The Week in Chicago Rock

By The Beachwood Rock Local Affairs Desk

You shoulda been there.
1. Jason Ringenberg and Robbie Fulks at the Hideout on Monday night.

Posted on August 10, 2012

Local Music Notebook: Marshall Tucker Man, Mick & Muddy, Seraphine And The Fuzz

By The Beachwood Rock Local Affairs Desk

A loose collection of whatnot.
1. Longtime Marshall Tucker Band member Stuart Swanlund died in his sleep of natural causes at his Chicago home on Saturday. The band’s statement:

Swanlund joined The Marshall Tucker Band in 1985 where his slide guitar work added a new dimension to the band – on newer material as well as standards like “Searchin’ For A Rainbow,” “Can’t You See,” and “Fire On The Mountain.”
“Stuart, or ‘Stubie’ as we called him, was the longest standing member of The Marshall Tucker Band from 1985, onward,” says Marshall Tucker Band founding member Doug Gray. “He recently took a hiatus from the road due to health problems and even with those issues, Stuart’s enthusiasm onstage never wavered. Our thoughts and prayers are with Stuart’s family and those who knew him. We have lost a great friend.”

Posted on August 8, 2012

“‘We got lucky with the weather tonight, didn’t we?’ Jack White asked from the stage Sunday night as he closed out Lollapalooza 2012, the eighth edition of the giant corporate concert that’s become Walmart on the Lake,” Jim Derogatis reports on his WBEZ blog.
“In fact, Austin, Texas-based concert promoters C3 Presents and city officials are the ones who should be counting their blessings after a severe-weather evacuation Saturday afternoon shunted more than 60,000 people out of Grant Park on to Michigan Avenue as a torrential downpour, intense lightning and winds up to 60 miles per hour descended on the lakefront. As WBEZ’s Kate Dries observed, ‘It’s pure luck that things went as smoothly as they did.'”
Indeed.

Posted on August 7, 2012