Monday, January 22, 2007

More N.C. rock on Youtube

Searching for "Comboland" on Youtube brought up a couple of gems.  Comboland sampler As someone who lived through N.C. rock in the '80s, the Comboland sampler brought back a LOT of memories. I saw many of these bands at Clawson's, which was an awesome little club in Beaufort in the early '80s, and whose manager always allowed us to come in even though we were underage. I remember seeing Doc Holliday at the Big Surf in Atlantic Beach, and PKM at a festival sponsored by WXQR at the Craven County Fairgrounds in New Bern. And I saw both PKM and Doc Holliday (along with Nantucket and the Bill Lyerly Band) at some outdoor festival in a parking lot in Jacksonville. I remember there was also a wet T-shirt contest -- in broad daylight -- and my boyfriend's dad, who was our chaperone, was absolutely mortified. I also saw Glassmoon at He's Not Here during my first visit to Chapel Hill in 1985. And I swear the Spongetones played ECU's Barefoot on the Mall every year. The only year they didn't play was when GWAR played, causing some visiting parents to threaten to remove their kids from the school as a result. The only band I don't remember from this sampler is Luky Owens & Revolver.  Arrogance at The Pier  PKM at The Attic. I wasn't there, but I think my friend Rachel was. Where are the Nantucket videos? Every time I search for them, I just get family vacation videos.

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