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Life Sentence

2016-03-15T18:47:03Z

Marie: /* Original Line-up */ Added last name of bass player in original line-up.

[[Image:Life Sentence.jpg|right|thumb|The famous LS Logo]]

'''Life Sentence''' was/is a popular Chicago punk/hardcore band from the mid 1980s to the early 90s. They were from Itasca and formed out of the ashes of the [[Anti-Bodies]] and [[6 Feet Under]] (not to be confused with the Metal band). They went through a few lineup changes and even some nasty lawsuits between members and the rights to the name.

2008 Rehearsing for debut Chicago shows with new material for 2009 .

== Members ==

== Current Line-up ==

* Eric Brockman - Vocals/Guitar
* Nick Zasabeta - Bass/Vocals
* Cris Jefferies - Guitar/Vocals
* Brent Nimz - Drums/Vocals

=== Original Line-up ===

* [[Ray Morris]] - Vocals
* [[Eric Brockman]] - Guitar, Vocals
* Chris Sim - Bass
* Jay Bartot - Drums

=== Recording Line-ups ===

Life Sentence 12"
* [[Joe Losurdo]] - Vocals/Bass
* [[Eric Brockman]] - Vocals/Guitar/Vocals
* [[Tom O'Connor]] - Drums

No Experience Necessary LP
* [[Eric Brockman]] - Vocals/Guitar
* [[Jeff Hauck]] - Bass
* [[Gustave Roman]] - Drums

More Punks For Profit 7"
* [[Eric Brockman]] - Vocals/Guitar
* [[Jeff Hauck]] - Bass
* [[Dave Rosato]] - Drums

== Releases ==

* Demo Tape - According to [[MXV]], it was "pretty well distributed" - about [[1985]]

* '''''Self Titled''''' LP - ([[Walkthrufyre Records]], [[1986]])
:# Problems
:# Race to Die
:# Election Day
:# Men in Blue
:# Punks for Profit
:# Peacetime Death
:# Unemployment
:# In the Streets
:# Figured it Out
:# Take a Stand
:# Open your Eyes
:# Gun Control

[[Image:LifeSentence-NoExperienceNecessary.jpg|right|175px]]
* '''''No Experience Necessary''''' LP ([[Walkthrufyre Records]] [[1989]])
:# Win, Lose or Sue
:# Ode To Me
:# Time/Life
:# Tour Til Death
:# Cancer
:# No Experience Necessary
:# Domestic Squabbles
:# Actions Speak Louder Than Word
:# Freedoms Promised Dream
:# Gun Control
:# Stand On Your Own
:# Sins In The Pulpit
:# The Elevator Song

* '''''More Punks For Profit''''' 7" EP (Doing Time Records [[1991]])
:# More Punks For Profit
:# Godzilla
:# The Ballad

== History ==

The history of Life Sentence is long and gets very messy towards the end of its existance. Instead of summarizing, read [http://www.punkvinyl.com/2004/11/21/selections-from-the-punk-vault-life-sentence/ MXV's review of Life Sentence's LP] - where many former members and acquaintences chime in. Great read...

== External Links ==

* [http://www.punkvinyl.com/2004/11/21/selections-from-the-punk-vault-life-sentence/ MXV reviews their s/t LP] - Lots of info, history and controversy in the comments section
* [https://www.facebook.com/lifesentencechicago/?fref=nf Life Sentence Facebook Page]

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Verboten

2015-09-01T21:08:58Z

Marie: Added additional info.

'''Verboten''' was a young punk band who were around in [[1982-1983]]. They were mentioned in [[Last Rites]] #1 and [[Bob Damrau]] said the following:

: ''"Verboten was a group of pre-teens that played classic punk and appeared once on a saturday morning children's show [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l24s0dL8QXQ Kidding Around]. The story goes that the band broke up because one of their families moved away."''

There was quite a bit of footage and interviews with members of Verboten in the [[You Weren't There]] documentary.

The vocalist Tracy, is the cousin of Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters), who he mentioned onstage at a Foo Fighters show at Wrigley Field on August 29, 2015. In a quote from the [http://wxrt.cbslocal.com/2015/08/30/the-foo-fighters-at-wrigley-field-the-night-dave-grohl-shed-a-tear/ 93XRT site], he states:

: ''"As he reminisced about the time his cousin Tracy (whose birthday it was) took him to a punk show at the Cubby Bear one summer (Naked Raygun was playing) and how at the ripe age of 10 she and her friends would play their instruments in the basement of her Evanston home, a close-up shot of Grohl’s face showed his eyes welling with tears."''

More youtube videos of the band can be viewed here:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v8FEkHeIZI At Cubby Bear]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQlGAbZBkDY Also at Cubby Bear]

The guitar player Jason Narducy, has gone on to have a notable music career as well. More information about him can be found on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Narducy Wikipedia]

== Members ==

* Tracy Bradford, vocals
* Jason Narducy, guitar
* Chris Kean, bass
* Zack Kantor, drummer

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[[Category:Evanston]]

User:Marie

2015-08-31T05:59:27Z

Marie: Update. Removed dated materials.

I was a participant of the Chicago Punk Scene from 1979 - 1987. I photographed the shows and published a fanzine called “Bullshit Detector.” I also collected a lot of band flyers and miscellaneous items. My photographs can be viewed at:

[http://www.chicagopunkpix.com Chicago Punk Pix]

West End

2015-08-31T05:31:48Z

Marie: Added info

Some info about this venue can be found on the Husker Du Database:

[http://www.thirdav.com/hd_discog/clubs/V_westend.html West End Club, Chicago]

Verboten

2015-08-31T01:37:27Z

Marie:

'''Verboten''' was a young punk band who were around in [[1982-1983]]. They were mentioned in [[Last Rites]] #1 and [[Bob Damrau]] said the following:

: ''"Verboten was a group of pre-teens that played classic punk and appeared once on a saturday morning children's show [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l24s0dL8QXQ Kidding Around]. The story goes that the band broke up because one of their families moved away."''

There was quite a bit of footage and interviews with members of Verboten in the [[You Weren't There]] documentary.

The vocalist Tracy, is the cousin of Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters), who he mentioned onstage at a Foo Fighters show at Wrigley Field on August 29, 2015. In a quote from the [http://wxrt.cbslocal.com/2015/08/30/the-foo-fighters-at-wrigley-field-the-night-dave-grohl-shed-a-tear/ 93XRT site], he states:

: ''"As he reminisced about the time his cousin Tracy (whose birthday it was) took him to a punk show at the Cubby Bear one summer (Naked Raygun was playing) and how at the ripe age of 10 she and her friends would play their instruments in the basement of her Evanston home, a close-up shot of Grohl’s face showed his eyes welling with tears."''

More youtube videos of the band can be viewed here:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v8FEkHeIZI At Cubby Bear]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQlGAbZBkDY Also at Cubby Bear]

== Members ==

* Tracy Bradford, vocals
* Jason Narducy, guitar
* Chris Kean, bass
* Zack Kantor, drummer

[[Category:Bands]]
[[Category:Evanston]]

Verboten

2015-08-31T01:33:17Z

Marie:

'''Verboten''' was a young punk band who were around in [[1982-1983]]. They were mentioned in [[Last Rites]] #1 and [[Bob Damrau]] said the following:

: ''"Verboten was a group of pre-teens that played classic punk and appeared once on a saturday morning children's show [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l24s0dL8QXQ Kidding Around]. The story goes that the band broke up because one of their families moved away."''

There was quite a bit of footage and interviews with members of Verboten in the [[You Weren't There]] documentary.

The vocalist Tracy, is the cousin of Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters), who he mentioned onstage at a Foo Fighters show at Wrigley Field on August 29, 2015. In a quote from the [http://wxrt.cbslocal.com/2015/08/30/the-foo-fighters-at-wrigley-field-the-night-dave-grohl-shed-a-tear/ 93XRT site], he states:

: ''"As he reminisced about the time his cousin Tracy (whose birthday it was) took him to a punk show at the Cubby Bear one summer (Naked Raygun was playing) and how at the ripe age of 10 she and her friends would play their instruments in the basement of her Evanston home, a close-up shot of Grohl’s face showed his eyes welling with tears."''

More youtube videos of the band can be viewed here:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v8FEkHeIZI At Cubby Bear]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQlGAbZBkDY Also at Cubby Bear]

== Members ==

* Tracy Bradford (14 years old), vocals
* Jason Narducy (10 years old), guitar
* Chris Kean (12 years old), bass
* Zack Kantor (11 years old), drummer

[[Category:Bands]]
[[Category:Evanston]]

Verboten

2015-08-31T01:32:01Z

Marie: Added more information

'''Verboten''' was a young punk band who were around in [[1982-1983]]. They were mentioned in [[Last Rites]] #1 and [[Bob Damrau]] said the following:

: ''"Verboten was a group of pre-teens that played classic punk and appeared once on a saturday morning children's show [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l24s0dL8QXQ Kidding Around]. The story goes that the band broke up because one of their families moved away."''

There was quite a bit of footage and interviews with members of Verboten in the [[You Weren't There]] documentary.

The vocalist Tracy, is the cousin of Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters), who he mentioned onstage at a Foo Fighters show at Wrigley Field on August 29, 2015. In a quote from the [http://wxrt.cbslocal.com/2015/08/30/the-foo-fighters-at-wrigley-field-the-night-dave-grohl-shed-a-tear/ 93XRT site], he states:

"As he reminisced about the time his cousin Tracy (whose birthday it was) took him to a punk show at the Cubby Bear one summer (Naked Raygun was playing) and how at the ripe age of 10 she and her friends would play their instruments in the basement of her Evanston home, a close-up shot of Grohl’s face showed his eyes welling with tears."

More youtube videos of the band can be viewed here:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v8FEkHeIZI At Cubby Bear]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQlGAbZBkDY Also at Cubby Bear]

== Members ==

* Tracy Bradford (14 years old), vocals
* Jason Narducy (10 years old), guitar
* Chris Kean (12 years old), bass
* Zack Kantor (11 years old), drummer

[[Category:Bands]]
[[Category:Evanston]]

Marie Kanger-Born

2015-08-24T05:05:29Z

Marie: slight correction and update

'''Marie Kanger-Born''' was a member of the early punk scene, 1979 - 1987. She photographed the local shows during 1981 - 1985 and published a fanzine, called [[Bullshit Detector]] in the 1982-1983 period. Several of her photographs were published in the book, "Going Underground: American Punk, 1979-1992" by George Hurchalla. One of her Articles of Faith photographs was included in the book, "American Hardcore: A Tribal History" by Steven Blush. In 2010, she published her own book of photographs, along with her description of her time in the Chi scene. Her book is titled: "Confessions Of A Chicago Punk Bystander," and can be found on Amazon, along with the other popular bookseller sites.

Marie continues to be active in the current Chicago punk scene. Her website, [[Chicago Punk Pix]], went up in February, 2003. It hosts her collection of pictures. The site used to host her extensive (and probably unrivalled) collection of memorabilia from the original Chicago punk scene, including many show flyers, photos and zines. She removed this material in January 2009, and also shut down the section of the Chicago Punk Pix forum dedicated to discussing 1980's punk, due to a lack of time to manage it all. In 2015, she put many of the 1980s photographs back into the site. She continues to add more photos to the collection. Additionally, she continues to add the many photographs she took in 2007 to 2008 of the Pilsen/Little Village Chicago punk scene.

== External Links ==

* [http://www.chicagopunkpix.com Chicago Punk Pix]
* [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Chicago-Punk-Pix-Marie-Kanger-Born/18823782550?ref=aymt_homepage_panel Marie's CPP Facebook page]

[[Category:Scene Members]]
[[Category:Facebook]]

Over Easy

2015-08-24T05:02:27Z

Marie: Added data about Over Easy Bar.

Over Easy was a Chicago Punk bar that existed in the 1980s. It was located on the southside of Chicago at 4141 W. 63rd. More info is pending...

The bar has a Facebook page at:

* [https://www.facebook.com/groups/359177947449851 Over Easy Bar]

Marie Kanger-Born

2015-08-24T04:01:29Z

Marie: Undo revision 5959 and added new data by Marie (talk)

'''Marie Kanger-Born''' was a member of the early punk scene, 1979 - 1987. She photographed the local shows during 1981 - 1985 and published a fanzine, called [[Bullshit Detector]] in the 1982-1983 period. Several of her photographs were published in the book, "Going Underground: American Punk, 1979-1992" by George Hurchalla. One of her Articles of Faith photographs was included in the book, "American Hardcore: A Tribal History" by Steven Blush. In 2010, she published her own book of photographs, along with her description of her time in the Chi scene. Her book is titled: "Confessions Of A Chicago Punk Bystander," and can be found on Amazon, along with the other popular bookseller sites.

Marie continues to be active in the current Chicago punk scene. Her website, [[Chicago Punk Pix]], went up in February, 2003. It hosts her collection of pictures. The site used to host her extensive (and probably unrivalled) collection of memorabilia from the original Chicago punk scene, including many show flyers, photos and zines. She removed this material in January 2009, and also shut down the section of the Chicago Punk Pix forum dedicated to discussing 1980's punk, due to a lack of time to manage it all. In 2015, she put many of the 1980s photographs back into the site. She continues to add more photos to the collection. Additionally, she continues to add the many photographs she took in 2007 to 2008 of the Pilsen/Little Village Chicago punk scene.

== External Links ==

* [http://www.chicagopunkpix.com Chicago Punk Pix]
* [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Chicago-Punk-Pix-Marie-Kanger-Born/18823782550?ref=aymt_homepage_panel Marie's Facebook page]

[[Category:Scene Members]]
[[Category:MySpace]]

Main Page

2015-08-24T02:01:28Z

Marie: Addition of venue.

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== The Chicago Punk Database ==

This site intends to be a collections of bands, members, labels etc. for the Chicago punk scene. This page specifically focuses on the earlier Chicago scene - though there is no formal cutoff date, the information on this page pretty much focuses on Chicago punk before [[1990]]. If you have content to add for the early-to-mid 90s feel free to contribute. All you have to do to add pages is create an account and start making pages. [http://punkdatabase.com/wiki/index.php/ChicagoPunk:About Click here] for more info on how to edit pages.

There are '''{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}''' articles in the database, most of which are small and need more information. Some suggestions to get started - add a link to an unlisted band on left-hand side of this page, go to a band's page and add members/instruments, fix any spelling errors, or create new page about your favorite Chicago Punk record. Anything you can add will help tremendously, so please contribute today!

