Sponsored by The Current
Saturday, June 4, 2022
6 pm Doors // 7 pm Music (followed by documentary screening)
$20 Advance General Admission (includes a complimentary copy of a Fingerprints CD of your choice, courtesy of Blackberry Way Records)
All Ages
Ticket sales are final and non-refundable.
Pioneers of the iconic Minneapolis music scene, Fingerprints recorded their first album in 1979 but broke up before the album was ever released.
Forty-three years later, celebrate the release of 'Where The Beat Goes On," featuring the 24 tracks they were working on, now restored, completed and mastered. Bridging elements of classic rock, blues, glam & prog — this is a vintage feast for the ears well worth the wait.
Enjoy a rare reunion performance by the band along with special guests — Minneapolis music luminaries including Curtiss A, Flamin' Oh's Robert Wilkinson, and The Suicide Commando's Chris Osgood.
Following the performance, The Parkway will screen the acclaimed documentary film, “Jay’s Longhorn” to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the Longhorn — the music venue that revolutionized the Minneapolis music scene.
Fingerprints formed in the mid 1970s and performed regularly at Jay’s Longhorn, including opening sets for Pere Ubu, Peter Hammill, and Blondie. The original lineup included Mark Throne on vocals and saxophone, Robb Henry, and Michael Owens on guitars and vocals, Steve Fjelstad on bass and Kevin Glynn on drums. Jeff Waryan replaced Henry in 1979. Owens, Glynn, and Fjelstad founded Blackberry Way Recording Studios and went on to record The Replacements, The Trashmen, and Soul Asylum to name a few. The Twin/Tone release “Big Hits Of Mid America Volume Three” — which includes two tracks from Fingerprints and also was recorded at Blackberry Way — is currently on display in The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Fingerprints was among the first three bands signed by Twin/Tone Records in 1978. Rave reviews followed internationally in Trouser Press, New York Rocker, New Musical Express UK, the Minneapolis Tribune, and many more. They also performed at the Walker Art Center and were the first band to perform at the Walker’s “Summer Music and Movies” at Loring Park. Fingerprints also performed at the legendary M-80 Music Festival and shared the stage with The Fleshtones, Richard Lloyd, Devo, and The Records.
“The rhythm section drove the band like a freight train; and the virtuosic guitar playing made for audio spectacles galore in every live show. Now, twenty-four songs have been restored, completed and mixed – the ‘lost’ Fingerprints album, a vintage feast for the ears that is well worth the wait.”
—Peter Jesperson | Twin/Tone Records co-founder/A&R
“I really loved Fingerprints. They were such an under-appreciated band. They had a rockin’ feel. Their live shows were incredible with the lead singer doing backflips during the show.”
—David Pirner | Soul Asylum
About ‘Jay’s Longhorn,' a documentary film by Mark Engebretson
Before First Avenue there was Jay's Longhorn — the epicenter of the Minneapolis punk rock and new wave scene in the late 1970s. At a time when the Minneapolis music scene was dominated by Top 40 cover bands, a group of punk rock visionaries — led by Andy Schwartz, former publisher of the New York Rocker — scoured the city in search of a place that would welcome the New Wave.
Schwartz, the Suicide Commandos, Flamingo, Fingerprints, Curtiss A, the Suburbs, and more found a home at Jay's Longhorn — which also served as the launching pad for Hüsker Dü and the Replacements and the preferred venue for touring acts like Elvis Costello, Blondie, The B-52s, the Buzzcocks, and The Police.
“Jay’s Longhorn” has screened at six film festivals around the country, winning Best Minnesota Documentary, 2021, at the Frozen River Film Festival in Winona, and Best Music in a Feature Film, 2019, at the Queen City Film Festival in Maryland. Mark Engebretson produced and directed “Jay’s Longhorn.”
