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re: "A RIVER OF BOOZE... Inside one college town’s uneasy embrace of drinking"...
Posted on 12/12/14 at 6:26 pm to Peter Buck
Posted on 12/12/14 at 6:26 pm to Peter Buck
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By then it was the Ga Theatre and the scene was Fratastic... By then however, things were already changing.
Remember that 1980's documentary "Athens, GA Inside Out" about the "downtown scene"?..,., Didn't the Flat Duo Jets get featured playing two songs on the front porch of the SAE house in that thing?
Peter, when did it go from being hip to being "fratastic" to play fraternity houses in Athens? Was there a specific date this shift in coolness occured?
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Posted on 12/12/14 at 6:36 pm to Jefferson Dawg
Damn. They actually have an entire Widespread show from '89 at the Uptown Lounge on youtube.... LINK......
Posted on 12/12/14 at 8:27 pm to Jefferson Dawg
Ok, I am going to let you hold on to the belief that playing Greatful Dead covers at Frat Parties was considered on the same level as original music... And that building your popularity at the frat houses with cover music from a horrible band was held in the highest creative regards in Athens.... And that in the 80s, down town bars and college radio couldn't get enough of Greatful Dead wannabes.
If anything, the death of the Athens Music scene was the whole hippy jam movement along with bands moving to Athens from God knows where to say they were from Athens and REM becoming super famous.
If anything, the death of the Athens Music scene was the whole hippy jam movement along with bands moving to Athens from God knows where to say they were from Athens and REM becoming super famous.
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