Finding Aid for David Roesch Urbana-Champaign Local Music Scrapbooks, 1966-2017 | The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music

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Series 1: Scrapbooks, 1966-2017

Scrapbooks are arranged chronologically.

Box 1

Item 1: Scrapbook, 1966-2013

Includes newsclippings documenting performances that were booked at Chances R, Red Lion Inn, Assembly Hall, Blind Pig, The Virginia Theater, City Limits, Alley Cat, Mabel's, and the Brown Jug.  The bands include Coal Kitchen, Grateful Dead, Earth Wind & Fire, The Moon Seven Times, The Vertebrats, Mother, Corndolly, Suede Chain, Finchley Boys, Ginger, Captain Rat and the Blind Rivets, Starcastle, and REO Speedwagon.  In addition there articles documenting the Gary Strater benefit concert; Mark Rubel's relocation of the Pogo Studio to Nashville; Tennessee, and a Red Lion Inn health permit from 1979.

Box 2

Item 1: Scrapbook, 1970-2016

Includes newsclippings documenting performances held at The Drum Shop, Red Lion Inn, Brown Jug, Chances R, Panama Red's, Studio One, and Assembly Hall.  The bands include Hound Dog Moses, Cheap Trick, Poster Children, B-Lovers, Corndolly, Hardvark, Sarge, the Last Gentlemen, and Absinthe Blind.  In addition the newsclippings document two local sound recording business, Polyvinyl Records and Record Swap; and includes The Road Puppy Weekly Review zine, 2nd edition, Sept. 20-27, 1991, edited by Joey Buck.

Box 3

Item 1: Scrapbook, ca. 1978

Includes newsclippings documenting performances by the band Emerson, Lake and Palmer, as well as the Marshall Tucker Band, Frank Zappa, Starcastle, and Todd Rundgren.  There are also articles documenting the plane crash that killed three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd; as well as ticket stubs from performances by many national acts that took place at the University of Illinois' Assembly Hall.

Box 4

Item 1: Scrapbook, 1978-2013

Includes newsclippings documenting performances by the bands Starcastle, George Thorogood, Champaign (the band), Combo Audio, George Faber and Strronghold, The Elvis Brothers, Nix 86, Talking Heads, Last Gentlemen, The Outnumbered, Nick Rudd, Lonely Trailer, and Coal Kitchen.  In addition there are articles about Della Perrone's work photographing many of the musicians who performed as part of the Urbana-Champaign local music scene.

Box 5

Item 1: Scrapbook, 1979-2012

Includes newsclippings documenting performances by CV Lloyde, Head East, Slink Rand, Headlights, Beauty Shop, Elsinore, and The Living Blue.  The articles also record performances given at the University of Illinois' Foellinger Auditorium and Krannert Center for the Performing Arts as well as such community venues as the Cowboy Monkey, The Highdive, Mike & Molly's, The Red Herring, IMC, Rose Bowl, Memphis on Main.  This is also a Combo Audio fan club certificate and the biographies of the band members and a National Dance Marathon program.

Box 6

Item 1: Scrapbook, 1986-1992

Includes newsclippings documenting performances by the bands High Sierra, Rhythm Rangers, Blanche Talley, Poster Children, Soul Circle, Adrian Belew, The Last Gentlemen, e.k.g, Polaroidz, The Martyrs, Mistress, Charming Beggars, The Didjits, and Titanic Love Affair.  Also includes advertising for performances at The Blind Pig, Mabel's, Candy's Lounge, Buddie's, and Nature's Table.

Box 7

Item 1: Scrapbook, 1987-1990

Includes newsclippings about Adrian Belew/The Bears, The Elvis Brothers, B.B. King, Last Gentlemen, Otis and the Elevators, Schoolyard Truce, Lonely Trailer, Didjits, Timbuck 3, Captain Rat and the Blind Rivets, Hot Glue Gun, Poster Children, REO Speedwagon, Mudhens, and Clockwork Orange.

Box 8

Item 1: Scrapbook, 1989-2017

Includes newsclippings documenting performances by such bands as Appaloosa, Captain Rat and the Blind Rivets, The One-Eyed Jacks, REO Speedwagon, Flea Circus, Poster Children, and Immune System.