By Barton Lorimor Email | @bartonlorimor

* Here is a band you never…ever…ever…EVER thought would make an appearance on Capitol Fax.

But then again, remember the last time Miller went on vacation and left me the keys? He sent us some European screamo song for the Friday p.m. post.

So maybe this isn’t so random.

* I was a big Fall Out Boy fan when they were starting up in the early 2000s. Back then those guys played shows in the community centers and Lions Club halls in rural middle of nowhere central Illinois like they were sold out stadiums. I remember at one of their shows before they went really mainstream (I think it was at Bone Student Center?) a member of the event staff came to the microphone and warned us about getting too rowdy and out of hand. Without missing a beat, the band opened the set saying we’d take to the streets if they shut down the show.

Adding to the energy of those shows was a sense of pride. Here was a musical act quickly on the rise, and they were our generation and our state. Now THAT was cool.

* Anyways, FOB is playing the Fair this weekend. If they play the Grandstand like they played backwater Illinois back then, you guys are in for a good time.

Thanks for putting up with the kid this week. See y’all around.