Posts that mention Knoxville.

The gigs we played at Mr. Liu's China King: Notes for May 23, 2024.

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A few words about Dexter Romweber.

If you go listen today, please note how a lot of it is garage/rock/rockabilly, but a lot of it isn't.

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All-Night Movers played the Pilot Light in Knoxville.

A comedian opened the show.

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Dirty Knives played Pilot Light in Knoxville.

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Two of my bands were on a compilation of Knoxville bands.

These were the unhip bands of 1992. We were too old!

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Had a pretty great birthday party.

Marshal Andy sang to me about cowboy heaven.

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My college diploma, laminated.

I got this in the mail from the alumni association at UT. I shoulda put a penny for scale.

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I saw The Ramones again, at the Bijou Theatre.

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All the pictures I have of my cat Jack.

It was harder to take hundreds of cat pics then.

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Snake Oil played Gryphons with Swell.

Gryphon's was the laundry where we practiced.

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Snake Oil's first practice.

We came out of the basement to discover the Gulf War had started.

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My fanzine got reviewed.

I think everybody who did a fanzine looked forward to seeing these capsule reviews in Factsheet Five.

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I saw Fugazi at the Library in Knoxville.

Lotsa hillbilly white supremacists showed up.

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I checked this War Of The Worlds LP out of the Knox County Library.

I used to check out lots of records from the Knox County Library in downtown Knoxville.

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Mercyland, Anastasia Screamed and Everything Tool played at Planet Earth, Knoxville.

The year is a guess. My brother and I were in Everything Tool. Mercyland was the out-of-town band. I don't remember meeting them but we had a cassette of their album in the car and we played it a lot.

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Everything Tool played with Across The Yard at China King.

Across the Yard were, in fact, the jangliest.

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Everything Tool played with Abstracts at Cityside.

This had to be one of my first attempts at setting type on a computer.

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Went to Regas with Katie for a birthday.

This was supposed to be the fancy place in Knoxville.

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I tried to strangle my roommate while sleepwalking.

Date approximate.

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Saw R.E.M. at Stokley Athletic center at the University of Tennessee.

10,000 Maniacs opened.

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I revived my old fanzine and its pretentious title.

This would have been the "second run" of a fanzine I started in high school.

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I liked playing with my toy Texaco station.

We weren't able to take it when we moved to Chattanooga.

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Me, Beverly, and Matt on a bike with our dad, about 1971.

I could use some help with the date. Matt's more than one year old.

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