Chip Brooks calls The Cellar Arlington Heights' 'cultural zenith.' Indeed, such a declaration is in the title of the sold-out shows Brooks will emcee at his club Hey Nonny this week in tribute to the teen club that drew the likes of The Who, Cream and Three Dog Night from 1965 to 1970.
Fifty-five years ago to the date Wednesday night, Paul Sampson took the stage of his Arlington Heights teen music club -- its decor of black lights and black netting hanging from the ceiling -- and introduced a group that was to perform"White Room." It's a moment Sampson says he'll never forget.
Not to mention the club nurtured the local garage bands of the era: the Buckinghams, Ides of March, Cryan' Shames, New Colony Six, Amboy Dukes and Sampson's house band, the Shadows of Knight. He calls The Cellar, which was around from 1965 to 1970, Arlington Heights'"cultural zenith." Indeed, such a declaration is in the title of the sold-out shows Brooks will emcee this week. Tickets are still available for a third show on June 14.
It was the time in pop music when everything British was the craze, and local teens were looking for something to do. Sampson would know, as owner of the popular Arlington Record shop at 11 E. Miner St.
Sampson was able to get a lease for what had been the old activities building of St. Peter Lutheran Church and enlisted the Shadows -- who attended nearby Prospect High School -- to help knock down walls in the basement and build out the room, which had a capacity of about 500. After quickly outgrowing that space, The Cellar moved across the railroad tracks in 1966 to a warehouse at Salem Avenue and Davis Street.
Eventually, other music clubs began to pop up, audiences began to dwindle and the lease was about to end -- plus there were some run-ins with village officials over the years.
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