Dislodged

The Lodge Bar was a chain of bars that were decorated with a hunting lodge motif and a meat market clientele. There were locations within Cincinnati, Ohio and Minneapolis, Minnesota. This shirt, however, is concerned with only the Columbus location that was situated at the intersection of Vine and Kilbourne in the Arena District of Columbus, Ohio. The bar was located very close to Nationwide Arena {Columbus Blue Jackets {Carry The Flag, White Out Night, & 10th Anniversary} & Columbus Destroyers {White Out Night}}.

I visited the Columbus vacation one time to celebrate Donor, Receiver, & Donor Ian* ‘s birthday. People celebrating their birth anniversaries got 25 cent tall boys for themselves and everyone in their birthday group got 25 cent short glasses of beer. So I went. The acquisition date night was rather boring. There was nothing to do in that bar other than look at tacky decor and try to figure out the meaning behind the shirt I was given by Ian. My boredom was rooted in my abstaintion from alcohol and also because the type of ladies to which the bar catered did not respect themselves enough.

Cover Your Tracks

On the night of Saturday, May 14th, 2005, however, there would be live music. The venue hosted Lodge-A-Palooza 2005, a night devoted only to cover bands. Battery ⇒, Paradise City ⇒, and Even Flow (name changed to Given 2 Fly) ⇒ each pretended to be Metallica ⇒, Guns N’ Roses ⇒, and Pearl Jam ⇒ respectively for a night. I doubt that anyone cared enough to be fooled.

I do not blame anyone that makes the business decision to just play other peoples’ stuff. Being in a cover band can be a stepping stone to getting an audience that might like original things. Until then, a number of cover bands do get paid. Most audiences do not care what live music is playing just so long as there is something that they know playing. The audience would probably be just as happy with a jukebox playing originals.

As an artistic decision being in a cover band must be very boring. Playing the same stuff over and over again must probably gets old quick. Being limited to the strengths and flaws of someone else is unnatural.

As a listener, I find cover bands to be terribly boring to hear. Between having already heard their entire repertoire done better and the lack of expression that doing it for the money brings to a performance I have no interest. I never would have attended Lodge-A-Palooza.

-Palooza

The 19th century word lollapalooza ⇒ to describe something exceptionally impressive has fallen out of regular use. A lower-case l lollapalooza would have been something to behold indeed.

The word was revived through being used as the name with an upper-case L by a festival tour of varied genre acts organized by Jane’s Addiction ⇒ frontman Perry Farrell as a swan song for the band. The 1991 edition of the tour proved to be quite popular with the kiddos. Subsequent Lollapalooza tours would be held through 1997 with a tour revival in 2003, and the current one-stop revival in Chicago starting in 2005. As time went on, Lollapalooza became increasingly mainstream to the point that any of the originally intended meaning of the festival was lost.

The use of the -palooza suffix at the end of a name for any sort of event is commonly accepted. Off the top of my head, I have seen signs for a “Dogapalooza” allowin people to walk their dog en masse and a “Mommy Palooza” that took place a week after Mother’s Day that featured a singer-songwriter peforming for an audience of two customers outside of at a coffee shop.

The Lodge Bar Claimed Rock N’ Roll Timeline

Practically every decision that could have been made for the information on the back of this shirt to make sense was acted against What seems to be an attempt to establish 5 important dates in rock n’ roll history descends into a list of ideas that often have no relation to each other haphazardly thrown together. Indeed, the Lodge Bar did not feel the need to dignify their own promotional material with attention to detail.

The details that are provided do not adhere to any particular form. The dates are in no order and most do not have any significance. The cities of Columbus and Seattle are given state names, but the viewer is expected to know the location of a event that took place in another place than which it is known by, an intersection of two streets, and a deceased person’s home.

I shall go through these dates in reverse chronological order. Doing so is for the benefit of easier reading through maintaining a pattern that has been established throughout the Sorted By Date page and also on the Acquisition Dates of shirt dossiers that have multiple shirts.

The event that got top billing was Lodge-A-Palooza. How humble of the Lodge Bar! Now, I am aware that the Lodge Bar probably placed themselves at the top in jest. I will give them the benefit of a doubt that they took the rest of the stuff about their event seriously enough to bother to organize, fund, and promote the event.

A soundtrack of the Early 90s would have to include the sound of grunge, and the epicenter of that scene was Seattle, Washington. Alice in Chains ⇒, Nirvana ⇒, Pearl Jam ⇒ and Soundgarden ⇒ were four bands that were able to find mainstream success riding the wave of grunge. I still listen to the Melvins ⇒ and early Tad ⇒.

The selected date does not seem to have any significance within grunge history. I have searched through newspapers of the time and area and could not find anything. The legitimate news of the day was the 1992 U.S. Presidential Election ⇒ that was won by Bill Clinton ⇒.

Graceland was the estate ⇒ of rockabilly star Elvis Presley ⇒. Elvis sold black music to a white audience by shaking his hips and starring in movies. His fame was such that he had to buy an estate to keep his life somewhat private in life, and the second highest visited private property in America after death. The interior design of Graceland is known for being kitschy.

On the date listed on the back of this shirt, Elvis was still alive. In fact, probably resting during a break in touring ⇒.

“An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music” otherwise known as Woodstock was a landmark moment within popular culture through being the apex of flower power. 30+ bands of the era played sets at the event at Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in Bethel, New York. There was intent to charge $18 admission, but there ended up being too many attendees to stop the fences from being cut. Nudity, sex, and drugs were indulged in levels worthy of reflection years after the concert-goers were co-opted.

A key difference between Lodge-A-Palooza that is immediately discernible is that the bands at Woodstock were talented enough to perform, and oftentimes write, their own material. Another difference is that there was a documentary film and phonograph of selected performances to satisfy an actual market demand.

For once, this shirt provides a date with some significance. The festival did start on August 15th, 1967. The festival continued, however, until the early morning of August 18th, 1967. Still, at least the Lodge Bar got one date right.

Haight-Ashbury is an intersection within The Haight neighborhood of San Francisco, California. I suppose that Ashbury/Haight is also acceptable because it is just another way of describing an intersection of two streets. The neighborhood was the epicenter of the then nascent hippie movement during the Summer of Love. This was the year when the rebellious hippie lifestyle captured the imagination of those so inclined and also started the spread of the subculture.

Research has again not yielded any particular reason as to why this particular date would have been selected for this shirt. 1967 was the Summer of Love, but July 17th seems to have just been another day to be a flower child in Haight-Ashbury. Composer and saxophonist John Coltrane ⇒ died on that day, but in New York City. Furthermore, death is nothing to celebrate in a manner such as this.