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Editor's Notes | I' 11 Fly Away J Some of the music went out of Athens last week with the death of Billy "Car” Causey. Billy played music (with The jesters), listened to music all day and night and loved music, constantly sharing his latest passion with fnends. Cat Causey was an Athens original who drove to a different drummer and danced through life on tunes only his ears heard, a passionate passage that ended abruptly at age 51, after a year's fight with cancer. His last official act was to attend the Atlanta concert of the Rolling Stones. At a funeral filled with the music he loved and the friends and family who loved him, Billy Causey left as he had lived, in his red- rose covered blade casket. (They didn’t have a red casket in stock.) His friend Harold Williams says that from now on whenever a family comes to Bernstein's to make arrangements the director’s first question will be, “Do you want the regular service or the Cat Causey Special P Billy's service consisted of Rev. Jon Appleton reading from several memorials, penned by people close to the Car Their words sum him up best, though space permits only a few excerpts. To get the full flavor, you shoulda been there. From Chatham Murray. “...In the years ahead we took many walks together on the Orange Trail at the Botanical Gardens with our pups. Billy also became my music guru, introducing me to fabulous musicians and singers 1 had never heard. Whenever he needed any artwork or signmaking, we would always barter signs for tapes. Those tapes are still the best music recordings I have in my collection.... Billy had a lot of love in his life and he was one in a million.” From Janet Stegeman: “.. .He loved all kinds of music. How fitting that he went over to hear the Rolling Stones just Friday. He was one of the few people who liked to lie on the floor and listen to my Mahler records with me, and when he was MC-ing a classical radio music program, he played all my favorites, sometimes borrowing my albums because the station was in short supply *1 think God needed a good trombone in what must get to be a bland place sometimes. Well, when he called Billy, he got a good one. And when the wind gets to blowing through the woods where Billy and our kids used to run, I'll hear hts music” From Raniall Bramhiett “.. .He loved the music Davis and 1 made so much that he regularly set up his ‘state of the art' cassette recorder and taped our concerts. One show at the *1 and 1' sounded particularly good on his 50,000 watt stereo, and he was determined to get the rest of the world to hear it. Having no luck with record labels, he asked us if he could get it pressed and released himself. It was such an outlandish idea but one with such heart that we all qpeed to let him go for it. To this day we still get requests for the *Live at the I and 1’ album (mastered direct from cassette).* From Mike Causey: “.. .One hobby we shared with great enthusiasm was our love for model trains. We spent hours discovering new ways to crash our Lionel trains. One evening while we were sitting in the back seat of my parents' car (Billy’* Uncle Fred and Aunt Ford) at the Varsity I>tve-In in Atlanta, BiUy "There was always music in a house with Billy." turned to me and said, 'Mike, do you know why Lionel trains are the best?* I looked at him with wide-eyed antictpanon and said, *No.’ Billy began to explain that Lionel trains are put through test after test, and if they don’t pass a particular test, that doesn't mean the train is not good. It just means they need to work on it a little more to make it better. “As I was nodding my head in agreement to this revelation, Billy looked me in the eye and said, *You know, Mike, we are like Lionel trains ourselves.' My puzzled look soon turned to one of understanding when Billy continued, 'You see, as we grow through life God gives us Iocs of tests, and there will be some that we don’t pass. But that doesn't mean we aren't good; it just means we need a little more work ” From Dous Causey : “...Billy gave me music ... Chet Atkins to be more precise, but so many others, too. From Bill Haley to Jackie Gleason — Ray Charles to Glenn Miller.... If the was all I had ever gotten from Billy, it would have been more than enough Bur he also gave me he belief in me. There was always music m a house with Billy " From Dan MagtU. “...He was one of the very best umpires who ever worked matches at the National Collegiate championships in Athens, and he invariably would be assigned the most difficult of umpiring jobs when the situation called for it. That is, the Service Line — where linesmen must call ‘good’ or ‘fault’ on balls traveling over 120 miles per hour. 1 have heard America’s most famous tennis referee, Mike Blanchard (referee emenrus at the U. S. Open), say that he had rather have Cat Causey on the service line than any ocher linesman in America." Arxf. fmally, the merest excerpt from Joe Causey: “...1 think what 1 admired most in my brother Billy were two wonderful