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If Peter Margasak doesn’t like the latest spinners from the Riptones and the Mighty Blue Kings [Post No Bills, December 5], that’s OK by me. Does he have to entirely bulldoze “Chicago’s small rockabilly scene”(which packs the Deja Vu shoulder to shoulder every month with the Big C Jamboree) in the process?
Chicago rockabilly is like a musical cockroach. Disco came and went and came back again. The Seattle thing crashed and burned. Electronica will grab its hat and coat soon enough. I and my “ducktailed peers” are unfazed by time and taste. I moved to Chicago more than a decade ago. And the anvilheads I met then are still supporting the bands they love (the Riptones, the Duvalls, the Three Blue Teardrops, the Bottletones). We would apologize for not being as hip as whomever happens to be headlining the Metro or the Empty Bottle tonight but we’re too busy having F-U-N.
