Sunday night in Chicago over the course of 90 minutes, following a week of rehearsals, the group covered artists like No Use For a Name and dug deep in their catalog, exposing fans to some of their earliest studio output. At a capacity of 3,600, the venue provides the intimate experience this tour demands, a theme on this outing which resumes Wednesday and Thursday night at the historic Paramount Theatre in Denver before moving to the Theatre at Ace Hotel in Los Angeles Saturday. The French Baroque styled Chicago Theatre, a landmark, opened in 1921. We can’t just go out there and jump around the stage and scream into a microphone - those things won’t work. “It’s something really different for us after almost twenty years of touring and doing what we do.
It’s a sit down place where a guy that’s dressed up pretty fancy sells you popcorn and wine, you know what I mean?” said McIlrath with a chuckle. “Growing up here in Chicago, the Chicago Theatre is the type of place that’s reserved for more refined events.
(Left to right) Joshua Bows (violin), Samantha Sidwell (cello) and John Grigsby (bass) on stage with. “The guys we were twenty years ago, I don’t think ever anticipated that the song we were writing was going to ever be played at the Chicago Theatre on a ukelele. We’ve always kind of been resistant of being a nostalgia act playing an old record or doing a themed record,” said McIlrath. Ghost Note Symphonies functioned as a way to begin a bit of a look back while still pushing the music forward. Last spring, Rise Against rejoined longtime producers Bill Stevenson (Descendents, Black Flag) and Jason Livermore, who helmed five Rise Against albums, in the studio in Colorado in an effort to rework tracks from their back catalog acoustically and with alternate instrumentation. I think this was a unique way to look back without trying to just kind of go over those well worn roads but instead add a new approach,” McIlrath said of the group’s latest release The Ghost Note Symphonies, Volume 1.
“When you don’t look back, you kind of fail to grasp how long your band has been around. “I think I’m only grappling with how long we’ve been a band very recently in my life,” said Rise Against singer, songwriter and rhythm guitarist Tim McIlrath. While the desire to push things forward has been a constant for the group, staring down twenty years was reason for a rare moment of reflection.
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