Randy Bewley, guitarist for the great Athens GA band Pylon, died Wednesday afternoon after suffering a heart attack on Monday. In 1981, New York Rocker -- the legendary chronicler of the burgeoning punk and post-punk scenes in New York City and elsewhere -- put Pylon on their cover and ran a three-page interview with the band. (To give you a sense of Pylon's place in history, R.E.M. was relegated to a small photo and a few paragraphs in a sidebar that also included Love Tractor and a band called Side Effects).
The history and influence of the band is documented elsewhere on the web, so I won't go into that here. Instead, here are scans of the interview from the March 1981 issue of New York Rocker, written by Karen Moline. (Click on the thumbnails to read the individual pages.)
dammit, i totally spaced on seeing them in october or whenever they toured. oh well.
Posted by: EH | February 26, 2009 at 02:38 AM
A shame. Guess he shouldn't have eaten all that dub for breakfast.
Posted by: Zelmo | February 26, 2009 at 09:24 AM
Boy, remember when Human Switchboard were the next big thing? Well, according the the wise ones at NY Rocker, anyway.
Posted by: Paul | February 26, 2009 at 11:52 AM
Ha--- I still have the Trouser Press flexi-disc of the Human Switchboard. "Whose Landing in My Hanger" I think it is. I've also got Holly and the Italians, Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Dark, Fools Face, the Divinyls, David Sylvian, even "Wolves Lower" by R.E.M.
Posted by: Fatherflot | February 26, 2009 at 12:41 PM
don't rock 'n' roll, no. now rock 'n' roll, now.
Posted by: holland_oats | February 26, 2009 at 05:05 PM
Damn, I saw them in the ATL just last Halloween.The last time before that was about 25 years earlier.
Posted by: SIV | February 27, 2009 at 12:38 AM