Doctor Ed & Friends is a nine-piece reggae influenced funk/rock band from t… Read Full Bio ↴Doctor Ed & Friends is a nine-piece reggae influenced funk/rock band from the Chicago area. This band has been together since 2004 and has experienced transitions from its ska-punk beginnings to the funk rhythms and heavy rock jams that cultivate its progression. A long history and connection between these musicians brings an original style molded over the years and yields a tight performance that is almost effortless between these musicians.

Doctor Ed has a unique conglomerate of influences that include Galactic, The Derek Trucks Band, Lettuce, Sly & the Family Stone, Thievery Corporation, Medeski Scofield Martin and Wood, Curtis Mayfield, Sublime, and Pink Floyd. Among many other influences, new and old, our music creates an ecstatic atmosphere of durty funk that gets you on your feet and heavy rock settling down on sweet reggae music for our audiences’ pleasure. Our versatile style allows us to feel out different crowds and adjust our sets between the many funk, reggae, and rock songs in our catalog.

The band has a deep love and connection to all of our wonderful friends and fans that make every show such an amazing experience, always. We invite all to come out and dance, laugh, live, and love among our raging community growing to define the rhythm of support in the music scene. We love what we're doing and welcome everyone to be a part in it!

To expect these things from those like her
So I called her my friend Anna
At arm's length from my friend, Anna
I was only something new to her
I graduated, left the state
And Anna, she could just not wait
To travel north to visit me
I barred the door romantically
And I felt so prepared to see her face
And in one night I'd never seen
So many men fall to their knees
And Anna, all the cause of it
The words she spoke, the things she did
To put me firm beneath her thumb
But damned if I'd be overcome
So I turned away from Anna
No goodnight to my friend Anna
By the time that I awoke, she had deserted me
The next time that I'd see her face
After a year, her wedding day
The groom a man near twice her age
Their child only months away
I saved the date begrudgingly
When Anna came to speak to me
I couldn't take her seriously
She asked if we could Keep In Touch
She'd said the same to everyone
It seemed like something she would do
What a strange thing when she followed through
So I'd say hello to Anna
Once a day to my friend Anna
It was mostly just to pass the time
Who's to say
Why anyone's inclined to tell a story
Surely there's a reason Anna would have been the one anointed
Center in the grandest scheme
When I can't discern what she means in it
And that's how I think of Anna
Nothing more than my friend, Anna
When her husband called, what a surprise
He told me she had taken sick
With slim chance of recovering
The way she talked, it seemed to him
That I could be her only friend
It would mean the world to see your face
I took a cab reluctantly
And told the driver wait for me
Approached their door, I feel the weight
Before I knock, I hesitate
And I had no desire to force a smile
To know her illness, meet her child
So I left her porch, I turned my back
And hurried back into the cab
I turned away from Anna
No goodbye to my friend Anna
Not a phone call or a note from her again
So I turned away from Anna
No goodbye to my friend Anna
I sing the story of a girl, completed

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Written by: Michal Comite

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