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The 40 Watt Club was the primary performance space for numerous "Athens bands", including Pylon, R.E.M., Love Tractor, Dreams So Real, Guadalcanal Diary, The Primates, Modern Skirts, and others. Its DIY ethos and informality were instrumental in the fostering of punk rock and a "scene" in Athens.
This year's inducted class includes iconic downtown venue 40 Watt Club, alternative music pioneers Bar-B-Q Killers, New West Records label co-founder George Fontaine Sr., music producer and ...
On Thursday, Feb. 27 at the 40 Watt Club in R.E.M.’s hometown of Athens, Ga., Shannon and Narducy dug deep into the R.E.M. catalog to perform “Pretty Persuasion,” from the 1984 album ...
In the late 1970s, the 40 Watt Club became a well-known regional attraction for music fans. The early 1980s saw a host of new bands and venues appear, including the Uptown Lounge in 1984, while the city's musical subculture became more diversified. LSD, a hallucinogenic drug, was widely used in the college music scene in this era. [6]
R.E.M.‘s four original members took the stage once again last night (Feb. 27) at the 40 Watt Club in their former Athens, Ga., stomping grounds, joining actor-singer Michael Shannon and ...
In 1987, she became a co-owner of the 40 Watt Club, an Athens music venue that had existed since 1978 at different locations and had had various owners. [8] [9] The corporate legal entity, 40 Watt Club, Inc., was formed in 1987 with Barrie Buck and Jared Bailey as co-directors, as well as the two equal shareholders. Originally, Bailey was the ...
Pylon came out of retirement again in 2004, and played their first set in more than a decade in August 2004 at the then-fledgling Little King's Shuffle Club in Athens. They played the 2004 New Year's Eve show [ 21 ] at the 40 Watt Club, headlined the first night of the Athens music festival AthFest in June 2005, and recorded an untelevised ...
In early 1979, Crowe and his friend Bill Tabor sat and listened to Michael Lachowski and Randy Bewley play the same riff over and over in their practice space which was below his apartment in downtown Athens-the original 40 Watt Club-named for a single bulb on a wire that hung overhead.