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Chicago – With the temperature outside at a cool 60 degrees, it was a perfect night to throw on an old punk-rock shirt and take in the band Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. The neon sign of the Concord Music Hall flickered against the Chicago skyline. Once inside, the crowd of the all-ages show stood shoulder to shoulder as the venue temperature heated up – anticipating a band with more than 20 years of classic-rock history.
They didn’t disappoint the saturated and boisterous crowd. Frontman Spike Slawson – wearing a shimmery gold jacket – led an onslaught of high-energy, devil-may-care cover tunes that brought attitude, style and substance to the songs that ranged from show tunes to Motown. Fans sang along and crowd surfed as the band performed punk covers of songs including “Sweet Caroline,” “Who Put the Bomp,...
Chicago – With the temperature outside at a cool 60 degrees, it was a perfect night to throw on an old punk-rock shirt and take in the band Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. The neon sign of the Concord Music Hall flickered against the Chicago skyline. Once inside, the crowd of the all-ages show stood shoulder to shoulder as the venue temperature heated up – anticipating a band with more than 20 years of classic-rock history.
They didn’t disappoint the saturated and boisterous crowd. Frontman Spike Slawson – wearing a shimmery gold jacket – led an onslaught of high-energy, devil-may-care cover tunes that brought attitude, style and substance to the songs that ranged from show tunes to Motown. Fans sang along and crowd surfed as the band performed punk covers of songs including “Sweet Caroline,” “Who Put the Bomp,...
- 4/19/2017
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Punk rockers Me First and the Gimme Gimmes' top priority when they hit the road is testicle care -- making sure their nuts are comfy. TMZ got a copy of the greenroom demands for the super group -- made up of Nofx's Fat Mike and Foo Fighters' Chris Shiflett -- and a 5 pack of Hanes nut huggers are apparently crucial to their success ... as is Nicorette gum, mint flavor only. They're playing the...
- 2/21/2017
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
It's pretty obvious that the Foo Fighters work pretty well together. After seeing a handful of band members come and go during the band's first two recording cycles, the core lineup of Dave Grohl, Chris Shiflett, Taylor Hawkins and Nate Mendel have been together for the better part of a decade and have achieved great success, selling millions of albums, filling stadiums around the world and even headlining the White House.
But the quartet seems to spend an awful lot of time away from each other. Today marks the release of Shiflett's first solo album (which he recorded as Chris Shiflett and the Dead Peasants), which is quite the departure for the former axe man for San Francisco punk band No Use For a Name. Rather than the buzzsaw riffs that have made the Foo Fighters huge, Shiflett's album errs more on the side of the Foos' quieter material, and...
But the quartet seems to spend an awful lot of time away from each other. Today marks the release of Shiflett's first solo album (which he recorded as Chris Shiflett and the Dead Peasants), which is quite the departure for the former axe man for San Francisco punk band No Use For a Name. Rather than the buzzsaw riffs that have made the Foo Fighters huge, Shiflett's album errs more on the side of the Foos' quieter material, and...
- 7/13/2010
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
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