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The Red & Black Finals Edition | Thursday, December 7, 2006 | 5B
Band finds home in Athens
By MICHELLE FLOYD
mfloyd@randb.com
A couple of members of the
psychedelic rock band
Summerbirds in the Cellar will be
a little colder this winter.
Half of the group moved to
Athens this week, leaving two
members in the group’s home
state of Florida.
“(Athens) is close enough to
where it’s not that drastic of a
change, but it’s enough to feel like
you’re still making a change,” said
vocalist Brad Register, who relo
cated with fellow guitarist/pianist
Curtis Brown after living in
Florida for most of his life.
The duo chose the Classic City
because they have good friends in
the area, family nearby and they
enjoy the local music scene.
The entire band — which also
consists of the two drummers in
Florida — will perform its first
Athens show since the move
Saturday at Tasty World.
Register said the actual split
ting of the band shouldn’t cause
any problems with the members
or affect their playing schedule,
SUMMERBIRDS
IN THE CELLAR
Playing with Lona
When: 10 p.m. Saturday
Where: Tasty World downstairs
Cost: $5
More Information: www.myspace.com/sum-
merbirds
even with the eight-hour drive
between them.
“It’s not any more different
than it is now with going on tour
a lot,” Register said. “We don’t
have a consistent practice space
anyway.”
Like other bands in similar sit
uations, Register said it’s possible
that the now-Georgia natives will
play solo or duo shows in Athens
in between tours, but he said it’s
not likely to happen often, if at
all.
“We have enough to keep our
selves busy until the end of the
year,” said Register.
Register and Curtis also are
playing with local electronic rock
band Now It’s Overhead, as well
as finishing up Summerbirds’ sec
ond album, which should be
released by the middle of 2007.
Register said even those who
have seen the group perform at
the Caledonia Lounge or heard
songs on its MySpace page or
from the first album should make
it to Saturday’s show, which will
be filled with music much louder
than its previous material.
“When we did the last album,
we didn’t know what kind of
sound we’d have as a live act,”
Register said about the band,
which started about a year and a
half ago and since then has
acquired a second drummer.
“It turns out we’re louder than
we expected.”
BOYS: Life, love and death
come together in bluegrass
>- From Page IB
have more musical influences than
most record stores.
Fiske started out as a har
monica player but made the transfer
to bassist. The percussionist came
from a jam band. One member came
from a punk band, and another from
Mississippi brings the Delta music
influence.
All of these influences along with
many others, come together to sing
of love, life and death in a bluegrass
sound Fiske described as “old-time
and bluegrass styles like just before
Bill Monroe started and a little after,
good times songs.”
“Miner,” “Kiss You Down There,”
and “Alabama Shamrock” are all
original songs you could hear Friday
night.
“Miner” compares the lives and
morals of miners, bankers, and
preachers.
“Kiss You Down There” could be
interpreted literally as a song about
young men partying under a bridge
with a jug of wine — or it could be a
HACKENSAW BOYS
Playing with Packway Handle Band
When: 9 p.m. Friday
Where: Georgia Theatre
Price: $8 in advance, $10 at the door
double entendre.
Fiske said songs mean different
things to different people — it could
be interpreted either way.
You might even slide into a slow
dance with a girl you’ve never met to
the soft, quick melodies of “Alabama
Shamrock.”
The Theatre show will be one of
nine on this tour before the band
begins recording sessions on their
fourth studio album after the holi
days.
They had several speed bumps in
the way of their last album, which
took longer than expected because
of line-up changes.
Fiske said, “We are more self-
aware now than ever and we’re ready
to get in and kick out a pretty stylish
record.”
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