About Flagpole. (Athens, Ga.) 1987-current | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1988)
1988 Page 3 Flagpole • July 13, Pylon:Surprise Attack After a five year hiatus Pylon made their triumphant return to the stage at the 40 Watt on Saturday, July 2nd. All of the original members — Curtis Crowe, Michael Lachowski, Randall Bewley and Vanessa Briscoe-Hay — made the show a special treat by pumping out those familiar tunes with enthusiasm and precision. The legendary group decided to disband for several reasons, with the most imminent one being the lack of a strong enough record deal. There were rumors of a Pylon reunion for the dB Records Anniversary Party in Atlanta during April. Those rumors were unfounded even though the band had been practicing for a while together. They considered doing it but felt they wanted to do a private "rehearsal" type show before they jumped back into a large performance. For years after the disbanding no one in the band seriously considered reuniting because each felt the others would not or could not do it. A lot of things have changed over the years, and they had too many responsibilities in their newfound "real" lives. Career and family duties made it harder and harder to even consider the time and hard work it would 'take to get Pylon on track for even a one time reunion performance. Curtis Crowe drummed sti*ll for Final Frontier and even went to New York recently to work with the B52’s in the studio. He has been incredibly busy over the last few years in his own business, a construction firm that specializes in re-doing old homes and redoing his own home with his wife. Michael Lachowski put his bass away after the last gig and has not pulled it out• from under his bed until the past few months. He has been busy with his job, his art and filmaking, and has been DJ at the clubs around town for the past year. Randall Bewley took apart all his guitars in a workroom in his house to work on them and left them there in pieces for years. He has been too busy with family life and career demands to put them together till this year. Vanessa Briscoe got married to Bob Hay ffom the Squalls and got promoted from part time employee to store manager in her job. Lately she has made new addition to her family by having child. Just last month she supervised the opening of a new branch of her employer and moved in as the new manager also. You get the picture. These were busy folks caught up in the changes of their lives from students and musicians to adults out there in the-real world. They could have never played again as they would stand as legends locally and everywhere they played. But they decided to go out on a limb, to take a , chance that they might not have
