Local Loft Episode 149

When will it end? Pandemics don't last forever. Music that has a distinctive hook and sound, does (when it leaves a lasting impression and memory in your brain.

Apart from all COVID chaos, tis still the season for gift giving. The gift of music is the reward for helping needy children have a great Christmas. Two Toys For Tots local music shows will go on despite the scary situations. Chicago Grunge trio Dead Original,who was to be a part of the second of two shows, have cancelled. Discover this unique resurrection of the genre that rocked the nineties The band ,led by Paul Wandtke, was once in one of the biggest national melodic hard rock bands, Trivium. Their music is a surprising throwback to the Grunge period of the early nineties, when bands like Nirvana Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden ruled the roost.

Angelina Van Arden was a tough as nails, yet very lovely and vocally talented singer for the obscure Rockford based hard rock band, Devils In Angels. Seven years ago this week, I introduced her to listeners of the Kat 105.5.

Forgotten guitar hero, Pat Catalano was actively involved in giving the gift of live local music, while music fans gave the gift of toys for needy kids. He was involved in organizing Toys For Tots local concerts in Chicago Ridge. A rock back ten years ago this week, when Pat and singer Dean Pressly, visited The Kat 105.5 studio to share their old school new wave of eighties style metal.

Along with these, you're socially distantly head banging underneath the mistletoe with:

Dead Original-Let It Burn

Dead Original-Restrained

Dark Sun-Devil's Back

Eyes Of Anguish-All Consuming Fire (live at Terminus Theatre, Lake Villa)

Shitizen-Hel

Endgame-One Last Time

Darker Than Fiction-House Of Glass

Angelina Van Arden(interview in The Kat 105.5 studio-11/28/13)

Devils in Angels-Hot Summer Days

Devils In Angels-Save Me

Broken-Darkness Falls

Pat Catalano(Interview in The Kat 105.5 studio-12/2/10)

Catalano-Changes

Catalano-Sicilian Kiss

Catalano-Running With The Wind