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Shows of note as of 02/17/94 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ The Chicago Shows List: Smooth and spreadable, and what's so incredible, it's ready when you are and when you aren't +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ NOTE for those wanting Pearl Jam tickets: They went on sale today (Thursday) and sold out instantly. I heard about tickets after the fact; otherwise I'd have announced it earlier. My apologies New this week: 2 Fast 4 Love / Strawberry / Ball Harvester, Lounge Ax Certain Distant Suns / The Lupins / They Came In Droves, Metro Cowboy Junkies / Freedy Johnston, Riviera Theatre (tix Sat noon) Dave Koz, Park West Dead Milkmen / Simple Simon, Metro Donkey / Rockin' Billy & The Wild Coyotes, Lounge Ax The Ex + Tom Cora / Tortoise, Lounge Ax Fishbone / Biohazard / Kyuss, The Vic (tix Sat noon) For Love Not Lisa, Metro Green Day / Tilt / Smoking Popes, The Vic (tix Sat noon) I Speak Jive / Palmolive / Chromebaby, Metro MOTO / John Corbett & David Grubbs / Sabalon Glitz / Dolomite, Doorika Mercy Rule / Trenchmouth, Gotham Michael Hedges, Park West Paul K. & The Weathermen / The Waste Kings / Carnival Strippers, Lounge Ax Pogues / Shoulders, The Vic (tix Sat noon) Rickie Lee Jones, The Vic (tix Sat noon) Robert Cray Band / Joe Louis Walker, Rialto Square Theatre (tix Sat noon) The Samples, The Vic (tix Sat noon) Skatalites / Skapone / Mustard Plug / The Invaders, Metro Slim Dunlap, Avalon Stone Billies / 92 Degrees, Metro Surgery, Avalon Top secret Poi Dog Pondering show, Lounge Ax Unsane, Lounge Ax ("disturbing!") Uptighty / Booty Froot, Metro Widespread Panic, The Vic (tix Sat noon) Abbey Pub: 3420 W. Grace (at Elston) / (312) 478-4408 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 18 Fri 8:00 Altan 18 Fri 10:00 Altan Aragon Ballroom: Lawrence at Broadway --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 25 Fri Black Sabbath / Motorhead / Morbid Angel Mar 17 Thu UB40 / US3 Avalon: 959 West Belmont / (312) 472-3020 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mar 09 Wed *Surgery 26 Sat *Slim Dunlap Cafe Kismet: 131 N. Genesee, Waukegan / (708) 244-1111 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 25 Fri 8:30 The Smoothies Chicago Stadium --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mar 10 Thu Pearl Jam / Urge Overkill ==SOLD OUT== (tix and Urge) Cubby Bear (21+): 1059 W. Addison / (312) 327-1662 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mar 05 Sat 8:00 Tommy Chong 05 Sat 11:00 Webb Wilder Doorika: 218 N. Laflin / (312) 243-6819 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 19 Sat 8:30 *MOTO / John Corbett & David Grubbs / Sabalon Glitz / Dolomite Elbo Room: 2871 N. Lincoln, (312) 549-7700 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 27 Sun Exene Cervenka / Professor Griff / Don Bajema (Spoken word) Empty Bottle: 1035 N. Western / (312) 276-3600 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 18 Fri The Waste Kings / The Mortals 19 Sat The Sea And Cake / The Joy Poppers Mar 06 Sun Morphine COMING: Veruca Salt, Boy King, Venison, God Bullies, Johnboy, Dis, Mother, God & Texas, Hog Lady, Squash Blossom, The Forbidden Dimension, Honcho Overload, Steakdaddy Six Fitzgerald's: 6615 Roosevelt Rd., Berwyn / (708) 788-2188 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mar 25 Fri Webb Wilder 26 Sat Webb Wilder Gotham: 444 N. Des Plaines / (312) 666-1515 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 18 Fri *Mercy Rule / Trenchmouth Lounge Ax (21+): 2348 N. Lincoln / (312) 525-6620 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 18 Fri Red Red Meat / Boy King 19 Sat Matt Wilson & Planet Maker / The Dysfunctionells 20 Sun *Top secret Poi Dog Pondering show 22 Tue 7:00 Flop / Rosehips 23 Wed *Donkey / Rockin' Billy & The Wild Coyotes 24 Thu *Paul K. & The Weathermen / The Waste Kings / Carnival Strippers 25 Fri John Hiatt ==SOLD OUT== 26 Sat *The Ex + Tom Cora / Tortoise 27 Sun *2 Fast 4 Love / Strawberry / Ball Harvester Mar 03 Thu *Unsane ("disturbing!") 