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MUSIC NEWS AND GOSSIP
Let's Build: Several Athens' artists and bands
have contributed to the Wounded Warrior ben
efit album, the proceeds of which will go to
build The American Veterans Disabled for
Life Memorial. Slated to be built on a spot
across from the U.S. Botanic Gardens near the
U.S. Capitol, the memorial is in tribute to "the
over three million living disabled American
Veterans, including 53,000 who served in Iraq
and Afghanistan, and the countless hundreds
of thousands who have died." The exclusively
Athens album features R.E.M., Futurebirds,
Dead Confederate, Drivin' N Cryin', Gift
Horse, Hope for Agoldensummer, The
Whigs, Ruby Kendrick, Bloodkin and the
Widespread Panic/ Vic Chesnutt collaboration
Brute. For more information, please see www.
woundedwarrioralbumcharity.com
Who's to Blame?: I saved my favorite bit of
news for last this week because I know folks
tend to read the beginning and end of this
column. It just happens. So, I'm tickled pink
to let you know that former Athens scenester
and instigator Chip Shirley has uploaded
the first episode of his 1985 television show
Futurebirds
Duty Now for the Future: The Music Business
Program at UGA has a couple of interesting
j projects underway. First, its music produc-
I tion course—taught by program director
David Barbe and longtime Athens engineer
Tom Lewis—wants to take a local band into
Chase Park Transduction to record one song
under Barbe’s supervision and with all the
amenities Chase Park has to offer. There's
only one caveat: the students will get to use
the tune for remix purposes in the classroom.
Otherwise, neither the class nor the program
| will have any other rights to the song, and
: the band can use the recording however they
i see fit. Interested parties should submit one
MP3 to dbarbe@uga.edu, and then the class
will vote on the group they want to record. A
winner will be chosen mid-September. In other
news, the program is beginning to curate an
Athens Music Archive. Students, again under
Barbe's supervision, are building a digital cat
alog of Athens music that will go as far back
as possible. Barbe says they're starting with
his "personal horde" of 1980s cassettes and
! vinyl. If you've got recordings you'd like to
i see archived or know anyone that has a huge
I stash of stuff that should
j be preserved, you can drop
! by in person at 201 Caldwell
| Hall or email Barbe at the
j address above.
► Expansion Plans:
Futurebirds will head out on
the road again for a month,
hitting up a few cities in
the South and a whole lot
of places out West. They'll
be playing with a variety of
acts, including Gary Clark,
Jr., J. Roddy Walston & the
Business, Thomas Hardy,
Delta Spirit, Lee Bains
III & the Glory Fires and
Widespread Panic. Before all that, though,
the band will play a hometown tour kickoff
show at the Georgia Theatre on Friday, Sept.
9. Advance tickets are on sale now at www.
georgiatheatre.com, or you could just mosey
up to the box office that night. Have you
ever heard Futurebirds? T t's as mosey-ready as
you're gonna get. For more info, please see
i www.futurebirdsmusic.com.
One Billion Tastes and Tunes: All you want
for Christmas is the upcoming Neutral Milk
Hotel boxed set. Pretty much bargain priced
at $88, the set includes both LPs (On Avery
Island and In the.Aeroplane Over the 5eo) in
gatefold sleeves, the Everything Is 10-inch EP,
a bonus 10-inch EP Ferris Wheel on Fire full
sf previously unreleased studio tracks, the
once eye-teeth commanding Holland, 1945
7-inch picture disc, a 7-inch containing early
versions of "You've Passed" and "Where You'll
Find Me Now," a 7-inch with two versions
of "Little Birds" and two posters. This set is
self-released by Neutral Milk Hotel, and, if
you've read the information above closely, it's
an entirely vinyl set. Once this set is released,
Mangum & Co. will make the previously unre
leased songs available via Bandcamp.com as
pay-what-you-want downloads; so if you're
broke, or just cheap, you don't have to re
purchase anything you already own just to get
the new stuff. You think Aerosmith would do
that? The set is available for pre-order as we
speak and will ship on Nov. 22. Dig it over at
www.walkingwallofwords.com.
"Partyline," which means all of you can see a
truly neat piece of Athens history. The show
was an hour-long program produced in the
TV studio of The Athens Observer newspaper
(where The Arch Bar is now) and featured
interviews, monologues, musical performances,
etc., and the overwhelming feeling of kids
being cut loose with hundreds of thousands
of dollars worth of analogue TV equipment.
As Shirley describes it, "Believe me, we were
partying on 'Partyline.' And guess what? It's
not illegal to get wasted on live TV! Y'all
should do one like it! Go Partyschool!" In
all, 17 shows were produced, but the process
of digitizing them has been slow going, so
don't look for any more in the near future.
On the first episode you'll see a baby-faced
Brian Cook (Is/Ought Gap, Time Toy, Thumb),
a 35-year-old William Orten Carlton, an
interview with Los Lobos at Legion Fiela, a
segment on things to do with food besides
eating it and, really, general mayhem. The
show was produced live on Saturday nights at
1 a.m. (back then, and up until not terribly
long ago, Athens bars—both of 'em!—had to
close at midnight on Saturday), so the crew
was stewed and ready to crack the boredom.
Want to know more about Observer TV and
The Athens Observer? Ask Pete McCommons.
Want to see a fine slice of Athens scene his
tory from the days of penny parking meters
and tumbleweed-rolling downtown nights?
Please go see www.chipshirleyshow.com.
Gordon Lamb lhreatsandpromises@flagpole.com
12 FLAGPOLE.COM • SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