== Recent News ==

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=== Podcast on Big Black's Atomizer ===

[[Image:BigBlack-Atomizer.jpg|left|85px]]

[[John Pierson]] (aka Jughead from [[Screeching Weasel]]) and [[Russ Forster]] do a fantastic podcast on [[Big Black]]'s ''Atomizer'' record. It has interviews with [[Santiago Durango]], [[Steve Albini]], [[Camilo Gonzalez]] and [[Jeff Pezzati]] on the beginnings of Big Black and how that record came to be. The ''Jugheads Basement'' podcast previously focused on such groundbreaking 80s Chicago records as [[Naked Raygun]]'s [[Throb Throb]] and Screeching Weasel's ''My Brain Hurts''. Listen to it [http://jugheadsbasement.com/2014/10/28/big-black-bulldozer-atomizer/ here]

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=== Listen to the Code Blue comp ===

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Killed By Death Records recently posted a mp3 listing of the [[Code Blue]] comp, one of the best compilations of the 1980s. It was put out by local zine [[Last Rites]] in [[1984]] and features Chicago standouts [[Naked Raygun]], [[Articles of Faith]], [[Big Black]], [[Out of Order]], [[ROTA]], [[GNP]] and [[Nadsat Rebel]]. Give it a listen [http://www.kbdrecords.com/2014/10/21/va-code-blue-cassette/ here]

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=== Bands ===

[[4xy]], [[11th Commandment]], [[88 Fingers Louie]], [[A Mason in Ur]], [[Algebra Suicide]], [[Alkaline Trio]], [[Allister]], [[Alpha Skool]], [[Anti-Bodies]], [[Apocalypse Hoboken]], [[Arsenal]], [[The Arrivals]], [[Articles of Faith]], [[Babes In Toyland]], [[Barbie Army]], [[BB Spin]], [[Bhang Revival]], [[Bhopal Stiffs]], [[Big Black]], [[The Black Sheep Band]], [[Blatant Dissent]], [[Bleach Battalion]], [[Bloodsport]], [[Bloody Nails]], [[Blue Collar]], [[Blue Green God]], [[Blue Meanies]], [[Bluster]], [[Bobby Conn]], [[Bohemia]], [[Bollweevils]], [[The Bomb]], [[Bonemen of Barumba]], [[Bottles Flying]], [[Boulevard ]], [[Breaking Circus]], [[The Broadways]], [[Brownpeace]], [[Burning Corvairs]], [[Bucket #6]], [[The Buzzards]], [[Causey Way]], [[Caustic Defiance]], [[Certain Death]], [[Chicago Toys]], [[Colassal]], [[The Corrosives]], [[The Coughs]], [[Crashdog]], [[The Crucified]], [[The Cunts]], [[Da]], [[The Dadistics]], [[The Dangling Units]], [[David and the Happenings]], [[The Dead Carpenters]], [[Dead Fink]], [[Deadscene]], [[Dead Serious]], [[Dead Steel Mill]], [[Deals Gone Bad]], [[Defoliants]], [[Denied Remarks]], [[Destructive Youth Patrol]], [[Dog At Large]], [[The Drats]], [[The Drill]], [[Drunken Catholics]], [[Duvall]], [[DV8]], [[The Effigies]], [[Electric Cool-Aid]], [[The End]], [[End Result]], [[Enema Resort]], [[Epicycle]], [[Evil Eye]], [[The Exit]], [[The Ferraris]], [[Forced Allegiance]], [[The Front Lines]], [[Friends of Betty]], [[Fudge Tunnel]], [[Gary Jones]], [[Gear]], [[Generation Waste]], [[Get Smart!]], [[Gore Gore Girls]], [[Grab Bag of Fathers]], [[Gross National Product]], [[Group of Individuals]], [[happy hunting]],[[Happy Toons]], [[Hazardous Youth]], [[Heavy Manners]], [[The Honor System]], [[Hot Stove Jimmy]], [[Identity Crisis]], [[ID Under]], [[IMF]], [[Immune System]], [[The Imports]], [[Impulse Manslaughter]], [[Indecent Liberties]], [[The Indicators]], [[Industrialized Autocracy]], [[Infections]], [[Insane War Tomatoes]], [[The Interceptors]], [[Insolent Respect]], [[Ivy League]], [[Jack Scratch]], [[Jesus Lizard]], [[Johnny Vomit]], [[Juvenile Delinquents]], [[K.G.B.]], [[The Kind]], [[The Kremlins]], [[The Kruds]], [[Landos 45]], [[Lawrence Arms]], [[The Lazerblades]], [[The Leeches]], [[Life Sentence]], [[Lost Cause]], [[Los Crudos]], [[Lozenge]], [[The Luchs Brothers]], [[Mark O and Leslie]], [[Mary Tyler Morphine]], [[Meaty Buys]], [[Men]], [[The Mentally Ill]], [[The Methadones]], [[Mexican Cheerleader]], [[Ministry]], [[The Misled]], [[Mob Action]], [[M.O.S.H.]], [[My Big Beautiful]], [[Nadsat Rebel]], [[Naked Raygun]], [[Navastrau]], [[Negative Element]], [[NGA JIWA]], [[Nobs, The]], [[No Empathy]], [[Nodes]], [[Noise Monsters]], [[Number Nine]], [[Oblivion]], [[The Odd]], [[ONO]], [[Out of Order]], [[Painterband]], [[Pegboy]], [[Phil 'n the Blanks]], [[Pistol Whip]], [[Plywood]], [[Poison Squirrel]], [[Political Justice?]], [[Popperz]], [[Precious Wax Drippings]], [[President Snack Cakes le Beef]], [[Problem Dogs]], [[Product 19]], [[Psi Bears]], [[The Rabbits]], [[Rainbow Girls]], [[Rapeman]], [[Razer]], [[Repulse Kava]], [[Ring 13]], [[Rights of the Accused]], [[The Riverdales]], [[Sanitary Patrol]], [[Savage Beliefs]], [[Scarred For Life]], [[Scoobie Snack]], [[Screaming Rachel and Remote]], [[Screeching Weasel]], [[Seismic Waves]], [[The Sex Kittens]], [[Sharon Tate's Baby]], [[Shellac]], [[Silent Language]], [[Silly Carmichaels]], [[Silver Abuse]], [[Six Feet Under]], [[Skafish]], [[Skapone]], [[Skullface]], [[Skullkrusher]], [[Slaphappy]], [[Slapstick]], [[Slit and the Stiches]], [[Slow Children Playing]], [[Sludgeworth]], [[Small Irregular Pieces of Aluminum]], [[Smoking Popes]], [[Snidely Whiplash Experience]], [[Special Affect]], [[Spiderz]], [[Spongetunnel]], [[Sport of Kings]], [[Squirtgun]],[[Stations]], [[straightjacketbazooka]], [[Strike Under]], [[The Subverts]], [[The Swingers]], [[Swingset]], [[Target]], [[The Tarts]], [[Ten Year Old Surgeons]], [[Terminal Beach]], [[The Throbbers]], [[Toothpaste]], [[The Torpedos]], [[The Tossers]], [[Toucan Slam]], [[Tuesday]], [[The Trouble Boys]], [[Tremors]], [[Trial by Fire]], [[Tub Ring]], [[Tutu and the Pirates]], [[Uncle Fester]], [[The Untouchables]], [[Unified Field]], [[Urbn DK]], [[Urethra Franklin]], [[Urge Overkill]], [[The Vaguelys]], [[The Ventilators]], [[Verboten]], [[The Vicissitudes]], [[Viktimz of Society]], [[The Vindictives]], [[Violent Feedback]], [[Violent Tumor]], [[Walker]], [[Wardogs]], [[The Watchmen]], [[The Wayouts]], [[Wazmo Nariz]], [[Wesley Willis]], [[The Wesley Willis Fiasco]], [[We Make The Nig Heist Look Like Saints]], [[Winepress]], [[Wolcott]], [[Zoetrope]]

=== Records ===

[[A Chicago Punk Rock Collaboration For The Kids, Vol 1]], [[All Rise]], [[Basement Screams]], [[Busted at Oz]], [[Code Blue]], [[Dial-a-Trance]], [[Flammable Solid]], [[Naked Raygun - Home (Song)|Home]], [[Innocence]], [[Jettison]], [[Raygun...Naked Raygun]], [[Magnetic Curses]], [[The Middle of America Compilation]], [[Throb Throb]], [[Understand?]], [[Vanilla Blue]]

=== Labels ===

[[Aaugh! Records]], [[Asian Man]], [[Autumn Records]], [[Dazit Records]], [[Dill Records]], [[Disturbing Records]], [[Fever Records]], [[Fiction Records]], [[Go Deaf]], [[Harmless Records]], [[H.I.D. Productions Ltd]], [[Homestead Records]], [[Johann's Face Records]], [[Landmind Records]], [[Little Farmer Music]], [[National Trust]], [[No Blow Records]], [[Quarterstick Records]], [[Pravda Records]], [[Roadkill Records]], [[Ruthless Records]], [[Schwa Records]], [[Sandpounder Records]], [[Shakefork Records]], [[Skinhead Records]], [[Snat 5 Records]], [[Suburban Home]], [[Thermidor Records]], [[Thick Records]], [[Touch and Go]], [[Tough Records]], [[Underdog Records]], [[Version Sound]], [[VML Records]], [[Walkthrufyre Records]], [[Wasteland Records]], [[Wax Trax Records]]
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=== People ===

[[Steve Albini]], [[Al Scum]], [[Rodney Anderson]], [[Jon Babbin]], [[Billy Blastoff]], [[Vic Bondi]], [[Chris Bjorklund]], [[Steve Bjorklund]], [[Eric Brockman]], [[Iain Burgess]], [[Robert Byrne]], [[Mick Calhoun]], [[Joe Camarillo]], [[Eric Cassell]], [[Jeremy Cowan]], [[Steve Cheese]], [[Tom Clark]], [[Larry Damore]], [[Bob Damrau]], [[Troy Dixler]], [[Ted Domurat]], [[Lorna Donley]], [[Sean Duffy]], [[Santiago Durango]], [[Jed Fox]], [[Bob Furem]], [[Philip Galanter]], [[Camilo Gonzalez]], [[Ken Goodman]], [[P. Michael Grego]], [[Joe Haggerty]], [[John Haggerty]], [[Scott Harris]], [[Dem Hopkins]], [[Anthony Illarde]], [[Al Jourgensen]], [[Jughead]], [[Marie Kanger-Born]], [[John Kezdy]], [[Pierre Kezdy]], [[Joe Losurdo]], [[John Lundin]], [[Keith Lyons]], [[Art MacQuilkin]], [[Doug McCombs]], [[Bill Meehan]], [[Ken Mierzwa]], [[John Mohr]], [[Terry Nelson]], [[Brian Peterson]], [[Marko Pezzati]], [[Mary Alice Ramel]], [[Dave Riley]], [[Corey Rusk]],[[Bobby Scarpelli]], [[Dan Schafer]], [[Dan Schneider]], [[Audrey Shaw]], [[Bobby Skafish]], [[Jim Skafish]], [[Slapstick Family Tree]], [[Jim Sludge]], [[Brooks Smith]], [[Geri Soriano]], [[Eric Spicer]], [[Bill Stephens]], [[Chopper Steppe]], [[Steve Steppe]], [[Barry Stern]], [[Dan Sullivan]], [[Travis]], [[Dave Thomas]], [[Chuck Uchida]], [[Joey Vindictive]], [[Douglas Ward]], [[Rob Warmowski]], [[Ben Weasel]], [[Paul Zamost]], [[Bryn Zellers]]

=== Venues ===

[[3rd Floor]], [[950 Lucky Number]], [[A-Zone]], [[Abbey Pub]], [[Ann Arkees]], [[Aragon Ballroom]], [[Artful Dodger]], [[The Avalon]], [[B'Ginnings]], [[The Bank]], [[Batteries Not Included]], [[Bop Shop]], [[The Bottle]], [[Bottom Lounge]], [[Centro-American Social Club]], [[Circuits]], [[Club Foot]], [[COD]], [[The Congress Theatre]], [[The Crypt]], [[Cubby Bear]], [[Czar Bar]], [[Delilah's]], [[Dreamerz]], [[Durty Nellies]], [[El Rancho Orphanage]], [[Empty Bottle]], [[Exit]], [[Fireside Bowl]], [[Fotch's]], [[Gaspars]], [[Harry Hopes]], [[Head's Pub]], [[Hell House]], [[Hotti Biscotti]], [[Hueys]], [[The Igloo]], [[Iron Rail]], [[Isabelle's Grand Finale]], [[Ivanhoe Theater]], [[Jamies Elsewhere Lounge]], [[Katz and Jammer Kids]], [[Keith Garage]], [[La Mere Vipere]], [[Lounge Ax]], [[McGreevys]], [[McGregor's]], [[Medusas]], [[Metro]], [[Mexican Patriotic Club]], [[Misfits]], [[The Mutiny]], [[Neo]], [[The Nervous Center]], [[No Palace]], [[O'Banion's]], [[Oak Theatre]], [[Odum]], [[Off the Alley]], [[Old Chicago]], [[Off the Alley]], [[Over Easy]], [[Oz]], [[Park West]], [[The Piss Factory]], [[Prodigal Son]], [[Quiet Knight]], [[Riley's Rock House]], [[The Riviera]], [[Ruts]], [[Space Place]], [[Stages]], [[Tuts]], [[The Warehouse]], [[Waves]], [[West End]], [[Wrigley Side]]

=== Fanzines ===

[[Bullshit Detector]], [[Coolest Retard]], [[Disorderly Conduct]], [[Gabba Gabba Gazette]], [[Last Rites]], [[Les Ponques Rockeurs]], [[Matter]], [[Primitive Noise]], [[Raveup]], [[Submission]], [[THIS]], [[Wholesome]], [[Your Country Needs You/YOU]]

=== History ===

''Chicago Punk History at a Glance -'' [[Timeline]] ''Detailed History by Year -'' [[1974]] [[1975]] [[1976]] [[1977]] [[1978]] [[1979]] [[1980]] [[1981]] [[1982]] [[1983]] [[1984]] [[1985]] [[1986]] [[1987]] [[1988]] [[1989]] [[1990]] [[1991]] [[1992]] [[1993]] [[1994]] [[1995]] [[1996]] [[1997]] [[1998]] [[1999]] [[2000]] [[2001]] [[2002]] [[2003]] [[2004]] [[2005]] [[2006]] [[2007]] [[2008]] [[2009]] [[2010]] [[2011]] [[2012]] [[2013]] [[2014]] [[2015]]

=== MP3s ===

[[Bloodsport]], [[DV8]], [[Seismic Waves]], [[Toothpaste]]

=== Films ===
[[You Weren't There]]

=== Television ===
[[Chic-a-go-go]]
[[JBTV]]

=== Websites ===

* [[Ken Mierzwa|Ephemeral Creation]]
* [[Pit of Punkiness]]
* [[The Punk Vault]]
* [[Chicago Hardcore]]
* [[WindyCityPunk]]

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Marie Kanger-Born

2009-10-20T19:53:45Z

Marie: Blanked the page

Silver Abuse

2007-09-29T23:24:23Z

Marie:

[[Image:Silver abuse in cans.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Final Silver Abuse lineup in garbage cans, circa 1983]]

'''Silver Abuse''' was one of the original punk bands in Chicago, forming in [[1977]]. There were various versions of Silver Abuse, but the original version starred lifetime member [[Bill Meehan]], along with [[Santiago Durango]] and [[Camilo Gonzalez]], early members of [[Naked Raygun]]. Silver Abuse broke up for good in [[1983]]. After the original version of Silver Abuse disbanded in the late 70s, most of the members of SA formed [[The Wayouts!]]. Even though The Wayouts! included many of the same members of Silver Abuse, their lazer-sharp sardonic and cartoonish one-minute pop missives varied so greatly from Silver Abuse's sloppy yet spot-on political and social dissections, that they are best not included in the greater Silver Abuse beastiary. Some of The Wayouts!' members became Silver Abuse again after their last show on New Year's Eve, [[1980]]. There was also a later spin-off group called [[Burden of Friendship]].

