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41 by warmowski_Archive
El Protoolio wrote:
warmowski wrote:Metro: for the Raygun shows alone plus everyone from Descendents to Circle Jerks to Buttholes to Sonic Youth to Laughing Hyenas to Slint/TJL to everybody except Big Black, because Steve doesn't like the Irish. Just doesn't like 'em.


Aren't some of the live photos from the Hammer Party LP taken at Metro when Pezatti was in the band? You may be joking but I'm really wondering because I always thought those picstures were the Cabaret Metro?


My Hammer Party CD doesn't have any interior shots on its insert.

I can recall no BB show at Metro and I could obviously be wrong. I only saw them three times with Pezzatti, once at the Hall and twice at Cubby Bear.

I do recall there being chatter about some kind of brouhaha between Metro management and the band. BB were, from my position anyway, strangely absent from that stage, given the place's bookings.

-r

Chicago Punk History Radio Documentary

45 by El Protoolio_Archive
So what other stations besides WNUR and WZRD were playing punk rock back then? What were some of your favortite record labels besides Ruthless, Wax Trax, or T&G? What were some of the record stores that carried punk rock? Whaqt were your favorites?

Thanks by the way for all the links. That chicagopunkpix.xom site has scans of some zine interviews!
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47 by steve_Archive
Big Black did play at the Metro a couple of times. I hated the experiences, because I hated being lied-to about the money, the head count, being made to pay for "broken" stage gear, having agreements dishonored, etc. It amazed me that when I showed the owner evidence of his fraud, he said something like, "I don't understand," and refused to pony-up. I was done with that place at that point.

I said as much in a fanzine interview, and was "officially" banned in the 80s. Apparently there was a photo of me on display in the ticket booth, and the staff were told not to let me in as a customer, or for any other reason. I found out about it when I tried to help Sonic Youth load their gear in for a show one night, and was physically prevented from entering.

The owner has made several overtures toward "letting me in," and I actually went there as a customer one night to see Television, but I'm perfectly happy not being a part of anything that goes on in that building.
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Chicago Punk History Radio Documentary

49 by Mike Greenlees_Archive
warmowski wrote:
El Protoolio wrote:Oh and can anyone tell me what the most important clubs were? It seems to me to be, in no particular order, Gaspars, Oz, O'Banions and La Mer Viper.


For me, the operative word "important" maps to a lot of places. Top of my head-

Club C.O.D. on Devon near Sheridan was a big deal for hardcore shows. Thrash Thursdays. 81-82 saw Effigies, Trial By Fire, Strike Under, Six Feet Under, Anti-Bodies...Dead Kennedys, Social Distortion, Youth Brigade (BYO/Cali)

Gaspar's: Where The Flaming Lips' first and Big Black's last Chicago show filled the place with totally opaque smoke on different nights..

Exit at its original address on Wells. Saw Big Black, Raygun, Effigies, and I played there a bunch of times begining in early '85 (Defoliants.) Everybody from GG Allin to Squirrel Bait to Breaking Circus and beyond

Metro: for the Raygun shows alone plus everyone from Descendents to Circle Jerks to Buttholes to Sonic Youth to Laughing Hyenas to Slint/TJL to everybody except Big Black, because Steve doesn't like the Irish. Just doesn't like 'em.

Cubby Bear. Big fat hairy hardcore deal. Big Black, Toothpaste, Silver Abuse, Out Of Order, Blatant Dissent (proto-Tar from DeKalb) , Savage Beliefs, ONO, End Result, Raygun, Effigies, Defoliants...everybody from DOA to Rifle Sport to the Volcano Suns to Flipper to the Fall

West End (now a dental clinic on Armitage and Racine). The building's current owner, David Fiore, DDS went to many shows and in fact kept a wall in the basement of the former West End preserved from the day. Feel like parsing some runes? Many locals, plus Minutemen, Circle Jerks, Camper Van Beethoven, ...

Centro-American Social Hall on Broadway E. side of street, upstairs, just north of Irving Park Rd. Big Black, Savage Beliefs, R.O.T.A., Raygun, Articles Of Faith, Negative Element...don't recall any touring bands but I'm sure I'm wrong

Tuts: Raygun (including a show where Jeff Pezzatti uttered "This mike smells like Howard Devoto" after taking it out of his back pocket) a zillion Chicago bands...JFA, Psychedelic Furs

Space Place: 950 W Fulton Market DV8, Strike Under, Raygun, ST2W,

Later on, Club Dreamerz was a major place...Slint, Fugazi, Tar, Rapeman, Buttholes, many others.

After then it's a blur leading to the modern era where we somehow see Billy Corgan talking about Fugazi on VH1.

Best of luck on this project!

-r


Excellent list, Rob. I'm slightly Johnny-come-lately to the punk world - mid-eighties. There are three clubs that I remember from say 1986 or 1987.

Batteries Not Included at Webster and Clybourn, booked by the late Jim Ellison. I saw a ton of great shows there. Even played one opening for the Defoliants, Rob.

Also, Igloo, which was some kind of gallery space or something. It was up on Broadway and Grace, I believe. Saw a bunch of shows there.

Club Stodola - way way fucking West on Belmont like Central or something...Played/saw a bunch of shows out there. Kind of a normal bar in a Polish neighborhood most of the time, they booked a lot of punky stuff some nights for a year or so.

Chicago Punk History Radio Documentary

50 by Mike Greenlees_Archive
El Protoolio wrote:So what other stations besides WNUR and WZRD were playing punk rock back then? What were some of your favortite record labels besides Ruthless, Wax Trax, or T&G? What were some of the record stores that carried punk rock? Whaqt were your favorites?

Thanks by the way for all the links. That chicagopunkpix.xom site has scans of some zine interviews!


Antidote Radio! It was on WVVX, the foreign language rent-a-block-of-time station. Awesome. Blew my little college kid mind. Steve had a hand in that.

Record stores: Rave On in Wheaton. No, seriously.
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