Final part of the four part series.
Here it is: the final installment of Soulfish Stew's look back at Nashville Rock Post 1978. If you've missed the first three posts, here are the links:
Part One incudes: Jason and the Nashville Scorchers, The Dusters, Practical Stylists, F.U.C.T., Questionnaires, Dave Cloud, and Cloverbottom
Part Two includes: The Shazam, No Art, 69 Tribe, Walk The West, Chip and the Chiltons, White Animals, and the Young Nashvillians…
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26 - Rev. Keith A. Gordon
Glad to run across this blog while working on my book/film project. Check out our site at www.thatdevilmusic.com and if anybody has info on Nashville rock circa 1976-2006 please get in touch. Full details on the project and a band list that we're putting together can be found on the site. Nashville rocks!
27 - Mike Ward
Wow, i ran across this site looking for old nashville bands. I was in the Army and hanging in Nashville from Jan 88 through 95. I saw them all. I have so many flyers from Elliston and the Cannery. I only wish my scanner was large enough, maybe Ill have to digitize them.
Anyway, Does anyone remember the None For The Sun series at Exit/In and Elliston Square? My and my buddy got in a fight with 6 skinheads at that show! It was soooo fun!
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28 - Bobby
This brought back a lot of memories. I'll have to add Zero Hour to that list.
29 - Allen Welty-Green
Lotsa names here I haven't seen in a while. I'm in Atlanta these days. Just booked the reformed Vietnam (remember them from the Alternative Jam in the ten behind Cantrell's?) into an art/music place I'm involved with, Eyedrum. Any of you doing any sort of weird shit and who might want to play in Atl, drop me a note via my current band's website - z-axis.org
30 - Mike Arnold
Hi there,
Mike Arnold here from the Podcast, CONCERT BLAST!
I also played with many of these bands in the 80's as Mike Arnold and the Music City Rockers.
I didn't know that Lee Carr took his own life.
That is so sad. When I hear Rap music with a Rock flair, I think about how he invented it in the mid to late 80's. I actually told him once that he was trying to invent music without an audience. He was definitely more creative than I would ever know.
Lee would always come to our gigs and we would bring him on stage to sing and play various Classic Rock hits. His favorite to perform with us was Lou Reed's "Sweet Jane".
May he Rest in Peace.
Mike Arnold
www.concertblast.com
31 - elle-emme
Durb, Yes, "A Desire Scorned" was indeed Raging Fire.
32 - Stefanie T.
Wow, what a great trip down memory lane. I lived in Nashville from 1985-2000 and remember many of the bands mentioned, and I spent much time on Compton Ave. I'm married to John T., a former member of Nine Parts Devil (I saw them mentioned here) and we were very good friends with Lee Carr back in the day. We were absolutely devastated to hear the news of his death. Such a wonderful, talented, goodhearted, vital, creative person. I just can't believe he's gone.
Lots of the bands mentioned here have myspace pages and you can hear their music there. Raging Fire has a brand new page up, so check it out!
I had to immediately put "A Family Thing" on MY myspace page. It's such an awesome song.
33 - Derek
I spent a few months in Nash-Vegas during the mid-80s and was blown away by Raging Fire. I also remember the Way Outs (the guitarist went on to brief fame with the Black Crowes). Another cool band I caught a few times were The Mystery Girls (a wild, NY Dolls-type band years before the LA glam crap). What a cool time! Thanks for the memories!
34 - Derek
I spent a few months in Nash-Vegas during the mid-80s and was blown away by Raging Fire. I also remember the Way Outs (the guitarist went on to brief fame with the Black Crowes). Another cool band I caught a few times were The Mystery Girls (a wild, NY Dolls-type band years before the LA glam crap). What a cool time! Thanks for the memories!
35 - tina
Thanks for the trek down memory lane. I had forgotten all about many of these bands but spent my angsty youthful days going to see them followed by lazy hours in dragon park. I left Nashville in 1987 and now have no connections there but I look back fondly on my teenage years and my first apartment right off Elliston Place.
36 - DAVE
LEE TOLD ME MY SONG WINDOW FRIEND WAS A FAVORITE OF THE TIME HE STEPPED INSIDE. YOUR NOT SO REAL BUT YOUR MY WINDOW FRIEND HELP ME LEE BE REAL.
37 - amie
Lee was talent of Nashville back in the day.Kelly and Lee should have made it into the bigtime (well,Kelly kind of did)My heart was crushed when I found out about him taking his life seeing as I grew up with him and Kelly (and Doyle,Junior)Kelly continues his love of music in Boston creating unique guitars at First Act.
Lee was trapped in a rock stars body before the world discovered him and I will forever miss him.As tortured as he was,he was the sweetest soul and had an amazing sister who stood behind him no matter what.My heart breaks for her broken heart...I love you ,Pyloo and I miss you terribly Lee!
38 - amie
Jo...didn't mean to leave you out!I remember you always wanting to be in the middle of things but you were so little!I know Lee was such an icon but to you he was just the oldest and got to do everything!I have 1 photo of Lee in hollywood...where he was meant to be,but I think Kelly is who you should go to for music.Sky knows where....love you kiddo...Amie
39 - Heather
Wow...just came across this blog on the heels of a Jason and the Scorchers reunion show, where I ran into so many old friends...well, my heart is just full of love for those amazing days so long ago. We were spoiled rotten.
I was involved in the scene tangentially for many years and my ex played guitar in Stone Deep with Kelly. As fate would have it, years after they broke up, I was at a Titans game with Bruce Fitzpatrick and we bumped into Kelly. He inrtoduced us to his girlfriend (also named Kelly) and then when she went to the restroom, told us he was using the jumbotron to propose to her during the third quarter. No lie.
They were sitting a short distance away, so Bruce and I got to watch the whole thing unfold. It was really beautiful, big smiles and lots of joy. They have had at least one child and are doing great the last I heard.
40 - Allen
Interesting that this entry is still drawing comment after two years... If the URL thingy works it should take you to a site I've been fooling around with for a while. Lots (more than lots) of 80's Nashville music and Zines from the back of my closet, along with stuff others have contributed. There's a response form on the page if you have a question or a request. Would enjoy hearing from anyone with a connection to those days. Particularly you, Rick Champion...
a.s.
41 - The 80's Music Man
Wow, still no mention of Davis Deluxe. Davis Deluxe was probably the best reviewed Nashville Pop/Rock band of the early eighties. 4 of their singles made Billboard and Robert K. Oremann called their first single "the best rock-a-ballad" he'd ever heard by a Nashville band. They released recordings on Atlantic and Apple and at one point had some of the most famous Nashville super pickers ever in the band, including Kenny Buttrey and Bucky Barrett. If you're going to do it, do it right. Be thorough. Oh, and where's The X-Rays also?
42 - cd
Best-reviewed?!? meh.
Robert K. Howeveryouspellhislastname never gave anybody a bad review. He gave Mr. Zero a great review ... I probably have a copy of it in mothballs somewhere. Who cares about reviews?
Go dig up some Davis Deluxe and you will see why there is no mention of them here.
43 - tracey
hi im interested in old pics and recordings of mr zero..."grandmaster e" is my husband...i would love 2 surprise him
44 - Franklin
I worked at 91ROCK,coproduced Local Heroes & the 1st 91ROCK benefit show. We also did a show live from Cantrell's on Thursday nights (the people at 'RVU called it "Live at the Dive). Also worked with the Wrong Band. Ric Harmon has passed away but happy to say that Dwayne Rice and Craig Powers are alive and well in Cheatham County and Texas respectively. Thanks to Allen for keeping this alive at nashville80srock!