[THE PRODUCERS] 
Wayne, Van, Kyle, & Bryan
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June 23, 2008

  • Fixed erroneous details on home and band page showing Kyle as Lead Vocals for the band. Van and Kyle shared Lead Vox on the first album so I just changed both listings to show Vocals first.

June 9, 2008

April 2, 2008

March 15, 2008

March 3, 2008

  • Added Whiteface Cover scans to the gallery page.

October 6, 2007

  • Duluth Show CANCELLED Oct 26, 2007. Sorry Folks.
  • Fans page - added link to MySpace and disabled Add Guestbook link. Put some recent emails on the page since guestbook is dead - and there have been a couple great emails.

July 11, 2007

  • New shows announced for Atlanta (Duluth and Loganville) on July 26 and Oct 26, 2007.

June 1, 2007

  • Added review and photos from the Guantanamo show.

May 22, 2007

  • New shows announced for Nashville and Atlanta on June 1 and 2, 2007.

May 11, 2007

  • New show announced for Cuba 5/28/07.

February 10, 2007

  • New show announced for Atkins Park Tavern. Added 2 links to links page - to MySpace "heartheproducers" and to Michael Mastro. Added set list from Concourse Athletic Club show from Bert Cummings. Added Russ Ragan photos to Gators page.

December 16, 2006

  • Removed the "2006" year from the "Book the Producers for a show in your area." statement. Lets see if folks realize that the contact info is still current.

December 10, 2006

  • Great show. Added photos to the Howlin Wolf show page.

November 21, 2006

  • New show dates 12/1/06 and 12/2/06 in Montgomery and New Orleans.

May 5, 2006

  • New show date 5/20/05 in Atlanta.

January 22, 2006

  • Attempted to fix the guestbook so we don't get so much spam. I fear my attempts are failing and I may have to give up on the guestbook altogether.
  • Also adjusted the background color to something a bit warmer. It looks more orange than yellow, but it may not hurt the eyes so much either.

November 3, 2005

  • Added AJC article from 12/25/82. Thanks John McDaniel.

September 29, 2005

  • Changed Charlie Offer's phone number.

September 21, 2005

  • Removed Site Change History column and added Charlie Offer's info to the home page.

July 5, 2005

  • Added Clapboard gif to the icon area of the browser's address bar. (doh!)

December 22, 2004

  • Super cool Farewell Tour details from Tim Parker. (See Gallery 7 for Play Lists, tour dates, and ticket stubs.)

October 15, 2004

  • Cleaned up the g u e s t b o o k.
  • Adjusted booking agent contacts on the home page.

May 11, 2004

  • Certain Kinda Girl! We just got another High Quality capture from Pat. Bill Larsen helped us out with this one from the infamous DVD.
  • Bill has some other surprises up his sleeve which we'll be seeing on the site soon, too. Keep your eyes open.

February 5, 2004

  • She Sheila MTV video - High Quality Another quality capture from Pat.
  • Lets all start requesting "Certain Kinda Girl" on the VH1 Classic All Request Hour so Pat can get a high quality capture of this last gem from the Producers. Then our set will be complete! Pat is having every request hour (for as long as it takes) recorded in digital so that he can capture this video! Send an email to VH1 and tell them you want to see Certain Kinda Girl: VH1ClassicRequests@vh1.com.

December 24, 2003

December 5, 2003

November 26, 2003

  • VIDEO!!! A big treat from Marty Sims who ripped this stuff from old VHS tapes.

November 14, 2003

  • Adjusted promotion contacts/links for Wilson's Promotions and Charlie Offer.
  • Added Wilson's site to the Links page.

May 12, 2003

  • 25 new images! See them all in the new Gallery 6.
  • John Cannon submitted a couple schedules from the Attic nightclub.
  • John Jaco sent a photo of a t-shirt the band was selling at their 2002 shows.
  • Dan Fox sent in 5 photos of the band - including 2 cool portraits - from the 2/23/03 Carbondale, IL show.
  • Brent James sent in 5 photos from 10/26/01 in Chattanooga.
  • Finally, Bert Cummings sent in a baker's dozen from 1/11/02 show in Atlanta.

