[2017-02-14] "Out Of The Basement: Cheap Trick To DIY Punk In Rockford, IL, 1973-2005" softcover by David A. Ensminger

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2017 7:31 pm

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Out of the Basement tells the story of underground music (and mainstream rock that sometimes rose out of it) in post-industrial Rockford, Illinois. This is a bracing, candid, democratic, and cutting edge portrayal of a rust belt city full of rebel kids making DIY music despite the odds. It combines oral history, brutally honest memoir, music history, and a sense of blunt poetics to capture the ethos of life in the 1970s-2000s, long before the Internet made punk accessible to small towners. From dusty used record stores and frenetic skating rinks to dank basements and sweat-piled gigs to the radical forebears like the local IWW chapter, the book follows the stories of rebels struggling to find spaces and a sense of community and their place in underground history.

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Rick A · 23 Jul 2006

There is a great family named the Trunk's who had at one time lived in from Rockford, IL.who owns and operates a great German delicatessen named "Schillers".
They are up in age but still going strong after 30 years with the aid of their son Greg.

I bring this up because they used to babysit Rick Nielsen being neighbors and all. This came to light when I wore my Cheap Trick shirt there one day. I was blown away with that revelation. Such great people and the best German deli in the Tampa Bay area by far.

Getting hungry yet?

Rick A.

[2017-02-14] "Out Of The Basement: Cheap Trick To DIY Punk In Rockford, IL, 1973-2005" softcover by David A. Ensminger

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