What's your favorite? Besides REM, its gotta be the Drive By Truckers and Jason Isbell. Nothing better than going to The Georgia Theater and seeing the Truckers in the early 2000s. Their energy reminds me of CKS's program now.
I’d go REM. B-52s are a little weird for my tastes. And I was never a jam band guy so that eliminates widespread panic.
Surprisingly I’m not a bigger fan for some reason
@Kasey said: I’d go REM. B-52s are a little weird for my tastes. And I was never a jam band guy so that eliminates widespread panic. Surprisingly I’m not a bigger fan for some reason
@Kasey said: I’d go REM. B-52s are a little weird for my tastes. And I was never a jam band guy so that eliminates widespread panic.
I hit that exactly. Never saw the allure if jam bands...except dand Allman Brothers.
That being said, if you haven't checked out the DBT or Jason Isbell, please do. The DBTs are straight bourbon drinking a** kicking rock and roll. Their new stuff is too political. Jason was one of their boys who left. Sobered up and caught his muse. Hes unbelievable w that same great song writing abilty.
Panic
Spread em 🤙🏻
Also the next big thing out of Athens is called AFTM, not a big fan of their music but they started like a year ago and i swear every single uga student plays their music, they have like 200,000 plays on one of their songs on Spotify
70s - B52s, Normaltown Flyers 80s - Love Tractor, Dreams so Real, Panic, Pylon, Mark Heard, John Barry 90s - Vigilantes of Love, of Montreal, Neutral Milk Hotel, the Glands,Vic Chesnutt, Truckers, Casper & the Cookies 00s - Dead Confederate, Azure Ray, Reptar, Danger Mouse, Goons, Muuy Biien
Pylon Love Tractor Widespread Panic B-52s What R.E.M. had that Pylon and Love tractor didn't have was Michael Stipe, he gave them their unique soul and sound. Murmur came out when I was a senior at UGA, it remains a benchmark album. The Drive By Truckers came well past my time in Athens, I'm a bigger fan of Isbell's solo work than the band. The B-52s, very authentic and cool, but not music I'd buy for myself.
Seems like the major Athens bands have already been covered above, so I'll give a shout out to a few that weren't from Athens but played there and elsewhere around the southeast during my college days:
Drivin' 'N Cryin' Guadalcanal Diary Dash Rip Rock The Connells White Animals
White Animals/Gloria/SEC Daze
https://youtu.be/FcnBH2PLbpU
whigs, ponderosa (athens/atl) , mgmt (uga), futurebirds (with the original drummer), phosphorescent .....ill stop there....one of the top music towns in the USA....will always love it...there will always be that side of town...that is a part of our culture...that truly separates us from those towns that worship at the altar of whatever sport they are good at...win loose or draw you can hear a pretty good band in our beloved town most nights of the week....
@AnotherDawg said: Seems like the major Athens bands have already been covered above, so I'll give a shout out to a few that weren't from Athens but played there and elsewhere around the southeast during my college days: Drivin' 'N Cryin' Guadalcanal Diary Dash Rip Rock The Connells White Animals
@AnotherDawg said: Seems like the major Athens bands have already been covered above, so I'll give a shout out to a few that weren't from Athens but played there and elsewhere around the southeast during my college days:
DNC's Straight To Hell is a one of a kind beer drinking sing along song.
@3rdshift said: whigs, ponderosa (athens/atl) , mgmt (uga), futurebirds (with the original drummer), phosphorescent .....ill stop there....one of the top music towns in the USA....will always love it...there will always be that side of town...that is a part of our culture...that truly separates us from those towns that worship at the altar of whatever sport they are good at...win loose or draw you can hear a pretty good band in our beloved town most nights of the week....
Great comment, but it's win, lose, or draw. We all must join together to stop the loose thing.
Corey Smith... Conversation over... lol
@WCDawg said: @AnotherDawg said: Seems like the major Athens bands have already been covered above, so I'll give a shout out to a few that weren't from Athens but played there and elsewhere around the southeast during my college days: Drivin' 'N Cryin' Guadalcanal Diary Dash Rip Rock The Connells White Animals DNC's Straight To Hell is a one of a kind beer drinking sing along song.
@WCDawg said:
LOVED Driving and crying growing up. Honeysuckle blues is an awesome song... my wife isnt a big fan though
Is Baba O' Riley by The Who no longer in the mix?
Five Eight was my favorite band back in the early 90s.
