Friday, May 23, 2008
HOOTS AND HELLMOUTH
These four guys came all the way from Philadelphia to the Melting Point, by way of other cities, of course. The next morning we met up downtown and the guys decided they wanted to play in front of Five Star Day because they always eat there when they play Athens. We love Five Star Day so of course we agreed. Despite battling the sounds of trucks on downtown Athens' busiest street, the song came through clear and the guys' harmonies caught more than one bystander off guard.
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For their last song, they said they wanted to play under a tree. I think we were imagining the base of a big oak tree, but they made a b line straight for a giant magnolia on UGA's campus, which felt more like being in a jungle than under a tree.
Monday, May 19, 2008
ALLISON WEISS
What better way to spend a beautiful, breezy, stormy sunday afternoon in Athens, Ga, then to hang out with Allison Weiss at the site of the original famous 40 Watt Club?
The mysterious gentleman who let us up showed us the wire from the original 40 watt bulb hanging from the ceiling-it was too dark to catch on camera. If you listen carefully you can hear him tell us about the paintings by members of Pylon on the walls. It was a great setting for this particular song, we all agreed.
We'd wanted to shoot in front of our favorite downtown mid-day hang out, Walker's Pub, for a while and decided to get Allison and her brother for the day and make them walk and play through a bunch of strangers. The Vampire Weekend riffs in the beginning made for an unintended homage to Mr. Moon and his Vampire Weekend work on La Blogotheque.
Wuxtry Records. A legend. We'd tried to shoot on the patio above OK Coffee and next to a local comics store when the manager of the comics store not only told us to leave but acted like a strung-out prick about it. He sneered "good luck shooting in the rain" and we mumbled some words about how we'd have to buy our Manga somewhere else after this incident. So let this be a public statement on the world wide interweb: the guy working at the comic book store above ok coffee is an asshole. Luckily the guy working at Wuxtry welcomed us in with open arms and we were able to add the wonderful local record store to our Soundies set list. Thanks again for being so cool, man.
The last stop of the day before heading to Amici's for pizza and conversation, I don't think any more explanation is needed.
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