Couch Slugs Suarez
For over twenty years, the Couch Slugs has played rockin dance covers all over the Athens county area of Ohio. Formed in 1985, the slugs covered a lot of ground (musically and, not so much literally) and have included a medium-sized list of players. But on Friday July 19, the slugs will play one last time and feature appearances from the 1980s slug roster.
Founder slug Wayne DaVault is moving from Athens to Cincinnati later this summer. Thus, a reunion appearance. Billed as perhaps the final slug suarez, the night will include performances by guest players including the original Couch Slug, Chris Kearney. The picture below includes the founding Slugs (l-r: Wayne DeVault, David Barger, Chris Kearney) as they appeared in an area newspaper.
Wherever you are on July 18, 2008, come and get down with the couch slugs one last time at Toscano's. That's on a Friday night July 18, 2008 starting at 9:30 and playing until ___.
Hair of the Dog - Best of Atlanta
Creative Loafing selects "Hair of the Dog" as best world music act of 2005. For full story, click here.
Stonehouse Posse Updates
For Stonehouse Posse news, check out our MySpace Site. But wait, there's more news than that. Stonehouse Posse's music will be featured in an audio tour for Decatur, GA. Hot dog. Here are the tunes selected for the film: Roulez E.C., Long Hair, Hard Times, and June Apple
About this site
Some ask, "What's with the name?" "Why the website?" It's a long story but here's the short version. The site is registered to Chris Kearney of Decatur, Georgia. The site was originally just for play and to learn HTML (c. 1994), then later used for for work. After some years of neglect, now the site is again for play. Some who come here know me from work. Others know me because I play drums. Some both.
Originally from Bay Village, Ohio (west of Cleveland), I finished college at Ohio University, found a job, moved to Atlanta, and eventually married a sexy and exotic young lady named Gail Jones. Gail is a sailor's daughter. When we met, she was a veterinary student at the University of Georgia (c. 1989). We've since married and started a family. All this and even more intriguing information about us are mere clicks away.
"If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The college, which should be a place of delightful labor, is made odious and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits. I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Tom Wartinger