Sadly, [[Jaqui Disler]] passed away in [[2004]] after a long battle with cancer.

== Origins ==

=== Santiago Durango's take ===

According to a Durango [http://www.dangpow.com/~landed/bigblack/BBFE9.htm interview in Forced Exposure], the original Silver Abuse was a bunch of like-minded high school (Gordon Tech) punk fans who couldn't play their instruments and liked to get drunk on wine and do drugs. They were a five piece and only made it through one song at their very first gig. Opening up at a loft party thrown by [[Tutu and the Pirates]], they started off with the always popular ''Jews Must Die''. That was enough for the crowd... they played one more gig before ending it after Durango left the band. This version of SA never recorded anything except some "cheesy cassettes"

=== Bob Damrau's take ===

"There were two groups of musicians that more or less merged at some point to form what would become Silver Abuse. Camilo is the missing link in bringing some members of these two groups together.

* Group 1 consisted of Santiago Durango and [[Bob Galardo]] (they were both guitarists as well as neighbors on roscoe street). Camilo had a number of classes with santiago at Gordon Technical High School, where there friendship began.

* Group 2 consisted of Bill Meehan, Dennis Sosniak, Camilo, and yours truly. We all got to know Santiago through his acquaintance with gonz.

Galardo was never a member of Silver Abuse. He and Sant did a lot of jamming (which i participated in occasionally). Ultimately, santiago replaced Dennis..."''

=== First show confusion ===

It is also reported that the first SA was at [[La Mere Vipere]] in Spring of [[1978]]. This report is false according to Maxxwell, who was a local scenester of the era:

"The misunderstanding probably comes from the coverage in [[Gabba Gabba Gazzette]] #8, which has photos of the event (which was a benefit for the GGG), and a funny letter of apology for Silver Abuse's performance from Boppin Billy ([[Billy Meehan]]), but does not name a venue, possibly because the venue was illegal. Even though the Gabba Gabba Gazette was not officially affilliated with LaMere at that time, it would have been easy for someone who read the zine, but was not at the event to just assume it happened at LaMere."

Maxxwell explained that LaMere was not a venue for live music. Furthermore, Maxxwell states:

"Since the purpose of live music from the owner's point of view is to attract customers rather than send them screaming out the door hurling beer glasses as they go, it seems unlikely that Noe, cool guy though he was, would have ever selected the first edition of Silver Abuse as an evening's entertainment."

Maxxwell says his recollection of the first SA show matches Santiago's:

"The concert was held at a rented or possibly surreptitously borrowed industrial space temporarily named "Tutu's Placenta." Our anti-heroes stumbled uncertainly to the performance area, some dressed in combat helmets. In my memory they were all wearing Nazi gear and tinfoil masks. However a photo printed in the Gabba Gabba Gazette #8 (Summer 78) shows only the guitarist wearing a Reynolds Wrap facemask (Santiago perhaps trying vainly to conceal his identity) w/German-looking helmet and another member with a combat helmet of unidentifiable origin. Billy is wearing a jean jacket and t-shirt. Only three of the members were pictured. It still seems to me there was more than one tinfoil mask...but I may have been in only slightly better shape than the band. There was a bit of random guitar skronk, and then the band launched into "Jews Must Die". After what seemed an eternity but was probably a minute and a half the band departed the stage, followed by catcalls and possibly a few projectiles.

In a letter to the editor, also printed in GGG number 8, Billy apologizes for the band's performance, admitting that the band "sucked dog diarrhea through a straw". He attributes the band's performance to lack of practice and being too fucked up to play. With uncharacteristic understatement he notes "we never shoulda opened with "Jews Must Die" He also said he was amused by a David Witz review of the show in The Reader. (David Witz,a very mainstream critic, had an ongoing feud with Mary Alice and LaMere).He said the band would continue to perform but without the neo-fascist shtick, which was "just an attempt at a cheap laugh"."

== Lineups ==

=== Original Lineup ===

* [[Billy Meehan]] - Vocals
* [[Santiago Durango]] / [[Dennis Sosniak]] - Guitar
* [[Camilo Gonzalez]] - Bass
* [[Bob Damrau]] - Drums

=== The Wayouts! ===

* Billy Meehan - Vocals
* [[Paul Chabala]] - Guitar, Vocals
* Al Szopinski - Guitar, Vocals
* Camilo Gonzalez - Bass
* Bob Damrau - Drums

=== Silver Abuse II ===

* Billy Meehan - Vocals
* Paul Chabala - Guitar, Vocals
* Camilo Gonzalez - Bass
* Bob Damrau - Drums

=== Silver Abuse III ===

* Viv (Marla) - Vocals
* [[Jaqui Disler]] - Vocals
* Paul Chabala - Guitar
* Billy Meehan - Bass
* [[Dave Purdie]] - Keyboards
* [[Jim Colao]] - Drums

=== Silver Abuse IV ===

* Billy Meehan - Vocals
* [[Liz Cox]] - Vocals
* Camilo Gonzalez - Bass
* Dave Purdie - Keyboards
* [[Donnie Krattner]] - Sax
* [[Robert Porche']] - Drums

== Releases ==

* [[Busted at Oz]] Compilation - [[Autumn Records]], [[1981]]
** Anti-Hot Dog
** Pink Port Now
** Bomb Shelter (Later covered by Naked Raygun)
** Jigaboo Jump

[[Image:silverabuse_fallfromgrace.jpg|right|100px]]
* ''Fall From Grace'' 7" - [[Schwa Records]], [[1982]]
**Jumpin' Thru
**Rats Tied To Trees
**Cuban Homo Farm +2

== Notes ==

* They did a cover of Skrewdriver's Antisocial, calling it Anti Hot Dog
* ''Cuban Homo Farm'' was likely a dig at Camilo Gonzales, shortly after he left to join [[Naked Raygun]]
* Pink port wine was the drink of choice for the members

== Shows ==

* Spring 1978 at Tutu's Placenta - first show, played one song
* February 23, 1981 at [[O'Banion's]] - with [[Naked Raygun]]
* October 24, 1981 at [[Cubby Bear]] - with [[Naked Raygun]]
* March 3, [[1982]] at [[Misfits]] - with [[Trial by Fire]]
* January 23, 1982 at [[Space Place]]
* April 27, [[1983]] at [[Smart Bar]]

== External Links ==

* [http://profile.myspace.com/silverabuse Silver Abuse myspace page]
* [http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/03/chicago_nowave_.html Chicago No-Wave part I - Silver Abuse]
* [http://chicagopunkpix.com/forum/index.php?topic=58.0 CPP thread on Silver Abuse]
* [http://chicagopunkpix.com/forum/index.php?topic=1099.0 CPP thread on Silver Abuse <-> Burden of Friendship connection]

== YouTube Clips ==

* Live, early 1980's in Chicago
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92dqAkiMMGM Fine and Private Place (from Chicago Punk Rock 1980's DVD)]

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Category:Bands

2007-08-25T21:55:56Z

Marie: spam delete

Past and present bands that were either part of or related to the old Chicago punk scene. From the 70s to the current days, pretty much all the band pages on the ChicagoPunk Database.

the sex kittens

sport of kings

STEVE-O- orig drummer from Ministry

Beluga

No Empathy

2007-08-24T16:25:29Z

Marie:

'''No Empathy''' was a Chicago-based punk band started in late 1983 by [[Marc Ruvolo]] (Vocals) and [[Iggy Recinos]] (Bass). The two had met while playing in a short-lived version of [[Gross National Product]] and soon decided to start a band of their own. Shortly after, [[Craig White]] was added on Guitar and [[Chris Russell]] on drums. Their first show was on July 13th, [[1984]] at
a downtown Chicago YMCA. Recinos left the band after three shows and was replaced by Tom Costanzo. Ruvolo became the only constant member over the band’s 13 year run, but the line-up of Ruvolo, [[Martin Geraghty]], [[Chuck Uchida]], [[Steve Gallup]], and [[Kurt Stephens]] is considered the “classic” line-up which recorded most of the band’s output and lasted seven years. In that time, the band shared the stage with many punk legends such as 7 Seconds, Fear, Stiff Little Fingers, Bad Brains, NO FX and Fugazi, plus touring the continental US numerous times. Ruvolo also started [[Johann’s Face Records]] to release No Empathy material, which soon after expanded to release records by other bands such as The Smoking Popes, Alkaline Trio, Apocalypse Hoboken and many more. The label continues today and is approaching 100 releases.

== Post No Empathy ==

Marc Ruvolo went on to play in the Traitors, and The Atari Star. He currently plays guitar and sings in Das Kapital. Craig White went on to play guitar in Seam. Brian Lueck went on to play drums in Hi-Fi and the Road Burners. Chris Russell went on to play drums in The Groove Diggers.

== Lineups ==

=== Original Lineup ===

* [[Marc Ruvolo]] - Vocals
* [[Craig White]] - Guitar
* [[Iggy Recinos]] - Bass, later replaced by [[Tom Costanzo]]
* [[Chris Russell]] - Drums

=== Classic Lineup ===

* Marc Ruvolo - Vocals
* [[Martin Geraghty]] - Guitar
* [[Chuck Uchida]] - Guitar
* [[Steve Gallup]] - Bass
* [[Kurt Stephens]] - Drums

=== Other Members ===

* [[Gary Winters]] - Bass
* [[Brian Lueck]] - Drums
* [[Dwight Small]] - Guitar

== Releases ==

* Nothing Less Than Nothing at All LP ([[WalkThruFyre]] [[1987]])
* Freedom of Flesh LP ([[Roadkill Records]] [[1988]])
* Agrippa 7” (Roadkill Records [[1989]])
* They Want Whatever LP/CD (Johann’s Face Records 1991)
* You’re So Smart CD/ 7” Box Set (Johann’s Face Records 1993)
* Split 7”/CD Single with Zoinks! (Johann’s Face Records 1994)
* Ben Weasel Don’t Like It CDEP (Broken Rekids 1997)
* The Same Mistakes Endlessly Repeated LP/CD (Johann’s Face Records 1997)
* Good Luck Makes Me Nervous CD (Johann’s Face Records 1998)

== External Links ==

* [http://www.johannsface.com Johann’s Face Records]
* [http://www.daskapital.us Das Kapital]
* [http://www.myspace.com/thedaskapital Das Kapital on Myspace]

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No Empathy

2007-08-24T16:21:28Z

Marie:

'''No Empathy''' was a Chicago-based punk band started in late 1983 by [[Marc Ruvolo]] (Vocals) and [[Iggy Recinos]] (Bass). The two had met while playing in a short-lived version of [[Gross National Product]] and soon decided to start a band of their own. Shortly after, [[Craig White]] was added on Guitar and [[Chris Russell]] on drums. Their first show was on July 13th, [[1984]] at
a downtown Chicago YMCA. Recinos left the band after three shows and was replaced by Tom Costanzo. Ruvolo became the only constant member over the band’s 13 year run, but the line-up of Ruvolo, [[Martin Geraghty]], [[Chuck Uchida]], [[Steve Gallup]], and [[Kurt Stephens]] is considered the “classic” line-up which recorded most of the band’s output and lasted seven years. In that time, the band shared the stage with many punk legends such as 7 Seconds, Fear, Stiff Little Fingers, Bad Brains, NO FX and Fugazi, plus touring the continental US numerous times. Ruvolo also started [[Johann’s Face Records]] to release No Empathy material, which soon after expanded to release records by other bands such as The Smoking Popes, Alkaline Trio, Apocalypse Hoboken and many more. The label continues today and is approaching 100 releases.

== Post No Empathy ==

Marc Ruvolo went on to play in the Traitors, and The Atari Star. He currently plays guitar and sings in Das Kapital. Craig White went on to play guitar in Seam. Brian Lueck went on to play drums in Hi-Fi and the Road Burners. Chris Russell went on to play drums in The Groove Diggers.