05 Sat Morphine COMING: Hazel, Truman's Water, Flap, Sugarsmack, Shorty, Antenna, Falstaff, Nicholas Tremulis, Uncle Tupelo, Joe Henry and off-street parking Metro: 3730 N. Clark / (312) 549-0203 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 18 Fri 10:00 FREE Flaming Lips (18+) ==SOLD (sic) OUT== 19 Sat The Drovers / Big Hat / Daniel McGuiness (18+) 23 Wed Surrendur Dorthi / Third Stone / Obvious 24 Thu Bob Mould / Vic Chesnutt ==SOLD OUT== 25 Fri Slim Dunlap / Ike Reilly; Community #9 / The Gel-Tones 26 Sat 7:30 Well Of Souls / Cut / Big'N 26 Sat 11:30 Almost True / Yard Sale (18+) Mar 04 Fri 9:30 $3 *I Speak Jive / Palmolive / Chromebaby (aa) 04 Fri 7:30 Machines Of Loving Grace / Course of Empire 04 Fri Redd Kross / Dandelion / Lava Sutra 05 Sat 7:30 *Dead Milkmen / Simple Simon (aa) 05 Sat 11:30 *Uptighty / Booty Froot 11 Fri Jawbox / Girls Against Boys / Trenchmouth 12 Sat 7:30 *Certain Distant Suns / The Lupins / They Came In Droves (aa) 12 Sat 11:30 *Stone Billies / 92 Degrees 15 Tue Tripping Daisy / Eve's Plum 18 Fri *Skatalites / Skapone / Mustard Plug / The Invaders 19 Sat Rev. Horton Heat / Flat Duo Jets / Run Westy Run 25 Fri *For Love Not Lisa Number One Soul: 127 S. Grove, Elgin / (708) 697-5304 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 19 Sat Vic Vacume & The Attachments / Gel-Tones / Wickerman / Killer Kitchen Utensils Off The Alley: 18061 S. Dixie Hwy at Ridge, Homewood / (708) 798-2252 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 19 Sat 7:00 $5 Faith / Mystified Thinking / As Slow As Nails 20 Sun 6:30 $5 The Queers / Winepress / The Bollweevils / The Fighters 26 Sat 7:00 $5 Snap Judgement / Tortoise / Worm Hole Mar 31 Thu 7:00 Jawbreaker (tix available at the Queers show or at Record Swap if they don't sell out) Park West (21+): 322 W. Armitage --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 18 Fri Kurtis Blow / Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five / Kool Moe Dee & The Original Treacherous Three / Sugarhill Gang / Whodini ==CANCELLED== 20 Sun Celine Dion ==SOLD OUT== 24 Thu 7:00 John Hiatt ==SOLD OUT== 25 Fri 7:30 Warren Zevon / John & Mary Mar 01 Tue 7:30 Mr. Big / Open Skyz (aa) 10 Thu 7:30 Oleta Adams (aa) 18 Fri 7:30 *Dave Koz 24 Thu 7:30 The Roches 25 Fri 7:30 Shawn Colvin acoustic ==SOLD OUT== 25 Fri 10:30 Shawn Colvin acoustic ==SOLD OUT== Apr 10 Sun *Michael Hedges Reckless Records: 3157 N. Broadway / (312) 404-5080 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 19 Sat 3:00 FREE Red Red Meat Rialto Square Theatre: Joliet --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mar 19 Sat *Robert Cray Band / Joe Louis Walker (tix Sat noon) Riviera Theatre: 4746 N. Racine (Lawrence & Broadway) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 23 Wed 7:00 John Hiatt ==SOLD OUT== Mar 05 Sat 7:00 1900 Joe Satriani / Rollover 08 Tue 7:30 Blind Melon ==SOLD OUT== 22 Tue 7:30 1930 Cocteau Twins / Luna 23 Wed 6:30 1830 Sepultura / Fudgetunnel / Clutch / Fear Factory 26 Sat 7:00 *Cowboy Junkies / Freedy Johnston (tix Sat noon) Rose Records: 3259 N. Ashland --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 22 Tue 5:30 FREE James live in-store Rosemont Horizon: Touhy & Mannheim, Rosemont --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 24 Thu 7:30 Rod Stewart Mar 29 Tue 7:30 Rush / Primus 30 Wed 7:30 Rush / Primus Schubas Tavern (21+): 3759 N. Southport (at Belmont) / (312) 525-2508 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 26 Sat John Hiatt ==SOLD OUT== The Vic (21+): 3145 N. Sheffield --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 16 Wed 7:30 The Wonder Stuff / Chapterhouse (aa) 17 Thu 7:30 Poi Dog Pondering (aa) ==SOLD OUT== 18 Fri 7:30 Poi Dog Pondering (aa) ==SOLD OUT== 19 Sat 7:30 Poi Dog Pondering (aa) ==SOLD OUT== 20 Sun 7:30 James (aa) ==SOLD OUT== 26 Sat 7:30 Buffalo Tom / The Spinanes / St. Johnny (aa) Mar 11 Fri *Rickie Lee Jones (tix Sat noon) 18 Fri 8:00 Andreas Vollenweider (aa) (Reserved seating so forget your hopes for a pit) 19 Sat 7:30 *Pogues / Shoulders (aa) (tix Sat noon) 22 Tue *Fishbone / Biohazard / Kyuss (tix Sat noon) 27 Sun 7:00 $10 *Green Day / Tilt / Smoking Popes (aa) (tix Sat noon) 31 Thu 7:30 *Widespread Panic (aa) (tix Sat noon) Apr 01 Fri 7:30 Richard Thompson and his band (aa) 08 Fri 7:30 *The Samples (aa) (tix Sat noon) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The code list: * new listing 18+ 18-and-over 21+ 21-and-over aa all ages K or U Kosher All shows are all ages except where noted. All ticket prices are rounded up to the next dollar. The contestant who comes closest to the actual retail price of their showcase, without going over, wins that showcase. All information listed is subject to change. Phone First. This list is available as a weekly mailing on the Internet. You can also get it through some WWW something or other that I will list here as soon as I have the info on it. Subscriptions: Liz Clayton <lclayton@uhuru.uchicago.edu> Ask her to add you to the mailing list for the Chicago Shows List. Be specific; she maintains more than one list. Also, thank her for starting this thing. Everything else: Andy Lester <alester@farpost.chi.il.us> (preferred) or <alester@mcs.com> (if you must) Send any additions, requests, errors (gasp!) or whatever else to me. 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