The Recliners

‎2012 Summer Tour Kickoff: Galway

Wed, 09 May 2012 09:38:46 -0500

We are back! After taking the winter off to attend to all sorts of Reclinerish things, we are very excited to kick off our Summer 2012 Thirtieth Anniversary Tour at one of our favorite Chicago area stomping grounds, Galway in Elmhurst.

We’ll hit the stage at 9pm, and we’ll hit it so hard it might buckle. So get there early and bring rescue dogs and a backhoe. (Kidding!)

We’ve got a busy summer in western Illinois and the Quad Cities, but not a lot going on around Chicago. Don’t miss this opportunity!

Saturday, May 12, 9pm

Galway Bar & Grill
12045 Roosevelt Rd
Elmhurst, IL 60126

Galway

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:18:00 -0500

We return to Galway this Saturday at 9pm!

The best part about this place, besides us and their 4am liquor license, is their Lobster Zone machine:

So, come on out, let us ROCK YOUR FACE OFF, and see if you can catch a terrified crustacean with a claw like he were a Beanie Baby or something. A delicious, soon-to-be-boiled-and-drenched-in-butter Beanie Baby.

Saturday, October 15, 9pm
Galway Bar & Grill
12045 Roosevelt
Elmhurst, IL 60126

Recliners pregame: Montecristo #2, lit in Grand Marnier....

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 22:26:38 -0500

Recliners pregame: Montecristo #2, lit in Grand Marnier.

It’s how we roll.

Here are some shots from Poopy’s yesterday. I...

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 07:51:00 -0500

Trunk Tetris

It can't keep up at this rate...

Steve gets hazardous duty pay

A warm, dry place. Maybe the only one.

Here are some shots from Poopy’s yesterday. I couldn’t believe how many people braved that deluge to get there on their motorcycles. We had a great time under some terrible circumstances and are looking forward to getting back there next year.

Big thanks to Steve the sound man and Dale at Poopy’s for helping make the best of a tough day!

Upcoming gigs, including, um, tomorrow

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:33:17 -0500

Yep, just a little bit tardy in posting this one. Marketing Fail! But who has time for sissified nonsense like advertising when we work so hard to bring the rock?

Case in point: we learned two new songs this week just for this gig, if by “new” you’re willing to accept that they were actually recorded in 1977 (then made much more famous on a live album recorded in Budokan in 1979) and 1994.

Anyway, upcoming gigs!

September 3: Poopy’s, Savanna IL, 1-5pm
September 10: Weibler’s Harley-Davidson, Davenport IA, noonish
October 15: Galway Bar & Grill, Elmhurst IL, 9pm

Poopy’s, 04-Jul-2011.

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 07:49:00 -0500

Poopy’s, 04-Jul-2011.

Photo

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:32:37 -0500

John Recliner

Thom Recliner

Todd Recliner

Gary Recliner

Poopy's!

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 07:06:28 -0500

Come celebrate the 4th of July with us the way the founding fathers intended: by rocking your sweaty self at a biker bar in lovely Savanna, Illinois by the banks of the mighty Mississippi. This is one of our favorite stops—a friendly venue with an outdoor stage, great atmosphere, and fantastic food. It’s gonna be a great day.

Look, America is 235 years old next week, and that’s pretty close to our combined age and our average weight, too. I don’t see how you can miss this.

Poopy’s
04-July-2011 1-5pm
1030 Viaduct Road, Savanna, IL

Veni, vidi, vici. (Turns out Latin doesn’t have a verb that...

Sun, 01 May 2011 07:36:00 -0500

Veni, vidi, vici. (Turns out Latin doesn’t have a verb that means “to rock”).

Spring Tour Kickoff!

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 08:40:00 -0500

Good gravy, it’s been a long cold winter. Are you ready to kick the ice crystals off of your boogie shoes and shake what your momma gave you?

No, I have no idea what any of that means, either.

Let’s explore it together:

9:30pm Saturday, April 30
Cullinan’s Stadium Club
11610 S. Western Ave
Chicago, IL 60643

Some video from our last gig out in Midlothian. “Keep Your...

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:07:00 -0600

Some video from our last gig out in Midlothian. “Keep Your Hands To Yourself.”

There may have been drinking involved.

Black Saturday at O'Leary's

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:35:08 -0600

It’s been a long, hard road trip this summer. We slaved across Iowa and western Illinois, learning about intradealer rivalries in the Harley-Davidson world and the terrible fashion errors that can result. It was horrible, draining, I tell you.

And so it is with much relief and joy that I report to you today we are RETURNING, MOST TRIUMPHANTLY, to our south side roots.

November 27, 2010, 9:00pm
O’Leary’s
14650 Waverly, Midlothian

Join us for a few hours of post-shopping beer drinking and hell raising.

Gig this weekend: Poopy's

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:59:36 -0500

Late breaking news: we will be continuing our Mississippi Valley 2010 Fall Tour this Sunday, September 5, at Poopy’s in Savanna, IL. 1pm - 5pm. This place really has it all, according to their website:

Tattoos and piercings
A bar / restaurant
Motorcycle parts and accessories, including clothing

Given that, it’s possible we’ll never come home, so do make the effort to get out there and see this epic show.

