Hot Rocks Rolling Stones Tribute
Chicago, Illinois, United States | Established. Jan 01, 1994 | SELF
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'You can't always get what you want...especially if you want front row seats to the next Rolling Stones concert in Chicago. But if you are at a Hot Rocks show, you will definately be able to get the Stones fix that you need. .....' - NiteLife Magazine
Re-Live Beatlemania
Biggest event of its kind in North America
Abbey Road On The River Aug. 9, 10, & 11, 2002 in Cleveland, Ohio
-- Hot Rocks as the Rolling Stones --
Hot Rocks Rolling Stones Tribute Show presents a tribute to the "bad boys of rock and roll", The Rolling Stones, who are celebrating 40 years of entertainment this year! Chicago based Hot Rocks will rock you with a Stones experience complete with the music, the look and the energy. - GMJ Events, Cleveland, OH
Start Me Up and I'll Never Stop ...'this year Hot Rocks was voted Best Tribute Band and Best Harmonica Player in The Top 5 Best Of The Burbs contest for the 5th year in a row ....... - NiteLife Magazine
'Bummed because you missed the Rolling Stones at Soldier Field a few weeks ago?
If you can't wait untul they come back in January, the band Hot Rocks has you, well, covered.
Krazy Eddie, the lead singer of the Stones tribue band ...............
Eddie and the band still touring festivals and clubs ........... the band averages 45 performances a year and has a wide fan base, according to Dana Bloom, Hot Rocks' current manager. .......'When they perform there are families out there and they bring their kids." ... "The band plays music for everyone." - Chicago RedEye - by Kyra Kyles
"I wouldn't say we're a clone of the Stones -- we're a celebration of the music ... We try to create a party atmosphere."
Expect to hear the band smoke through songs like Jumpin' Jack Flash and Sympathy for the Devil in the classic Stones style when it rocks the streets of Aurora at Downtown Alive! tonight. - Benji Hughes
Custom Bikes and Stones Tribute Roll Into Aurora
According to a hit song by The Rolling Stones, You Can't Always Get What You Want, but anyone who enjoys hot costume motorcycles and a hot Rolling Stones tribute band will get exactly what they want on Friday night in downtown Aurora.
The Rolling Stones tribute bannd, Hot Rocks, will appear in concert and about a dozen custom motorcycles ...
Audiences who attended last year's Downtown Alive series may remember an appearance by the Hot Rocks band ... the crowd was about 5,000 people ... It's a celebration of Rolling Stones music. The group emulates the Rolling Stones and their energy. - Aurora Beacon News - Randall Mielke
Well, I am happy to report that Hot Rocks more than surpassed my expectations of the kind of show I was in for that evening. The band put on a tight focused, entertaining show ....Eddie Bloom bears a srong facial resemblance but is also as manic a performer as his English counterpart. Bloom has Jagger's stage moves down cold and was, truthfully, a lot of fun to watch. The rest of the band played skillfully behind Bloom ... well played and energetic.
Hot Rocks is definitely the best band of its type that I have seen. Their Stones thing is down pat. .... Hey, I know it's only roick and roll....but I like it. - ChicagoGigs - Mike O'Cull
Although the 2005 Rolling Stones concert tour will not be stopping in Aurora, the citry's Downtown Alive series has the next best thing as it opens its season Friday with Hot Rocks, a Rolling Stones Tribute band. Making its third appearance at Downtown Alive, the group enjoys performing in Aurora, according to Ed Bloom, who portrays Mick Jagger, "we really love Aurora. It is one of our favorite places to perform. ................ Another reason the band members ejoy Downtown Alive and other festivals at which the group performs is the wide range of the audience members ......... "We appeal tp people pf all the generatons." - Beacon News
So the "Mick" is a little too young. But with dead-on vocals, and elaborate costumes and staging, these masters of mimicry will fulfill your rock n' roll fantasies.
Why pay up to $2,000 a ticket to see the Rolling Stones live when you can see six local fanatics pretend to be "Mick and Company"? No, it's not the Hives, it's Hot Rocks! Did we mention costume changes? - Chicago Tribune - Alison Parto
The Rolling Stones Tribute Band, Hot Rocks, will make its fourth appearance at Downtown Alive! this Friday, and the group couldn't be happier, according to Dana Bloom, the band's manager. ......... Aurora does a splendid job of putting it together, and keepinmg it free to the public. ......... Much like the band they emulate, Hot Rocks never runs out of steam. ....... In addition, the audience feels like tney are part of the show. The band members enjoy what they are doing and that comes across to the crowd ... the music is timeless, it appeals to a variety of ages. - Beacon News
.... And when Hot Rocks takes the stage your eyes will be glued to them. ... "Time and time again the fans tell us how much tthey enjoy the lvie performance, " says Dana Bloom, Hot Rocks band manager. "They say it's like a party every time. Besides the great music, the have the look, the costumes. the lighjts, the fog and the energy of a Stones show."
It's that energy that makes Hot Rocks appealing to all ages. One of the band's youngerfans, an 8-year-old named Aidan, loved the Hot Rocks shows so much, he wrote an essay and submitted it to his teacher." - Suburban Nitelife
"Crazy Eddie" Bloom was shocked the first time someone told him he was a dead ringer for Mick Jagger just after he'd finished singing a Rolling Stones tune at a birthday party. But soon he was locke in his living room, hands on hips with a mcirophone tucked in his waistband, watching himself in the mirror as he practiced ... "You gotta step into it." says Bloom. ....... At a Hot Rocks show at the Windmill City Festival in Batavia, the crowd is in the thousands, but the beer garden is 30 yards from the stage and on one except half a dozen elementary school kids is dancing to "Let's Spend the Night Together." Bloom takes the mic all 30 yeards, bringing along a giant red mouth that he stiched in the model of the Stones ;ogo, and starts licking people with it. Somehow, within 10 minutes, 100's of people are pressed against the stage dancing. - Chicago Tribune
The Rolling Stones Tribute Band, Hot Rocks, will make its fourth appearance at Downtown Alive! this Friday, and the group couldn't be happier, according to Dana Bloom, the band's manager. ......... Aurora does a splendid job of putting it together, and keepinmg it free to the public. ......... Much like the band they emulate, Hot Rocks never runs out of steam. ....... In addition, the audience feels like tney are part of the show. The band members enjoy what they are doing and that comes across to the crowd ... the music is timeless, it appeals to a variety of ages. - Beacon News
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Hot Rocks presents a Rolling StonesTribute celebration and has rocked many clubs, theaters, private parties, casinos, corporate events and festivals since 1994. Well-known in the Chicago area and throughout the midwest, Bobby Keys, sax player for The Rolling Stones performed 2 shows with Hot Rocks, selected to represent the Midwest by The Rolling Stones, Paramount Pictures, Martin Scorsese & IMAX, featured on TV, and in the news, with performances at venues such as Chicago's Trump Hotel, the famous HOB, Navy Pier, the well known Excalibur Nightclub, Chicago's elite Green Tie Ball, the only non-Beatles band at Cleveland's Abbey Road on the River Fest, chosen to perform one week before "The Stones" at Comiskey Park/Cellular Field, Taste of Chicago, Taste of Lincoln Ave., OTW Fest-Rockford, IL; Indiana State Fair-Indianapolis, IN; Pheasant Run Theater-St. Charles, IL; Park Theater-Holland, MI, these are just a few highlights of many performances. Every show is a party from intimate audiences of 100 to concerts with audiences of 10,000 or more! See you at the next show!
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