July 27, 2023 • 30 mins
Host Will Dailey takes us on a tour of live music spots in the city of Milwaukee, WI.
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Double Elvis. We're gonna do it. For those of a
certain age and maybe a certain classic TV show addiction problem.
Those words could have been spoken plainly, without music, and
you'd probably still know the city to which it refers,
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maybe by one of its many nicknames, Bruce City, the
Third Coast, or perhaps the most evocative cream city. You
can immediately picture the beers hurling down the bottling line,
one humorously gloved. We're talking, of course, about that big
bad city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Okay, bad is a poor
choice of words, because it's definitely good and actually very pleasant,
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and the big doesn't really fit either. City population doesn't
really crack six hundred thousand, but they have an internationally
recognized theater for some of the biggest names in entertainment,
not one, but two major sports venues, one of the
most striking and renowned museums in the game. But the
undercurrent flowing through this city, like its three rivers, the Menominee.
The Kinnikinic in Milwaukee, is decidedly manageable. Small human, real human.
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It's easy to get overwhelmed living in Chicago or New York,
like the odds are stacked against you, just for living there,
but in Milwaukee you do feel like you are gonna
make it. We walked over the bridge in Milwaukee, past
the statue of the fawns and the duck with the
wind kicking in and the sparrow is running amuck. Milwaukee
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the boat seated eighty miles due north of Chicago, It's
closest big city relative. There's a lot in common between
the two towns, urban cultured and cluttered, working class Lake
adjacent occasionally brutal in the winter, but Milwaukee is way
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less flashy than its southern counterpart. It's the epitome of
Midwest cando DIY taken to a civil engineering extreme. This
is not a city that is handed over its keys
to chain restaurants. Indie establishments flourish. Actually they dominate. Dive
bars and old speakeasis are preferred to the mass produced
bars containing in its name. I don't know the word kilt,
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for example, Some could say it's for the music scene.
While many famous musicians have come from Milwaukee, only a
handful of big music venues exist here. Smallish music clubs
are the spot of choice for locals and visitors alike.
From dive bar venues built into actual nineteenth century houses
to coffee house stages that feature national acts. Native Americans
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had lived on Milwaukee land for thousands and thousands of
years before Europeans quote unquote discovered it in the seventeenth century.
Over the centuries, developed into one of the major industrial
cities of growing America. Factories sprung up and employed l
Vernon Shirley, who made beer. Because as you know, where
you have factories, you will also have bars. And while
so many of those factories have shuddered in recent decades,
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so many of the bars have not. Many have been
around for generations, as important as a part of this
town's fabric as the people who frequent them. But there's
one in particular that has had international reach. Wallskis is
a family owned bar. It's been that way since it
opened over one hundred years ago. Modest, dark, unassuming, where
regulars routinely outnumber visitors more than maybe any other place.
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This joint feels like Milwaukee. Even drinking here requires a
similar work ethic to the one that built this city. Example,
there's a famous bumper sticker that has been spotted literally
all over the world. Maybe you've seen it. It simply says,
I closed Wallskis, and if you want one, take a
nap before you go, because they don't just give it
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to you, you have to earn it by closing Wallskis.
Even drinking in this town requires a work ethic. We're
gonna do it. And while Wall Skis doesn't have much music,
per say, other than the piped in kind pouring out
of wall speakers that look like they were installed in
nineteen seventy one, most of the bars in town do
have live music. Music has always been an important part
of Milwaukee's life, both in and out of the bars.
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Some early and important songwriting and publishing houses began here.
Charles Harris is an example, having great success with the
sheet music and popular songwriting of eighteen hundreds. One song
of his was even covered if that term existed back then,
by John Phillips Suza Chicago's World Fair, leading to that
particular piece of sheet music selling millions of copies. That
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sheet went viral, long before likes, follows and stream counts.
Harris would then take his talents to New York City,
where he would go on to form an early tin
Pan Alley group and since then some of the greatest
international stars of our Day have made their mark alongside
local heroes Al Juroute, Paul Saber, Mike Frederckson in the
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Most Beaudines, Ernie Addard, Less Violent Fabaka, Alkola, Adit Aut VC,
The Dame Lebera Jaba Man Trapper Show, Hispanic Boy, Strixie Mattel,
Black Elevat Milwaukee's James Chany Cruise and at Last Bryan
Semi twenty, Jerry Harrison, Willie Pick Cabin as Least Glow,
Mike Mike Melry Promise, and Steve Miller Millie, Millie, You're Millie.
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Like any major city with people from all over the
world taking up residents there, the music scene shows a
similarly wide range of styles, and in a city you
wouldn't think big enough to contain all its music makers,
it absolutely does. Hip Hop bumps up against Americana, jazz asks,
power pop, That seat on the bus next to them
is taken and Poco goes Dutch on an ice cream
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Sunday with speed metal. It's all done in a way
that is determined yet understated. Liberazi nowithstanding one of Milwaukee's
longest running musical acts, as a guy by the name
of Mike Frederickson. If you have lived here for any
solid length of time, you have heard of him, seen him,
or heard him play, or even possibly seen him without
him being in the room. How is that possible? Because
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Mike is also a highly revered visual artist who does
photorealist paintings that line the walls of art bars and
venues throughout the city. Walk into the uptown or bar
where Mike also serves as the daytime tender, and you'll
see his lush, massive street scenes and highly detailed portraits
covering almost every inch of wall space. He has also
recorded eighteen albums over the years, consisting entirely of his
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original material, both as a solo artist and with his
legendary Milwaukee power pop trio the Moseleyes. He played on
Saturday Night Live with his Hispanic Boys and played bass
for years with Midwest alt country godfather Robbie Folkes, and
Mike has been playing bass in the band of another
local Mke legend, Paul Sea Bar, all while quietly releasing
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his own albums one after the other of incredibly catchy
pop songs that are decidedly Wisconsin ever heard of poco pop.
There are several examples across his record output where Mike
has somehow perfected the seemingly impossible fusing of these two medals.
