slugmag.com 1 SaltLakeUnderGround • Vol. 25 • Issue #311 • November 2014 • slugmag.com Publisher: Eighteen Percent Gray Marketing Coordinator: CONTRIBUTOR LIMELIGHT: Editor: Angela H. Brown Robin Sessions Managing Editor: Alexander Ortega Marketing Team: Alex Topolewski, Carl Acheson, Alex Springer Junior Editor: Christian Schultz Cassie Anderson, Cassandra Loveless, Ischa B., Janie Senior Staff Writer Office Coordinator:Gavin Sheehan Greenberg, Jono Martinez, Kendal Gillett, Lindsay Digital Content Coordinator: Henry Glasheen Clark, Raffi Shahinian, Robin Sessions, Zac Freeman Fact Checker: Henry Glasheen Social Media Coordinator: Catie Weimer Copy Editing Team: Alex Cragun, Alexander Distribution Manager: Eric Granato Ortega, Allison Shephard, Christian Schultz, Cody Distro: Andrea Silva, Daniel Alexander, Eric Kirkland, Henry Glasheen, John Ford, Jordan Granato, John Ford, Jordan Deveraux, Julia Sachs, Deveraux, Julia Sachs, Laikwan Waigwa-Stone, Maria Valenzuela, Michael Sanchez, Nancy Maria Valenzuela, Mary E. 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He joined the SLUG team in May of 2012, Sumerset Bivens Brown, Peter Fryer, Rebecca Vernon, Ricky Vigil, and has since demonstrated his refined, global Website Developer: Kate Colgan Ryan Hall, Scott Farley, Sean Zimmerman-Wall, palate through writing food reviews—check out his Illustrators: D. Bradford Gambles, Lenny Riccardi, Shawn Mayer, Stakerized!, Thomas Winkley list of restaurants open on Thanksgiving on pg. 40! Maggie Zukowski, Manuel Aguilar, Natalie Edwards, Monkeys with Computers: Adam Fratto, Alex Springer has a strong sense of the people behind our Paul Frame, Phil Cannon, Robin Banks, Ryan Perkins, Coulombe, Alex Cragun, Alex Gilvarry, Allison community’s food culture, and he loves meeting and Sean Hennefer, Steve Thueson, Timm Paxton Shephard, Amanda Rock, Andrea Silva, Ashley interviewing interesting folks. 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We seek to circulate ideas and dialogue through quality coverage of arts, music, events and lifestyle … except rollerblading. Content is property of SLUG Magazine—please do not use without written @SLUGMag youtube.com/user/SLUGMagazine permission. [email protected] 4 SaltLakeUnderGround Burt’s Tiki Lounge chat over PBRs with a scene vet who’d seen the in turn, kept the sound waves fresh and boundary- first incarnations of bands like The Boards, pushing (and abrasive, if we were lucky). Each In Memoriam Massacre Guys and Maimed for Life and bartender would treat you like family—especially if Punk rock bar lived to tell about it. It was blue collar, honest and, you were family. In turn, when an extra hand was Street: 726 S. State St. most of all, a community space. No other venue needed to work the door or build onto the stage, Burt’s = tunes + cheap booze + provided a band the opportunity to play their set someone would inevitably step up. Sure, it was stories while watching The Toxic Avenger on one of the TVs a little rough around the edges, but that was its Burt’s Tiki Lounge was a place where one checked hanging from the ceiling. Whether it was a Tuesday charm, and they eventually fixed the water heater their “scene cred” at the door and let the bar’s night with handful of people aware of an obscure and got soap anyway. Toast this venue who’d be flier-ridden walls tell the venue’s story—and a touring band like Pleasure Leftists or a packed hard-pressed to turn a band away with a Cerebral damn-good chunk of Utah’s underground music house for Swingin’ Utters, Burt’s was always a Assassin, their trademark drink: Mix Jägermeister, tale at that. There was no place quite like it in bastion for music. The old guard of punkers and Old Crow and energy drink, shake it up, and down Salt Lake, where a bright-eyed 21-year-old could metalheads ushered in many a 20-something, who, the hatch as a shot. R.I.P., you dirty, old bastard. 6 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 7 (L–R) Ryan Gee (drums), Greg Midgley (keyboards), Angie Eralie Midgley Photo: Russel Daniels (bass) and Tyler Anderson (guitar, vo- cals) play SLUG Localized on Nov. 14 as Bronco. (Not pictured: Mike Sasich.) out here and there.” When their album Paint- ing Pictures Of A Perfect Life came out, Bronco went on a 10-day tour to promote it. Anderson with an unexpected stage dive. He’s got the au- says, “Before recording [In Lights,] we went to dience in mind. Anderson says, “The highest I’ve Colorado and played three shows in four days. gotten is on a half-stack with my guitar. I looked [Colorado] seemed like a close place to sharpen LOCALIZED up at the rafters, then down at the people sup- our skills to be ready to record.” On their mini porting us, and I didn’t want to ruin their night.” tour in Colorado, along with playing at a Burt’s By Steve Richardson He’s the type to look before leaping into full-on Tiki Lounge equivalent called Lion’s Lair, Bronco everypizza.tumblr.com rock star self-indulgence. played at a barbeque joint and a pizza place. Bronco ended up spending money on tour, not Set aside your best $5 bill so you don’t miss this In the years that Bronco have existed, Ander- making a profit. Anderson says, “[The shows] month’s Localized, featuring the American rock of son has been the only constant. The sound of were for the free meals but mostly for the road Bronco, the ’60s sound of Super 78 and opener Bronco’s music has evolved along with the trip, for the fun.” The day after returning to Salt Green River Blues at Urban Lounge. It’s spon- lineup, which has been changing for Bronco’s Lake, Bronco began recording. sored by Uinta Brewing Co., KRCL 90.0FM whole existence. Although Anderson writes the and Spilt Ink SLC. Doors open at 9 p.m. on songs, the others play a large role in the sound Not abnormal for country-inspired music, stories Nov. 14. of the finished product—he doesn’t want to be are a central element in Bronco’s songs. Ander- seen as a solo artist. Angie Eralie Midgley, son usually writes the story first and then puts Bronco began about 10 years ago as a solo on bass, has been with the band nine years. music to it. Anderson says, “It’s hard to write project under a different name, a name that She has stuck with Bronco longer than anyone. a great song, so if the song’s not that great, as Tyler Anderson, Bronco’s vocalist and guitar Midgley’s husband, Greg Midgley, joined to long as the story is, you’ve got that going for it.” player, doesn’t give up without some prodding. play keys later on, along with Bronco’s other cur- Anderson thinks a good plot line can pull a song But the story goes like this: Anderson went rent members, Ryan Gee on drums, and Mike out of mediocrity. Made-up characters usually by the nickname T-Bone. When he began Sasich on lead guitar. Anderson says, “The drive his fictional lyrics, but Anderson doesn’t performing in his proto-Bronco solo project, music’s changed as the band members have believe he could write a song without some truth a friend suggested Anderson go by Bone changed. When I started out, it was more laid- in it. He says, “You can’t write a song that’s to- Alone, and he did.