May 6, 2003

April 27, 2003

April 25, 2003

  • 105 new images in 2 new galleries!!! (Never fear - although there are a lot of photos, the gallery pages have thumbnails and are only about 160 KB each.)
  • First are 24 photos from 1981 by Michael Lippus. See Gallery 4.
  • The next 24 are from Tim Carey. He saved a nice collection of set lists and promo sheets. See Gallery 4 also.
  • Cutie Sheryl Sussman captures the attention of the band and 7 photos of it to boot! See Gallery 5.
  • Bert Cummings has 16 recent shots of the band from the December 2002 show at Smith's Old Bar. See Gallery 5.
  • Bryan toured with Kansas in the early 90s. Kevin Stefanik shared 7 photos to prove it! See Gallery 5.
  • Finally, Missi and Kevin Rogers delivered 18 photos from the Coelacanth Premier show from Oct. 2001. See Gallery 5.

March 30, 2003

  • Fixed links to the Producers booking pages since they switched their URLs around. They are now http://www.wilsonspromotions.com/producers.htm. They were http://www.tspringborn.com/producers.htm

March 12, 2003

  • Four New Shows - May and July New Orleans, Nebraska, Iowa, and Wisconsin. See the Shows/Tour page for details.

January 20, 2003

  • New tour dates - Feb 22, 03! Carbondale Illinois (South of Saint Louis) See the Shows/Tour page for details.

January 7, 2003

  • NEW KYLE DISC!! NEW KYLE SITE!! Kyle is his own web developer and he is doing a lot of interaction with the fans. You can dig into his brain to learn about his tunes in his Let's Talk forum. Don't miss the LONG MP3 samples on his Music page - which will certainly convince you to buy the CD. The new disc moves forward with what Kyle has been doing at recent Producers gigs with his covers of "Oh Darling", "What's New Pussycat?", "Mustang Sally", etc... Only this time they are tasty Kyle originals.

December 8, 2002

  • New tour dates - Memorial Day weekend 2003! Two shows near Green Bay WI! See the Shows/Tour page for details.

November 6, 2002

  • New tour dates! Nov. 22 in New Orleans and December 20 in Atlanta. See the Shows/Tour page for details. -- Looks like Frank hit the jackpot with the promotion stuff. He thanks you all for your input!
  • New site search! I have added a form so you can search TheProducers.org. Now you can find that nugget on the site.

October 16, 2002

  • Fans contribute to promotion of the band. Frank Crispigna and his buddy are donating some legwork to the Producers. Visit their web site to see how you can help.
  • Coelacanth Sound Samples Added MP3 samples to the Coelacanth page. Check them out.

June 5, 2002

  • July 3 show confirmed. Summerfest in Milwaukee. Tentative date was July 5, so make sure to adjust your calendar.

April 17, 2002

  • 5 New Shows!! May 4 in Atlanta is HUGE! Wisconsin has 3 shows in July and then a show in Louisiana in October.
  • Wayne's new web site! http://www.waynefamous.com This is all Wayne with some cool photos and a great bio!

January 27, 2002

  • Photos from Smith's Olde Bar show. Thanks Bert Cummings.
  • A little history about Kyle and what he did right after The Producers and before his solo disk. Link to the article. You can also get to the article from the Band page under the Kyle section.
  • Articles Page rearranged to have the articles all in date order.
  • General clean-up. Added Funk Club link to the Links page, added debut press kit photos to the press kit article page, added Smith's show review link to shows/tour page.

January 19, 2002

January 6, 2002

  • New Year's Eve show review Thanks to Frank.
  • The Funk Club Kyle is in a new band called The Funk Club. See the band page for details.

December 31, 2001

December 5, 2001

December 2, 2001

  • Producers, New Years Eve, New Orleans 2001. What a super combination! Be there. See the Shows/ Tour page for details.
  • 2 New shows scheduled for January 2002. See the Shows/ Tour page.
  • Rearranged the Shows/ Live page - now calling it Shows/ Tour. Placed all reviews in their own pages with links in the upper right box. Links to show schedule details are to separate show pages that will become the review page for the show if a review is submitted.
  • Rearranged the Home page back to the original format after the Coelacanth release show frenzy has died down. Click here to see the old Coelacanth release show home page.
  • Put the VW Commercial audio on the Coelacanth CD page. Right Click here to listen / Download the sound (mp3) file.
  • Cut the size of the guestbook by copying the old entries into a new Guestbook History page. Now loading the guestbook will be a lot faster. I'll try to keep the active guestbook to under 100KB.

October 29, 2001

  • Eleven new photos from Cotton Club 10/06/01 show - Fans in the crowd during and after the show. See the Cotton Club 10/06 page.
  • December 31, 2001 - New Orleans' Howlin' Wolf. There is no better place or time to see The Producers. They love NO and New Years Eve!