An executive or an out algorithm wouldn't have the first
clue how to market this stuff. But there is no
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music industry in Milwaukee like there are on the coasts,
so Milwaukee artists don't seem too focus on making it
unless it is authentic music. When Frederickson was making yet
another record a few years ago, he asked a friend
of his if he should really be dropping thousands of
dollars to self release yet another record which may or
may not do anything for his career. The friend asked, well,
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let's start at the beginning. Why are you making this
record at all, to which Mike replied, I don't know
what else to do, So just keep producing, Mike, We're
going to do it like everyone else in this town.
Just keep doing it because as an artist, you really
aren't given the choice to not keep creating. And that
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is what we want out of our artists, to keep
showing and sharing and producing, stepping to that edge, answering
to all our questions until it makes sense or allows
us to stop trying to make sense of it. All
for one glory night on the town. In a world
where cover bands and album nights are a consistent draw,
Milwaukee is a town where those things seem less important
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than putting something new out into the world, whether it
makes you a buck or not in this town or
any other town, and you never know the ears that
Jess might be traveling through looking for a little bit
of real deal truth. Sound of Our Town is a
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podcast about the music that shaped the city you are
touching down in. It is also about being present to
hear and experience its best music happening right now and
what sounds in places of shape the city's culture. It's
about the abiding ritual of getting together in a room
to listen and why that matters. This is the anti
content podcast because it's encouraging you to ignore all the
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other content and get out there and participate in the
sounds of all the towns litered across America, and this
is season two with the real places and sonic stories
echoing in a particular town so that your travel is
enriched with music. I'm your host, Will Daily. I'm an
independent DIY songwriter and touring artist. I've been doing this
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a while and frankly, this show is also a reminder
to myself how important live music is in our existence.
The business of it kicks you around with the crowd,
never lets you down when you come with the truth.
In this second episode of our second season, we are
visiting new stuff happening in old houses in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Imagine you live in a two story house that dates
back to the eighteen hundreds. Now imagine that that two
story house is a full service bar that can comfortably
seat one hundred people upstairs and down. Your house has
all the windows blacked out, plush carpet lining the entire
joint along with lushly dark wallpaper throughout, a nice long
bar with a leather armrest running in the length of it,
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which just so happens to match the high top chairs.
And that's just wonderful. You live in Bryan's Cocktail Lounge,
the oldest of its kind in Milwaukee, and possibly, though
history is a little sketchy here in all of Wisconsin,
a state so well known for its cocktail lounges that
they might as well have a picture of a brandy
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old fashion on the state flag. Bryant's is what is
known as a tiered house, which originally was a house
rented or sold to a brewery through which local bar
owners were then by their booze. Bryan's has been opened
since the nineteen thirties, with a brief hiatus in the
nineteen seventies because a fire completely gutted its inerts. Renovated
a few years later. It now stands as it has
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ever since, and it's really dark inside, really dark. There
are some ceiling lights, but they have to be on
their lowest setting. The main illumination comes from the candles
on the tables in the soft pinkish glow from the
three tiered bar rail. Places like this, authentic and revered,
are now a rarity in the US. Isn't designed by
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some modern developer to feel like a vintage bar. It
just is a vintage bar. And it's all of this
with a curated playlist of early R and B and
classic jazz and soul pouring from the lounge speakers that
acclimates you to Mke. Upon your arrival, you will know
and feel where you are in America. If old television
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is your metric for Milwaukee, then you won't feel lost
upon arrival. All the bartenders here are well versed in mixology.
To the point where if you don't have a specific
drink order in mind, they'll simply ask you what you'd
like gin, bourbon, vodka, sweet, sour, floral, light or dark.
Then they will take all that information and put it
in the original computer, the brain, and make you a
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custom drink that will hit exactly the notes you were
thinking of in your head, and it will likely be
something you've never heard of before. Simply magic. And everyone
goes here, old and young, clean cut and not well
dressed or decently dressed. Here but not that casual. It's
a microcosm of the city itself, and it has to
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be your first stop. The listening room label often lands
in a space of less than two hundred and fifty people,
but the art of listening is not, never should be
monopolized by the strong arm of folk rooms and showcase venues.
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As a founding member of NIVA or the National Independent
Venue Association, the PAPS Music Group has under their umbrella
a few of the great independent listening rooms in Milwaukee,
including the Fitzgerald in the Turner Hall Ballroom among them.
But it's the PAPS Theater or just the PAPS that
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is one of the most striking places to see and
hear music, and not just all the Midwest. It stacks
up against any venue anywhere. This might just be my dream,
wishless gig of this year. It's designated as a National
Historical Landmark in nineteen ninety one. This thirteen hundred seat
former opera house is a replacement for the original opera
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House that burned down in the late eighteen hundreds and
has played host to the biggest names in the business,
spanning all genres. Yes, Merle Haggard played there, but so
did rachmaninoff, so did Harry Houdini in nineteen fifteen at
the height of his fame, and so is Nego case
Rick Springfield and local natives in the past year. Not
so many places can say that, but the fourth oldest
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fully operational theater in the country can, and proudly again.
Places like this exist in most major cities, and Old
Opera House is now a music venue. It's pretty common,
but doing it right is not. When you go to
a show here, all you want to do is listen.
The sound is not just bouncing around off almost one
hundred and thirty year old walls. It is bouncing off
of every sound that has hit them. Every standing ovation,
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every cracked voice, every broken string or dream, and earth
shattering performance in those saturated sound waves. Care carry that
to your waiting years. It is not just the listening
room for MKE. It is a listening room for the ages.
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Since we called a thirteen hundred CE theater our listening room,
it is perhaps fair to at least highlight a room
or set of rooms that are small yet powerful enough
to melt a face right off. Plenty of big music
venues contain a smaller performance room on their premises. In fact,
don't trust a city that doesn't have a venue like this.
It's a model that allows a venue to host both
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huge international acts in lesser known acts on the local
level and touring circuit. Far fewer venues, however, can claim
to have five venues within its walls, like the Rave
Eagles Club from smaller nightclub sized rooms holding a few
hundred people to their main ballroom capable of handling thousands,
with a couple of lounges and a rooftop spot thrown
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in for good measure. There is an eq system of
live music in room for all. So see if you
can follow along all under one roof, you've got the Rave,
the Rave Two, the Rave Bar, the Eagles Ballroom in
the Eagles Ballroom club Stage. Now that last one cheats
a little bit. It's still just the Eagles Ballroom, but
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with a Florida ceiling curtains drawn across its twenty five
thousand square foot dance floor that cuts the room down
to a smaller, more intimate, massive ballroom, much like the
bar is built into houses for which this town is famous.
