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00:00:03:00 I think that most people are like a linage
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00:00:07:20 spark their interest in music at a young age,
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00:01:10:28 I am George, this is Tim, Joe, and Zach...
00:01:13:28 -Zaggy Zach... -And we are the funky bunch.
00:01:15:13 And we are funky bunch, also known as Rise Against.
00:01:19:02 We are in Toronto, Ontario for the two night stand.
00:01:21:03 Rise Against is mainly have been based out of Chicago, right?
00:01:23:28 So like tell us a little bit like grown up
00:01:25:28 and like in Chicago, and scene and things like,
00:01:28:08 things of that nature.
00:01:29:18 Those were good time to grow up,
00:01:30:27 because you are going to have like a little bit everything.
00:01:33:28 You have the Pop punk and geniuses like Screeching Weasel,
00:01:36:28 and then you had the core Chicago punk rockers
00:01:40:04 Pegboy, Naked Raygun,
00:01:41:29 and then you had the Mazzine hardcore band Los Crudos,
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00:01:50:21 Yeah, all kinds of options.
00:01:52:00 All kinds of bands that you will see
00:01:53:22 and fans that were in, like say important things.
00:01:56:16 You are going to a Crudos show, on Friday
00:01:59:12 they are going to a scholastic show on a Saturday,
00:02:02:01 here in it's like, totally just different atmosphere,
00:02:03:18 it was superb,
00:02:04:28 you know, you can see like important thing happen.
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00:02:35:28 Was the punk scene like ushering you into that sort of[inaudible]
00:02:38:28 like thought process, almost?
00:02:41:12 Crudos were one like, one of the first band,
00:02:43:28 that was just that heavily involved into the songs
00:02:49:22 and explanations of songs.
00:02:52:06 Cruods songs were 90 seconds long,
00:02:54:14 well, Martin's explanation it was five minutes.
00:02:56:15 -You know what I mean? -Yeah.
00:02:57:27 And he would do like a an English translation,
00:02:59:12 and he would do in Spanish, I mean, he would talk all night.
00:03:01:24 And the song was like, you look at guys and soon it was like,
00:03:07:24 Okay, let's go, come on.
00:03:09:28 But Martin would really, he would explain each song.
00:03:12:18 I mean there were these explanations where in
00:03:14:03 you know like I said, longer than the songs,
00:03:16:03 but it really, you walked away from it learning a lot about
00:03:18:01 the neighborhood in Chicago.
00:03:20:11 You are going to learn about,
00:03:21:16 I grew up in a middle class suburb of Chicago,
00:03:24:08 and like there are neighborhoods of Chicago in a hose, '79,
00:03:27:00 no ideal was going on that.
00:03:28:09 I mean absolutely had no idea of Crudos,
00:03:30:26 and so Martin was like a,
00:03:33:10 it was my first introduction
00:03:35:28 to how an entire different
00:03:38:25 affluent about the cities that...
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00:04:06:28 There are parts of Chicago
00:04:08:08 that you just don't drive through, right?
00:04:09:18 But they are just like...
00:04:10:28 I mean when I first started going to shows, the Wicker Park,
00:04:13:19 which is totally Hipster neighborhood
00:04:15:10 was kind of a scary neighborhood.
00:04:16:28 It was thought yeah...
00:04:18:10 It's like the heart of where Underdog Records loft was,
00:04:20:22 and you know, we can go there for, to see what they are about
00:04:23:18 Underdog Records is on the label from Chicago.
00:04:25:28 And Chicago still divided in North and South,
00:04:28:16 very much lighted and as expensive [inaudible]
00:04:30:28 maybe like a racial one, where a social concert is social border,
00:04:34:09 were still one of the most segregated cities in America.
00:04:37:17 It's like a racial, I don't know what the numbers are,
00:04:39:18 but we are still you can say, really segregated
00:04:41:25 and it's still one of the most segregated cities in the North.
00:04:44:24 What would you attribute to that?
00:04:46:16 Their first Mayor Daley, just kind of a racist,
00:04:48:08 kind of a bigger...
00:04:49:29 and kind of had a lot of different policies that kept
00:04:53:08 minorities in minority neighborhoods,
00:04:55:00 built these infamous projects like
00:04:58:03 Robert Taylor Homes, and Cabrini Green
00:05:00:07 just really bad...
00:05:03:18 and then start time building up the North of Chicago.
00:05:08:16 Mayor Daley is probably one of the albums
00:05:10:04 that really contributed to how...
00:05:13:28 But it really traced back Chicago history.
00:05:16:03 The South was always sea, so that's where our brothels were,
00:05:19:06 that's where the prohibition was happening,
00:05:21:28 that's where all these [inaudible] were gambling.
00:05:25:13 But that was all on the South side, so since [inaudible]
00:05:28:20 it can be, you can traced even further than that.
00:05:30:18 The seeds of Punk definitely grow in like corruption
00:05:33:03 and like things of that nature.
00:05:34:21 So if anything Chicago is always seeing like this perfect
00:05:37:09 kind of environment for
00:05:39:03 a lot of these great bands to come out of...
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00:06:15:18 Sidekick Kato...
00:06:17:01 Yeah, yeah of course.
00:06:18:23 Our boy was... certainly, anything is really,
00:06:20:22 Joe now is an important part of Chicago, Chicago punk.
00:06:25:28 They started the Chicago Fire and...
00:06:28:29 The Market riots, Joe's cow kicked over.
00:06:34:08 In Chicago history,
00:06:35:18 there is a band called Gauge and Trig water,
00:06:38:20 they are very Fugazi influenced.
00:06:41:21 [inaudible], his first band, Jerkwater.
00:06:44:20 It was the first band, there were like the Broadways,
00:06:47:28 [inaudible], certainly now-a-days...
00:06:49:28 Sure, sure.
00:06:51:24 But it is still like the same kind of what
00:06:52:28 venue it's kind of come and go.
00:06:54:28 [inaudible] were part of most qualified,
00:06:57:07 people just speak about the Chicago.
00:06:58:29 They spent nine months or a year here...
00:07:02:11 I mean it sounds like there are...
00:07:03:28 where we get to a handful of shows a year here in Chicago
00:07:07:21 and the scenes that are really taking over that are
00:07:10:01 things that, really...
00:07:12:15 Oh sure, yeah.
00:07:14:12 And that will be, next thing that happens.
00:07:17:13 But that said like, there are still good venues in Chicago.
00:07:22:29 Chicago has been sort of more known now-a-days
00:07:25:23 for a number of big bands that are coming out of it,
00:07:28:28 and knowing less events like us are going through.
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