October 21, 2001

October 15, 2001

  • Added note on entry page (Coelacanth splash page) about booking the band. Rearranged the Coelacanth CD and Premiere Show under the CD cover. Corrected some info.
  • Changed some info on the home page (yellow home page): Opened up the booking request to anywhere, not just the SE, Request Producers on local radio, Coelacanth release details.

October 9, 2001

  • Coelacanth Premier show reviews and photos. Yeeehaa!!.

September 7, 2001

  • New Pictures and Graphics in the gallery. Make your own Miller Music Producers glasses!
  • New Pictures and Graphics in the new Lakewood 1999 review page. Pulled the 3 Lakewood reviews off the Shows/Live page and put them on a page of their own. A list of all show review pages appears in the top right of the shows page. The most recent show review is at the top.

September 2, 2001

  • Coelacanth to be released September 25, 2001
  • Coelacanth premiere party October 6, 2001 at the Cotton Club
  • Coelacanth web page updated with cover graphic, track order, and some production details.
  • Index page replaced with Coelacanth announcements page (done mid August).
  • Sound clip changed from "I thought these were Extinct".
  • Coelacanth cover placed on home page with the actual release date.

July 19, 2001

  • COELACANTH release date 9/25/01!!
  • More Shows 8/1/01, 8/7/01, 10/5/01
    • August 1, 2001. The 99X Atlanta Local Music Awards (ALMA) at Earthlink Live 8 p.m.. $10 in advance $12 at the door. There will be a brief tribute to the band, and they will perform a couple of songs.
    • August 7, 2001. Chastain Park Amphitheatre, Atlanta opening for Huey Lewis and The News 8 p.m.
    • October 5, 2001. The Varsity Theatre, 3353 Highland Road Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Show time T.B.A. Tickets $15. Phone (225)383-7018.
  • Coming soon: Photos and reviews of New Orleans show of 7/14/01!! I was there and it was a full house.

July 9, 2001

  • New Orleans Show Saturday 7/14/01! Howlin' Wolf, 828 S.Peters Street, New Orleans. Show time is 10 p.m. The Producers will go on stage at around midnight. Tickets are $12 in advance $15 at the door. For road trippers, there is a Courtyard by Marriott nearby which may offer a special rate for Producers fans.
  • Three reviews of shows this spring / summer.
  • New OnMilwaukee article introducing the Producers tour of Wisconsin in June 2001. Link also available on Articles page.
  • Moved the Shows page link to the top of the left navigation area (below discography).

May 29, 2001

  • Confirmed June 1, 2001 in Atlanta - see Shows/Live page for details.
    • June 1, 2001 - Definite Chastain Park Amphitheatre - Atlanta. Show time should be around 8 p.m., a 45-minute show.

May 25, 2001

  • And More Shows announced - see Shows/Live page for details.
    • July 14, 2001 Howlin' Wolf - New Orleans. Show time is 10 p.m.
    • June 1, 2001 - Tentative Chastain Park Amphitheatre - Atlanta. Show time should be around 8 p.m., a 45-minute show.
  • Coming soon ... Photos from Carrollton and Pensacola shows!

April 24, 2001

  • More Shows announced - see Shows/Live page for details.
    • May 19, 2001 SpringFest, Pensacola, FL. 6:55 p.m. opening for The Knack
    • June 15, 2001 Rainbow Summer - Milwaukee, WI. TWO SHOWS at noon (no opening act) and 7:00p.m. (Opening is KB's Midlife Crisis.)
  • Tentative dates, below, are confirmed.

March 24, 2001

  • Live Shows announced!
    • May 5, 2001 Mayfest (Outdoors) 6:45pm - Carrollton, Georgia.
    • Tentative date June 14,2001 Waterfest - Oshkosh, Wisconsin with The Romantics
    • Tentative date June 16, 2001 Harbor Fest - Racine, Wisconsin opening for Night Ranger
  • Book the Producers for a show in your area!! See details on the home page (at right)
  • The band will be selling autographed CDs at their live shows.
  • One Way Records is working on getting the rights to Coelacanth (the unreleased MCA recording from 1989)!! They will issue this on CD for release as early as this summer if they can get MCA's approval. I understand that the president of MCA has the final word. We'll know soon.
  • RFYL is not far behind Coelacanth. These may be released on separate CDs instead of the 2-fer they did with the first 2 reissues.
  • BIG new Gallery Page with 16 great photos and scans of most of the bands singles with lots of autographs. 52 scans in all! Thanks to Bill Larsen for contributing them.

February 19, 2001

  • BIG 1982 Article with 8 great photos. Thanks to Bill Larsen for contributing it.

January 17, 2001

  • New scans in the Gallery. Thanks Ken and Ellen.

