While Pylon was playing their first show, across town R.E.M. played a benefit for Bertis Downs's lawyer friend John Kupris at the 40 Watt East at 100 College Avenue. Before the night was out, Method Actors drummer David Gamble wrestled Pylon singer Vanessa Briscoe to the ground. Country Music Hall of Fame songwriter and performer "Whispering" Bill Anderson attended the college and used to play guitar around campus. Other major music venues in the city include the Georgia Theatre, a converted cinema at 215 North Lumpkin Street which hosted both local and touring performers. The Grit moved to 199 Prince Avenue, which was formerly Coffee Club, which musicians and artists frequented in the 1970s and 1980s. The Rockfish Palace nightclub opened in 1987 at 433 East Hancock Avenue, owned by Brian Cook and later taken over by J. It hosted performances by The Replacements, Pylon and R.E.M. It became the i&i Club in 1982, then the short-lived Buckhead Beach. Athens became a center for music in the region during the Civil War, and gained further fame in the early twentieth century with the founding of the Morton Theatre, which was a major touring destination for African American performers.
Widespread Panic made its name in Athens by playing the Uptown on Monday nights for a dollar-a-head cover charge. Worked for twenty-one years as a nurse after Pylon; now sings the band’s songs with a new group, Pylon Reenactment Society. I felt like he wrote a type of song I spent my life pursuing, but he was more fearless with it than I had ever been. He’s the best songwriter in town.” So I was a little skeptical when I walked into the 40 Watt while he was playing a benefit for Gwen O’Looney, who was running for reelection as mayor. It was like one long stream of consciousness song, cover songs, made-up stuff. R.E.M.’s success on the road led other Athens bands to follow. They were playing really minimalistic stuff, but if you didn’t tap your foot, you should’ve called your doctor. What follows is an oral history of the music scene there, told by people who have lived it.
Choice of many fans as the greatest of the Athens bands; R.E.M. covered its song “Crazy” on the album Dead Letter Office. Student reporters such as Tremayne and Charles Aaron haunted the clubs and wrote some of the first profiles of 1980s Athens bands. He’d been on tour with R.E.M. I’d been on tour with Love Tractor, and we came back. Peter Buck bought a place in Athens a few months ago, which means all four members of R.E.M. once again own houses there. And then he walked me over to the 40 Watt for the sound check. There’s a powerful version on SoundCloud recorded at a sound check in Asheville.
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Origins of the modern scene
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