Cheap Kiss Records label and shop co-owner Pete Kuehl, from left, author Sean Hoffman and musician Bill St. John look over the soon-to-be-released album they produced about the legendary Arlington Heights teen music club The Cellar. John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com

As they crisscrossed the country in the late 1960s, the likes of The Who, Cream, The Yardbirds and Buffalo Springfield famously made stops at the legendary Arlington Heights teen music club, The Cellar.

But on an average weekend there, you were more likely to see and hear local bands who otherwise would be playing in their parents’ garages.

Many of those groups never made it big; some only put out a couple hundred 45s, used mostly as business cards to get gigs.

“Ours lasted maybe a year and a half ’til somebody left and

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