College radio success (and some commercial) accumulated with airplay of the songs “Can’t Promise You The World” (for which the band filmed its first video) and “Powerhouse”.ġ989 marked the release of some of the band’s most memorable songs on the Mystery Road album, such as “Honeysuckle Blue” and “Straight To Hell.” The band released its first album for Island, Whisper Tames The Lion, produced by Anton Fier, in early 1988. I come from an industrial land of things that used to be: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, class of 79…a town, back then, that encouraged you to leave high school, get a job in a factory, get injured and then get workers compensation while picking up a side job at a liquor store or record shop where you got paid under the table. They warned you before you went out thereĪt that time, I had restarted myself. “Needs help with self control,” read every report card after fifth grade….smartass…underground comic-readin’ journalistic wannabe…too lazy to write a complete story….I settled on the song format…it’s perfect…a short poem…with its own soundtrack.
I wanted to be in a band that would be unafraid of changing genres, mostly because I’m easily distracted and change subjects mid-sentence. A little over a year later, I’m sitting in my living room with an album, a real, freakin’ 12-inch vinyl LP record called Scarred But Smarter. Tim quit The Nightporters and stole their drummer and we played our first drivin’ n’ cryin’ show at 688 in October 1985. He got me practicing with a few guys but it wasn’t really happening, so eventually he decided we’d just start our own damn band. My music was on the folk side of Dylan at the time but I decided I was up to playing just for the fun of it. Tim stopped by my apartment one afternoon a couple of weeks later and TOLD me he was gonna find me a band to be in. I told him that I had just moved to town and was working at the sewage plant, retired from the music world for good at age 24. He pulled me aside after the show and asked me if I lived down here. He played in the big 688 band The Nightporters and was a rock star in Atlanta. We played a lot of shows together a couple of years back when I was in a punk band called The Prosecutors, so we figured what the fuck? Let’s see what happens. (Check out their Touch and Go records produced by Butch Vig.) They were staying on my floor, just passing through on tour. One night I was playing in a pickup band with Die Kreuzen, my good friends from back home. I met Tim Nielsen just after I moved to Atlanta from Milwaukee. If you drive down Spring Street today, there’s just a doc-in-a-box where the punk rock used to be. Bands as diverse as Hüsker Dü, Rank and File, Lords of the New Church, The Residents and a week-long stint by Iggy Pop graced the hallowed walls of that now-defunct nightclub. 688 was the center of the underground Atlanta rock scene in the 1980’s. We released our first album Scarred But Smarter in 1986 on 688 Records. –That’s a quote from me in one of the first articles ever written about drivin’ n’ cryin’ back in the Eighties. “We are a band that’s like your record collection.” Or, things you might want to know about my fuckin’ rock band She heads to the Tiger Cafe with gun in hand to get back her man.Tickets are $18 Available at the door (Doors 9PM) Her man has been sleeping with Thais, the town hooker. On the other side of town Splendids' cousin has her own problems. The trouble comes on the wedding night when Splendid is determined to maintain her innocence. Story : Bayou La Teche, Louisiana sizzles as the Cajun town celebrates the wedding of Splendid and Dolan.
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