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Will echo you WCDawg, I just missed the football heyday, but the music was still in full force during my time there. An incredible time for local and nationalish acts (The Replacements at Stitch-craft for $1 being not the best musically, but the most memorable).
I worked at WUOG and once got a call from The 40 Watt during my shift to give away 4 tickets for that night’s show.
I asked for the name of the band and the caller yells away from the phone, “Hey, Pete, what are you calling yourselves tonight?”
“Pete” responds, “Big Wheel of Iron Cheese.” Turns out it was a cover name for R.E.M. playing a cover songs.
I’ll add The Squalls, African Dreamland, Buzz of Delight, BBQ Killers among many others.
Read previous quotes, you guys obviously like music so you all should check it out. I’m listening now.
Dash Rip Rock was a perfect live college band...never saw them in Athens though still like the inclusion
Jason Isbell counts among the best anywhere. Really liked Drive by Truckers, but he's next level now.
T Graham Brown and Reo Diamond, Normal Town Flyers, any band Randall Bramlett was in.
Very good list. As somebody else mentioned, it's hard to have an Athens GOAT list without Guadalcanal Diary. More recently I've been a fan of Maserati.
I attended UGA Art & Graphic Design school during the musical Renaissance period in Athens and I feel all the richer for it. The scene back then was so alive and new that's it hard to put into words what it was really like. There's a DVD called "Athens Inside & Out" documenting the music scene during that period. I highly recommend it!
"Stormy Monday Blues" and "Mountain Jam" from the Atlanta Pot Festival -- great stuff from The Brothers as well.
Guadalcanal Diary is actually from Marietta which is why they didn’t make my list. Great band though. W were likely on the Athens scene at the same time. 86-90 for me. We used to break in to the Lucy Cobb chapel where REM did their Inside/Out recording. Fun times!
Right on...I've got the majority of those as well as some others ++
Unfortunately, I don't count those post Mikey, he was PANIC.
Now...they're just Widespread.
Ain't No MIKEY = Ain't No ME.