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March 17, 1994

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What are these lists?
                    Shows of note as of 03/17/94
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 New this week:
     7 Seconds, Oak Theatre
     Apocalypse Hoboken / Sick 'n' Tired / Lunkhead / Winepress, Elhmurst
         VFW Hall
     Bailter Space, Lounge Ax
     Bob Dylan, Riviera Theatre  (tix Fri 10am)
     Carcass / Pitchshifter / Aftermath, Oak Theatre
     Chris Connelly, Metro
     Dyslexic Apaches / Brown Betty / Marble, Metro
     Entombed / Unsane / The Obsessed, Oak Theatre
     Gauge / Tiny / Gainsay / Third Rail Rhyme, Elhmurst VFW Hall
     Green Street / Lorenzo Music / Tiny / Miss Erie, The Crawlspace
     John Wesley Harding, Schubas Tavern  (tix Sat 10am)
     Maestro Subgum & The Whole, Reckless Records
     Melvins / The Obsessed, Metro
     The Mother Fuckers / Offsides / tba, Scrap Skate Park
     No Empathy / Sauce Kings / Vegas Witchcraft / Sweet Polly / Mudkicker,
         3rd Floor
     Pantera in-store meet'n'greet, Rolling Stones Records
     Pere Ubu, Avalon
     Pink Floyd, Soldier Field  (tix Sat 10am w/wristband)
     Prong, Avalon
     Quaker Youth Ensemble / Luck Of Eden Hall, Metro
     Railroad Jerk, Lounge Ax
     Red Red Meat / The Sea & Cake / Dolomite, Metro
     Robespierre (formerly Chia Pet) / Hoodwink / Fur, Beat Kitchen
     Salt-n-Pepa / R.Kelly / Kid Capri / Xscape, Uic Pavilion  (tix Sat
         10am)
     Seaweed / Bivouac / Braniac, Metro
     Shonen Knife / Dentists, Metro
     The Slugs / Hushdrops / Marble, Beat Kitchen
     Smoking Popes / No Empathy / Oblivion, Metro
     Stanley Jordan, Cubby Bear
     These Days / Infraction / Wishbook, Metro
     Veruca Salt / Loud Lucy, Metro
 
 
 Avalon:  959 West Belmont / (312) 472-3020
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 Mar 26 Sat              Slim Dunlap
 Apr 19 Tue              *Pere Ubu
     30 Sat              *Prong
 
 
 Beat Kitchen (21+):  2100 W. Belmont / (312) 281-4444
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 Mar 25 Fri              *The Slugs / Hushdrops / Marble
 Apr 01 Fri              *Robespierre (formerly Chia Pet) / Hoodwink / Fur
 
 
 The Crawlspace: 952 Newport (at Clark/Sheffield/Newport)
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 Mar 18 Fri 6:30 $5      *Smoking Popes / Tommyrot / Winepress / Smuggling
                             Yo-yos
     19 Sat 6:30 $5      *Green Street / Lorenzo Music / Tiny / Miss Erie
 
 
 Crobar:  1543 N. Kingsbury / (312) 587-1313
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 Mar 24 Thu              Stabbing Westward / The Raving Mad
 
 
 Cubby Bear (21+):  1059 W. Addison / (312) 327-1662
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 Mar 31 Thu              Spies Who Surf
 Apr 24 Sun              *Stanley Jordan
 
 
 Elhmurst VFW Hall: Addison & Hahn, Elmhurst
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 Mar 13 Sun 6:30 $5      *Gauge / Tiny / Gainsay / Third Rail Rhyme (aa)
     20 Sun 6:30 $5      *Apocalypse Hoboken / Sick 'n' Tired / Lunkhead /
                             Winepress (aa)
     25 Fri 6:30 $5      *Smoking Popes / Tommyrot / Hoodwink / The
                             Fighters (aa)
 
 
 Elmhurst YMCA
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 Mar 19 Sat 8:00 $4      No Empathy / Lagosi / Double Odd Buck
 
 
 Fitzgerald's:  6615 Roosevelt Rd., Berwyn / (708) 788-2188
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 Mar 25 Fri              Webb Wilder
     26 Sat              Webb Wilder
 
