Cheese Pizza?

Haze Lee Finn. Lead singer from Cheese Pizza.

So you're thinking, allrighty. Scotty is doing his usual video with some el stupido comments thrown in right? Wrong.

A word of warning. This blog post will more than likely ramble all over the damn place and I'll tell you why.

So the wife and I have a good friend and her boyfriend living over in Peru Illinois. They invited us to go see this band that was playing at their favorite place to eat.

Ron and Gail.

As it turns out. The band called Cheese Pizza's lead singer is Lee Pakula. He and his wife Keegan owns Haze Smokehouse in Peru Ill.

Well we did not see Cheese Pizza. I was there to see one of my favorite guitarist. Chris Duarte!!!!!!

Yes. That Chris Duarte. Now I need to back up a wee bit (I told you this post would ramble!)

Right around ten years ago I was in Davenport doing something I can't even remember what. On the radio came a short blurb that Chris Duarte would be stopping at West Music to play an off the cuff midday show there.

Tell you what,I boogied on home and told the wife I was going right back to Dport. Had to grab a chair and mix a cocktail.

Chris and I ten years ago. And a lot of pounds skinnier.

At this point I should talk about pizza right? Wrong. I did not (gasp) eat pizza.

What I did get were smoked chicken wings that blew my mind! Never had those before and yours truly could get hooked on them in short order,they were that good.

The wife,Gail and her friends ordered off the menu.

A decent booze selection. I frontloaded on the way there and just had some macro swill beer.

Didn't get any good food pics.

Too be honest I'm not much of a BBQ fan. But the pulled pork I tried off Sher's plate was tasty!


Not with a ten foot pole!

Now as to why we drove over to Lasalle last night. To see Chris and hopefully get to gab for a second.

Mission accomplished thanks to Gail!

And then. After ten years Chris even remembered talking to me at West Music!

Had a good five minute chat with the bass player too!

One more from my crappy camera.

At this point I must thank Gail for inviting us. Sher and I had a great time. Thanks doll,not sure you know how much fun I had!

As for me? I'm still gushing like my tweenage daughter that got to meet once again an awesome guitarist and most of all just a really nice guy that doesn't act the rock star.





Final thoughts. Obviously not really a pizza blog post,but more of one of those life events we sometimes have happen to us.I'm still on cloud 9!

Did I mention how great the wings were? They were and I'll be back for more of them too.

Scotty

Give me a bottle of anything

Give me a bottle of anything and a glazed donut to go. And maybe some Sailor Jerry and Spotted Cow.

In 1986 there probably wasn't a dude on this entire planet cooler than David Lee Roth. Laugh all you want. I was there. Chicks (I'm a sexist ahole and don't care) wanted to gigolo with DLR. I would have loved to hang out for a bit,more than likely just a bit tho. I can only handle over the top for so long.

Got me a new T-shirt last month. Drinking rum is what I love. Just wanted the T-shirt.

My lady in red!

So what the eff does a Yankee Rose video have to do with a QC Pizza Blog update? I'll tell you.

I've been trawling the QC Pizza Yelp reviews for quite some time now. A Moline bar kept coming up as a decent place to get a pizza. So Sher and I decided to visit The Yankee Doodle Tap in Moline. It's right off of 23rd Ave.

Let's do the Doodle!

A typical old school QC bar that serves pizza. They even had Sailor Jerry rum as a cocktail option.Effin awesome!

Sher ordered a Leinie Summer shandy.

A few bar shots. Our bartender was pretty cool.

These pics are of a toy train set of tracks along the walls.

Pretty basic bar menu.

At this point I would usually start reviewing the pizza. I had fully intended to do that until at that moment I had a an old friend and his wife walk into The Doodle and  blow my mind.

It was like catching up days gone by. I know RJ and Tracy. Went to school with them and really totally forgot about the pizza.

An old friend from way back. Caught me by surprise.

So how was the Yankee Doodle Pizza you ask?

Sher and I both agreed it was pretty good. She gave it a 9.

I gave it an 8.  We both thought the sauce was really different than what we were used to.

As for me? Running into some old friends really made my day. And that is what life is about!

All apologies about a lack of pizza pictures. Got totally sidetracked gabbing. And I'm not much of a gabber unless I'm drinking.



A pic.

Just one of those seemingly random moments that make your day.

Good to see Randy and Tracy.


Scotty.