January 14, 2001

  • New article in Creative Loafing-Atlanta. Bryan mentions the new CD reissue and says the band WILL TOUR THIS YEAR. Keep your eyes on this site for details (when I get them). Link to the article from the Articles page or click here to go directly to Creative Loafing.
  • Fixed a whole bunch of broken links on the links page (they should all work now - UBL, All Music Guide, and BMI links were all dead). Sorry these were broken :-)
  • Deep Sixed the eXtreme Tracker web counter for this site. It was horribly incorrect. In it's place is a stats monitoring package that can be accessed through a secret link on the page.

November 27, 2000

  • Added new CD cover to home page and replaced the Debut album scans with those from the CD booklet. Stay tuned for a new CD-specific page.

November 25, 2000

  • The New CD is Here!!
    Christmas came a month early for me! I got my CDs in the mail today. I hear the release was delayed by a few days due to a problem with the artwork. Don't panick if your local shop doesn't have them in stock yet. I stopped at the local Media Play yesterday and they didn't have it in yet, but I saw that they had it on order. Don't hesitate to bring the discs to the front of their bin in the Ps. Make sure folks see it on the shelves!!

October 29, 2000

  • Bargain on presale of reissue CD
    Checkout.com always has great deals on prerelease sales. The Producers reissue is going for $9.07 each.

October 16, 2000

  • CD to be released 11/21/00
    The Debut/You Make the Heat reissue CD will hit store shelves 11/21/00. See the details on the home page.
  • Reorganized the home page. Moved the album covers/links to the right column of the page. Moved Bryans Projects window to the Band page.
  • See the original Producers Home page here.

August 26, 2000

August 20, 2000

  • Producers to Re-issue first 2 albums on CD!! Bryan has coaxed One Way Records into re-issuing The Producers and You Make The Heat. According to this Creative Loafing article they will be released in October 2000!!
  • There are still no Producers shows scheduled. I hope the re-issues will prompt a concert!

June 18, 2000

  • Ultraphonic wins $250,000 recording contract!!
    This is the group Bryan has been managing. They have been in competition on www.garageband.com for some time and just emerged on top at the end of the competition.
  • CD-R covers for all 3 albums!! See the individual album pages for links to the covers. (Thanks to Randall for the hard work.)
  • New article about the band after recording some of the tunes from Coelacanth. Submitted by Mike Morris.

May 20, 2000

  • Article scanNew article describing Kyle joining the Producers on Jan 1, 1980. Submitted by John McDaniel.
  • John also submitted 4 new Promo Photos - See his entries at the top of the Gallery page.
  • I understand that there are no shows scheduled in 2000 so far. Keep an eye on the site for updates.
  • I have recently heard from Kyle. He is stepping back into the music business!! Keep your eye on this site for details. Maybe we will have samples of his demo disc?

January 25, 2000

  • She Sheila on CD!!! Renaissance Records has released a CD titled "Heard It On The Radio Volume 3" containing "She Sheila".
  • Sorry, but I have been instructed to take the Coelacanth samples off the site. I am also not going to be able to do an album replay on the shoutcast server again.
  • In their place, I have added MP3 samples from the first 3 albums!! Enjoy. See the individual album pages for links to the MP3 samples.
  • Wow. I have some great stuff for you. John McDaniel, a long-time friend of Bryan has been feeding images to me for a few months and I have finally gotten them through my to-do list and out onto the site. I am really partial to Bryan's Power Grip ad.
  • Don't miss the other pictures on the gallery page. There are a bunch of new pics in the Miscellaneous section and 6 new pics from a show on 7/4/92. There are 19 new pictures in all!

November 5, 1999

  • Coelacanth on MP3 Radio Fri 11/05/99!!!Streaming from the Producers Web site. Here's how to listen:
  • This is an MP3 broadcast. It can be enjoyed over 28.8 kbps modems. The quality of the audio should be better than what you are accustomed to with RealAudio.
  • You will need an MP3 player capable of receiving streaming MP3 audio. The current version of WinAmp and MacAmp will do it. Here is where to get it: http://www.winamp.com/winamp/download/index.phtml
  • You can join the broadcast using this link Coelacanth Radio Server (Choose the "Click here to listen" link). You can also join the broadcast from www.shoutcast.com by searching for "producers" in their search engine - during the show.
  • You may want to visit www.shoutcast.com ahead of time to see if you can receive one of these broadcasts. You may have to tell your browser how to handle the file/stream. Open it with WinAmp if it asks.
  • I don't believe you will be able to capture the songs to your hard drive in MP3 format. This is to our benefit since it probably makes it fully legal to broadcast it. (If you want to keep the tunes you'll have to plug your cassette deck into your sound card. Isn't that what you would do if it were a real radio broadcast?)
  • Please don't ask me for a copy of my source tunes. I am not permitted to copy Coelacanth ... and I don't copy stuff that was made available for retail. The 3 discs that were released are often available from www.gemm.com.
  • Yes! I'll run the Producers Radio Show again. I'll keep you posted via email and this web site.

