The road house of old has been surrounded with bedroom communities, shopping opportunities and the workshops of craftsman. Hopefully, you get quality service.

However on some roads, every one has agreed, that the real estate is of lesser value. Maybe there is only a small patch that can be developed – Some times it is too far from some place popular.

Markam, New Jersey and Chester’s Roadhouse are the physical
equivalents of the above: outside nowhere. When “local” groups
Mimmers, The Policy Charmers and Squishy Fishy finished playing, Bogus
Slogan walked on stage expecting a crowd of three drunk punks, a
couple in love slow dancing and maybe 2 couples who should start over with someone new.

Well, inside a a concrete building, with accoustic floating walls, that could hold 450, was 700 kids. Silent as a tomb. The band had been forced to stay away from the stage, rehearsing in a second concrete building. Same wall system. Made the room really sing. No distortion. Anyway…

Recent digital music files have been extracted that play back the beginning of the show. After the band had been announced and had finished adjusting their instruments, some one from the audience politely ask, “Will you play something for us?”

Lead guitarist Robert “Extra Finger” Soelberg, tightened his volume knob, stutter picked the chord opening to “Not Now, Later…” Bogus Slogan gave an extra two encores a couple of hours later. At the very, very end,.. again no applause, no sound as the building emptied. Yet all the merch had sold. That’s a good sign.