A Whistle Test feature from 85 in which Andy Kershaw goes to North Carolina in search of the famed 'Comboland'. This features interviews and live footage of The Connells, The Accelerators, Fetchin' Bones and The Othermothers.
For those interested, The OtherMothers, featured in the last part of this vid have re-joined and playing a gig in Greensboro on the 11th of April. The venue has already been changed (waiting to hear where) because of the huge response of this gig. I'll post where as soon as I hear. Come feel young again ya geezers!
NOT sour grapes ! My grandaddy died and left me millions !!! I don't give a darn I did not make it... the truth .. IS .... everything I said. Comboland was a myth and the really really RADICAL bands from Chapel Hill, Raleigh, Winston-Salem and Asheville were ignored by the intelligentsia and cliques of Ral/CHill/Durham ... so there.. swallow and don't SPIT AMY !!!!!!! ! ! ! !
Dick Hodgin AND Harry Simmons were gentlemen and VERY sweet. I spent a lot of time at the Brewery when I wasn't DJ-ing, and I loved it. I loved the Smiths AND the Connells, but the Bad Checks were my favorites. Ah, and the Flat Duo-Jets!Sour grapes, mamaslilbastard.
The stuff here with the Accelerators is just terrific!
jbakerm 1 year ago
OtherMothers gig is at the Grean Bean, Elm St , downtown Greensboro.
dprendergast66 2 years ago
For those interested, The OtherMothers, featured in the last part of this vid have re-joined and playing a gig in Greensboro on the 11th of April. The venue has already been changed (waiting to hear where) because of the huge response of this gig. I'll post where as soon as I hear. Come feel young again ya geezers!
dprendergast66 2 years ago
Also- I KNOW Dexter, and HE IS a GENIUS... but the rest of the lot .... welll .......
mamaslilbastard 3 years ago
NOT sour grapes ! My grandaddy died and left me millions !!! I don't give a darn I did not make it... the truth .. IS .... everything I said. Comboland was a myth and the really really RADICAL bands from Chapel Hill, Raleigh, Winston-Salem and Asheville were ignored by the intelligentsia and cliques of Ral/CHill/Durham ... so there.. swallow and don't SPIT AMY !!!!!!! ! ! ! !
mamaslilbastard 3 years ago
It was The Brewery...
queenamy00 3 years ago
Oh, and I was at the Comboland taping. It totally rocked. As I said, Sour Grapes.
Wish I could go back and have a Do-Over. Wouldn't change a thing.
queenamy00 3 years ago
Dick Hodgin AND Harry Simmons were gentlemen and VERY sweet. I spent a lot of time at the Brewery when I wasn't DJ-ing, and I loved it. I loved the Smiths AND the Connells, but the Bad Checks were my favorites. Ah, and the Flat Duo-Jets!Sour grapes, mamaslilbastard.
queenamy00 3 years ago
BLESS YOU, SKIPJAMES25, Perhaps we can start a movement to expose the MYTH known as "Comboland" !!!!!!
mamaslilbastard 3 years ago
Mr. Hodgin was an A-hole and the Connells - yup not an origianl idea to be found
SkipJames25 3 years ago