Shoes 8/11/17

Shoes @ The Arcada Theatre

St. Charles, IL 8/11/17

Jeff & utility musician Leroy Bocchieri

Shoes in Valparaiso, IN 5/26/14

Memorial Opera House 5/26/14

SHOES in Brooklyn 5/10/2014

Valparaiso, IN 5/26/14

Gary and John in Brooklyn 5/10/2014

Gary in Brooklyn 5/10/2014

Jeff in Brooklyn 5/10/2014

John sings in Brooklyn 5/10/2014

SHOES' long-time drummer, Johnny Richardson in Brooklyn 5/10/2014

Jeff plays a lead in Brooklyn 5/10/2014

John and Jeff play an encore song in Brooklyn 5/10/2014

Gary and John having fun in Brooklyn 5/10/2014

John Richardson hard at work in Brooklyn 5/10/2014

Gary pounds a bar chord in Brooklyn 5/10/2014

Gary sings a lead vocal in Brooklyn 5/10/2014

Sideview of the stage at The Bell House in Brooklyn 5/10/2014

Johnny Richardson pounds it out in Brooklyn 5/10/2014

Jeff sings at The Bell House in Brooklyn 5/10/2014

John and Jeff in Brooklyn 5/10/2014

SHOES at Space in Evanston, IL on 7/27/2013

John and Jeff at Space in Evanston on 7/27/2013

Gary and John during the taping for Yahoo! Music at SXSW.

Poster for the May 4th show at Fitzgeralds.

A view from the back of the room at Fitzgeralds during the gig.

SHOES on stage during the May 4th show at Fitzgeralds in Berwyn.

A bit of 3-part harmony during the late set on friday night at SXSW.

Gary and John on stage around midnight at Maggie Mae's on friday.

SHOES play their 3rd gig of the day, late friday night in the Gibson Room at Maggie Mae's in downtown Austin.

An unconventional stage set-up for SHOES; with drummer John Richardson playing from off stage right.

Gary and John during the 2nd of 3 gigs on a warm, friday afternoon in Austin.

SHOES perform at The Gingerman in Austin, TX during SXSW. Thanks to John Boydston for these pics.

SHOES perform "Tomorrow Night" at Ravinia.

Soundcheck in the Gordon Bennett Hall at Ravinia on Feb. 14th, 2013.

Soundcheck in the Gordon Bennett Hall at Ravinia on Feb. 14th, 2013.

SHOES performs "Say It Like You Mean It" for the first time in front of an audience at Ravinia on Feb. 14, 2013.

The Chicago Tribune's Mark Caro introduces SHOES at Ravinia on 2/14/13.

Johnny Richardson's "Ignition" drum kit.

Shoes pause for a control room photo with John Richardson after the completion of his final drum tracks for the "Ignition" album.

All 3 members of Shoes appear in this candid, "behind the mouse" view photo! Can you spot them?

John Richardson prepares for the assault 9/3/2011.

The very cool, Hi-Tone 30 watt amp with 2-12 bottom, on loan for us to check out.

Gary tweaks something in the rack 9/08/2011.

Jeff monitors the software while recording a track for John's song, "I Thought You Knew".

Jeff works out a part on his trusty old 1977 Gibson RD Standard guitar.

John lays down a bass line using a '67 Jazz bass hybrid with a Precision neck.

John works on his new song, "Wrong Idea" on 10/16/2011.

John lays down a part for "Wrong Idea" on his Dan Electro baritone guitar as Psycho the cat watches from the couch.

John Richardson adds maracas to "Hot Mess" 09/05/2011.

John Richardson takes a breather with Jeff's 1988 Fender American Standard Strat.

Another song, another bass. John uses his Jaguar bass for a track.

John Richardson readies to record some drums 1/01/2011.

John recording his bassline for "Maybe Now" 8/01/11.

Gary at the controls in the studio during a session in 3/01/2011.

John Richardson in the studio control room 1/02/2011.

John and Jeff play a short acoustic set at Shank Hall in Milwaukee in December of 2009.

Shoes perform on WGN's Mid-day Show on 8/10/2007, prior to playing the Millennium Park gig later that day.

Shoes stop by the WGN News Center while promoting the Millennium Park gig on 8/10/2007.

Jeff, John, Gary and Skip appear together at the release party for Jeff's solo CD and book in January of 2007.

Photo of Jeff used for the interior of the "Cantilever" CD (where it was intentionally positioned to obsure his face).

John joins Jeff on stage in December of 2005 during "You Can't Do That" and bangs a bucket (no cowbell was available).

Jeff makes a guest appearance for a few songs at a fund raiser in December of 2005. Both John and Gary also attended.

Jeff with Phil Angotti, December 3rd 2005.