvey Knuckles, so check them out.

Chris "Wiglar" Auman started a new band with some friends in 2000 called Reagan National Crash Diet which was a lot of fun for four years and they had four releases on RoosterCow Records that you should definitely own. When RNCD broke up Wiglar started Soft Targets in 2004. John Peters skipped town in a whirlwind of confusion resurfacing several years later as a father of twin girls and the bass player for Alabama Thunder Pussy. Todd Uzel formed the Chicago-based hard rock band, Decibators, which broke up after five years. He joined Imperial Battle Snake for a short time, but then just picked up and moved to London with his wife Sara. They left their cat, however, which I have, and I hope they come back for it soon. Update: They have returned for their cat who I sort of miss now.

SHOWS (as miss-remembered by Chris Auman)

1996

? PHYLLIS MUSICAL INN
New Rob Robbies. This was the debut of the Team back when we were only a three piece. The line-up was Todd "T-Bux" Uzel and myself on guitar and Wing on drums with Wing and myself handling the vocal duties. What a brilliant mess. I remember the stage vibrating so much that my vodka and soda tipped over during a song. I managed to get enough of those in me by the end of the night to make up for it. T-Bux was spitting beer on me onstage. Very disrepectful but not surprising. I think the immortal Mike Dixon was there. First time I ever laid eyes on him. I thought he was the guy who used to work at Wax Trax but I was wrong. People said we were great. We probably sucked. The Robbies needed to borrow Wing's PA so putting Team Satan on the bill was brokered into the deal by Wing. Yeah, you can blame it all on The Robbies but they aren't together anymore. I know where to find most of them though.

? BEDROCK'S
with Bee Knees. Remember Bedrocks? Another club that Team Satan played that was literally demolished soon after. It was mostly a metal joint. Pretty nondescript place on the outside. Inside the music room was painted in some sort of fake stone. I think they were going for some sort of castle motif. This show was kind of like a battle of the bands. I had to take a cab to the show straight from the Chicago diner where all three of us in the band worked as cooks. Another show done as a three peice. Don't remeber much of the performance except that people said we were great but we probably sucked. We had to borrow equipment which would become a theme with us for awhile. The barflys refused to turn around once during our entire set to watch. Yeah, I'm pretty sure we were awful . . . awfully brilliant!

7/ 13 GALLERY CABARET
"Thunder and Lightning Festival" with Jarvis Brown and Smitten. Not really sure why this was called "The Thunder and Lightning Festival" but it was. I think Mike Dixon had something to do with that. He made the flyers for it. Dixon was in Smitten at the time. Jarvis Brown featured Fergus now in Lying in States and Mark Morton currently in Lamb of God. T. Bux was in that band too. And Tripp Hill. Wing wanted to serve food at this thing so we set up a table and laid out some lame spread. I know there were deviled eggs involved, which is never a good idea. Tripp from Jarvis Brown was drumming like such an absolute madman that he fell backwards off his drum stool during one song and before he could start another song, he grabbed an empty bowl from the buffet table and was seriously contemplating whether he needed to vomit into it. He didn't. I thought they were fucking great. I think this is the first show where Wing lit up a joint and passed it around to us before we started our set. That could have got us killed I think. The bartender looked like he was capable of it. This was probably our first show with Lori Kolb on bass. Finally a four piece. We needed that extra piece, believe me. The deal was that the next person to walk through the door of our Off-White practice space with a bass guitar would be our new bass player. That'd be Miss Kolb, bless her heart.

7/27 KIMBAL HOUSE
This show was in the basement of the house Fergus and T-Bux lived in off Kimball Avenue way, way the fuck west of where everyone else lived. I think some Virginians were in town and Bux and Mark Morton reformed their old band Fatty Love to play that night. We opened. I know Wing passed the joint around again and I was instantly too stoned to tune my guitar by ear and I had no tuner. This is the first show that I thought we really ripped everyone a new one. It was over in about ten red hot minutes. After our set we learned that some nut-job had just set of a bomb at Olympic Park in Atlanta during some Olympic ceremonies or some such nonsense.