This is exactly that, but on an insanely large scale.
A club and a club, and a club and a club,
a Russian doll venue that hosts the likes of Fuego Macklemore,
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Charlie Crockett and Wilco and like almost every venue in Milwaukee,
it has a fascinating history, although here that history takes
a decidedly darker turn. I did not mention the giant
pool that resides in the giant basement of this giant place.
A year after the building opened in nineteen twenty seven,
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a teenager would drown in that pool. His mother would
die months later. Thus, for the last near century, people
have been reporting clear indicators of a haunting in this place.
A ghostly male figure watching sound checks from the dark
parts of the floor, or a small girl roaming certain
areas of the venue, her laughter echoing throughout the rooms,
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even the strong smell of bleach near the long drained pool.
And if you're old or studied enough or listen to
season one of Sound of Our Town, you know all
about the Winter Dance Party Tour of nineteen fifty nine,
during which a plane crash would kill three of its
famous participants, the Big Bopper, Ritchie Vallens and Buddy Holly.
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And I'll give you one guess as to where the
first date of that tour took place. There is a
scene in the legendary music film Spinal Tap that takes
place in a fictional venue with a delightfully ridiculous name,
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Shank Hall. Leave it to Milwaukee to open a venue
with that very name, And in the spirit of that
great mockumentary, they stretch the limits of truth. For one thing,
it's not a hall. It's a long, carpeted, low ceiling
space that feels more like a conference room with a
stage and a bar in it. But they've been booking
local and international heavyweights there since nineteen eighty nine with
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no signs of stopping. And their LAKESI started off on
a pretty historic noe. Shank Hall is actually two buildings,
the club proper and then another largely unused house attached
to it, dating back to well there's some debate about that.
Some maps show the properties there as of nineteen twenties,
but documents held by the city indicated the building could
date back to the late eighteen hundreds, likely as a
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carriage house replete with wall mounted rings to tie up
your horse if you travel to Milwaukee on horse. Whatever
the date, the building would go on to become acutely
important to Milwaukee music history when in the late nineteen forties,
the building that would be Shank became a distribution center
for Capitol Records. Over the next two decades, all the
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great records made on Capitol would pass in and then
quickly out of the doors. Nat King, Cole, Mary Ford
and Les, Paul Sinatra, Prima Bozo, Yes that Bozo for you,
old school TV Buffs, and then Rock and Roll hit.
If you lived in Milwaukee and bought Servant Safari, it
passed through this building, and if you ran down the
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street to your local record shop the morning after the
Beatles legendary ed Sullivan performance any record you bought of
theirs came through this old coach house on Farewell Avenue.
The building is soaked in music history it is fitting
that such a place be MK's musical Vatican. I felt
special just booking my first gig there. Like all the
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old theaters and dives, life and sound have been absorbed
here for decades, and you hold a ticket to those
echoes as well. It's worth going there just to see
the mini Stoneheade replica that hangs from the rafters right
above where the drummer would be set up, yet another
not so subtle nod to the majestic, hard rocking and
completely fictional band. It's hard not to proselytize when you're
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on the stage in such a revered dive, a bouquet
of spilled drink and cigarettes from years past careening through
your nostrils, and either before or after the show, if
it gets out early enough, you must walk the three
blocks up Farewell Avenue to the legendary Zephrino's Pizza and Bar,
in business at the same spot since nineteen fifty four,
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Killer Italian food served in a perfectly crampedy at cozy
setting where the ice cold high life pairs perfectly with
their cracked thin pizza in Lasagna. That makes sixty nine
years of business seem like not long enough. And yes,
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it's all well and good with your DIY small venue
Midwestern charm up to this point, you wouldn't be faulted
for thinking that you can slide into cream city anytime,
and that is true. But there is good reason why
Milwaukee is called the City of festivals. There's over one
hundred of them throughout the year. Many of those are
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beer festivals, of course, because this town is honest. Milwaukee
likes its hops, but it doesn't limit its festivals. You
can find a fest here for almost any Niche celebrate
the music, food and culture of Milwaukee's Bronzeville neighborhood. There's
a fest like twenty four hour bike ride around the
city and if you prefer your bike with a little
more oomph. This is the home of Harley Davidson, so
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naturally the biggest motorcycle rally in the Midwest also happens here.
They have your standard music fests, blues, jazz, world music,
but there's also Croatian, Armenian, Mexican fests highlighting cuisine, art,
and entertainment from all these cultures. There's a Juneteenth celebrat,
a kite festival, the Chinese dragon boat festival, even the
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hyper specific coffee and Donuts festival, And due to the
overwhelming presence of the German population, they have not one,
not two, but no less than three October Fests that
start as early as August. Laverne and Shirley bottled a
lot of beer and it needs to be drunken, drunk drinking.
It needs to be drunk drink, it needs to be drunk.
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But this modest town just happens to host the biggest
yearly music festival in the world. No hyperbole. I don't
mean the world as in America. I mean the world,
the planet that you are on listening to this podcast
Floating through Space, the only one we got in. This
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fest takes place every summer in the heart of Milwaukee.
It's called Summerfest, and it's mercifully named. It's really the
only season that anything outdoors could take place in this town.
