The Real "Rock & Roll Hotel"
15/01/08 08:00 Filed in: Article
The Real "Rock & Roll Hotel"
Days Inn Chicago, Days Inn Lincoln Park North, Days Inn on Diversey, Diversey Arms Hotel, Rendezvous Cafe. It has been called many names over the years, but many people still refer to the Lincoln Park hotel as the Rock & Roll Days Inn due to the many bands that have stayed here and subsequently become famous (and the many stories that go along, most of which can't be in print). To mention a few, here are former Band and Artist guests at the Lincoln Park Days Inn: Foo Fighters, Goo Goo Dolls, Cardigans, Smashing Pumpkins, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, Sheryl Crow, Rachel Yamagata, Soul Asylum, Spin Doctors, Robyn Hitchcock, Led Zeppelin Females, Alanis Morrissette and Nelly Furtado.
Bands staying at the hotel meant: discolored bathtubs from hair dye, Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, Sheryl Crow rollerblading through the hotel lobby (not permitted), front desk clerk doing laundry for the Goo Goo Dolls, Alanis Morrisette bringing sushi to a front desk clerk, musicians sitting in the lobby playing the guitar… You can visit a hotel with memorabilia or you can visit a hotel that owns the memories.