== Lineups ==

=== Original Lineup ===

* [[Marc Ruvolo]] - Vocals
* [[Craig White]] - Guitar
* [[Iggy Recinos]] - Bass, later replaced by [[Tom Costanzo]]
* [[Chris Russell]] - Drums

=== Classic Lineup ===

* Marc Ruvolo - Vocals
* [[Martin Geraghty]] - Guitar
* [[Chuck Uchida]] - Guitar
* [[Steve Gallup]] - Bass
* [[Kurt Stephens]] - Drums

=== Other Members ===

* [[Gary Winters]] - Bass
* [[Brian Lueck]] - Drums
* [[Dwight Small]] - Guitar

== Releases ==

* Nothing Less Than Nothing at All LP ([[WalkThruFyre]] [[1987]])
* Freedom of Flesh LP ([[Roadkill Records]] [[1988]])
* Agrippa 7” (Roadkill Records [[1989]])
* They Want Whatever LP/CD (Johann’s Face Records 1991)
* You’re So Smart CD/ 7” Box Set (Johann’s Face Records 1993)
* Split 7”/CD Single with Zoinks! (Johann’s Face Records 1994)
* Ben Weasel Don’t Like It CDEP (Broken Rekids 1997)
* The Same Mistakes Endlessly Repeated LP/CD (Johann’s Face Records 1997)
* Good Luck Makes Me Nervous CD (Johann’s Face Records 1998)

== External Links ==

* [http://www.johannsface.com Johann’s Face Records]
* [http://www.daskapital.us Das Kapital]

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Category:Bands

2007-08-23T23:41:48Z

Marie: deleted spam

Category:Bands

2007-08-19T18:53:16Z

Marie:

No Empathy

2007-08-19T18:52:02Z

Marie:

'''No Empathy''' was a Chicago-based punk band started in late 1983 by [[Marc Ruvolo]] (Vocals) and [[Iggy Recinos]] (Bass). The two had met while playing in a short-lived version of [[Gross National Product]] and soon decided to start a band of their own. Shortly after, [[Craig White]] was added on Guitar and [[Chris Russell]] on drums. Their first show was on July 13th, [[1984]] at
a downtown Chicago YMCA. Recinos left the band after three shows and was replaced by Tom Costanzo. Ruvolo became the only constant member over the band’s 13 year run, but the line-up of Ruvolo, [[Martin Geraghty]], [[Chuck Uchida]], [[Steve Gallup]], and [[Kurt Stephens]] is considered the “classic” line-up which recorded most of the band’s output and lasted seven years. In that time, the band shared the stage with many punk legends such as 7 Seconds, Fear, Stiff Little Fingers, Bad Brains, NO FX and Fugazi, plus touring the continental US numerous times. Ruvolo also started [[Johann’s Face Records]] to release No Empathy material, which soon after expanded to release records by other bands such as The Smoking Popes, Alkaline Trio, Apocalypse Hoboken and many more. The label continues today and is approaching 100 releases.

== Post No Empathy ==

Marc Ruvolo went on to play in the Traitors, and The Atari Star. He currently plays guitar and sings in Das Kapital. Craig White went on to play guitar in Seam. Brian Lueck went on to play drums in Hi-Fi and the Road Burners. Chris Russell went on to play drums in The Groove Diggers.

== Lineups ==

=== Original Lineup ===

* [[Marc Ruvolo]] - Vocals
* [[Craig White]] - Guitar
* [[Iggy Recinos]] - Bass, later replaced by [[Tom Costanzo]]
* [[Chris Russell]] - Drums

=== Classic Lineup ===

* Marc Ruvolo
* [[Martin Geraghty]]
* [[Chuck Uchida]]
* [[Steve Gallup]]
* [[Kurt Stephens]]

=== Other Members ===

* [[Gary Winters]]
* [[Brian Lueck]]
* [[Dwight Small]]

== Releases ==

* Nothing Less Than Nothing at All LP ([[WalkThruFyre]] [[1987]])
* Freedom of Flesh LP ([[Roadkill Records]] [[1988]])
* Agrippa 7” (Roadkill Records [[1989]])
* They Want Whatever LP/CD (Johann’s Face Records 1991)
* You’re So Smart CD/ 7” Box Set (Johann’s Face Records 1993)
* Split 7”/CD Single with Zoinks! (Johann’s Face Records 1994)
* Ben Weasel Don’t Like It CDEP (Broken Rekids 1997)
* The Same Mistakes Endlessly Repeated LP/CD (Johann’s Face Records 1997)
* Good Luck Makes Me Nervous CD (Johann’s Face Records 1998)

== External Links ==

* [http://www.johannsface.com Johann’s Face Records]
* [http://www.daskapital.us Das Kapital]

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No Empathy

2007-08-19T18:49:53Z

Marie:

'''No Empathy''' was a Chicago-based punk band started in late 1983 by [[Marc Ruvolo]] (Vocals) and [[Iggy Recinos]] (Bass). The two had met while playing in a short-lived version of [[Gross National Product]] and soon decided to start a band of their own. Shortly after, [[Craig White]] was added on Guitar and [[Chris Russell]] on drums. Their first show was on July 13th, [[1984]] at
a downtown Chicago YMCA. Recinos left the band after three shows and was replaced by Tom Costanzo. Ruvolo became the only constant member over the band’s 13 year run, but the line-up of Ruvolo, [[Martin Geraghty]], [[Chuck Uchida]], [[Steve Gallup]], and [[Kurt Stephens]] is considered the “classic” line-up which recorded most of the band’s output and lasted seven years. In that time, the band shared the stage with many punk legends such as 7 Seconds, Fear, Stiff Little Fingers, Bad Brains, NO FX and Fugazi, plus touring the continental US numerous times. Ruvolo also started [[Johann’s Face Records]] to release No Empathy material, which soon after expanded to release records by other bands such as The Smoking Popes, Alkaline Trio, Apocalypse Hoboken and many more. The label continues today and is approaching 100 releases.

== Post No Empathy ==

Marc Ruvolo went on to play in the Traitors, and The Atari Star. He currently plays guitar and sings in Das Kapital. Craig White went on to play guitar in Seam. Brian Lueck went on to play drums in Hi-Fi and the Road Burners. Chris Russell went on to play drums in The Groove Diggers.

== Lineups ==

=== Original Lineup ===

* [[Marc Ruvolo]] - Vocals
* [[Craig White]] - Guitar
* [[Iggy Recinos]] - Bass, later replaced by [[Tom Costanzo]]
* [[Chris Russell]] - Drums

=== Classic Lineup ===

* Marc Ruvolo
* [[Martin Geraghty]]
* [[Chuck Uchida]]
* [[Steve Gallup]]
* [[Kurt Stephens]]

=== Other Members ===

* [[Gary Winters]]
* [[Brian Lueck]]
* [[Dwight Small]]

== Releases ==

* Nothing Less Than Nothing at All LP (WalkThruFyre 1987)
* Freedom of Flesh LP (Roadkill Records 1988)
* Agrippa 7” (Roadkill Records 1989)
* They Want Whatever LP/CD (Johann’s Face Records 1991)
* You’re So Smart CD/ 7” Box Set (Johann’s Face Records 1993)
* Split 7”/CD Single with Zoinks! (Johann’s Face Records 1994)
* Ben Weasel Don’t Like It CDEP (Broken Rekids 1997)
* The Same Mistakes Endlessly Repeated LP/CD (Johann’s Face Records 1997)
* Good Luck Makes Me Nervous CD (Johann’s Face Records 1998)

== External Links ==

* [http://www.johannsface.com Johann’s Face Records]
* [http://www.daskapital.us Das Kapital]

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Marie Kanger-Born

2007-08-01T17:09:58Z

Marie:

'''Marie Kanger-Born''' was a member of the early punk scene, 1979 - 1986. She photographed the local shows during 1981 - 1985 and published a fanzine, called [[Bullshit Detector]] in the 1982, 1983 period. Several of her photographs were published in the book, "Going Underground: American Punk, 1979-1992" by George Hurchalla. One of her Articles of Faith photographs was included in the book, "American Hardcore: A Tribal History" by Steven Blush. Her photos will also be included in the upcoming film, "You Weren't There," which is a documentary about the Chicago punk scene, produced by Regressive Films.

Marie continues to be active in the current Chicago punk scene, photographing the underground punk shows of the day. Her website, [[Chicago Punk Pix]], went up in February, 2003. It has posted her collection of pictures, zines, flyers, etc from the early and current eras. It is easily the most impressive site chronicling the scene on the Internet today.

== External Links ==

* [http://www.chicagopunkpix.com Chicago Punk Pix]
* [http://www.myspace.com/mariekangerborn Marie's MySpace page]

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Main Page

2007-07-11T04:24:00Z

Marie:

Main Page

2007-07-10T18:10:39Z

Marie: cleaned up messies

Club 950 Lucky Number

2007-05-24T19:45:44Z

Marie: /* Notable Shows */

'''Club 950 Lucky Number''' (also known as '''Club 950''') was one of the oldest and longest running punk venues in Chicago.

== Locations ==

* '''950 #1''' - 950 W. Wrightwood Ave (April 1980 - December [[2000]])
* '''950 #2''' - Off Lawrence ([[2001]]-[[2003]])

== Notable Shows ==

* February 19, [[1981]] - [[Naked Raygun]], Female Climacteric
* August 6, 1981 - Husker Du
* December 29, 1981 - Black Flag, Husker Du
* January 9, [[1982]] - Husker Du
* March 25, 1982 - [[Trial By Fire]]
* May 13, 1982 - Naked Raygun, [[Terminal Beach]]
* January 13, [[1983]] - The Rocket 88s, [[Six Feet Under]]
* January 15, 1983 - Necros, Fate Unknown, [[G.N.P.]]
* March 11, [[1984]] - Husker Du
* April 22-23, 1984 - Psychic TV

== External Links ==

* [http://www.chicagobarproject.com/Memoriam/Club950/Club950.htm In Memoriam, Club 950]

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O'Banion's

2007-05-24T19:43:59Z

Marie: /* Notable Shows */

'''O'Banion's''' was one of the oldest and longest running of the original punk clubs. Located on Clark St. and Erie, O'Banion's opened its doors in June of [[1978]]. From time of its opening until its closing on February 3rd [[1982]], the time during O'Banions operation was often considered to be the zenith of the original Chicago punk movement. After O'Banions closing, the scene transformed to larger venues, more people and less of a close-knit community.

Every year, the members of the original O'Banion's scene have a reunion weekend in honor of their fallen venue. In [[2005]], the reunion took place at [[Club Foot]] and the musical portion was at [[The Note]] - acts such as the [[The Swingers]], [[Tu Tu & The Pirates]] and [[Bonemen of Barumba]] played reunion shows.

(Note: Contrary to popular belief, O'Banion's was not the former location of Irish gangster Dion O'Banion's flower shop. O'Banion was a part owner of Schofield’s Flower Shop, located at 738 North State, directly across the street from Holy Name Cathedral. That was also the location of the Al Capone ordered hit that ended O'Banion's life.

661 N. Clark was, however, the former site of McGovern's Liberty Inn. The website for The Kerryman Bar and Restaurant, the current establishment at that address, quotes unnamed sources to the effect that "O'Banion wowed patrons with his beautiful Irish tenor voice at McGovern's Liberty Inn, where he worked as a singing waiter; later, he and his pals would rob drunken customers of their wallets and mug others outside")

== General Info ==

[[Image:ob1.jpg]]

* '''Address''' - 661 N. Clark
* '''Phone #''' - (312) 664-8585
* '''Hours''' - Open from 7am to 4am

== History ==

Despite the swankiness of its current River North location, the area at the time of O'Banion's was something far different. Previous to it's incarnation as Chicago's #1 punk venue, O'Banion's building occupied a wide array of seedy businesses.

* The McGovern Saloon
* The Liberty Inn (Chicago's largest strip club in the 1950s)
* A lesbian bar
* A "rough" gay bar named PQs

== Employees ==

* Roseann - Bar
* Nancy Rapchak - DJ
* Everett - Manager
* Phil

== Trvia ==

* The bartender would play Sham69's ''Sunday Morning Nightmare'' to let the patrons know that the crowd is shifting from a gay clientèle to a punk clientèle.
* [[Santiago Durango]] and [[Marko Pezzati]] first met at O'Banions - later forming [[Naked Raygun]]

== Notable Shows ==

* October 5, [[1980]] - [[Strike Under]], [[Six Feet Under]]
* February 23, [[1981]] - Naked Raygun, [[Silver Abuse]]
* June 24, [[1981]] - The Fix, [[The Subverts]], Red Squad
* June 29, 1981 - [[Naked Raygun]]
* July 1, 1981 - Strike Under
* July 23, 1981 - Naked Raygun
* August 3, 1981 - Minor Threat, Youth Brigade, Necros
* August 5, 1981 - Husker Du
* August 29, 1981 - [[Effigies]]
* September 5, 1981 - Strike Under
* September 19, 1981 - The Dead Kennedys
* October 1, 1981 - Husker Du, Six Feet Under
* October 16-17, 1981 - Strike Under, [[Trouts]], [[Direct Drive]], [[Tense Experts]]
* October 29, 1981 - [[Direct Drive]], T.S.O.L.
* October 31, 1981 - T.S.O.L., Naked Raygun, The Subverts
* November 1, 1981 - T.S.O.L., Direct Drive
* December 5, 1981 - Effigies
* December 12, 1981 - Direct Drive
* December 31, 1981 - [[Naked Raygun]], [[Trial by Fire]]
* January 8, 1982 - The Subverts, Direct Drive
* January 22, [[1982]] - Toxic Reasons, [[Articles of Faith]]
* January 23, [[1982]] - Toxic Reasons

== External Links ==

* [http://home.comcast.net/~angel_fox/ O'Banion's reunion home page]
* [http://www.chicagobarproject.com/Memoriam/O'Banion's/O'Banion's.htm O'Banion's in Memoriam by Sean Parnell]
* [http://www.punkvinyl.com/2005/06/12/obanions-reunion-night/ MXV reviews 2005 O'Banion's reunion]
* [http://www.thekerrymanchicago.com/history.php O'Banion's history on the current bar's (the Kerryman) web page]
* [http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/obanion/shop_6.html Info about Dion O'Banion's flower shop]
* [http://chicagopunkpix.com/forum/index.php?topic=659.0 CPP thread on the infamous O'Banions bathroom]

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O'Banion's

2007-05-24T19:41:02Z

Marie: /* Notable Shows */

'''O'Banion's''' was one of the oldest and longest running of the original punk clubs. Located on Clark St. and Erie, O'Banion's opened its doors in June of [[1978]]. From time of its opening until its closing on February 3rd [[1982]], the time during O'Banions operation was often considered to be the zenith of the original Chicago punk movement. After O'Banions closing, the scene transformed to larger venues, more people and less of a close-knit community.

Every year, the members of the original O'Banion's scene have a reunion weekend in honor of their fallen venue. In [[2005]], the reunion took place at [[Club Foot]] and the musical portion was at [[The Note]] - acts such as the [[The Swingers]], [[Tu Tu & The Pirates]] and [[Bonemen of Barumba]] played reunion shows.

(Note: Contrary to popular belief, O'Banion's was not the former location of Irish gangster Dion O'Banion's flower shop. O'Banion was a part owner of Schofield’s Flower Shop, located at 738 North State, directly across the street from Holy Name Cathedral. That was also the location of the Al Capone ordered hit that ended O'Banion's life.

