2/17/2024 0 Comments Fireside bowl 041997At the end of a Minor Threat song you felt energized like you could change the world. It set me off in that direction to make positive songs that were about positive things. It was more like, "Let's do something important and powerful." So that was Minor Threat to me. And I loved it cause it wasn't like the nihilistic Sid Vicious style of punk rock. Also I discovered straight edge, all those things, so under the big umbrella of punk rock I found my record that spoke to me. To hear this band that was aggressive, that was hardcore, there were angry songs talking about making the world a better place, there were positive songs with positive outlooks. But when I heard Minor Threat that struck a nerve. But I didn't identify with Johnny Rotten, the guys in the Clash or the pop/punk New York of the Ramones. I heard the Sex Pistols, the Ramones, the Clash and New York Dolls and all that stuff. And Minor Threat was the band I resonated with. The reason I say that is I got into punk obviously at some point, but there are a lot of bands under the umbrella of punk. I feel like reading something like 1984 gave me permission as a writer to do that, to create a love story that is also a political comment. We're a band that can get away with a love song ballad. That's what makes our band different than say Rage Against The Machine or Anti-Flag. Some of our biggest songs have nothing to do with politics. It's so funny cause in Rise Against that describes our format there are politics, but there's also love stories, love songs, in Rise Against. She's kind of a mystery and he's always kind of trying to find her. And then there's this love story happening the entire time. If you think about the book 1984 there are so much politics in 1984, so many comments on society. That always stuck with me too, using art as a vehicle for change and awareness. But I also love the vehicle of a story being used to bring a message to somebody. He was really making a comment about society and that stuck with me because I learned a lot of lessons about the way society works from 1984. But it left an impression on me because it wasn't long after reading it I realized there was more going on in this book than just an author trying to tell a story about a world he created. I just thought this was this cool, futuristic novel. When I read 1984, really just as me trying to pick up the next cool sci-fi novel, I didn't know what dystopian literature was while I was reading it. SEC Issues Sudden Warning As Bitcoin ETF Race Primes Crypto For A 17 Trillion Earthquake Boosting The Price Of Ethereum XRP And Solanaīefore I got into music I was a big reader, first into comics, then sci-fi novels. And I didn't have to go far to find an entirely different experience. So when I left high school I was able to go and move only 20 minutes away, but into a whole different f**ing world. I grew up in the Northwest suburbs, just 20 minutes outside of Chicago. So it's made me appreciate what I had here. And I come back to Chicago and I realize what a special place it is. I love all the places that I go to and I see, I've seen a lot of the greatest cities in the world over and over again for 20 years. I came to appreciate Chicago as I traveled the world. So you got a lot of that Chicago grit, it's like laced in everything you hear from here. But still in a big city with big city problems. So that informed a lot of the innocence of being able to make music in the middle of the country. Like if you were careerist you left, you went somewhere else. No one was very careerist here as far as music. If you missed out during its prime, consider yourself both lucky and unlucky.That informs a lot of what we do, how we did it, the attitude that we took. But with nostalgia as a motivator, the Fireside again began booking intermittent shows in 2010, including a handful of groups (such as The Appleseed Cast) that played there back in the day. It mostly functions as such now-and, thankfully, its digs are much more pleasant. Since a renovation in ’04, the Fireside returned to its 1940s roots as a neighborhood bowling alley (and, all the while, kept its old-school exterior). Bringing in talent from Mastodon to Tortoise to (shudder) Fall Out Boy, it was the A-list punk club with D-list facilities-one where you prayed not to need to pee. By cmo2user in Logan Square, Rock, Venues Ĭan a dirty, dumpy, run-down bowling alley be legendary? For Chicago’s punk and hardcore scenes, the answer is yes: from 1994 to 2004, Fireside Bowl hosted scores of the best punk, hardcore, metal, and indie bands while its bowling lanes were essentially defunct.
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