Overall, I think it really retains the VHS aesthetic it deserves.
The luminance levels for digitization were adjusted mainly to see Greg's face and those of the crowd-but the fluorescents are totally blown out. It's curious that the anonymous camera person never zooms in on the band. The tracking errors at the bottom of frame are "burned into" this generation from dubbing. HOME PRICES LEAGUE INFO LEAGUE RESULTS LOCATION LINKS Fireside Bowl. As will be evident, the quality of this bootleg is fair-to-poor. We used to drive into the city from the suburbs to buy VHS copies of the shows we had attended at the Fireside Bowl, which was.well, really, beyond words: an incredible place on earth. Come in and have a drink with us in the lounge.
They always had a slew of videotaped Chicago punk shows for sale on VHS, with crappy monotone colored photocopy covers (I think this cover was blue). Located just off the Kennedy Expressway, Fireside Bowl is easy to get to, we have the perfect enviroment for Corporate parties, office parties, Birthdays and special events. This video is a bootleg that was purchased at The Clubhouse, next door to The Metro on Clark Street in Chicago. fireside has been a part of chicagos andersonville neighnorhood forever. The college conferences that would have tie-ins with the bowl are the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and the Big Ten Conference. John Konstantaras/Chicago News Cooperative. Admission was $5, and The Bouncing Souls played with The Bollweevils, Face Value, and Bughunt. The Chicago Bowl is a proposed NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision college football bowl game to be played in Chicago, Illinois at Wrigley Field. Damien Christian and Laura Zielinski of The Blind Staggers played July 20. According to The Chicago Shows List Archive, this show was on Sunday, October 8th, 1995. If you missed out during its prime, consider yourself both lucky and unlucky.The Bollweevils live at the Fireside Bowl. 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. The building was an ice factory in its early days. 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). The Fireside Bowl (or the Fireside) is a bowling alley and music venue established in the 1940s, located at 2648 W Fullerton Ave in Chicago, Illinois. 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.