Chris holmes chicago

In my book, if in no one else's, Chris Holmes ranks as the greatest squandered talent of Chicago's alternative-rock era, a time that was lousy with them, and he places far ahead even of Christian Lane of Loud Lucy and Dave Trumfio of the Pulsars who never really wanted to be a rock star anyway, and who remains an active and talented record producer out west.

Seeing as how that wasn't really selling -- these were the days of the great major-label alt-rock feeding frenzy, after all -- he started a fine ork-pop combo called Yum-Yum that released one strong album for Atlantic Records before it, too, imploded. With the benefit of hindsight, 's "Dan Loves Patti" can almost be seen as bridging the gap between Cardinal and the Arcade Fire, though it probably didn't even sell as many copies as the former, and it had nowhere near the rousing qualities of the latter.

Since then, Holmes, who also did a brief stint behind the keyboards during the last real tour by the Smashing Pumpkins, has specialized mostly in dropping the names of his famous friends he's long since gone as Hollywood as Liz Phair , showing up in the V. Holmes and Liesegang. The hype sheet goes on to explain that the tune -- which sounds just like Yum-Yum, regardless of what Holmes is calling the band -- was penned for "Rockstar Games' critically acclaimed, Western-themed video game, "Red Dead Redemption.

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