 
 Lounge Ax (21+):  2348 N. Lincoln / (312) 525-6620
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 Mar 18 Fri              Nicholas Tremulis / Blind Venetians
     19 Sat              New Bomb Turks / Screw Party / Vic Vacume
     20 Sun              Motorhome / Dysfunctionells / Lazy / Hairshirt
     22 Tue              Uncle Tupelo
     23 Wed              Uncle Tupelo
     24 Thu              Uncle Tupelo
     25 Fri              Coctails / Man or Astroman?
     26 Sat              Killdozer / Dazzling Killmen / Faucet
     27 Sun              Th Faith Healers
     30 Wed              Neurosis / Buzz Oven / Wickerman
     31 Thu              Church Key
 Apr 01 Fri              Elliot Sharp's Carbon
     02 Sat              Rodan record release party
     08 Fri              Yo La Tengo
     09 Sat              Don Caballero
     16 Sat              *Railroad Jerk
     23 Sat              *Bailter Space
     30 Sat              The Silos
 
 COMING: Lazy, Joe Henry, Dazzling Killmen, Neurosis, God Street Wine, Wool,
         Mule, Silkworm, Crain, Edsel, Lungfish, God & Texas, Faust, Spavid,
         Neurosis, Vandermark Quartet, Sleepyhead, Janitor Joe, Prisonshake,
         Specula, Crain, Railroad Jerk
 
 
 Metro:  3730 N. Clark / (312) 549-0203
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 Mar 18 Fri              Skatalites / Skapone / Mustard Plug / The Invaders
     19 Sat              Rev. Horton Heat / Flat Duo Jets / Run Westy Run
     23 Wed 9:30 $3      Camel Toe / Masses / Tung Driven (18+)
     25 Fri 7:30         Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine (aa)
     25 Fri 11:59        For Love Not Lisa / Concussion Ensemble (18+)
     26 Sat 11:59        Mazzy Star / Cath Carroll / Acetone (18+)
     27 Sun              Fig Dish / Galaxy Of Mailbox Whores / Lava Sutra
     30 Wed 9:30         *These Days / Infraction / Wishbook
 Apr 01 Fri 7:30         David Lee Roth ==SOLD OUT==
     01 Fri 11:30        *Veruca Salt / Loud Lucy
     02 Sat              Queen Sarah Saturday / Almost True
     08 Fri 7:00         *Seaweed / Bivouac / Braniac
     08 Fri 11:30        *Quaker Youth Ensemble / Luck Of Eden Hall
     09 Sat 7:00         *Dyslexic Apaches / Brown Betty / Marble
     09 Sat 11:30        *Chris Connelly
     15 Fri 7:00         *Smoking Popes / No Empathy / Oblivion
     15 Fri 11:30        Royal Crescent Mob / NIL8 / Spank Wagon
     23 Sat              Ozric Tentacles
     25 Mon              *Melvins / The Obsessed
     29 Fri              *Shonen Knife / Dentists
     29 Fri              *Red Red Meat / The Sea & Cake / Dolomite
 May 05 Thu              Pavement / 3Ds
 
 
 Oak Theatre:  Armitage & Western / (312) 235-0088
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 Mar 20 Sun 6:30         Meatmen / New Bomb Turks / The Adicts / The
                             Hedonists (tix at the door)
 Apr 03 Sun 7:00         *Entombed / Unsane / The Obsessed (aa)
     10 Sun 7:00 $10     *Carcass / Pitchshifter / Aftermath (aa)
     23 Sat              *7 Seconds
 
 
 Off The Alley:  18061 S. Dixie Hwy at Ridge, Homewood / (708) 798-2252
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 Mar 19 Sat              Sled / Ultra Violence
     26 Sat              Wormhole / Bad Genes
     31 Thu 7:00         Jawbreaker / Bollweevils / Winepress
 
 
 Park West (21+):  322 W. Armitage
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 Mar 18 Fri 7:30         Dave Koz
     24 Thu 7:30         The Roches / David Roche
     25 Fri 7:30         Shawn Colvin acoustic ==SOLD OUT==
     25 Fri 10:30        Shawn Colvin acoustic ==SOLD OUT==
 Apr 09 Sat 7:30         Laurie Anderson ("An Evening Of Readings from her
                             new book")
     10 Sun 7:30         Michael Hedges
     15 Fri              The Subdudes / Pat McLaughlin
     23 Sat              The Benoit/Freeman Project
 
