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Lord ha»e mercy. The venerable Redneck GReece was gracious
enough to take time out between plates of barbecue (vinegar-based
sauce, I think) to answer 3 few questions about 1 ns whereabouts in the
pas! few months Although I don't want to speak for the man. I'm almost
positive that it hasn t involved any jail time, shotgun weddings or experi
ments in degenerative cinema. Lordy, at least I hope...
Flagpole: Since the 'Delux' part of the band is no more, I under
stand you’ve had a revolving group of musicians
who play with you.
Redneck GReece: I have a “de-volving"
group of people who play with me for sure! The regu
lar members — and even those are interchange
able at times—are John Neff, who plays pedal steel
and some lead guitar; Joe Hamm plays drums, arid
Rick Fowler plays bass with me most of the time.
On the 30th, it's definitely those three, and David
Blackmon is supposed to play fiddle, and Jeff
Tassifume is going to be playing guitar. He's in the
Continentals. And Alice Berry is supposed to sing
backup that night I should have a large band that
night. I'm stealing Lyle Lovett's band for that night.
FP Are you doing any recording for a new al
bum?
RG: I've got four songs recorded so far out at
Full Moon and! m hoping to go in the studic again
in January to put four more down. I am working on
stuff, tut only as the funds are available.
FP Werer.; you involved in Sieazefest?
RG Yean I was the between-band entertain
ment on Saturday night. As they were doing the change-out between
bands people would wander over tc the sports bar next door where I
was I guess that’s my way of genin' into the sports bars (laughs).
FP And there was something down in Gainesville?
RG:! was co-emcee with a six-foot-four transvestite named Lady
Pearl at Raunch-O-Rama, and I have plans to take the full band down
there next year.
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FP: I'm worried that all of your roughneck friends are going to start
rubbing off on you in a bad way.
RG: I m afraid III rub off on them in a bad way, fer sure!
FP Seems like this time of year you become very visible, what with
charities and benefits. Have you been taking a break at all, otherwise?
RG: No, Redneck GReece has been playing all over the place, just
not in Athens. For no particular reason, that's just how it worked out. I just
did a benefit for Barrow Elementary at the Georgia
Theatre, though, for their language program. I had a
kid that went there, and I've played up there many
wS times. It’s always a lot of fun -1 get to play for fourth
graders. Y’know, you've got to get those “future
GReecer's:" start breaking 'em in at an early age.
They'll have money someday. And I'll also be doing
the Toys For Tots at Loco's on Saturday, Dec. 14.
The benefit is through Project Safe this year. We're
trying to organize it where kids who are victims of
abuse, or their mothers are victims ot abuse, will get
a Christmas. In the past I've done it through the Boys
and Girls Clubs, who only take needy families. In
this case the families are still going to be needy, but
a lot of times husbands can get abusive around
Christmas time They'll run folks out the door, and
there's the mother with the kids, and the kids'll have
no Christmas. The daddy's been beating up the
momma, too — we'll jus! see if we can help some
people out this year.
FP You should probably run for some kind of
political office.
RG: If I ran for any political office there would be so much mud-
slinging going on: me throwing mud up in the air and seeing which part
of my body it would land on first. You have all these people with skel
etons in their closets, and political opponents throw it out there, and I
would have tc say, “Yeah? So what?".
Jason Slatton
Redneck Greece performs at the 40 Watt on Nov. 30
■Here is a typical Hall of Fame moment: drummei/vocal-
ist Joe Rowe is pounding out a brutal beat like he is really,
really pissed about something. In front of him bassist/vocalist
Sherri Brady lays down the backbone of the song in tandem
with Rowe. Next to her, ufeer-guitarist Jeff Matthews manipu
lates feedback like he’s conducting some twisted, dissonant
orchestra. Me, 1 just stand there in the audience, mouth agape.
Like The Martians, Unwound, and Shellac before them,
Hall of Fame can assemble something great out of the ugliest
of pieces. This is most obvious in their live shows, but their
new 8-song cassette is nearly as fine an example. The band
will have their song Trailer Hitch” (which opens the cas
sette) on a compilation CD from New Jersey along with The
Martians, New Radiant Storm Kings, and Skinner Pilot.
They’re also about to release a split 7-inch with Pineal
Ventana, SuzyBeat, and Glen Lizzy, and another one with
Columbia, SC’s Ghetto Blaster and Danielle Howie.
Hall of Fame hopes to finish recording their entire cata
logue of songs (about 30) and release them on CD late next
year. But, as always, finances are the real stumbling block.
For such a good band, it's a shame there aren’t more people
tripping over themselves to release a Hall of Fame record. All
in due time, I suppose... Meanwhile, they’re not content to
stand around waiting to see what happens.
Me neither.
Marc Pilvinsky
Hall of Fame and Orange Pussycat play the 40 Watt on Friday, Nov. 29.
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