by Dan Cunneen Last Friday I played some rock and roll covers for a couple hours with some pals at their company picnic. After the gig, my friend Tor (the band’s guitarist), and I went back to my house to drop off some equipment, have a nightcap and listen to some music I pulled my...

by Dan Cunneen The Encore was a cocktail lounge located at 11th avenue between Pike and Pine in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. It’s long since closed, but during the early 1990s it was good place for our gang of punk rock misfits to go for a “hard pop” after we finished our shifts at Piecora’s...