traits he had: The first, a strong sense of loyalty — a loyalty to htt favorite sports teams, to his favorite actors, his favorite musicians, his favorite politicians; loyalty to the underdog, and yes, even loyalty to me... After that sense of loyalty came Billy * thorough and boundless enthusiasm. He could isolate the most fleeting moments of a French horn part which'waiHxiried in the underlying harmonies of a rich orchestration and would back up the tape or the CD or the record and play if for you 50 times until, thank God, you, too, had grown to appreciate its contribution to the whole. Music was like air to Billy’s lungs and he drank it in with such zest and with such zeal “I think I never saw Billy happier than when Davis would struggle frantically to write out a trombone part so that Billy could mount the stage with his beloved Jesters and blow that ’bone to bits! He was in his element: The music was hopping and the crowd was yelping for more! “My oldest brother died today and yet, somehow, he seems so present.... He’s forever etched in my mind, marching proudly in the Dixie Redcoat Band or crouched over in that unique pose he had when he was frozen like stone, concentrating on calling a tennis match. Yeah... when the Bulldogs take the field and the Band's playing and the tennis balls are zooming by at 120 mph, I’ll see my Big Broilicf, Billy, dressed in red and living forever at a pace to beat the band"* David’s 2180 W. Broad Si. • 354 1711 Best Party Spot in Athens From Rock-N-Roll to tint Dancing NIC >NJ I 3 AY Karaoke Night $25 Bur Tib For Beat Performance I IJ KS — SA T David Prince Anthony D)'s During Breaks \V KIJN! KS1MY LADIES NIGHT Ladies get in free 9 Drink Specials Open From 2 p.m. till 2 a.m. Daily ie ©Uit H>pagj)ttti £>torc Lunch Specials start at $3.75 DINNER Monday - Calzone $4.25 Tuesday - Spaghetti $4.75 Wednesday - Lasagna $5.25 "Thursday - Manicotti $5.25 t * Ml Served rank Salad. Bread H Sherbet. 151 E. Broad Downtown 549-4656 Area Artist Schedule JfofiDay Open Jfouse Reserve these 3 weekends for a special local tradition. As artists and crafts-people open their homes and studios to you. SECOND WEEKEND Decem6er 2,3,& 4 Broad River Crafts Coalition Opening party-Friday 9 to 9 pen. refreshments demonstrations & door prize Sat -Sun 10am-5pm demonstration* A door prixom Sot. and Sun, *We will be open through the week* and both weekends, see below Barbara Bendzunas blown glass clay Paul Bendzunas biown glass Raja Braunschwitger turned wood & jewelry Gnru Edwards baskets & candles Christo Moody • started glass & kaleidoscopes David Morgan - functional pots Barbara Odd - sprit dolls masks & boxes Jorn Piel - turned wood at Bendzunas’ studio and Gallery, n Comer our Gallery is now open 9-3. or by appt Follow signs toward Eberton from the bypass to Comer take 1st right alter traffic light, then next right (hwy 22). then 1st right after the RR iracks look for the sign 783-5S68 Happy Valley Holiday Open House Sale and Demonstrations Friday through Sunday 10am-6pm Clay artist Mfce Bagget Jerry & Kathy Chappefte Flora Eustos. Kent Foltette. Lisa Koch & Brett Pulliam Glass Loretta Eby. Bea Ha tala Jell Jackson & Gna Montgomery Metal Dei Moody Clay Art & Artifact Lizard & Willow Woven Rugs Bonnie Mongomery Also other regional artists Open Daily. 10am-6pm Location 1210 Carson Graves Road W&tknsvifle Directions: take 441 to Cotoam Ferry Rd , go 8 miles to Carson Graves Rd go right to Happy Valley or call 769-9522 Barbara Allen Second Apple Studio Christmas Pottery and Jewelry Sale Saturday and Sunday 10am- 5pm 4691 Macon Highway, Bishop 769-4341 Dewitt Pottery Sat^ I Qam-Spm 6 Sun. 1-Spm Dewitt Pottery showroom is open year round Please call lor an appointment The year-end sale will feature functional stoneware as well as decorative ware of raku and earthware >bu can see some of the largest handmade pots produced n our region at this show Located at 71 Jackson St. Watklnsvllie. Watch for the sign on 441. 769-5361 David Morgen Holiday Pottery Sato Saturday, Doc. 3, 10em-dpm Functional stoneware and porcelari pottery Come view to is year's new work at the Strand 162S Lumpkin St. in Five Points, Athens, 549-6074 The Studio Group 13th Annual Sale FrL, 9-9 pm, Sat^tOam Spm, Sun. 12-5pm Margaret Agner Silt Panting Brooks Burgess Stoneware Nancy Carter Handmade Paper Margy De George Pne Needle Art David Dtepsi^hotography Anna Eidsvit: Porcelan Joe Gitvey Wood • Bea Ldy Ha tala Glass Annette Hatton Jewelry • Bill Hug Wood Erfca Lewis Weavng • Pat Staub Stonew. 490 S Miltodge Ave and 399 Ponderosa Dr. n Snapfnger Woods are Wild Rabbit Pottery Christmas Open House Saf. 10am • 6pm 6 Sun. 12-5pm pottery by Pat and Carter McCaffrey as well as work by other tone artists 425 K. Hancock, Athens 353-3802 THIRD WEEKEND December 10 The Loef Gallery * a wallary run for and by local mrtlata Roc opt ion and Open Houao Saturday, from 12 5pm pantngs prnts. photographs glass Christmas ornaments pottery cards and fabric 320 E. Clayton St. In downtown Athens. 546-7580 <x> ■rwarv