Pravda Records Presents: The Service, Modern Day Saints and Dag Juhlin

Pravda Records Presents a night of music you're not going to want to miss.

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The Service

In the Chicago rock scene of the 1980's there were few bands like The Service. An adventurous, full-speed-ahead, deeply American rock band, The Service never achieved the fame -- or notoriety -- of fellow midwesterners The Replacements or Husker Du. But like those bands, they define a time and a state of mind that reflected the liberating effects of the punk and new wave revolutions. The Service roamed the land in the days when a band could, without warning, break into a half-baked country cover; break up laughing in the middle of a "serious" moment; and then break your heart with a song that somehow summed up everything you were going through in your own life. Guitarist Rick Mosher, keyboardist Kenn Goodman, Drummer John Smith, and bassist Gary Schepers made up the last version of The Service that occasionally still pops up for shows around the Midwest. Kenn Goodman continues to run the Pravda Records label and Kenn, Rick, and John turn up around the world with The New Duncan Imperials.

Modern Day Saints 

Phil Bayer – vocals, guitar * Kevin James – bass, vocals

Rob Pierce – drums, vocals * Terry White – guitar, vocals

Modern Day Saints are a Chicago based hard driving pop-rock-punk band that writes and performs their

original songs or may float some unexpected cover of anything from an early 60’s girlband, or a Neil

Young rocker or a Jim Carroll poet/punk mind bender. They are currently writing and recording a new

record and can be seen regularly in the Chicago area and anywhere else that calls!

They originated in Carbondale, IL in 1984 and were a spent the rest of the decade traveling throughout

the Mid-west and South as a well-known and respected regular act in St. Chicago, T. Louis, Bloomington

IN, Champaign IL, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Michigan, Madison WI, Iowa City, Knoxville &

Nashville TN, Birmingham AL, Tuscaloosa, Jackson & Oxford MS, Athens GA and many others.

In October of 1989 they moved to Los Angeles CA and ignited a welcome change in the scene on the

Sunset Strip, which at the time was in the suffocating demise of big-hair metal rock. Soon the Saints

were headlining shows at The Roxy, The Central, Club Lingerie and in 1991 were named the house band

at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go, showcasing every Monday night, aka Industry Night. Thery continued to tour

adding NY (CBGB’s, The China Club, The Wetlands) to their growing circuit.

The year 1993 began a long hiatus for the band. Each member continued to write/record/perform

individually and finally in 2020 they reformed as a unit in Chicago.

LIVE FOOTAGE: 1992 Hollywood, CA… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OtFKv1i9W4

VIDEO: 2020 Chicago, IL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJH3R-_Q_60

Dag Juhlin

Some forty years into his musical career, Dag Juhlin is busier and better than ever. In addition to his acclaimed original work with Sunshine Boys, he performs regularly with a pair of separate but equally far-flung cover bands, Expo'76 and Courtesy Patrol. A founding member of ragged pop legends The Slugs and long-serving guitarist for Poi Dog Pondering, Dag's latest musical venture finds him touring the US/UK/IRL with Oscar-nominated actor Michael Shannon, performing the music of REM.