Buddy Guy’s Legends moving
Buddy Guy’s Legends To Move
According to an Associated Press report published this morning, Chicago blues legend Buddy Guy announced his namesake club will move by June. Speaking from the stage Thursday, January 4th, at the beginning of his annual month-long residency, Guy reportedly told the audience Columbia College bought the space for a new student center. Guy hopes to reopen somewhere else in the South Loop, possibly Maxwell Street, though he told IE in August 2005 he wished he had opened the club originally in the suburbs in 1989, because he thinks his older clientele doesn’t like driving downtown.
“Right there in the Loop I don’t even know if I would have the club open, man,” he said then. “Your supporters, some of ’em live out here [in Orland Park], some of ’em live gotta be driving distance. The public transportation quits runnin’ about 10:30 at night, and then some of the older drinkers who wanna come out and hear us, there’s so much crime in the streets. If I don’t drive, I can’t come down there. These questions be popped to me a lot. Since the DUI done come down, it’s just done killed a lot of it. A lot of faces I see, people just take the six-pack or whatever they’re drinkin’ and go home because there’s just no way. You can drink two beers and somebody run over you and they’re gonna getcha.”
Stay tuned for more details.
— Steve Forstneger
