GAUGE REUNION SHOW – MARCH 6, 2010 – BOTTOM LOUNGE
By johnb • Mar 3rd, 2010 • Category: OKR Articles
Chicago’s very own Gauge is back with a reunion show on Saturday, March 6th @ The Bottom Lounge… Click here for more info!!
This is the show you need to catch this weekend here in Chicago for all things that is great in music! Why?…
Chicago punk band Gauge played its final show in 1994, putting an end to a brief, but influential, musical career. The band, which formed in 1991, was highly regarded in Chicago’s northwest and western suburban punk scenes.
Playing a style of post-hardcore that combined power and melody, Gauge was known for their intense, cathartic performances. The band inspired and performed with other acts from the same area such as Cap’n Jazz, Friction, Sidekick Kato, and Braid. If these bands don’t sound familiar to you and you think you know Chicago music… then please… let me kick you square in the face for being a jackass.
But Gauge didn’t just stick to the comforts of their familiar stomping ground. Over the course of several regional tours and two U.S. tours, the band shared the stage with groups such as, Green Day, Jawbox, Jawbreaker, Avail, Smoking Popes, Born Against, Screeching Weasel, Kerosene 454, All, Los Crudos, Lungfish, Pegboy, Shudder to Think, and Trenchmouth.
Fast forward to August 2009, Gauge members Scott “Gub” Conway (Even in Blackouts, Red Villain), Kevin J. Frank (Haymarket Riot, Traluma, The Sky Corvair), Neil Sandler (Rollo Tomasi, Traluma) and Ryan Rapsys (Euphone, Amazing Baby) gathered for the first time in 15 years. By the end of that night, they decided to play reunion shows on March 5, 2010 at the Bay View Brew Haus in Milwaukee, WI and March 6, 2010 at the Bottom Lounge in Chicago, IL.
In December 2009, Gauge entered Electrical Audio with Greg Norman to record a new song and updated versions of older material. Additional sessions were completed at Blam! with Sean Morrison in January 2010. In addition, the band also completed “Gauge : II”, the remastered second half of their catalog. Both the new recordings and “Gauge : II” will be made available at both reunion shows.
Also…. EVERYONE attending the March 6th show @ Bottom Lounge will receive a FREE ‘Mints’ 7″ featuring all new versions of “Feed the Dry” and “Sheephurter” plus download codes for a new version of “Stinksmell Boy” as well as our new song, “New Jerk.”!!!!
To those of you whom don’t know GAUGE… there is a little video for you to catch up on their sound and energy below!!
