On How A Photo Set Makes Me Want To Rock Again

[thekingoftoday]

I woke up this morning and looked at the top of my left hand. Underneath the hair I've grown there in the last ten years, I noticed a list of numbers written in blue ink, the result of a 12-hour inventory marathon yesterday that began at 4:00am. Many people became upset and infuriated by the end of the day, being asked, nay told to stay until

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[soul_spider]

As a reader of Maximumrocknroll for years, the Fireside Bowl was one of those places that seemed to always be mentioned as the epicenter of awesome shows - like Emo's or ABC No Rio or the Middle East or 924 Gilman. I was a huge fan of 8-Bark and Los Crudos as well as some of the older Chicago punk bands like Articles of Faith and Naked Raygun, so the Chicago scene always seemed really fucking cool.

In 2002, when my friends The Hudson Falcons and The GC5 ended up playing there with their friends, Callaghan, I took a 13 hour train ride from Syracuse to Chicago to see that show

[thekingoftoday]

I saw them 4 more times after that because of other bands I liked on the same bill. Each time I liked them more on record than in person.

[xtreem_aaron]

i got mugged outside of there once in 1995.

[thekingoftoday]

that sounds like an awesome experience.

[xtreem_aaron]

well, i'd gotten fucked up with kim deal earlier that night (her band the amps were playing), so it kinda was.