Entry to the Underground

Have you ever wanted to hear live music, but thought you didn't know where to go or were you concerned about the price? Well follow my blog and I'll tell of some great places where the music is played every night and where you can catch a free show or often very cheap. I have been scouring the city of Chicago since my arrival to find the best places to hear great music and I wish to offer my opinion in consideration of the venue's sound quality, musicians, and the environment created by the crowd and employees. This has resulted as a time consuming yet very exciting and rewarding venture considering there are literally hundreds of bars, night clubs, and venues in the area and most of those are quiet neighborhood hangouts that only the locals seem to know.
I've spent much of my time seeking out live music because I am an audio production student and my greatest interest is in live sound production. I think it would be great to see and engineer a live show every night. So I have been to several great places worth mentioning and I seem to be discovering new places all the time.
As a proper introduction to the underground scene I would like to mention Lonnie Walker's Underground Wonder Bar where the music is played 365 days a year until 4 a.m. and admission is free before 10 p.m. Once the admission does kick in it is $5 for weeknights. The Underground Wonder Bar has 3 stages, 2 underground and the main stage on the ground floor. The music that can be heard falls among a danceable, jazzy, reggae, rockish, soul influence and has weekly performances by the owner Lonnie Walker's Big Ass Company Band. I seen Smokin' Joe Thomas play the walking' bass last monday with a jazzy drummer and a fella pounding on the piano. The Underground had a great sound for the fat bass lines of Smokin Joe, which were accentuated further by the clubs long rectangular shape and by diffusors that hung on the wall opposite the band. The people at the Underground were very friendly and positive as well. They invite you to more shows and welcome you back as I hope many of you will visit back to my blog and even offer a comment or two. Thank you all for your time.