But the group Motorbiscuit tours around down state and I believe their originally from the Kewanee area. I was anxious to talk to them on their set break, which was also a plus because Cherry Street is a fairly small bar so I was easily able to. Met these guys ---->
They played a few original songs, but mostly cover songs with the best one definitely being Lynyrd Skynyrd's classic Free Bird. The song someone always calls for no matter what live show your at. Motorbiscuit did an awesome job with it and I thought it was the coolest song I heard from their entire set.
The venue itself has a greater potential it could fulfill than the current owners care to invest or are maybe aware of. The acoustics need addressing in the place because where I stood was the best place in the house to stand and I still found it hard to understand the vocals. The problems include the room being overly live and reflective. The room was all brick, but it didn't have any acoustic treatment, panel absorbers, or even tapestries. It was also rectangular in shape, which is good for the long low wavelengths, but they didn't have any diffusors at the opposite end and the sound guy didn't sit towards the rear of the room either. Instead he was sitting parallel to the left of the point of the video being shot snug up against the wall. So everything in the back behind the reference point of the video was a very poor listening area due to masking/blending, too much sound energy, and poor acoustics.
It was a lively bar though and had two separate rooms, which allowed to get away from the music if you wished. Plus it was also free.
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