Gig Recap: Dock’s Bar and Grill

Two gigs this past weekend went by in a blur.

Danny’s on Douglas in Elgin, IL 01/10/2025 on Friday and Dock’s Bar & Grill in Wauconda, IL on Saturday 01/11/2025.

Some of us were tired by the start of the Docks gig.

Load in was nice through their door on the deck, though we felt a bit bad for the group of teenagers enjoying their dinner right next to the door as it was cold outside. On the ice of bangs lake right off the shore there were rectangles of cleared ice almost looked like the ice was broken up and it was water there. Apparently Dock’s holds a sport out on the ice in the winter, may come back to try it.

Setup was relatively uneventful and we figured out a few more of the settings on our digital mixer. Most of us in Quest grew up in the pre digital mixer age so the fact that all the faders and setting reside on a tablet connected through wifi is a new idea.

The crowd was stupendous and made for a really rocking show. We had so many people there supporting us and a whole lot more walk ins from the bar area. When we played “Under Pressure” by Queen it seemed to pull a flock over into our room and it got pretty crowded through the second and into the third set.

We had our first “music analyst” in the audience who claimed that they used to write for a very large Chicago based music reviewing organization. It was interesting getting their perspective on all three of the groups that we play. While we may staunchly disagree with some of this person’s assessments it was a good conversation a great connecting with the crowd through some conversation between sets.

Eric, our guitarist always plays really well, but man was he on with his solos tonight, you could see everyone’s eyes light up whenever he stood up there. The end of Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding really stood out as a gem of the night.

Gig 2 of the year under our Belts