October 16, 1999

  • MP3 samples of all Coelacanth songs!!! Each sample is 30 seconds and, sorry, some don't capture the character of the song.
  • Coming soon - Samples from the rest of the Producers' albums. Including better representations of the Coelacanth tunes.

September, 14 1999

  • Reviews of the Lakewood show added to Shows page. Also added a ticket stub graphic to the page.
  • Added 2 pictures of Kyle to the Band page. Also updated Kyle's details to include the name of his solo album and added the fact that Whiteface actually had a second, live, album.

September 3, 1999

July 8, 1999

June 09, 1999

April 18, 1999

  • New Photo Gallery including 12 photos of The Producers at the Cotton Club in Atlanta 3/20/99! See what they look like now!
  • Split articles and interviews out of the Links page onto their own Articles page. Added Bryan's band links to the Links page. Added Tim's CNN interview to the Articles page.

March 21, 1999

March 15, 1999

March 4, 1999

  • It is official. Bryan Holmes, myself, John Distacio and his wife have teamed up to deliver this official Producers web site. John, being in the Internet business has donated the server space and the domain name registration fee so that we can be at our new home: www.theproducers.org. Our informal team has been in contact for several months and we have plans to bring you a lot of interesting content - including song samples and video. Stay tuned for more great Producers stuff!

    Ironically, the moment I broke away from Compuserve, the remaining pieces of TheProducers.org came together - thus, 2 updates in 2 days.

    Bookmark theproducers.org, better yet, just remember it - not too tough now.

March 3, 1999

  • Welcome CNN visitors! Tim Smith was interviewed on CNN Interactive on 1/18/99. His role in Sheryl Crow's band has stepped up a notch. Not only is he playing shows with her, he played on her "Globe Sessions" CD. The reporter was savvy enough to dig up links to the Jellyfish, Umajets, and Producers sites. Congratulations on your contribution to Cheryl Crow's Grammy winning "Globe Sessions", Tim!!
  • Producers Live in concert 03/20/99 at the Cotton Club in Atlanta.
  • Bryan is now producing a new band called Ultraphonic. They have a CD out and it looks like The Producers are going to play gigs with them a few times - including the 3/20/99 date at Cotton Club.
  • The Producers site has moved to a new host! http://home.columbus.rr.com/producers/.

    Farewell to CompuServe. CompuServe has served as the home to The Producers site for 2 years now. It never was an URL that you could remember. I hope this move doesn't cause any fans any problems. I am going to notify those that link to The Producers site of the new address - especially the UBL and 3Bells sites. Unfortunately, I don't think I am going to be able to get the CNN or 80s Server to change their links.

    I am going to discontinue my CompuServe accounts soon and I don't know how soon thereafter they will clean up the old website on ourworld.Compuserve.com.

    The new site URL is: http://home.columbus.rr.com/producers/. We have had a plan in the works for a few months that this site would become The Producers official site!! This is big news. The domain name has been reserved and activated, but I don't have the ability to update it. It was updated once with the Producers entry page. It is now out of date. It then links to individual pages in the Ourworld.compuserve.com site. These links will die soon.

    Eventually this site will move again to www.theproducers.org. I will keep you informed of such a move on the home.columbus.rr.com site.

November 12, 1998

  • Welcome 80's Server visitors! Thanks for stopping in. Come back soon for updates about the upcoming Official Producers Web site - TheProducers.org.
  • This site got 80's Server's site of the day 11/12/98!! Thanks, 80's Server!
  • Producers Live in concert 12/19/98 at the Cotton Club in Atlanta.

August 20, 1998

July 12, 1998

May 25, 1998

March 5, 1998

February 23, 1998

Early February 1997

  • Added RFYL info and a couple other tidbits.

Late January 1997

  • Site originally published as one page with a handful of links (mostly to ASCAP/BMI and All Music Guide - yet the link to the Audities article was there), band member names and discography including only the Debut and YMTH. Site's only graphic was 'The Producers" banner as in the debut's cover. (I didn't have a scanner.)
  • Registered site URL with major search engines and Ultimate Band List.

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