661 N. Clark was, however, the former site of McGovern's Liberty Inn. The website for The Kerryman Bar and Restaurant, the current establishment at that address, quotes unnamed sources to the effect that "O'Banion wowed patrons with his beautiful Irish tenor voice at McGovern's Liberty Inn, where he worked as a singing waiter; later, he and his pals would rob drunken customers of their wallets and mug others outside")

== General Info ==

[[Image:ob1.jpg]]

* '''Address''' - 661 N. Clark
* '''Phone #''' - (312) 664-8585
* '''Hours''' - Open from 7am to 4am

== History ==

Despite the swankiness of its current River North location, the area at the time of O'Banion's was something far different. Previous to it's incarnation as Chicago's #1 punk venue, O'Banion's building occupied a wide array of seedy businesses.

* The McGovern Saloon
* The Liberty Inn (Chicago's largest strip club in the 1950s)
* A lesbian bar
* A "rough" gay bar named PQs

== Employees ==

* Roseann - Bar
* Nancy Rapchak - DJ
* Everett - Manager
* Phil

== Trvia ==

* The bartender would play Sham69's ''Sunday Morning Nightmare'' to let the patrons know that the crowd is shifting from a gay clientèle to a punk clientèle.
* [[Santiago Durango]] and [[Marko Pezzati]] first met at O'Banions - later forming [[Naked Raygun]]

== Notable Shows ==

* October 5, [[1980]] - [[Strike Under]], [[Six Feet Under]]
* February 23, [[1981]] - Naked Raygun, [[Silver Abuse]]
* June 24, [[1981]] - The Fix, [[The Subverts]], Red Squad
* June 29, 1981 - [[Naked Raygun]]
* July 1, 1981 - Strike Under
* July 23, 1981 - Naked Raygun
* August 3, 1981 - Minor Threat, Youth Brigade, Necros
* August 5, 1981 - Husker Du
* August 29, 1981 - [[Effigies]]
* September 5, 1981 - Strike Under
* September 19, 1981 - The Dead Kennedys
* October 1, 1981 - Husker Du, Six Feet Under
* October 16-17, 1981 - Strike Under, [[Trouts]], [[Direct Drive]], [[Tense Experts]]
* October 29, 1981 - [[Direct Drive]], T.S.O.L.
* October 31, 1981 - T.S.O.L., Naked Raygun, The Subverts
* November 1, 1981 - T.S.O.L., Direct Drive
* December 12, 1981 - Direct Drive
* December 31, 1981 - [[Naked Raygun]], [[Trial by Fire]]
* January 8, 1982 - The Subverts, Direct Drive
* January 22, [[1982]] - Toxic Reasons, [[Articles of Faith]]
* January 23, [[1982]] - Toxic Reasons

== External Links ==

* [http://home.comcast.net/~angel_fox/ O'Banion's reunion home page]
* [http://www.chicagobarproject.com/Memoriam/O'Banion's/O'Banion's.htm O'Banion's in Memoriam by Sean Parnell]
* [http://www.punkvinyl.com/2005/06/12/obanions-reunion-night/ MXV reviews 2005 O'Banion's reunion]
* [http://www.thekerrymanchicago.com/history.php O'Banion's history on the current bar's (the Kerryman) web page]
* [http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/obanion/shop_6.html Info about Dion O'Banion's flower shop]
* [http://chicagopunkpix.com/forum/index.php?topic=659.0 CPP thread on the infamous O'Banions bathroom]

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Bullshit Detector

2007-05-24T19:39:24Z

Marie:

The Bullshit Detector fanzine was produced by [[Marie Kanger]]-Born. This was a xerox quality zine. Two issues were released. The first issue came out on June 4, 1982 and was distributed at the Circle Jerks show at Stages the same day. The second issue didn't come out until nearly a year later.

== External Links ==

* [http://www.chicagopunkpix.com/BS Issues #1 + 2 available for online viewing]

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Stages

2007-05-24T19:36:08Z

Marie: /* Notable Shows */

'''Stages''' was a large club that played a punk shows in the early 80s. Located on Clark just north of Addison, Stages had two floors and attracted national acts. The upstairs area played the bigger acts, while the lower area, called '''Waves''' played more local stuff.

In late 1981 Waves became a Reggae club called Cool Runnings. [[Coolest Retard]] #14 said in their June 1981 issue that Waves just closed down, yet there are a bunch of shows past that. In July 1982 Stages morphed into [[The Metro]] and at some point (same date? definitely before 1/83) the basement area became [[Smart Bar]].

== Address ==

* 3730 N. Clark

== Notable Shows ==

* March 29-30, [[1981]] - Joan Jett (Waves)
* May 9, 1981 - Subhumans
* December 7, 1981 - Oingo Boingo
* December 9, 1981 - [[Strike Under]] (Waves)
* December 10, 1981 - Mission From Burma (Waves)
* December 11, 1981 - U.S., [[Da]] (Waves)
* December 12, 1981 - Black Flag, [[The Effigies]]
* March 19, [[1982]] - UK Subs, Anti-Nowhere League, Effigies
* June 4, 1982 - Circle Jerks
* June 5, 1982 - Angelic Upstarts
* June 22, 1982 - The Cramps

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Space Place

2007-05-24T19:34:32Z

Marie: /* Notable Shows */

[[Image:SpaceCard.jpg|thumb|right|[[MKB]]'s SP membership card]]

'''Space Place''' was a popular punk venue from [[1979]] to [[1982]]. It was located on 955 W. Fulton - 3 blks. west of Halsted, just north of Lake St. They played all-ages shows every Saturday, which was $3 for three bands and BYOB. It was also a place where bands could rehearse, record or rent out equipment. Space Place was a total community effort and was officially a non-profit organization. The biggest names to play Space Place were Bauhaus and Black Flag.

== History as told by Rich Harrington ==

'''Space Place''' was located at 955 W. Fulton Market at Morgan on the Fulton fish market. Down the street, one of the meat packers had a warning sign over the sidewalk 'Watch Out For Swinging Beef'. We appropriated that both as a warning and a motto.

The joint was primarily organized by [[Rachael Cain]] (Screamin' Rachel of Screamin' Rachel & Remote) and my brother [[Mike Harrington]] who were dating at the time. Mike primarily handled booking the bands and shows. I lived in the joint to provide 24 hour securiity and 24 hour load in/out and ran the day to day operations. I also was the stage manager and ran sound for bands who didn't have their own sound man. [[John Connors]], the guitarist for the [[Problem Dogs]], was officially the Treasurer and also ran the lights. Of course, that only touches the tip of the surface as there were about a hundred people who had a major hand in, not counting the bands. I'll try to run a full name check in another post. Space Place became one of those fabulously synergistic things where everybody was working together to create something bigger than the parts could generate by themselves. Personally, I think the Space Place influence was felt far beyond the joint itself, and maybe it's just hubris but I think that that concentration of MADNESS & ENERGY (to quote Mark Mayer) was the driving force behind the explosion of the whole Chicago scene in 79 to 82.

Part of the building had been an old cold storage warehouse, some with foot thick insulated walls. We partitioned off a lot of the rooms so you could have 20 bands rehearsing at the same time without disturbing each other. Most bands rented private rooms by the month and could set them up the way they wanted and have their friends and fans hang out as needed. We also had a day room for spot rehearsals and bands could rent the show room to work out full blown staging with lights and PA and all.

Eventually, we started doing shows - usually on Saturday nights. We weren't in the liquor distribution business, so all shows were all ages. We had an excellent entertainment lawyer - Jay 'Sue The Bastards' Ross, and he got us legally organized as a 501c3 not-for profit corporation and private club. As a private club, members of legal age could bring their own refreshments. We may have sold pops or something. But basically we were able to do all ages shows and people could still get ripped if they needed to. In order to attend the show, you first had to become a member of the private club, which is why we issued the Membership card that [[MKB]] has posted elsewhere on this fabulous site. If you were over 21, we marked your card and you could bring liquor in. If you weren't, basically you found somebody else to bring it in for you (which is how it actually worked out).

We suffered a couple of minor busts, and then one huge one by the Department of Criminal Housing (they were expecting some sort of gang headquarters) that basically shut down the show room and forced us to start doing shows at 112 N. Green. All in all, and looking back from a more mature and responsible viewpoint, it was notihing short of a miracle that we didn't have a E2-type disaster at one of the shows. The concert room was on the third floor of the joint, accessible only by a single narrow winding stairway, and the fire escapes were working buit hideously out of repair. The freight elevator had previously been dismantled by scavengers and was stuck on the third flloor, so bands had to heft the gear up to the showroom and back. There were only 2 toilets in the joint, and we had to constantly patrol to make sure that they didn't revert to primitiveness. We reserved the nicer one on the first floor for the ladies.

When we had a particularly great show, you could feel the floor of the concert room start bouncing up and down - the joint was literally rocking. For the Bauhaus show, the place was hidously oversold and when they busted into 'Telegram Sam' I was sure that we were all going to wind up in a pile of bricks in the basement...

== Notable Shows ==

* March 7, [[1981]] - Bauhaus, [[Naked Raygun]]
* April 11, 1981 - [[Strike Under]], [[The Effigies]], Naked Raygun
* April 23, 1981 - Black Flag, [[The Effigies]], [[Strike Under]], Naked Raygun
* May 29, 1981 - Painter Band, [[Meaty Buys]], Ventilators, Kate Fagan
* July 18, 1981 - [[Corrosives]], Jetsons, Drats
* January 23, [[1982]] - [[Silver Abuse]]
* April 24, 1982 - [[Articles of Faith]], [[DV8]]
* Summer 1982 - [[Negative Element]], [[The Anti-Bodies]], Juvinile Delinquents
* Unknown Date - [[The Cunts]]

== Band and Show History ==

[[Image:SpaceP05.gif|thumb|right|200px|Space Place flyer for Black Flag]]
''As told by [[Rich Harrington]]''

Probably the most well-remembered shows we did were the Bauhaus show (3/7/81) and two Black Flag shows. We were punk in the sense that the whole thing was DIY and tended to be louder faster, but we featured all kinds of music at the shows. We had a lotta lotta punk shows, but we also had heavy metal, new wave, soul, blues, and plain crazy shit like ST2W or the Guyettes who had everybody dancing with an 'electric purse', or a wack band called 'Huh?' from Madison or Racine who came out dressed like cavemen (and cavelady) and did their first song just beating beating beating on big rocks. I don't know. We put on a 'New-wave musical,' Starstruck, and we hosted shows by Mike Flores and the Psychotronic Film society. Our normal presentation was to have a known, usually local opening act at 10, either one of the bigger local acts or a national act if we could book somebody interesting for the mainliner and then a closing act either a Space Place band (one of the bands that rehearsed there) or another band doing their first show or whatever to close out. Usually the shows would go to 3 am or so but many the times I remember rocking till dawn. Early raves if you will.

Holy moly. I finally had to pull out the 'Space Place Archives' to look up some of the bands and I have a lot more shit in there than I thought. For the purposes of this website, the most popular resident Space Place 'punk' bands were probably [[Direct Drive]]/[[Articles of Faith]], [[DV8]], and [[Meaty Buys]]. Other bands that were great and not necessarily punk and didn't get as much notice as they should of were ST2W (Save The Whole World), the '80s, the Marquis, the Problem Dogs, Doc Shock & The Jetsons, Recruit, Screamin' Rachel, and the swarm of Paul-Brodlo-Al-Kizys-centric bands like Sawdust Theory/Dystrophy Eaters/Phlegm Magnets/Underhell. Other S.P. bands included Warp 6 (fusion), The Majik Band (soul), Alphonso Surett (r & b), White Dwarf (Metal), Riley, the Men.

The first Space Place show featured [[Special Affect]] (post [[Al Jourgenson]] - [[Tom Hoffman]] was the guitarist) and the Ferraris. The bass player from the Ferraris was tripping, had some domestic problem , and cut his wrists (superficcially, thank jah) backstage during the third set. That was almost the end of the shows.

Punk bands that played S.P. besides Black Flag included Direct Drive (later AOF), the [[Effigies]], [[Naked Raygun]], [[Strike Under]], [[the Subverts]], [[Silver Abuse]], Young Lions (canada), [[DA!]], the Bag People, the Masterbeats (the totally loudest fukin band I ever heard), People's Temple, the C*nts (with the Meaty Buys in the [[Disturbing Records]] review), the Insect Surfers (Washington DC) /Corrosives / Spitballs/ the Mentally Ill, the Men, James Chance, Desmond, [[Negative Element]], [[End Result]], Amadots

Other not so punk bands included Epicycle, the Dancing Cigarettes (Bloomington), the Oil Tasters (Milwaukee), Big Daddy Sun & The Outer Planets, Amadots, the Guyettes, E-Space, Strange Circuits, Games (with Paul Suszynski - had a song 'Decorate in Red' that was just great!), Hoi Polloi, Painter band / Kate Fagan / the Toasters (with the Disturbing records revue), Poison Squirrel, DRATS!, the CIA, Klik & Swing, the Cult Heroes (Detroit), L7 (detroit), Figures on A Beach (Detroit), the Yard Apes (KC). I'm sure I'm leaving out dozens of names that should be mentioned...

== External Links ==

* [http://www.chicagopunkpix.com/flyers/flyer1.html ChicagoPunkPix Space Place flyers]
* [http://chicagopunkpix.com/forum/index.php?topic=406.0 ChicagoPunkPix thread on Space Place]

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C.O.D.

2007-05-24T19:32:43Z

Marie: /* Notable Shows */

'''Club C.O.D.''' (Come on Down) was a large venue in the Rogers Park/Edgewater area that played punk shows in the early 1980s. Because of its size, only larger acts played at C.O.D.'s - the smaller shows could be booked at [[Misfit's]] only a block away. It was a "remodeled basement club" that could hold "perhaps about a thousand people". C.O.D. met its doom on October 8th or 9th, [[1982]] due to a fire under "mysterious circumstances", similiar to that of [[La Mere Vipere]].

