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STUDENT LEARNING CENTER, ROOM 268
MOVIEFEST • 7pm
Showing of student-submitted films utilizing the
theme “From the Struggles of One, Comes Strength
for Many". Winners will be announced tonight.
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SLIGHTLY OFF THE BEATEN PATH
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Atlanta’s Outformation Spreads
The VJord, One Stop At A Time
D iligent Spreadheads will most likely
recognize Atlanta-based Outformation
frontman Sam Holt from his years with
Widespread Panic. Holt was the band's guitar
tech for almost a decade. In 2005, on advice
given to him by Widespread's Michael Houser be
fore the guitarist's passing, Holt decided to make
a break. He left to concentrate on beefing up the
band he'd originally formed with childhood friend
Grady Upchurch while already on the road several
hundred dates a year with the Panic crew.
Outformation's sound is built on a meat-and-
potatoes foundation of twangy Southern rock and
blues fittings. Holt and bassist Upchurch, drum
mer Lee Schwartz, keyboardist C.R. Gruver and
percussionist Jeff Lane draw from classic rockers
like The Marshall Tucker Band and the Allman
Brothers, but treading stagnant swamp water
they ain't. Rather, the band—propelled by Holt's
meaty guitar riffs and Gruver's keyboards—is
more of a natural successor to those groups'
melting pot approach to American rock and roll.
Outformation released its debut album
Tennessee Before Daylight in 2005 and plans to
have a follow-up done by this fall.
Flagpole recently caught up with Holt before
he and his bandmates set off on another trip
'round the greater Southeast.
Flagpole: Tell me a little about your time with
Widespread Panic. How did you become affiliated
with band, and what led you to put together
Outformation?
Sam Holt: My roommate Chris Rabold became
Widespread's production manager, and on his first
tour in that role, their longtime guitar tech de
cided to not be on the road anymore. Chris called
me and I was on a plane the next day. I was on
the road with Panic for seven years. Last New
Year's was my last gig.
The real catalyst to start Outformation was
Michael Houser. He told me many times that he
wanted me to go play my own music. When he
passed away, it really drove me to start writing
and performing. At first it was mainly part-time,
then we started to play more and more shows,
and things started to fall in place. Jojo Hermann,
Panic's keyboard player, produced our first record,
Tennessee Before Daylight.
Then it got to the point where as soon as the
Widespread tour was done, Outformation's would
start. Last year, I was gone 300 days between
the two. I left after last year because I felt my
work with Panic was done. I had done everything
I could do for them.
FP: Do you think Outformation's music has
progressed or changed much since making that
decision?
SH: It's changed a lot. I have a hard time lis
tening to stuff from a couple years ago, because
we have become much better musicians, better
listeners, better singers, and much better at do
ing what's best for the song.
We were a three-piece then. Now we're a five-
piece. The keyboards and pe r cussion brina other
layers and textures that make the music more
interesting.
FP: Do you think that having seven years of
unpacking, doing a show and packing back up
again under your belt makes what you're doing
now a little easier?
SH: Yes. I've lived out of a suitcase for sever
al years now! Touring with Widespread was much
easier, though. I rode on a bus and never wanted
for anything on the road—except a little sanity.
Outformation is in a van and trailer. Some of the
drives and things we do to make gigs can really
be taxing, but we still get to play our music.
FP: Tell me a little about the new recording
you're working on.
SH: We are trying to get it out in September.
We're done recording and we will mix it be
fore the summer. There's 10 songs recorded in
Franklin, TN, at Dark Horse Recording. It's tenta
tively titled Traveler's Rest.
FP: You guys are one of many bends that uti
lize band-approved bootleg sites like Archive. ~ g.
What's your stance on fans recording the shows
and, also, the use of a site like that as a promo
tional tool?
SH: I think it's great. With all the technology
now, there's no fighting it. You might as well go
with it. We allow taping, and there are tapers
that will go home and upload the show immedi
ately. But we also sell some of our live shows on
Nugs.net, as welL It's sure come a long way from
the days of just dubbing cassettes.
Michael Andrews
WHO: Outformation
WHERE: Melting Point
WHEN: Monday, April 23
HOW MUCH: $12
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