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Concert Fri Feb 09 2007
It's getting cold out here, so take off all your clothes...
Gays in the Military only promise two things: total rock and total filth. A tall order on both counts, you might say! Yet, in their five years of pounding Chicago down with a heady mix of Butthole Surfers-influenced sludge rock, lurid visual spectacle (half-naked dancers, crowd agitators on roller skates, and a "porno fairy" who hands out free XXX DVDs for you to take home and "cherish"), and incomprehensible stage patter, it's hard to think of anything the city of broad shoulders has to offer that resembles the full-on drop-trou GitM experience. Maybe a trip to an old-school Division Street bathhouse with Joe Spinell as your chaperone.
Tonight, Cal's Liquors (400 S. Wells) hosts the last Gays in the Military live experience until April. Also on the docket will be Cleveland's next emissaries of the avant garage The Pages and Chicago's own "Wizards of the Forest" (Forests? Around here?) Druids of Huge. If you're not warmed up after this show, have a doctor check you for frostbite.