What should you know about The Dysfunctionells, the band that no one wanted, “THE Butt-Ugliest Band in Chicago”. Well, I’ll tell you…pull up a rock and squat down… They were and are still: Russell Clark–bass Vencent Edmonds–drums Richard Krueger–acoustic guitar, vocals, songs Oliver Steck–accordion, mouth organ, trumpet Vernon Tonges–electric guitar, banjo, vocals, songs Rich Krueger heard Vernon Tonges for the first time at Earl’s Pub on Lincoln Ave in Chicago the spring of 1987. Vernon set the stage a-fire with Cole Porter’s “Let’s Misbehave”. Rich fell in love instantly. Their band, The Dysfunctionells, hatched out of all the evils that lurk in the mud back in 1991 in part out of Rich Krueger’s obsessive desire to record a “good” cassette of some his songs (“Tell Me A Story”), and Vernon Tonges desire to gig at Sheffield’s, but they’d only hire him if he had a full band. Since their emergence from the fetid swamps of young adult pipedreams, and from a love for kinds of music that (particularly at the time- circa 1990) few really ever loved. I still feel that few still really love this music but more and more a feigning affections. There are places in hell waiting for some of these folks.