It's been going on every summer since the sixties and
it's an Octoberfest inspired affair for live music. If Caligila
was into bands, this would have been his idea. The
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many stages for it are permanently installed by the Lake
in Milwaukee, which is an impressive commitment to a festival
that only happens once a year. Thanks to COVID, this
fest now takes place over three consecutive weekends, as opposed
to two straight weeks like the old days of three
years ago, but still impressive. Imagine going to Lalla Plooza
every weekend for three straight weeks and that is Summerfest
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and everybody plays here. I mean everybody. Elvis Costello, Green Sky, Bluegrass, Trippy,
Red City Girls, Dave Matthews Band, Marcus King, James Taylor,
A Boogie Widah, Hoodie and Night Ranger, the Avid Brothers,
Tegan and Sarah, Cheap Trick and Cautious Clay. You'd be
hard pressed not to look through the current or pass
lineups for this thing and not seem any of your
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favorite bands, world famous or not. I would argue that
all this makes it one of the most significant US
cities to plant around a calendar and not just slide
into the cream. In a city of splendid dives, it
would only take a light touch of elevation to stand
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out as a hidden gem. The Art Bar among dimly
pink lit bar a La Bryants. It's exactly what its
name would make you think. It is a bar with
a heavy art focus, curated, always changing, and representative of
the local art community. Unlike Bryant's, however, Art Bar is
more of a trad bar, serving elevated bar food alongside
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their Bloody Mary's, complete with adorable Miller high Life chasers
in seven ounce bottles, a Wisconsin tradition. They don't have
a steady calendar for it, but music does happen here
as well. Here again, it's art and music, all locals
and enjoyed by locals, just like we discovered in the
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Portland main episode. It's these super northern cities that know
how to hold close to what they love. You could
go to any stoic historical society and whole home Wikipedia
page to find out about the nuts and bolts of
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a city, But there may be no better explanation of
Milwaukee than two movies. The documentary film American Movie about
an indie filmmaker trying to finish his short horror film
COVID in the big budgeted, star studded film Bridesmaids featuring
Kristin Wigg as a Milwaukee baker. Two wildly different takes
on the same Milwaukee underdogs trying to find their dream
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and achieve it despite numerous pitfalls themselves included. Both these
films featured the city in the most real way possible,
not as the main character of a film, but as
a backdrop to everyday life. You see bills piling up,
a walk through the art museum, getting pulled over for
faulty brake, lights, small business struggles but at least you
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have a chance. Relationships are tested, all the wild old
factories and a wildly complicated highway system whizzing by in
each shot. You could have easily called both of these
movies American movie for the feeling with which they leave
you afterwards. Two stories of people clawing their way towards happiness.
Will they find it? Our acronym does not stand for
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spoilers of our town, so you're just gonna have to
watch them to find out and to get ready for
your visit to the four one four Kansas City feels
different than Milwaukee, though they're not too distant in size.
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The Saint Louis too. For cities that aren't that far apart.
On a map, there's a distinctly southern vibe that stops
at a certain point along I fifty five. Is it
the weather patterns? Is it the barbecue tradition? Is Milwaukee
just far enough north in those two cities, just far
enough south to distinguish them so dramatically. The existence of
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Minneapolis might confirm that under five hours north of Milwaukee,
the two cities bear more than a few similarities. But
despite the fact that Milwaukee is bigger in most ways
in these three other cities, it gets way less love
when local music scenes get discussed. Is Milwaukee not trying
hard enough to compete with other nearby cities because they
absolutely can't hold their own or is it just that
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they don't feel the need to compete. The latter seems
to make more sense. It's a pretty badass way to
go to. Milwaukee just does this thing while not worrying
about the joneses. I'm concerned about other cities doing it
just their own. And you know what the town of
Milwaukee is. It's homey, which makes perfect sense when you
think about it. Even when you leave your own house
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to go to a show or a bar or a restaurant, here.
Oftentimes you're just going to someone else's house, Sofrino's, Cactus Club,
the Jazz Estate, Mad Planet, Liniments. People lived in these
establishments before they were established, before music, before booze, before industry,
musical and otherwise, and they keep on being there, Like
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a cocktail at Bryan's. They just keep on doing it.
And you know what, Vernon Shirley were right. We are
going to do it no matter what changes come our way.
And Milwaukee is our proof. And one more thing in
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a city that feels like a hidden gem in and
of itself, relishing in its own well worn yet cherished
American antiquity. There weights one of the world's largest collection
of antique microphones on display inside an electronics store on
East National Street. Mike Guru Bobikuett is a massed collection
of more than one thousand microphone phes, most made before
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nineteen fifty, in most in working condition thanks to Piquette's repairs.
The microphones are climbing up the walls foot to ceiling.
A telephone from eighteen seventy six. There's a microphone that
was used by Hitler and also one of the very
first forty fours for any view audio files out there,
and it all highlights how far we've come in recording
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tech while simultaneously driving home how short of a period
humans have been recording their sounds compared to the thousands
and thousands of years of playing music with and four
each other. Milwaukee did not invent the microphone, nor does
it own the dive bar or the bowling alley. It
just feels determined not to forsake the beginning of things
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for the expansion of things. Maybe we're going to make
It also means making sure the past is part of
the present, not to hold on to it or lament
its passing, but to see how far we've come, and
to temper our shock at the CONTs rate of change,
to hold strong to the wonders of all that we
have created and yet to create. Happy days if we
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want them, are always waiting to be recorded. And that
is our time in Milwaukee now. DM. If you have
any questions or further suggestions, or if you just want
me to cover your town in this season, you can
hit me up on Instagram at Will Daily Official, or
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gotta spell Daily dai l e y. I'm on threads too,
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to get a little worried. This show got a second
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Town or having a reviewed yet, just think you could
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be the reason when you get a season three. Sound
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You can also hit us up on ig at Double
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executively produced by Jake Brennan and Brady Sadler for Double Elvis.
Production assistants by Matt Bowden. The show is created, written, hosted,
and scored by me Will Daily. This episode's head writer
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is Gerald Dowd. I won't say that Gerald has an
eye closed Wallski sticker plastered across the back of his
old school day Runner date book, but I also won't
say that he doesn't. Music for this episode was composed
and performed by me Will Daily. You can check me
out on Spotify, Apple Bandcamp, and will Daily dot com,
or you can see me on the road in August
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with the Wallflowers. I'm gonna be stopping through the Midwest, Madison,
Kansas City, Des Moines, Iowa City, Buffalo, and New Jersey.
All right, off to the next town, the next venue.
Thank you so much for your ears.
Double Elvis. We're gonna do it. For those of a
certain age and maybe a certain classic TV show addiction problem.
