"We live for this stuff!"
I heard that quote as a sign off for every episode of a bikini travel show I used to watch in the early 2000's. As avid fans of original Chicago area metal, punk, alternative rock & power pop, we do indeed live for the music, as we need a constantly new & different supply of the tunes to keep our blood pumping and to face each day and kick ass & take names. You'll get a constantly diverse music smorgasbord here with every episode.
Elgin based Something In The Shadows is a smorgasbord metal band if ever there was one. They are not just screamo lead vocals and sludgy riffs. There are moments of melodic vocals & folky acoustic tones. They'll showcase this diversity Sunday at W.C. Social Club in West Chicago. I Talk with singer Konrad Gostomski.
He once wrote a song titled Heavy Metal (for the Red Rocker, former Van Halen (Van Hagar singer Sammy Hagar) as a solo tune for the low budget 1981 animated sci fi film of the same name. Jim Peterik has written so many songs of different genres, from horn band driven jazz with his longtime first band Ides Of March (Vehicle) to funky pop rock (Eye Of The Tiger). He is a true rock Survivor. We pay tribute with a birthday salute. He'll turn 73 Saturday.
When New Lenox thrash metal band End Of Anarchy rocked around the Chicagoland from 2012-2016, they were often called a Metallica/Megadeth tribute band. All members, including singer Tommy Denniger were reviving an era of metal way before they were born or in their infancy youth. They convinced me that Metallica's big period (1984-88) was resurrected when they rocked live at Star Bar in Chicago Ridge, seven years ago this week. We rock back to it.
Aging veteran rock fans & young skater punks, come together and groove to this:
Something In The Shadows-Fairytale
Something In The Shadows-Guerilla Warfare
Ceruleum-Frayed
Jim Peterik & World Stage (with Kevin Cronin of REO Speedwagon)-Dangerous Combination
Jim Peterik & World Stage (with Buddy Guy)-Vehicle
Survivor-Rebel Girl
Black Road-Witch Of The Future
The Bad Examples- Big E Chord
End Of Anarchy (interview from Star Bar Chicago Ridge-11/10/16 Local Loft Episode 42)
End Of Anarchy-The Ripper
End Of Anarchy-Onslaught
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