 
 Reckless Records:  3157 N. Broadway / (312) 404-5080
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 Mar 19 Sat 3:00 FREE    *Maestro Subgum & The Whole
 
 
 Rialto Square Theatre:  Joliet
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 Mar 19 Sat              Robert Cray Band / Joe Louis Walker
 
 
 Riviera Theatre:  4746 N. Racine (Lawrence & Broadway)
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 Mar 22 Tue 7:30         Cocteau Twins / Luna
     23 Wed 6:30         Sepultura / Fudgetunnel / Clutch / Fear Factory
     25 Fri 6:00         Ramones / Frank Black
     26 Sat 7:00         Cowboy Junkies / Freedy Johnston
     28 Mon 7:30         Crowded House / Sheryl Crow
 Apr 01 Fri 7:30         Richard Thompson and his band
     17 Sun 7:30         *Bob Dylan (tix Fri 10am)
     18 Mon 7:30         *Bob Dylan (tix Fri 10am)
 
 
 Rolling Stones Records:  Harlem & Irving, Norridge
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 Mar 23 Wed 7:00         *Pantera in-store meet'n'greet
 
 
 Rosemont Horizon:  Touhy & Mannheim, Rosemont
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 Mar 29 Tue 7:30         Rush / Primus ==SOLD OUT==
     30 Wed 7:30         Rush / Primus
 
 
 Schubas Tavern (21+):  3759 N. Southport (at Belmont) / (312) 525-2508
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 Apr 12 Tue              *John Wesley Harding (tix Sat 10am)
     13 Wed              *John Wesley Harding (tix Sat 10am)
 
 
 Scrap Skate Park:  2350 Hassel, Hoffman Estates / (708) 884-0945
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 Apr 18 Mon              *The Mother Fuckers / Offsides / tba
 
 
 Soldier Field: Where the Bears play
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 Jul 12 Tue 8:30 $25/35  *Pink Floyd (tix Sat 10am w/wristband)
 
 
 Star Plaza Theater:  1-65 & US 30, Merrillville, IN / (312) 734-7266
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 Apr 10 Sun              Tom Jones
 Jun 18 Sat              Kansas / ELO
 Aug 07 Sun              Willie Nelson / Waylon Jennings / Asleep at the
                             Wheel
 
 
 3rd Floor:  223 E. Chicago St., Elgin
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 Mar 26 Sat 6:00 $5      *No Empathy / Sauce Kings / Vegas Witchcraft /
                             Sweet Polly / Mudkicker (aa)
 
 
 Tower Records:  2301 N. Clark (at Belden) / (312) 477-5994
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 Mar 22 Tue 5:00         Material Issue
     26 Sat 2:00         Cowboy Junkies
 
 
 Uic Pavilion:  U. Of I. Chicago, 1140 W. Harrison / (312) 413-5740
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 May 15 Sun              *Salt-n-Pepa / R.Kelly / Kid Capri / Xscape (tix
                             Sat 10am)
 
 
 The Vic (21+):  3145 N. Sheffield
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 Mar 18 Fri 8:00         Andreas Vollenweider (aa) (Reserved seating)
     19 Sat 7:30         Pogues / Shoulders (aa) ==SOLD OUT==
     22 Tue 7:00         Fishbone / Biohazard / Kyuss
     24 Thu              Tori Amos ==SOLD OUT==
     25 Fri 8:00         The Junction (18+)
     26 Sat 10:00        Mr. Blotto / Cathy Richardson (18+)
     27 Sun 7:00 $10     Green Day / Tilt / Smoking Popes (aa) ==SOLD OUT==
     31 Thu 7:30         Widespread Panic (aa)
 Apr 02 Sat 7:30         John McLaughlin (21+)
     08 Fri 7:30         The Samples (aa)
     30 Sat              Sarah McLachlan / The Devlins
 
 
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 The code list:
     *       new listing
     18+     18-and-over
     21+     21-and-over
     aa      all ages
 
 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.
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