Those words could have been spoken plainly, without music, and
you'd probably still know the city to which it refers,
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maybe by one of its many nicknames, Bruce City, the
Third Coast, or perhaps the most evocative cream city. You
can immediately picture the beers hurling down the bottling line,
one humorously gloved. We're talking, of course, about that big
bad city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Okay, bad is a poor
choice of words, because it's definitely good and actually very pleasant,
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and the big doesn't really fit either. City population doesn't
really crack six hundred thousand, but they have an internationally
recognized theater for some of the biggest names in entertainment,
not one, but two major sports venues, one of the
most striking and renowned museums in the game. But the
undercurrent flowing through this city, like its three rivers, the Menominee.
The Kinnikinic in Milwaukee, is decidedly manageable. Small human, real human.
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It's easy to get overwhelmed living in Chicago or New York,
like the odds are stacked against you, just for living there,
but in Milwaukee you do feel like you are gonna
make it. We walked over the bridge in Milwaukee, past
the statue of the fawns and the duck with the
wind kicking in and the sparrow is running amuck. Milwaukee
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the boat seated eighty miles due north of Chicago, It's
closest big city relative. There's a lot in common between
the two towns, urban cultured and cluttered, working class Lake
adjacent occasionally brutal in the winter, but Milwaukee is way
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less flashy than its southern counterpart. It's the epitome of
Midwest cando DIY taken to a civil engineering extreme. This
is not a city that is handed over its keys
to chain restaurants. Indie establishments flourish. Actually they dominate. Dive
bars and old speakeasis are preferred to the mass produced
bars containing in its name. I don't know the word kilt,
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for example, Some could say it's for the music scene.
While many famous musicians have come from Milwaukee, only a
handful of big music venues exist here. Smallish music clubs
are the spot of choice for locals and visitors alike.
From dive bar venues built into actual nineteenth century houses
to coffee house stages that feature national acts. Native Americans
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had lived on Milwaukee land for thousands and thousands of
years before Europeans quote unquote discovered it in the seventeenth century.
Over the centuries, developed into one of the major industrial
cities of growing America. Factories sprung up and employed l
Vernon Shirley, who made beer. Because as you know, where
you have factories, you will also have bars. And while
so many of those factories have shuddered in recent decades,
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so many of the bars have not. Many have been
around for generations, as important as a part of this
town's fabric as the people who frequent them. But there's
one in particular that has had international reach. Wallskis is
a family owned bar. It's been that way since it
opened over one hundred years ago. Modest, dark, unassuming, where
regulars routinely outnumber visitors more than maybe any other place.
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This joint feels like Milwaukee. Even drinking here requires a
similar work ethic to the one that built this city. Example,
there's a famous bumper sticker that has been spotted literally
all over the world. Maybe you've seen it. It simply says,
I closed Wallskis, and if you want one, take a
nap before you go, because they don't just give it
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to you, you have to earn it by closing Wallskis.
Even drinking in this town requires a work ethic. We're
gonna do it. And while Wall Skis doesn't have much music,
per say, other than the piped in kind pouring out
of wall speakers that look like they were installed in
nineteen seventy one, most of the bars in town do
have live music. Music has always been an important part
of Milwaukee's life, both in and out of the bars.
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Some early and important songwriting and publishing houses began here.
Charles Harris is an example, having great success with the
sheet music and popular songwriting of eighteen hundreds. One song
of his was even covered if that term existed back then,
by John Phillips Suza Chicago's World Fair, leading to that
particular piece of sheet music selling millions of copies. That
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sheet went viral, long before likes, follows and stream counts.
Harris would then take his talents to New York City,
where he would go on to form an early tin
Pan Alley group and since then some of the greatest
international stars of our Day have made their mark alongside
local heroes Al Juroute, Paul Saber, Mike Frederckson in the
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Most Beaudines, Ernie Addard, Less Violent Fabaka, Alkola, Adit Aut VC,
The Dame Lebera Jaba Man Trapper Show, Hispanic Boy, Strixie Mattel,
Black Elevat Milwaukee's James Chany Cruise and at Last Bryan
Semi twenty, Jerry Harrison, Willie Pick Cabin as Least Glow,
Mike Mike Melry Promise, and Steve Miller Millie, Millie, You're Millie.
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Like any major city with people from all over the
world taking up residents there, the music scene shows a
similarly wide range of styles, and in a city you
wouldn't think big enough to contain all its music makers,
it absolutely does. Hip Hop bumps up against Americana, jazz asks,
power pop, That seat on the bus next to them
is taken and Poco goes Dutch on an ice cream
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Sunday with speed metal. It's all done in a way
that is determined yet understated. Liberazi nowithstanding one of Milwaukee's
longest running musical acts, as a guy by the name
of Mike Frederickson. If you have lived here for any
solid length of time, you have heard of him, seen him,
or heard him play, or even possibly seen him without
him being in the room. How is that possible? Because
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Mike is also a highly revered visual artist who does
photorealist paintings that line the walls of art bars and
venues throughout the city. Walk into the uptown or bar
where Mike also serves as the daytime tender, and you'll
see his lush, massive street scenes and highly detailed portraits
covering almost every inch of wall space. He has also
recorded eighteen albums over the years, consisting entirely of his
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original material, both as a solo artist and with his
legendary Milwaukee power pop trio the Moseleyes. He played on
Saturday Night Live with his Hispanic Boys and played bass
for years with Midwest alt country godfather Robbie Folkes, and
Mike has been playing bass in the band of another
local Mke legend, Paul Sea Bar, all while quietly releasing
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his own albums one after the other of incredibly catchy
pop songs that are decidedly Wisconsin ever heard of poco pop.
There are several examples across his record output where Mike
has somehow perfected the seemingly impossible fusing of these two medals.
An executive or an out algorithm wouldn't have the first
clue how to market this stuff. But there is no
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music industry in Milwaukee like there are on the coasts,
so Milwaukee artists don't seem too focus on making it
unless it is authentic music. When Frederickson was making yet
another record a few years ago, he asked a friend
of his if he should really be dropping thousands of
dollars to self release yet another record which may or
may not do anything for his career. The friend asked, well,
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let's start at the beginning. Why are you making this
record at all, to which Mike replied, I don't know
what else to do, So just keep producing, Mike, We're
going to do it like everyone else in this town.
