I first heard these guys last summer at the Prairie Dog Blues Fest in Wisconsin. I wanted to see if they lived up to their name, and they do. I saw them again last year at the Rocking Rib Fest in Davenport, but last Friday I only had to roll down the hill to The District to catch my fellow man of the cloth, the Rev.

Michael "Hawkeye" Herman studied theatre in college, and last week he won his first theatre award. There was just a long time in between. The 55-year-old Herman, a Quad Cities native, was a theatre and communications major in college.

The unexpected inclusion of Circle 7’s stage girls added some flare and sex appeal to the rank Clinton air and the crowd’s already metal-drained ears on the Fourth of July at Pig Stock V in Clinton, Iowa. The band’s set opened with "Cock Block," which entered the crowds veins quicker than alcohol enters the blood stream, and ended the set leaving the metal heads "Tortured.

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