== Location ==

* 1201 W. Devon - Far north side corner of Devon and Sheridan

== Notable Shows ==

* September 17, [[1981]] - The Dead Kennedys, Husker Du
* September 18, 1981 - Husker Du, DK?
* October 1, 1981 - Orchestral Manuevers in the Dark
* October 10, 1981 - Birthday Party, [[The Effigies]]
* October 26, 1981 - Modern English
* December 26, 1981 - Anti-Patsi, [[Naked Raygun]], [[6 Feet Under]]
* February 21, [[1982]] - The Damned
* February 26, 1982 - The Effigies, [[Trial By Fire]]
* March 4, 1982 - Die Kruzen, 6 Feet Under, [[Corrosives]], Oil Tasters
* March 20, 1982 - Flipper
* April 1, 1982 - The Effigies (Bodybag 7" release party), Die Kreuzen
* April 16, 1982 - Red Rockers
* April 17, 1982 - Bad Brains, [[Articles of Faith]]
* July 2, 1982 - Husker Du
* May 18, [[1984]] - The Dickies (post-fire, may be incorrect)

== References ==

* [http://kmier.net/mixed/punks6.html Music and Art in Chicago, 1978-1982] - Location, size and DK show info

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Main Page

2007-05-24T19:30:19Z

Marie:

C.O.D.

2007-05-24T19:27:55Z

Marie: /* Notable Shows */

'''Club C.O.D.''' (Come on Down) was a large venue in the Rogers Park/Edgewater area that played punk shows in the early 1980s. Because of its size, only larger acts played at C.O.D.'s - the smaller shows could be booked at [[Misfit's]] only a block away. It was a "remodeled basement club" that could hold "perhaps about a thousand people". C.O.D. met its doom on October 8th or 9th, [[1982]] due to a fire under "mysterious circumstances", similiar to that of [[La Mere Vipere]].

== Location ==

* 1201 W. Devon - Far north side corner of Devon and Sheridan

== Notable Shows ==

* September 17, [[1981]] - The Dead Kennedys, Husker Du
* September 18, 1981 - Husker Du, DK?
* October 1, 1981 - Orchestral Manuevers in the Dark
* October 10, 1981 - Birthday Party, [[The Effigies]]
* October 26, 1981 - Modern English
* December 26, 1981 - Anti-Patsi, [[Naked Raygun]], [[6 Feet Under]]
* February 21, [[1982]] - The Damned
* February 26, 1982 - The Effigies, [[Trial By Fire]]
* March 4, 1982 - Die Kruzen, 6 Feet Under, [[Corrosives]], Oil Tasters
* March 20, 1982 - Flipper
* April 1, 1982 - The Effigies (Bodybag 7" release party), Die Kreuzen
* April 17, 1982 - Bad Brains
* July 2, 1982 - Husker Du
* May 18, [[1984]] - The Dickies (post-fire, may be incorrect)

== References ==

* [http://kmier.net/mixed/punks6.html Music and Art in Chicago, 1978-1982] - Location, size and DK show info

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1982

2007-05-20T22:11:20Z

Marie:

== Notable Chicago Punk Events in 1982 ==

* [[The Effigies]] release the Bodybag / Security 7-inch
* [[Dave Riley]] moves to Chicago from Detroit
* [[Space Place]] closes its doors
* February 3, 1982 - [[O'Banion's]] closes for good.
* December - [[Steve Albini]] releases the first [[Big Black]] EP, ''Lungs''
* October 8th or 9th - [[COD]] burns down in a fire

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1981

2007-05-11T06:05:55Z

Marie: added Oz closing

== Notable Chicago Punk Events in 1981 ==

* January 24, 1981 - [[Naked Raygun]], [[Strike Under]], and [[Silver Abuse]] play a loft party at 180 N Wacker (the show is discussed at this [http://chicagopunkpix.com/forum/index.php?topic=545.0 CPP thread])
* February 20 and 22, 1981 - [[Oz]] is [http://www.chicagopunkpix.com/Interviews/OZbust.html raided] by Chicago's finest, and owner [[Dem Hopkins]] is briefly jailed
* March 1981 - [[Touch and Go]] releases their first record, a 7" by [http://www.tgrec.com/bands/album.php?id=304 The Fix]
* March 7, 1981 - Bauhaus plays [[Space Place]] with [[Naked Raygun]] opening
* March 9-11, 1981 - [[Busted at Oz]] is recorded at [[Oz]]'s North Broadway location. It would be released on [[Autumn Records]] later that year.
* [http://www.dementlieu.com/~obik/arc/blackflag/81/live0323.html March 23, 1981] - Black Flag plays [[Space Place]]; Husker Du plays the after party at [[Oz]] (the infamous [http://www.thirdav.com/hd_discog/05_live_audio.html#23Mar1981 "blue paint"] show)
* April 1981 - [[Wax Trax]] releases [[Strike Under]]'s '''''Immediate Action''''' 12"
* April 10, 1981 - [[Effigies]] play Oz. A bootleg of this gig exists.
* April 11, 1981 - [[Strike Under]], [[Naked Raygun]] and the [[Effigies]] play [[Space Place]]
* April 15, 1981 - [[Da]] releases their first 7", '''''Dark Rooms'''''
* April 1981 - during Northwestern's spring break, [[Steve Albini]] records [[Big Black]]'s first EP, 'Lungs'
* [http://www.chicagopunkpix.com/flyers/OZ02.html April 24-25, 1981] - D.O.A. plays [[Oz]] with the [[Subverts]]
* May 9th, 1981 - [[Oz]] closed for good.
* [http://www.dementlieu.com/~obik/arc/blackflag/81/live0715.html July 15, 1981] - Black Flag plays Tuts with the [[Effigies]] and [[DV8]]. Flag bassist Chuck Dukowski beats up a bouncer.
* July 16, 1981 - The Fall plays [[Tuts]]; [[Naked Raygun]] opens. For their encore, Raygun plays "Libido" with all the band members completely naked
* August 3, 1981 - Minor Threat plays [[O'Banions]] with Youth Brigade and the Necros
* August 6, 1981 - Husker Du plays the [[Lucky Number]]. The show was [http://www.thirdav.com/zinestuff/coolest16.html reviewed] in the [[Coolest Retard]]
* September 1981 - Minor Threat guitarist Lyle Preslar relocates to Chicago to attend Northwestern. The band temporarily broke up, but would reform less than a year later when Preslar dropped out and returned to DC.
* October 9, 1981 - [[Strike Under]] and [[Naked Raygun]] play [http://www.chicagopunkpix.com/flyers/Gaspar01.html Gaspar's]
* November 1981 - Autumn Records release [[The Effigies]] Haunted Town EP
* November 1981 - [[C.O.D.]] hosts a "punk weekend" with the [[Effigies]], TSOL, Tom Verlaine, and the Professionals. A review in the [http://www.dementlieu.com/~obik/arc/effigies/int_aliveslam.html Chicago Reader] terms the Effigies "the best band in Chicago when it comes to opening the floodgates for manic release."
* [http://www.chicagopunkpix.com/flyers/OB04.html December 12, 1981] - [[Direct Drive]] plays [[O'Banions]]
* December 31, 1981 - [[Naked Raygun]] and [[Trial by Fire]] play [[O'Banions]]

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Main Page

2007-04-06T17:01:57Z

Marie: added name

La Mere Vipere

2007-03-29T02:49:42Z

Marie: added myspace page link

'''La Mere Vipere''' was the world's first punk dance club. It began life as a gay bar, a satellite of another gay bar owned by Noe Boudreau named "The Snake Pit". Located at 2132 N. Halsted St, LaMere held its first "Anarchy Night" on May 8th, [[1977]] (Mother's Day), at the suggestion of Mike "Sparkle" Rivers, a LaMere bartender who also worked at Sounds Good Records, one of the few Chicago record stores to carry the latest punk releases from England. A subsequent "Anarchy Night" on May 29th was reportedly delayed so the bar could play the first Sex Pistols single "God Save the Queen". A three-day event called "Punk-O-Rama" featuring punk films, live performances by local bands and a punk fashion show was held in late June, marking the club's transition to a full-time punk bar. The club soon drew a steady barrage of media attention, the hostility of it's neighbors and the police, and an onslaught of gawkers and tourists. The band Chicago was famously turned away at the door because the bar was already too crowded. According to an interview with former LaMere bartender Monica Lynch, NY culture mavens Steve Maas and Anya Phillips visted the club before Maas opened his own punk disco in downtown Manhattan, The Mudd Club. LaMere was destroyed by a fire on April 27th, [[1978]]. The cirumstances surrounding the fire have always been suspicious and many folks at the time said that there was foul play involved. Some say the police had a hand in the fire, but that could never be substantiated. At a Patti Smith concert at Park West just following the demise of the club, Patti responded to the audience's vocal despair over their loss with the advice that they "build a new one". The untimely end of La Mere Vipere could be seen as the close of the first generation/wave of the Chicago punk movement. Noe Boudreau never opened another punk bar, but did later dj at other clubs including Club 950 and Neo's where he sometimes held nights called "One Eon of Eno by Noe at Neo's". Noe later died of AIDS. After LaMere closed down, the scene shifted to [[Oz]] and [[O'Banion's]], the latter opening a couple months after LaMere's demise. An early 80's attempt by promoters to open a membership-only club called LaMere Vipere in a former near north porno theatre never got off the ground. The former site of LaMere re-opened as a liquor store.

== Staff ==

* [[Noe Boudreau]] - Owner and DJ
* [[Monica Lynch]] - Bartender
* [[Taco Ramone]] - Bartender
* [[Mike Rivers|Mike "Sparkle" Rivers]] - Bartender
* [[Marna]] - Bartender
* [[Dougie Brown|L'il Dougie Brown]] - DJ
* [[Rick Faust|Rick "Radio" Faust]] -DJ
* [[John Molini]] - Doorman
* [[Steve Miglio|Steve "Spin" Miglio]] - Doorman
* [[Daniel Narducy]] - Doorman

== Notable Shows ==

*Punk-O-Rama on June 26th, 1977, featuring [[Sundog Summit]], [[Chicago Toys]] and [[BB Spin]].

== External Links ==

* [http://www.chicagopunkpix.com/LaMere Miscellaneous items available for online viewing]

* [http://www.myspace.com/anarchyatlamerevipere La Mere Vipere MySpace page]

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[[Category:Venues]]

Timeline

2007-02-20T17:35:35Z

Marie: added a date

This timeline is intended to provide a quick overview of the history of punk in Chicago.

This timeline should be limited to Chicago bands, clubs, publications, and so on. The only exceptions are a few "milestone" events that have been included in italics to provide wider context.

This Timeline should not grow to the point where it is too long to be an overview. Please only list one or two significant events for any given entity. Events involving other bands coming to Chicago, or other activities where Chicagoans are not the lead characters, should not be listed here. They can, however, be included on the specific page for that year.

Please add events to the timeline in chronological order with exact dates where possible. Try to limit your entries to a single line. Footnotes should be added where facts are in dispute or indisputable sources are available. Also include links to web sources as part of the footnote if available.

Where a part of a date is not known please indicate that with "??". Unknown dates are listed after known dates. Where an exact month isn't known the season can be used instead using a two letter code.

SP = Spring, SU = Summer, FL = Fall, WN = Winter. Example: summer of 1981 where exact date is not known = SU/??/81

== The Events ==

* ''07/27/73 - New York Dolls record and release "New York Dolls."''
* ''03/31/74 - Punk at CBGB's begins with Television's first performance there. (4)"
* 02/??/76 - [[Skafish]] begins performing in Chicago.
* ''04/23/76 - Ramones release first album, tour London later in July spawning British Punk. (6) (7)''
* 05/05/77 - [[La Mere Vipere]] opens. The first punk discothèque in the whole wide world. (1) (5)
* 06/21/77 - Ramones play B'Ginnings in Schaumburg with [[Skafish]] as warm-up. (9)
* ''10/28/77 - Sex Pistols release first album "Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols."''
* ''11/28/77 - Wire releases first album "Pink Flag". ''
* ??/??/77 - The Greenleaf opens in Rogers Park as a gay bar that plays punk rock music at night.
* ??/??/77 - [[Silver Abuse]] forms.
* ??/??/77 - First issue of [[Gabba Gabba Gazette]]. Chicago's first punk fanzine shared [[La Mere Vipere]]s address. (8)
* 03/??/78 - The Greenleaf is renamed [[Oz]], creating the first of what will be 3 locations.
* 06/??/78 - [[O'Banions]] opens. Along with [[Oz]] a focal point of early Chicago punk.
* 04/27/78 - [[La Mere Vipere]] burns down. (2)
* ''10/??/78 - NYC's Mudd Club opens inspired by Steve Mass's visit to La Mere Vipere. (5)"
* 11/25/78 - [[Wax Trax Records]] opens.
* ''04/27/79 - Patti Smith releases last album ("Wave") before retiring with husband ex-MC5 guitar player Fred "Sonic" Smith''
* ??/??/79 - The [[Space Place]] opens. An important practice space with inexpensive all-ages shows.
* ??/??/79 - [[Neo]] opens. It still survives as Chicago's longest running punk/new wave/goth/alternative night club.
* 04/??/80 - [[Club 950 Lucky Number]], aka "Club 950" and "the Lucky Number", opens.
* ''05/18/80 - Ian Curtis of Joy Division hangs himself.''
* 06/21/80 - [[Naked Raygun]] (as Negro Commando) plays their first show at [[222 S. Morgan St.]] (3)
* 06/??/80 - [[The Wayouts]] form.
* 08/08/80 - [[Oz]] relocates to second location on Hubbard Street near [[O'Banions]]. (10)
* 11/9/80 - [[the Effigies]] play their first show at [[Oz]].
* 12/8/80 - First issue of [[Coolest Retard]] is published. THE premier Chicago punk fanzine. (8)
* 12/31/80 - [[The Wayouts]] play their farewell gig at [[Oz]].
* 02/??/81 - [[Oz]] relocates to third location on Broadway.
* 03/11/81 - "[[Busted at Oz]]" live recording sessions completed.
* 05/09/81 - [[Oz]] closes final third location.
* 05/??/81 - [[Da]] releases "Dark Rooms / White Castles" single on [[Autumn Records]]
* ''10/??/81 - Bad Brains finish recording first album "Bad Brains" for a RIOR cassette-only release''
* ??/??/81 - [[Wax Trax Records]] releases [[Strike Under]]'s "Immediate Action."
* ??/??/81 - [[Articles of Faith]] forms.
* ??/??/81 - The original [[Exit]] on Wells street opens in the former location of Wizards.
* 02/03/82 - [[O'Banions]] closes.
* 12/??/82 - [[Big Black]] releases its first EP "Lungs."
* ??/??/82 - [[Space Place]] closes.
* ??/??/82 - First issue of [[Bullshit Detector]] is published.
* 01/??/83 - [[Matter]] publishes its first issue.
* 07/02/83 - Both [[Breaking Circus]] and [[Silent Language]] debut at the [[Cubby Bear]]
* ''08/23/83 Minor Threat plays their last show''
* ??/??/83 - [[Silver Abuse]] breaks up.
* ??/??/83 - Second (final) issue of [[Bullshit Detector]] is published.
* 03/??/84 - [[Silent Language]] breaks up.
* ''07/??/84 - The Crass play their final gig at a benefit for striking miners in England''
* ??/??/84 - [[The Effigies]] release their first LP "For Ever Grounded" after earlier EPs and a single.
* 07/??/85 - [[Articles of Faith]] play their final show at the [[Cubby Bear]].
* ??/??/86 - [[Touch and Go Records]] relocates to Chicago.
* ??/??/86 - [[Dreamerz]] (aka Club Dreamerz) opens in Wicker Park.
*''07/07/87 - Hüsker Dü release their last studio album "Warehouse: Songs and Stories"''
* ??/??/87 - [[Big Black]] breaks up.
* ??/??/88 - [[Breaking Circus]] breaks up.
* ??/??/99 - [[Rapeman]] forms.
* ??/??/90 - [[Pegboy]] forms.
* ??/??/90 - [[Rapeman]] breaks up.
* 05/??/92 - [[Naked Raygun]] breaks up.
* ??/??/92 - [[Shellac]] forms.
* ??/??/92 - [[Exit]] closes its Wells Street location.
* ??/??/93 - [[Dreamerz]] closes.
* 12/??/00 - The original [[Club 950 Lucky Number]] closes.
* ??/??/00 - [[Pegboy]] disbands, but later has various reunions.