Just keep doing it because as an artist, you really
aren't given the choice to not keep creating. And that
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is what we want out of our artists, to keep
showing and sharing and producing, stepping to that edge, answering
to all our questions until it makes sense or allows
us to stop trying to make sense of it. All
for one glory night on the town. In a world
where cover bands and album nights are a consistent draw,
Milwaukee is a town where those things seem less important
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than putting something new out into the world, whether it
makes you a buck or not in this town or
any other town, and you never know the ears that
Jess might be traveling through looking for a little bit
of real deal truth. Sound of Our Town is a
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podcast about the music that shaped the city you are
touching down in. It is also about being present to
hear and experience its best music happening right now and
what sounds in places of shape the city's culture. It's
about the abiding ritual of getting together in a room
to listen and why that matters. This is the anti
content podcast because it's encouraging you to ignore all the
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other content and get out there and participate in the
sounds of all the towns litered across America, and this
is season two with the real places and sonic stories
echoing in a particular town so that your travel is
enriched with music. I'm your host, Will Daily. I'm an
independent DIY songwriter and touring artist. I've been doing this
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a while and frankly, this show is also a reminder
to myself how important live music is in our existence.
The business of it kicks you around with the crowd,
never lets you down when you come with the truth.
In this second episode of our second season, we are
visiting new stuff happening in old houses in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Imagine you live in a two story house that dates
back to the eighteen hundreds. Now imagine that that two
story house is a full service bar that can comfortably
seat one hundred people upstairs and down. Your house has
all the windows blacked out, plush carpet lining the entire
joint along with lushly dark wallpaper throughout, a nice long
bar with a leather armrest running in the length of it,
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which just so happens to match the high top chairs.
And that's just wonderful. You live in Bryan's Cocktail Lounge,
the oldest of its kind in Milwaukee, and possibly, though
history is a little sketchy here in all of Wisconsin,
a state so well known for its cocktail lounges that
they might as well have a picture of a brandy
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old fashion on the state flag. Bryant's is what is
known as a tiered house, which originally was a house
rented or sold to a brewery through which local bar
owners were then by their booze. Bryan's has been opened
since the nineteen thirties, with a brief hiatus in the
nineteen seventies because a fire completely gutted its inerts. Renovated
a few years later. It now stands as it has
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ever since, and it's really dark inside, really dark. There
are some ceiling lights, but they have to be on
their lowest setting. The main illumination comes from the candles
on the tables in the soft pinkish glow from the
three tiered bar rail. Places like this, authentic and revered,
are now a rarity in the US. Isn't designed by
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some modern developer to feel like a vintage bar. It
just is a vintage bar. And it's all of this
with a curated playlist of early R and B and
classic jazz and soul pouring from the lounge speakers that
acclimates you to Mke. Upon your arrival, you will know
and feel where you are in America. If old television
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is your metric for Milwaukee, then you won't feel lost
upon arrival. All the bartenders here are well versed in mixology.
To the point where if you don't have a specific
drink order in mind, they'll simply ask you what you'd
like gin, bourbon, vodka, sweet, sour, floral, light or dark.
Then they will take all that information and put it
in the original computer, the brain, and make you a
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custom drink that will hit exactly the notes you were
thinking of in your head, and it will likely be
something you've never heard of before. Simply magic. And everyone
goes here, old and young, clean cut and not well
dressed or decently dressed. Here but not that casual. It's
a microcosm of the city itself, and it has to
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be your first stop. The listening room label often lands
in a space of less than two hundred and fifty people,
but the art of listening is not, never should be
monopolized by the strong arm of folk rooms and showcase venues.
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As a founding member of NIVA or the National Independent
Venue Association, the PAPS Music Group has under their umbrella
a few of the great independent listening rooms in Milwaukee,
including the Fitzgerald in the Turner Hall Ballroom among them.
But it's the PAPS Theater or just the PAPS that
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is one of the most striking places to see and
hear music, and not just all the Midwest. It stacks
up against any venue anywhere. This might just be my dream,
wishless gig of this year. It's designated as a National
Historical Landmark in nineteen ninety one. This thirteen hundred seat
former opera house is a replacement for the original opera
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House that burned down in the late eighteen hundreds and
has played host to the biggest names in the business,
spanning all genres. Yes, Merle Haggard played there, but so
did rachmaninoff, so did Harry Houdini in nineteen fifteen at
the height of his fame, and so is Nego case
Rick Springfield and local natives in the past year. Not
so many places can say that, but the fourth oldest
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fully operational theater in the country can, and proudly again.
Places like this exist in most major cities, and Old
Opera House is now a music venue. It's pretty common,
but doing it right is not. When you go to
a show here, all you want to do is listen.
The sound is not just bouncing around off almost one
hundred and thirty year old walls. It is bouncing off
of every sound that has hit them. Every standing ovation,
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every cracked voice, every broken string or dream, and earth
shattering performance in those saturated sound waves. Care carry that
to your waiting years. It is not just the listening
room for MKE. It is a listening room for the ages.
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Since we called a thirteen hundred CE theater our listening room,
it is perhaps fair to at least highlight a room
or set of rooms that are small yet powerful enough
to melt a face right off. Plenty of big music
venues contain a smaller performance room on their premises. In fact,
don't trust a city that doesn't have a venue like this.
It's a model that allows a venue to host both
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huge international acts in lesser known acts on the local
level and touring circuit. Far fewer venues, however, can claim
to have five venues within its walls, like the Rave
Eagles Club from smaller nightclub sized rooms holding a few
hundred people to their main ballroom capable of handling thousands,
with a couple of lounges and a rooftop spot thrown
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in for good measure. There is an eq system of
live music in room for all. So see if you
can follow along all under one roof, you've got the Rave,
the Rave Two, the Rave Bar, the Eagles Ballroom in
the Eagles Ballroom club Stage. Now that last one cheats
a little bit. It's still just the Eagles Ballroom, but
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with a Florida ceiling curtains drawn across its twenty five
thousand square foot dance floor that cuts the room down
to a smaller, more intimate, massive ballroom, much like the
bar is built into houses for which this town is famous.
