He had plenty of tattoos and a greased handlebar mustache and hair. The Aldermen were 1950’s or something and the guitarist even pulled up outside on a huge chopper. Farm Team was a local band who played absolute noise and I really dug them. Everybody was in at least one bowling league with people from work or church. At that time Bowling was very popular, Chicago being a blue collar town, was a bowling mecca. Not suprisingly, they were not up to the challenge and stood quietly in the back then left. Fireside Bowl is an original family owned Chicago Bowling Alley established in the 1940’s. Hilger commented live that we love the Misfits and we will play them every fucking time whether anyone likes it or not. We are excited to bring a taste of Trinidad to Moreno Valley and the I.E. The rest of the set of uneventful.ĭuring our set, we played ‘All Hell Breaks Loose’ last by the Misfits especially for him. Fireside Bowl Caribbean Food serves authentic Trinidadian curry bowls, catering & more. He ignored me of course and tried to impress and bunch of girls who had come to see us and eventually jumped into the ‘crowd’ (what little there was) and landed on them. He punched himself a few times and I stood in the near empty club right in front of the stage egging him on for more self-destruction and other taunts. I had no respect for their singer because of his past bullshit and his ‘shocking’ antics which did not fly with me. Musically, I cannot deny that they were tight, original and overall professional. Fireside began hosting live music again in 2010, but. During their set he wore the same crazy outfit and sweated up a storm. Interestingly, the Fireside Bowl website makes no mention of this hard-partying era, saying only, Logan Square became a bit unruly. Then he turned to us and I said that that was us. He commented to one of his band members, not knowing that we were the band, “Low Profile…wait a minute…I remember this band”. As we waited outside for the doors to be unlocked, their singer saw a sticker that had been freshly put up about 1 minute ago by Hilger. I was ready to confront them and fight if need be. In short, they had insulted us and also started a fight they couldn’t finish with a wild metal band due to their frontman’s antics. If you missed out during its prime, consider yourself both lucky and unlucky.This show was with the Circus - a band we had played with before. But with nostalgia as a motivator, the Fireside again began booking intermittent shows in 2010, including a handful of groups (such as The Appleseed Cast) that played there back in the day. It mostly functions as such now-and, thankfully, its digs are much more pleasant. Since a renovation in ’04, the Fireside returned to its 1940s roots as a neighborhood bowling alley (and, all the while, kept its old-school exterior). Bringing in talent from Mastodon to Tortoise to (shudder) Fall Out Boy, it was the A-list punk club with D-list facilities-one where you prayed not to need to pee. By cmo2user in Logan Square, Rock, Venues Ĭan a dirty, dumpy, run-down bowling alley be legendary? For Chicago’s punk and hardcore scenes, the answer is yes: from 1994 to 2004, Fireside Bowl hosted scores of the best punk, hardcore, metal, and indie bands while its bowling lanes were essentially defunct.
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