== Footnotes ==

* (1) Date according to Gantry.
* (2) Date according to Gantry.
* (3) Liner notes to the [[Basement Screams]] reissue
* (4) According to Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBGB]
* (5) According to Monica Lynch. Article calls LMV "first punk disco in the country". [http://www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/monica_lynch.shtml]
* (6) Ramones hisory page in Finland [http://www.kauhajoki.fi/~jplaitio/story/ramstory.html]
* (7) Ramones meet the Clash in 1976 [http://website.lineone.net/~murrayramone/strummer.htm]
* (8) Coolest Retard date based on unnumbered issue in the Dementlieu archive. Also note information about the Gabba Gabba Gazette. [http://www.dementlieu.com/%7eobik/arc/zines/index.html]
* (9) Deduced from information in [[Gabba Gabba Gazette]] #3 and [http://www.amazon.com/Ramones-American-Band-Jim-Bessman/dp/0312093691/ref=pd_ybh_a_1/103-2225495-7290269 Ramones: An American Band]
* (10) Date recorded in [[Marie Kanger-Born]]'s date book.

The Warehouse

2007-02-20T02:37:34Z

Marie: added full name of member of supporting crew

'''The Warehouse''' was a practice/show space for local punk bands in the mid-to-late 1980s. It was originally located on Damen and Chicago Avenue.

== History by [[Ted Domurat]] ==

The Warehouse was on Chicago Ave/Damen Ave. (The Old Burnie Brothers Bakery Building). It was our ([[Generation Waste]]) rehearsal place and we started putting on shows there to pay the rent. Basically it was just us with Big [[Mike Johnson]] (the owner/landlord). It started really happening and got a good name for itself being something different from [[Sean Duffy|Sean]]'s shows at [[the Metro]] and [[Cubby Bear]] allowing the smaller local bands who were not [[Lost Cause]] get some gigs with regularity. But ultimately it began just as a means to play to our friends and make a few $$ for the rent.

The South Side guys really embraced The Warehouse and we started a helluva friendship with them. [[John Glynn]] and I met thru this and started to partner up calling ourselves [[ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE PRODUCTIONS]]. (after a zine I was doing) We put on shows wherever we could get a band and a room, like [[Dreamerz]], the Bank (did COC there I remember), . Time passed and eventually the shows became more "professional" ie. smaller touring bands coming thru town. (John's uncle owned McGreevey's and he always was good with organization/management). At this time [[Number Nine]] sorta became our sister band thru this and they played there all the time as well. Don't know if anyone was into the early Chicago death metal scene or not, but we actually had the FIRST and next to only MASTER show there. Probably not as memorable as the GG ALLIN show but that's a thread all on its own. I think I still have the video of that nite too. Man - what a frikkin nightmare that was.

Anyway - flash forward to the big fire. The building became toast - but luckily Big Mike got all the musical equipment out of there. Rumors were it was arson for profit but then again, there was alot of shoddy wanna be business in that building renting space, so who knows who was doing what to who or why and how it sparked the blaze.

'''WAREHOUSE #2'''. We managed to get the third floor of Club Eldorado on Chicago Ave east of Central. Took a while to make something of the place. Big Mike and his boyz somehow managed to get the remnants of some old venues to build something that resembled a normal stage on the south end of the bldg. The north end was three rehearsal rooms. [[Troy Dexler|Troy]] came into the picture as he and I were friends and he was just out of Devastation. [[Sindrome]] wasn't happening at the time yet, but he had $$$$ and walked into some opportunity. I was friends with [[Sean Duffy]] at the time and he would throw me a bone of a big band every so often coming thru that he couldn't accommodate. One of the bands required a guarantee which I couldn't cover and turned to Troy which in turn led him to deal with [[Doug Carren]] (sp??). A regular guarantee of cash led Doug and Troy to strike a relationship and Troy got first dibs on some good bands like 7 Seconds, Exploited, Circle Jerks, etc....... we partnered up, him guaranteeing the bands/Doug and I providing the Warehouse. Since this would put us into competition with Sean, the Metro was out of the question for bands of this size (Sean at this time lost the Metro and started hurting for places - the Cubby Bear wasn't easy for him to secure either). We really didn't want to put the bands in a crappy neighborhood like the Warehouse was at, but didn't have much choice. It was so grass roots, and dangerous too since there were good turnouts, but zero insurance, zero security, zero organization at all.

Anyway, if I'm not mistaken - the Warehouse got shut down unexpectedly for awhile. (actually it was Club Eldorado below that was shut down) but it led to the whole building being locked down. [[Midwest Management|Midwest]]/Troy's last show was the 7 Seconds/Circle Jerks/[[Life Sentence]]/[[Generation Waste]]. Since I couldn't use the Warehouse - the guy who ran [[Durty Nellies]] - (he was always good to us, can't remember his name but I remember he looked like Paul Schaefer) let us do the show there.

Somewhere, I have all of the flyers from the Warehouse days floating around. We had some good bands come thru there - most of all it was really it's own scene for a few years and spun some great relationships out of it. I'd be forgetting some key people but for the sake of being senti"mental" I'll try and remember some of the regulars who made up the crew supporting the place: Natalie, John Glynn, Chris Shopov, Dave Simon, Mike Schaefer, Mark Grobel, Martin (pronounced: Marteen) Sorrondeguy and his sister, Pablo....bands who hung together there alot: Generation Waste (duh!?), [[DSB]], [[Number 9]], [[Devastation]], [[Impulse Manslaughter]], Not-Us/Natas, [[Johnny Vomit]], [[Insolent Respect]], [[No Empathy]]...

== External Links ==

* [http://chicagopunkpix.com/forum/index.php?topic=742.0 CPP thread discussing The Warehouse]

[[Category:Venues]]

Jim Skafish

2007-02-06T01:27:17Z

Marie: added external links

'''Jim Skafish''' was the frontman of [[Skafish]] and one of the biggest names in the Chicago punk/prepunk/newwave/whatever scene before [[1980]]. Though his name isn't well known beyond members of the scene, Jim Skafish is certainly one of the forefathers of the Chicago punk movement.

== Notes ==

* Well known [[WXRT]] DJ [[Bobby Skafish]] is Jim's first-cousin.
* His name is pronounced SKAY-FISH and therefore has nothing to do with Ska music

== External Links ==

* [http://www.myspace.com/skafish Jim Skafish's myspace profile]
* [http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/ourtown/061117/jimskafish/ 2006 Reader Article]

[[Category:Band Members]]
[[Category:1970s]]

Park West

2007-01-29T07:55:53Z

Marie:

'''Park West''' was a large venue (holds up to 900 people) that held new wave punk shows in the late '70's, early '80's. Some of the acts that played there were Romeo Void, XTC, Siouxsie and The Banshees, The Stranglers, Duran Duran, A Flock of Seagulls, and Bow Wow Wow.

== Notes ==

* 322 W Armitage Ave, Chicago
* It was a historic theatre that opened in the 1920's.
* In 1977, it was transformed into the Park West.

== Notable Shows ==

* The Undertones - June 30, [[1980]]

== External Links ==

* [http://www.parkwestchicago.com Venue's website]

[[Category:Venues]]

Hell House

2007-01-29T05:31:59Z

Marie: added quotes from residents

[[Image:HellhouseFlyer.jpg|right|145px]]

'''Hell House''' was a short-lived residence for shows, most of which took place during the summer of [[1988]]. It was called Hell House because it's address was allegedly 666 N. Milwaukee Ave, though the actual address was either 662 or 669 (with the number upside down) North Milwaukee. It housed many local shows and many moments of craziness, including lots of fist fights.

Hell House was also well known for the rumor "that some homeless guy died in the basement and his dog ate his face. No one knew the guy was down there until a nasty smell started wafting upstairs."

The history of Hell House according to one of its resident's, Ru:

"Me, Marco De Oreo, [[Jake LaBotz]], Junkie Stone (the only white P-Stone in the joint). [[Alan Jones]] (he was our token white guy), Jill from Madison, [[Tina Matlock]], Todd, and stepchild potless hippie, Mark Blade. Eric Leather was given a room to crash in early on, but he and Junk did not play well with each other resulting in a whole lot of very bloody violence. We began to live there in the fall of 1987. We opened up to the world on NYE 87-88. Our original idea was to charge $5... to leave. We also planned drug "theme rooms" which occured on their own. We had 2 kegs on each floor, several fights, a pit bull ran around biting people, a stabbing, gunfire, and a massive hangover."

Ru goes on to say, "The original household started to dissolve in the summer of 88. We were more or less executing an experiment in life as performance art. Our disdain of tv, radio, and mirrors coupled with our absolute love of 'perception enhancers' (any enhancer was cool as long as there was a lot) turned it into an impromptu sensory deprivation chaos tank. Basically we all started getting really insane and people just had to get out. I think Alan was the last to leave, I stayed on til somewhere in 89, spring or so. I'd say it stayed pretty fun until fall of 88 when most of us stopped staying home (plus we were going crazy) -we used to have such fun times, sitting around the fireplace drinking ale, and playing the campfire blues songs de morte, our guest room became very floppy and we stopped repairing the front door. Also, some bright kids spread it out that it was free for all squat-it was not. A friend owned it.

The building had 4 addresses, 2 on each side. The one we got the phone bill at was 662-the entrance to the hall going upstairs. The second, to the stage area was 664 or 666, we decided to use 666 because we liked the more harmonic balance of the digits."

Another Hell House resident, Jake La Botz, described the place:

"I was forced into the office of Mayor at Hell House upon my arrival (a few months after it got up and running).

On the third floor (the only floor with heat....we did all the duct work ourselves):

Me and Marko shared the swank penthouse loft with the views of Grand Ave. Ronnie came by regularly to show off his new guns and put a few rounds in our exposed brick walls...(P.S. he taught my 9 yr old brother Leon hot to shoot...Leon is now Leon Del Muerte...a well know Death Metal guitarist...)

Junk had the nice room next to the kitchen...Toad and TUna were in the back room with the rat hole at the end where Ru led his mischievous activites.

2nd Floor:
Marc Blade had the loft behind riot gates (fearing for his life...smart man)
Eric leather was in the room just below Junk with the pitbull that he beat to near extinction every day.
Jones was down the hall eating raw beans (he said they filled him up when they expanded in his tummy).
and...people who werent allowed on the 3rd floor

1st floor:

Bikes, Punk shows, stolen things,
and...people who werent allowed on the 2nd or 3rd floors..."

Regarding the rumor about the homeless guy who died there, the facts according to Ru are this:

"The dead guy: his name was Isadore. He lived in a "backwoods Mississippi rundown shack-sheik" shoebox apt at the S.W. corner of the ground floor. The only time we'd see him was when he would walk his dog around the block and we'd say hey and offer beer. One day we noticed a smell. A week later it was everywhere and had become nauseating. Ronnie came by for the guys rent (like $2.64 a month) and used his key when the guy did not answer. He found him d-e-d dead. He came up and got me because the police, coroner and Isadore's daughter were on the way and he wanted me to help explain why she should not see him. We told her the dog, who loved him dearly, noticed its master was sleeping way too long and the dog was hungry and had to go to the bathroom. After some nudging the dog began to lick his face and licked and licked and in it's hunger it licked a little too hard "you get what we mean", we said. She was like "ohh my god" and broke down. I'm not sure if it was rats, since the dog might have scared them off, but perhaps as the dog did doze, the sneaky rodents got a few nibbles in, freeing the smell of flesh which may have triggered the dog's own carnive\orous instinct- hard to say. It was not pretty and the smell never did go away."

== External Links ==

* [http://chicagopunkpix.com/forum/index.php?topic=670.0 CPP Thread discussing Hell House]

[[Category:Venues]]

The Dadistics

2007-01-29T05:03:21Z

Marie: created pg, hoping for Audrey's future ease of use

The '''Dadistics''' were an early new wave punk band. They played from 1978-1981.

== Members ==

* [[Audrey Stanzler ]] - Vocals
* [[Frank Eck]] - - Drums
* [[Fred Endsley]] - Guitar, Vocals
* [[David Schutt]] - Keyboards
* [[Michael Hernandez]] - Bass
* [[Ed Dietrich]] - Bass (Alternate bass player)

== External Links ==

* [http://www.myspace.com/thedadistics Dadistics new MySpace page]

[[Category:Bands]]

Gary Jones

2007-01-29T04:47:50Z

Marie: correction based on John Davies quote

'''Gary Jones''' was a punk band from very early in the scene, around [[1979]]-[[1981]]. They were quite well known locally and opened up for a few large national acts, such as Iggy Pop.