This is exactly that, but on an insanely large scale.
A club and a club, and a club and a club,
a Russian doll venue that hosts the likes of Fuego Macklemore,
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Charlie Crockett and Wilco and like almost every venue in Milwaukee,
it has a fascinating history, although here that history takes
a decidedly darker turn. I did not mention the giant
pool that resides in the giant basement of this giant place.
A year after the building opened in nineteen twenty seven,
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a teenager would drown in that pool. His mother would
die months later. Thus, for the last near century, people
have been reporting clear indicators of a haunting in this place.
A ghostly male figure watching sound checks from the dark
parts of the floor, or a small girl roaming certain
areas of the venue, her laughter echoing throughout the rooms,
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even the strong smell of bleach near the long drained pool.
And if you're old or studied enough or listen to
season one of Sound of Our Town, you know all
about the Winter Dance Party Tour of nineteen fifty nine,
during which a plane crash would kill three of its
famous participants, the Big Bopper, Ritchie Vallens and Buddy Holly.
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And I'll give you one guess as to where the
first date of that tour took place. There is a
scene in the legendary music film Spinal Tap that takes
place in a fictional venue with a delightfully ridiculous name,
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Shank Hall. Leave it to Milwaukee to open a venue
with that very name, And in the spirit of that
great mockumentary, they stretch the limits of truth. For one thing,
it's not a hall. It's a long, carpeted, low ceiling
space that feels more like a conference room with a
stage and a bar in it. But they've been booking
local and international heavyweights there since nineteen eighty nine with
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no signs of stopping. And their LAKESI started off on
a pretty historic noe. Shank Hall is actually two buildings,
the club proper and then another largely unused house attached
to it, dating back to well there's some debate about that.
Some maps show the properties there as of nineteen twenties,
but documents held by the city indicated the building could
date back to the late eighteen hundreds, likely as a
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carriage house replete with wall mounted rings to tie up
your horse if you travel to Milwaukee on horse. Whatever
the date, the building would go on to become acutely
important to Milwaukee music history when in the late nineteen forties,
the building that would be Shank became a distribution center
for Capitol Records. Over the next two decades, all the
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great records made on Capitol would pass in and then
quickly out of the doors. Nat King, Cole, Mary Ford
and Les, Paul Sinatra, Prima Bozo, Yes that Bozo for you,
old school TV Buffs, and then Rock and Roll hit.
If you lived in Milwaukee and bought Servant Safari, it
passed through this building, and if you ran down the
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street to your local record shop the morning after the
Beatles legendary ed Sullivan performance any record you bought of
theirs came through this old coach house on Farewell Avenue.
The building is soaked in music history it is fitting
that such a place be MK's musical Vatican. I felt
special just booking my first gig there. Like all the
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old theaters and dives, life and sound have been absorbed
here for decades, and you hold a ticket to those
echoes as well. It's worth going there just to see
the mini Stoneheade replica that hangs from the rafters right
above where the drummer would be set up, yet another
not so subtle nod to the majestic, hard rocking and
completely fictional band. It's hard not to proselytize when you're
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on the stage in such a revered dive, a bouquet
of spilled drink and cigarettes from years past careening through
your nostrils, and either before or after the show, if
it gets out early enough, you must walk the three
blocks up Farewell Avenue to the legendary Zephrino's Pizza and Bar,
in business at the same spot since nineteen fifty four,
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Killer Italian food served in a perfectly crampedy at cozy
setting where the ice cold high life pairs perfectly with
their cracked thin pizza in Lasagna. That makes sixty nine
years of business seem like not long enough. And yes,
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it's all well and good with your DIY small venue
Midwestern charm up to this point, you wouldn't be faulted
for thinking that you can slide into cream city anytime,
and that is true. But there is good reason why
Milwaukee is called the City of festivals. There's over one
hundred of them throughout the year. Many of those are
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beer festivals, of course, because this town is honest. Milwaukee
likes its hops, but it doesn't limit its festivals. You
can find a fest here for almost any Niche celebrate
the music, food and culture of Milwaukee's Bronzeville neighborhood. There's
a fest like twenty four hour bike ride around the
city and if you prefer your bike with a little
more oomph. This is the home of Harley Davidson, so
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naturally the biggest motorcycle rally in the Midwest also happens here.
They have your standard music fests, blues, jazz, world music,
but there's also Croatian, Armenian, Mexican fests highlighting cuisine, art,
and entertainment from all these cultures. There's a Juneteenth celebrat,
a kite festival, the Chinese dragon boat festival, even the
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hyper specific coffee and Donuts festival, And due to the
overwhelming presence of the German population, they have not one,
not two, but no less than three October Fests that
start as early as August. Laverne and Shirley bottled a
lot of beer and it needs to be drunken, drunk drinking.
It needs to be drunk drink, it needs to be drunk.
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But this modest town just happens to host the biggest
yearly music festival in the world. No hyperbole. I don't
mean the world as in America. I mean the world,
the planet that you are on listening to this podcast
Floating through Space, the only one we got in. This
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fest takes place every summer in the heart of Milwaukee.
It's called Summerfest, and it's mercifully named. It's really the
only season that anything outdoors could take place in this town.