The Girl in the Lime Green Top

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:37:22 -0500

It’s often the case when we play outdoor summer festivals that the colors of the crowd swirl together into a ruddy brown stew. Everyone’s tan, to start with, and then the heat and humidity seem almost to coax the dirt up from between the blades of grass and onto the bodies and clothes we see from the stage. The warm orange of the setting sun heightens the effect, further blending the ochre before us.

The last time we played Timber Lanes in Maquoketa, IA was no exception. The late summer afternoon was working its magic on the crowd. We played in the evening, so there was a lot of time to kill during the day, hanging around, people watching. Bobbing along in the sienna seas was a vision in bright green. A shock of blonde hair exploded above a spectacularly tanned and fit body, which was more than enough to catch the eye even in the swaying chaos, but it was her dazzling, bright green top which absolutely made the case that there was Something To See here. We all remarked on her. We spoke of little else as the afternoon gave way to dusk.

Beyond the stunning visual she presented, it was clear her spirit was exceptional, too. She worked through the crowd all afternoon, seemingly knowing everyone in this small Iowa town. Contact with friends and acquaintances—a light touch on the arm as she threw her head back for that laugh which came so easily, and for the luckier among them, long embraces upon greeting. I jealously imagined what soft wonders that embrace might reveal.

We took the stage and, until she disappeared for good, we watched her weave through the crowd. As darkness set in, her shirt, nearly luminescent, stood out that much more. At some point near the end of the set we lost sight of her for the last time. There was some small amount of sadness, an emptiness remaining. Only her mysteries lingered, forever to be left unrevealed to us.

Or so we thought, until we found her passed out in a pool of her own vomit in the parking lot.

The Recliners at Timber Lanes
Maquoketa, IA
Saturday August 7, 8:30pm-midnight

Back to Galway's

Sun, 16 May 2010 23:22:00 -0500

The Recliners are very excited to be returning to the scene of our most facemelting, rippingest set ever:

Galway Bar & Grill
Elmhurst, IL 60126
Saturday, May 22, 9:30pm

(It’s just east of I-294. On our map it looks more like Westchester than Elhmurst, but who are we to quibble?) Anyway, the last time we played there we pretty much tore a hole in the space-time continuum and we expect no less this time out. Join us if you’re not afraid of a new black hole being created in the western suburbs.

Oops: Comments Disabled

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:17:00 -0600

There’s never a lack of drama on the internets, is there? We had a little problem with a spam attack over the weekend here at Club Recliner and since we don’t have a lot of time to moderate, etc., we decided to just shut them down. Sorry for the inconvenience, but it looks like no one but the spammer had availed themselves of that feature anyway.

I know it’s just like that thing in grammar school where the gym teacher would make everyone run laps if even one guy had socks that didn’t match, but them’s the breaks. Namaste. See you at Galway on Saturday!

New club: Galway Bar & Grill

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:44:00 -0600

We’ve really enjoyed our time off over the holidays. It’s always good to ~~build unbridled rage~~ recharge the creative spirit by spending time with family.

With this lengthy separation, we haven’t really had a chance to chat about some important milestones. Gary and John Recliner are each a year older since last we spoke, and we’ve crossed the three year anniversary of the 2007 Recliners Reunion Tour. Tempus fugit! Not only are we eligible for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, we will soon be eligible for Medicare and AARP discounts at Denny’s. Win-win-win.

For now, though, it’s time to rise out of our rocking chairs and do some work that requires no hearing aids. We’re talking about our debut performance at the spacious Galway Bar & Grill in leafy Elmhurst. Details:

Galway Bar & Grill
Saturday, February 13, 9pm
12045 West Roosevelt Road
Elmhurst, IL 60126
(708) 449-8830

We really hope you can make it. We’re also working on a ton of bookings for spring and summer right now, both here and in our second home in the Quad Cities. Stay tuned!

Welcome to the new site!

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:55:43 -0600

After months of hard labor and profound internet dark wizardry, not to mention the settlement of no less than four (4) international intellectual property cases argued before the Hague, we are thrilled to present the launch of the NEW Recliners Website, therecliners.org !

We’re excited to be using technology from the good folks at Tumblr. It’s a microblogging site designed to be super easy to update, which is good because if we’re going to be honest with each other, the old Recliners site sometimes had that not-so-fresh feeling about it. If you are already a Tumblr user, please consider following! If not, you can add this site to your RSS reader like any other blog or if you have no idea what the hell any of this mumbo-jumbo means, just bookmark it and check back often. We’ll try to get to updating it more than once per geologic era, we swear.

We’d love your feedback on it, too. Drop us a note at info@therecliners.org to let us know what you think or use the comments feature.

We’re taking a little time off over the holidays, but we’re working on winter bookings right now and we will announce them here (in addition to the email blast) when they firm up. You can check the calendar, or maybe just hang out in bars on the south side until we show up if you have time on your hands and a healthy liver.

Cheers!

Gary, John, Thom, and Todd Recliner

Papa T’s, Burbank, October 23, 2009.

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:57:44 -0500

At least they spelled our name right.

Live in action.

Notice the, uh, graphics. On the shirts.

Papa T’s, Burbank, October 23, 2009.

The Famous Picture

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:47:00 -0500