8/18 BIG HORSE
w/ Burn the Priest. Whoops, Team Satan really fucked this one up by getting too drunk and making fools out of themselves in front of the band that would become Lamb of God. Mark Morton wasn't in the band yet but he was in the audience. He was unamused. Wing and I tried to wipe the memories away with a bottle of tequila and you know what? It worked. Actually it must not have because obviously I still remember,

9/ 16 GALLERY CABARET
w/ New Rob Robbies. This might have been the "Around the Monkey Festival," not sure (Wing's answer to Wicker Park's annual Around the Coyote art festival. We did ok. Didn't pull the crowd we did the first time we played the Cabaret and the owner was keeping track. I went around the bar with the hat at the end of the night because we didn't charge a cover. One table told me that Team Satan made their night but we didn't make a plug nickel.

1997

1/16 OFF-WHITE HOUSE
We played the OFF-White House after the Big Horse show with Lord Of Lightening and Gone Daddy Finch was cancelled due to blizzardy conditions. Gone Daddy Finch never made it out of Ohio and I'm not really sure what Lord of Lightning was about. It might have just been one guy. Anyway, Wing and I spent the afternoon digging out Mark Morton's van so we could get to the show but it was all for naught. The night before, after a show at Lounge Ax, I stumbled upon Mike Dixon and his friend Keith in a 4am bar on Ashland where we drank and drank. The combination of the subsequent hangover and the van dig-out the next day caused me to almost pass out during our set, which was short and too the point and if I remember correctly, awesome. It was the kind of show only adversity can create.

? FF-WHITE HOUSE
Easter Sunday with Chapstick? Don't remember. Some Texas band, I think it was Chapstick. That one guy, the Chapstick manager, he was pretty crazy. Made a shitload of spaghetti. Don't remember much about the show except that I have a recording of it and it's pretty funny. Wing was in top audience-baiting form that night.

7/3 LOUNGE AX
w/ REO Speedealer, Tedio Boys & I Love Rich. This was in the John Peters era of Team Satan. Lori Kolb had gone back to Richmond but then came back. T-Bux was chasing tail back to Virginy so we brought in Pete's. We actually played one show with an all male version of the Team with Pete's on bass

10/31 OFF-WHITE HOUSE
Halloween

11/9 BEAT KITCHEN
Backing Band for Television Rap Opera Part II by Ronald "Bad Ronnie" Simsick. Where to begin with Bad Ronnie. Shit. Wing and Kolb worked at Beat Kitchen and this point and that's where they met the white rapper from Detroit; Bad Ronnie. He wrote a rap opera about TV and had three separate performances at the Beat Kitchen where three different bands backed him up. I didn't see the other two because I had to work, but the one Team Satan did was pretty silly and I have video proof of it.

12/12 BEAT KITCHEN
w/ Grand Theft Auto & Fakir

? POPS ON CHICAGO
w/ who? Good question. Pistol Whipped perhaps.

11/20 BEAT KITCHEN
w/ The Renfields and probably someone else, I can't remember

11/12 PHYLLIS MUSICAL INN
This was the musical part of Mike Wing's "Monkeys and Frogs" paint exhibit at Phyllis's. I think we were the only band.

1998

2/13 BIG HORSE
with Redneck Exorcist and Neutral Drop. Another Big Horse show. It probably went down something like this: Load out from the practice space in Uptown, drive to Wicker Park, load into Big Horse, drink, play, drink, load out, drive back to Uptown, load into the practice space, drink until the sun comes up, sleep a few hours and go to work. We had that shit down pretty tight.

3/3 FIRESIDE BOWL
w/ Candy Snatchers, The Daggers and The Mashers. People bled at this show. Fortunately it was the Candy Snatchers

4/17 BIG HORSE
w/ Proletariat Seven and Fakir . See above.

8/18 BIG HORSE
w/ Burn the Priest and Daisy Farm. We get a chance to redeem ourselves for BTP. Did we? Who knows? Got this one on video.

10/12 EMPTY BOTTLE
w/ Brenda Kahn, Starless, and Tekluvi. Our last show!!! Or so we thought at time. Features the triumphant return of Todd "T-Bux" Uzel replacing the recently skipped town, John Peters. The original line-up reunites. How special.

1999

6/24 LOUNGE AX
w/ Mustache, Speedealer. In an attempt to resucetate the ailing Team, T-Bux organized this show for Team Satan's death rattle. Truly the end of the band.

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