It's been going on every summer since the sixties and
it's an Octoberfest inspired affair for live music. If Caligila
was into bands, this would have been his idea. The
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many stages for it are permanently installed by the Lake
in Milwaukee, which is an impressive commitment to a festival
that only happens once a year. Thanks to COVID, this
fest now takes place over three consecutive weekends, as opposed
to two straight weeks like the old days of three
years ago, but still impressive. Imagine going to Lalla Plooza
every weekend for three straight weeks and that is Summerfest
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and everybody plays here. I mean everybody. Elvis Costello, Green Sky, Bluegrass, Trippy,
Red City Girls, Dave Matthews Band, Marcus King, James Taylor,
A Boogie Widah, Hoodie and Night Ranger, the Avid Brothers,
Tegan and Sarah, Cheap Trick and Cautious Clay. You'd be
hard pressed not to look through the current or pass
lineups for this thing and not seem any of your
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favorite bands, world famous or not. I would argue that
all this makes it one of the most significant US
cities to plant around a calendar and not just slide
into the cream. In a city of splendid dives, it
would only take a light touch of elevation to stand
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out as a hidden gem. The Art Bar among dimly
pink lit bar a La Bryants. It's exactly what its
name would make you think. It is a bar with
a heavy art focus, curated, always changing, and representative of
the local art community. Unlike Bryant's, however, Art Bar is
more of a trad bar, serving elevated bar food alongside
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their Bloody Mary's, complete with adorable Miller high Life chasers
in seven ounce bottles, a Wisconsin tradition. They don't have
a steady calendar for it, but music does happen here
as well. Here again, it's art and music, all locals
and enjoyed by locals, just like we discovered in the
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Portland main episode. It's these super northern cities that know
how to hold close to what they love. You could
go to any stoic historical society and whole home Wikipedia
page to find out about the nuts and bolts of
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a city, But there may be no better explanation of
Milwaukee than two movies. The documentary film American Movie about
an indie filmmaker trying to finish his short horror film
COVID in the big budgeted, star studded film Bridesmaids featuring
Kristin Wigg as a Milwaukee baker. Two wildly different takes
on the same Milwaukee underdogs trying to find their dream
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and achieve it despite numerous pitfalls themselves included. Both these
films featured the city in the most real way possible,
not as the main character of a film, but as
a backdrop to everyday life. You see bills piling up,
a walk through the art museum, getting pulled over for
faulty brake, lights, small business struggles but at least you
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have a chance. Relationships are tested, all the wild old
factories and a wildly complicated highway system whizzing by in
each shot. You could have easily called both of these
movies American movie for the feeling with which they leave
you afterwards. Two stories of people clawing their way towards happiness.
Will they find it? Our acronym does not stand for
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spoilers of our town, so you're just gonna have to
watch them to find out and to get ready for
your visit to the four one four Kansas City feels
different than Milwaukee, though they're not too distant in size.
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The Saint Louis too. For cities that aren't that far apart.
On a map, there's a distinctly southern vibe that stops
at a certain point along I fifty five. Is it
the weather patterns? Is it the barbecue tradition? Is Milwaukee
just far enough north in those two cities, just far
enough south to distinguish them so dramatically. The existence of
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Minneapolis might confirm that under five hours north of Milwaukee,
the two cities bear more than a few similarities. But
despite the fact that Milwaukee is bigger in most ways
in these three other cities, it gets way less love
when local music scenes get discussed. Is Milwaukee not trying
hard enough to compete with other nearby cities because they
absolutely can't hold their own or is it just that
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they don't feel the need to compete. The latter seems
to make more sense. It's a pretty badass way to
go to. Milwaukee just does this thing while not worrying
about the joneses. I'm concerned about other cities doing it
just their own. And you know what the town of
Milwaukee is. It's homey, which makes perfect sense when you
think about it. Even when you leave your own house
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to go to a show or a bar or a restaurant, here.
Oftentimes you're just going to someone else's house, Sofrino's, Cactus Club,
the Jazz Estate, Mad Planet, Liniments. People lived in these
establishments before they were established, before music, before booze, before industry,
musical and otherwise, and they keep on being there, Like
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a cocktail at Bryan's. They just keep on doing it.
And you know what, Vernon Shirley were right. We are
going to do it no matter what changes come our way.
And Milwaukee is our proof. And one more thing in
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a city that feels like a hidden gem in and
of itself, relishing in its own well worn yet cherished
American antiquity. There weights one of the world's largest collection
of antique microphones on display inside an electronics store on
East National Street. Mike Guru Bobikuett is a massed collection
of more than one thousand microphone phes, most made before
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nineteen fifty, in most in working condition thanks to Piquette's repairs.
The microphones are climbing up the walls foot to ceiling.
A telephone from eighteen seventy six. There's a microphone that
was used by Hitler and also one of the very
first forty fours for any view audio files out there,
and it all highlights how far we've come in recording
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tech while simultaneously driving home how short of a period
humans have been recording their sounds compared to the thousands
and thousands of years of playing music with and four
each other. Milwaukee did not invent the microphone, nor does
it own the dive bar or the bowling alley. It
just feels determined not to forsake the beginning of things
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for the expansion of things. Maybe we're going to make
It also means making sure the past is part of
the present, not to hold on to it or lament
its passing, but to see how far we've come, and
to temper our shock at the CONTs rate of change,
to hold strong to the wonders of all that we
have created and yet to create. Happy days if we
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want them, are always waiting to be recorded. And that
is our time in Milwaukee now. DM. If you have
any questions or further suggestions, or if you just want
me to cover your town in this season, you can
hit me up on Instagram at Will Daily Official, or
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search Will Daily anywhere on your favorite platform. You just
gotta spell Daily dai l e y. I'm on threads too,
finally a new social media platform, and I was starting
to get a little worried. This show got a second
season because of you. Thanks for all the reviews, the follows,
and the shares. If you aren't following Sound of Our
Town or having a reviewed yet, just think you could
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be the reason when you get a season three. Sound
of Our Town is a production of Double Elvis and iHeartRadio.
You can also hit us up on ig at Double
Elvis and Twitter at Double Elvis FM. The show is
executively produced by Jake Brennan and Brady Sadler for Double Elvis.
Production assistants by Matt Bowden. The show is created, written, hosted,
and scored by me Will Daily. This episode's head writer
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is Gerald Dowd. I won't say that Gerald has an
eye closed Wallski sticker plastered across the back of his
old school day Runner date book, but I also won't
say that he doesn't. Music for this episode was composed
and performed by me Will Daily. You can check me
out on Spotify, Apple Bandcamp, and will Daily dot com,
or you can see me on the road in August
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with the Wallflowers. I'm gonna be stopping through the Midwest, Madison,
Kansas City, Des Moines, Iowa City, Buffalo, and New Jersey.
All right, off to the next town, the next venue.
Thank you so much for your ears.
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