Friday Night, July 22 2005, at the ROCK STAR gallery in Scottsdale, The Primate Fiasco performed at the Local Artist Exhibit. Arizona photographer, James Schoepflin, was displaying a photograph of the famous blues drummer Chico Chism and happened to have Chico there to sign autographs. Lucky for The Primate Fiasco, we brought with us a spare tambourine which Chico put to good use. Despite Chico's poor health (the guy has been playing for about 200 years), he fit right in and jammed on "Sweet Georgia Brown" like no other tambourine player could. The band was honored.

UPDATE 2/07: The sad news has reached us that Chico has moved on to the great gig in the sky whre I'm sure he's giving God a drum lesson as we speak. The blues community will miss you chico.

Click to enlarge (photo by James Schoepflin)