== Members ==

* [[Tom Masters]] - Vocals and Lyricist
* [[Karen Pocius]] - Vocals
* [[Ty Penn]] - Rhythm guitar and composer
* [[Mark Coutts]] - Lead guitar
* [[J.R. Masters]] - Bass
* [[John Davies]] - Drums
* [[Tim Remmington]] - Keyboards
* [[Ron Tuttle]]- Keyboards

== Releases ==

* ''Science Fiction / What in the World'' 7" ([[Tyfilm Records]], [[1980]])
* ''Friction / Underground'' 7", (Tyfilm, [[1981]])

== History as told by John Davies ==

"I joined Gary Jones in August [[1980]] when they were already headlining most of the Chicago punk/new wave clubs, getting press in the Sun-Times, and had one self-produced single out. I resigned in March 1981. So I would guess that they formed in 1979 or early 1980 and probably disbanded in mid-late 1981. During my tenure with them we recorded our second single, headlined most of the punk/new wave clubs in town, opened for a couple of national acts (Iggy Pop at [[B’ginnings]], and The Kings (“Switch into Glide”) come to mind), twice played a live TV show on a Madison, WI NBC affiliate, were twice more featured in articles by Sun-Times rock critic [[Chuck Pratt]], and in an impromptu telephone poll over [[WNUR]] radio were voted “Chicago’s Best Band” (we stacked the deck in true Chicago fashion).

If I have to categorize Gary Jones, we weren’t what I would call hardcore punk. We had a synth player and our male lead singer was more of a crooner than a shouter, and some of our original arrangements were sophisticated bordering on epic. But we mixed in plenty of buzz saw guitars, fast tempos and punk/new wave sensibilities. Young, Loud, but not Snotty."

== External Links ==

* [http://chicagopunkpix.com/forum/index.php?topic=52.msg1150#msg1150 CPP thread talking about Gary Jones]

[[Category:Bands]]
[[Category:1970s]]

Silver Abuse

2007-01-08T01:39:26Z

Marie: /* Silver Abuse I */

[[Image:Silver abuse in cans.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Final Silver Abuse lineup in garbage cans, circa 1983]]

'''Silver Abuse''' was one of the original punk bands in Chicago, forming in [[1977]]. There were various versions of Silver Abuse, but the original version starred lifetime member [[Bill Meehan]], along with [[Santiago Durango]] and [[Camilo Gonzalez]], early members of [[Naked Raygun]]. Silver Abuse broke up for good in [[1983]]. At some point the members of SA were in [[The Wayouts]], then became Silver Abuse after The Wayouts last show on New Year's Eve, [[1980]]. This is confusing because the Silver Abuse was around before they Wayouts - perhaps they were initially were Silver Abuse, broke up, became The Wayouts, then reformed as Silver Abuse. There was also a later spin-off group called [[Illusion of Safety]].

Sadly, [[Jaqui Disler]] passed away in [[2004]] after a long battle with cancer.

== Silver Abuse I ==

According to a Durango [http://www.dangpow.com/~landed/bigblack/BBFE9.htm interview in Forced Exposure], the original Silver Abuse was a bunch of like-minded high school (Gordon Tech) punk fans who couldn't play their instruments and liked to get drunk on wine and do drugs. They were a five piece and only made it through one song at their very first gig. Opening up at a loft party thrown by [[Tutu and the Pirates]], they started off with the always popular ''Jews Must Die''. That was enough for the crowd... they played one more gig before ending it after Durango left the band. This version of SA never recorded anything except some "cheesy cassettes"

It is also reported that the first SA was at [[La Mere Vipere]] in Spring of [[1978]]. This report is false according to Maxxwell, who was a local scenester of the era:

"The misunderstanding probably comes from the coverage in [[Gabba Gabba Gazzette]] #8, which has photos of the event (which was a benefit for the GGG), and a funny letter of apology for Silver Abuse's performance from Boppin Billy ([[Billy Meehan]]), but does not name a venue, possibly because the venue was illegal. Even though the Gabba Gabba Gazette was not officially affilliated with LaMere at that time, it would have been easy for someone who read the zine, but was not at the event to just assume it happened at LaMere."

Maxxwell explained that LaMere was not a venue for live music. Furthermore, Maxxwell states:

"Since the purpose of live music from the owner's point of view is to attract customers rather than send them screaming out the door hurling beer glasses as they go, it seems unlikely that Noe, cool guy though he was, would have ever selected the first edition of Silver Abuse as an evening's entertainment."

Maxxwell says his recollection of the first SA show matches Santiago's:

"The concert was held at a rented or possibly surreptitously borrowed industrial space temporarily named "Tutu's Placenta." Our anti-heroes stumbled uncertainly to the performance area, some dressed in combat helmets. In my memory they were all wearing Nazi gear and tinfoil masks. However a photo printed in the Gabba Gabba Gazette #8 (Summer 78) shows only the guitarist wearing a Reynolds Wrap facemask (Santiago perhaps trying vainly to conceal his identity) w/German-looking helmet and another member with a combat helmet of unidentifiable origin. Billy is wearing a jean jacket and t-shirt. Only three of the members were pictured. It still seems to me there was more than one tinfoil mask...but I may have been in only slightly better shape than the band. There was a bit of random guitar skronk, and then the band launched into "Jews Must Die". After what seemed an eternity but was probably a minute and a half the band departed the stage, followed by catcalls and possibly a few projectiles.

In a letter to the editor, also printed in GGG number 8, Billy apologizes for the band's performance, admitting that the band "sucked dog diarrhea through a straw". He attributes the band's performance to lack of practice and being too fucked up to play. With uncharacteristic understatement he notes "we never shoulda opened with "Jews Must Die" He also said he was amused by a David Witz review of the show in The Reader. (David Witz,a very mainstream critic, had an ongoing feud with Mary Alice and LaMere).He said the band would continue to perform but without the neo-fascist shtick, which was "just an attempt at a cheap laugh"."

=== Original Lineup ===

* [[Billy Meehan]] - Vocals
* [[Santiago Durango]] - Guitar
* [[Dennis Sosniak]] - Guitar
* [[Camilo Gonzalez]] - Bass
* [[Bob Damrau]] - Drums

== Later Members ==

* [[Jaqui Disler]] - Vocals
* [[Dave Purdie]] - Keyboards
* [[Paul Chabala]] - Guitar
* [[Donnie Krattner]] - Sax
* [[Jim Colao]] - Drums
* Viv (Marla) - Vocals
* [[Liz Cox]] - Vocals
* [[Robert Porche']] - Drums

== Releases ==

* [[Busted at Oz]] Compilation - [[Autumn Records]], [[1981]]
* ''Fall From Grace'' 7" - [[Schwa Records]], [[1982]]

== Notes ==

* They did a cover of Skrewdriver's Antisocial, calling it Anti Hot Dog

== Shows ==

* Spring 1978 at La Mere Vipere - first show, played one song
* February 23, 1981 at [[O'Banion's]] - with [[Naked Raygun]]
* October 24, 1981 at [[Cubby Bear]] - with [[Naked Raygun]]
* March 3, [[1982]] at [[Misfits]] - with [[Trial by Fire]]
* January 23, 1982 at [[Space Place]]
* April 27, [[1983]] at [[Smart Bar]]

== External Links ==

* [http://profile.myspace.com/silverabuse Silver Abuse myspace page]
* [http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/03/chicago_nowave_.html Chicago No-Wave part I - Silver Abuse]

[[Category:Bands]]
[[Category:Silver Abuse]]
[[Category:1970s]]

Zoetrope

2006-09-09T23:01:56Z

Marie: added RIP catagory for Barry

'''Zoetrope''' (pronounced e-trope), was actually a metal band, but deserves recognition within the Chi Punk Archives because they were active participants in the mid- to late 80's hardcore scene. Not to mention that a couple of the band members were regulars at the old punk club, [[O'Banion's]]. The band was influenced by the likes of 7 Seconds, [[Articles of Faith]], [[Rights of the Accused]], [[Life Sentence]], [[Out of Order]], Die Kruezen and created their own form of hardcore thrash, which they dubbed, "street metal." They played alongside the hardcore bands of the day and were responsible for creating a short period of unity between the local punk and metal scenes. After the band broke up and former member went on to other things, Kevin Michael reformed the band with new members, but it really wasn't the same. Barry Stern went on to play in the metal band, "Trouble." Ken Black went on to play in "Sharon Tate's Baby." Calvin Humphrey went on to play with M.O.S.H. (Mean Obnoxious 'Shroom Heads) Sadly, Barry Stern passed away on April 2, 2005, due to complications from recent hip-replacement surgery. He was only 45 years old.

== Members ==

* [[Barry Stern]], vocals, drums
* [[Calvin "Willis" Humphrey]], bass
* [[Ken Black]], guitar
* [[Louie Svitek]], guitar
* [[Kevin Michael]], guitar, after Louie left.

== Releases ==

* '''Amnesty''' ([[Century Media]], [[1985]]).
* '''A Life of Crime"''' (Century Media, [[1987]]).

== References ==

* [http://www.nolifetilmetal.com/zoetrope.htm Discography]

== External Links ==

* [http://www.chicagopunkpix.com/Gallery/thumbnails.php?album=5&page=2 Marie Kanger-Born's band photos.]
* [http://www.chicagopunkpix.com/Barry.html Marie's Barry Stern tribute page (with mp3)]
* [http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=34935 News of Barry Stern's Passing]

== Show Flyer ==
* [With [[Articles of Faith]] at [[Tuts]]]
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f366/MarieKanger-Born/Tuts_Zoe.jpg

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Evil Eye

2006-07-13T03:07:12Z

Marie:

'''Evil Eye''', also known as '''Evil I''', was a band that played in the 1980's. They were particularly notable because the vocalist was female.

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f366/MarieKanger-Born/Carol.jpg

== Members ==

* [[Carol]], vocals
* unknown, bass
* unknown, guitar
* unknown, drummer

== References ==

* [Maximum Rock n Roll, issue 9, November 1983]

[[Category:Bands]]

Six Feet Under

2006-07-12T23:28:06Z

Marie: updated link

'''Six Feet Under''' was one of the oldest punk/hardcore bands, who were around from around [[1980]]-[[1983]]. They are not related to the metal band of the same name. They apparently only released one tape, which is very hard to find.

== Members ==

* Ray Morris, vocals
* Don DeLouise (deceased), guitar
* Mike Mockenhaupt, bass
* Alan "Bagelface" _______, drummer

== Memorable Shows ==

* October 5, [[1980]] at [[O'Banion's]], with [[Strike Under]]
* October 1, 1981 at O'Banion's, with Husker Du
* January 13, [[1983]] at [[Club 950]], with The Rocket 88s
* Opened up for the Misfits at [[Misfits]], the band and the venue
* Opened up for The Damned at [[COD]]

== External Links ==

* [http://www.windycitypunk.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/000008.html Windycitypunk messageboard thread]
* [http://www.chicagopunkpix.com/Gallery/thumbnails.php?album=13 Marie Kanger-Born's live Six Feet Under pics]

[[Category:Bands]]

Negative Element

2006-07-12T23:26:17Z

Marie: updated link

'''Negative Element''' was a punk band from the suburbs of Chicago.

== Members ==

* [[Tom Faulkner]] - Vocals
* [[Barry Steppe]] - Guitar
* [[Chopper Steppe]] - Bass
* [[Keith Lyons]] - Drums

== External Links ==

* [http://profile.myspace.com/negativeelement Negative Element myspace page]
* [http://www.chicagopunkpix.com/Gallery/thumbnails.php?album=10 Marie Kanger-Born's live Negative Element pics]
* [http://www.punkvinyl.com/2005/05/25/selections-from-the-punk-vault-negative-element/ Negative Element in The Punk Vault]

[[Category:Bands]]

Life Sentence

2006-07-12T23:24:53Z

Marie: updated link

'''Life Sentence''' was a popular Chicago punk/hardcore band from the mid 1980s to the early 90s. They were from Itasca and formed out of the ashes of the [[Anti-Bodies]]. They went through a few lineup changes and even some nasty lawsuits between members and the rights to the name.

== Members ==

* [[Eric Brockmann]] - Guitar and Vocals
* [[Joe Losurdo]] - Bass and Vocals (1984-???)
* [[Dave Shornden]] - Drums (Original)
* [[Tom O'Connor]] - Drums
* Waikiki Ted (2nd or 3rd version)
* Ray from [[Six Feet Under]] - Original Vocalist
* [[Gustave Roman]] - Drums

== Releases ==

* Demo Tape - According to [[MXV]], it was "pretty well distributed" - about [[1985]]
* ''Self Titled'' LP - (Walkthrufyre, [[1986]])
:# Problems
:# Race to Die
:# Election Day
:# Men in Blue
:# Punks for Profit
:# Peacetime Death
:# Unemployment
:# In the Streets
:# Figured it Out
:# Take a Stand
:# Open your Eyes
:# Gun Control

== External Links ==

* [http://www.punkvinyl.com/2004/11/21/selections-from-the-punk-vault-life-sentence/ MXV reviews their s/t LP] - Lots of info, history and controversy in the comments section
* [http://www.chicagopunkpix.com/Gallery/thumbnails.php?album=4 Marie Kanger-Born's live pics of Life Sentence]
* [http://indianapolishardcore.com/cblog/index.php?/archives/38-aztecs-lost-classics-2-LIFE-SENTENCE-life-sentence.html Small review on Indy hardcore page]
* [http://www.roctober.com/roctober/sellout.html Funny writeup and LS history by Joe Losurdo]

[[Category:Bands]]

DV8

2006-07-12T22:51:20Z

Marie: updated link

[[Image:DV8-7inch.jpg|thumb|right|DV8]]

'''DV8''' were an early Chicago punk band who played around [[1981]]-[[1982]]. They opened up for Black Flag and released a 7-inch, both in 1981.

== Members ==

* [[Loren Klugman]], vocals and guitar
* [[Bob Hantchett]], bass
* [[Eric Spicer]], drums

== Releases ==

* ''Learn to Say Goodbye / Guns on the Right'' 7" - (1981, [[Tough Records]])
** The record sells for as much as $300 on [[EBay]]

== Notable Shows ==

* July 15, 1981 at [[Tuts]], with Black Flag and [[The Effigies]]
* October 2-3, 1981 at [[Artful Dodger]]

== History ==

Bob and Eric went to high school together in Traverse City, MI. They moved to Chicago in 1979 for "the lack of anything better to do". Bob and Lorin met at The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, where they worked. After DV8, Eric joined [[Naked Raygun]] from [[1984]] to [[1992]]. Loren and Bob never joined another band...

== References ==

* Emails exchanged with Eric Spicer

== External Links ==

* [http://www.chicagopunkpix.com/Gallery/thumbnails.php?album=7 Marie Kanger-Born's live DV8 pics]

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[[Category:Naked Raygun]]