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Interview: Pylon

By Village Voice contributor, Friday, Dec. 12 2008 @ 5:30PM
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Categories: Interview, MP3, Pylon, Rob Trucks, interviews

Pylon headlines WNYU 35th Anniversary Celebration's at the Knitting Factory this Monday, December 15. Tickets are available here.


Left to right: Michael Lachowski, Curtis Crowe, Vanessa Hay, Randy Bewley
photo courtesy of Pylon

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Pylon, "Cool" (MP3)

In the beginning there were the B-52's, Pylon and R.E.M. (in that order). And soon after Athens, Georgia, a once proverbially sleepy college town where bars closed at midnight, momentarily became the home of more bands per capita than any place in America.

All four Pylon members--drummer Curtis Crowe, lead singer Vanessa Briscoe (now Briscoe Hay), bassist Michael Lachowski and guitarist Randy Bewley--still live there, playing in their third incarnation (seemingly final breakups in 1983 and 2001 didn't quite take) of one of indie-rock's most important collectives.

Before just their sixth and final show of 2008, a headlining slot at Monday's celebration of WNYU's 35th anniversary at the Knitting Factory, we settled into a long winter's history lesson with co-founders Lachowski and Bewley via video iChat, the band's very first interview with the new technology (as well as ours), which began with Lachowski creating a backdrop of clouds, and then polka dots, for our viewing pleasure. --Rob Trucks

Do I need to come up with a backdrop too? Is my kitchen too busy and distracting?

Randy: Damn! That's a kitchen?

[laughter all around]

Yeah. Randy, I thought you didn't do interviews.

Randy: [laughs] Me? I'm just real quiet. I'm giving it a go.

I definitely read that you didn't do interviews.

Randy: Oh yeah, yeah. Hey, you know, what can you say about bands breaking up and then getting back together?

So you do do interviews.

Randy: I do.

Well, I no longer feel special then.

[both laugh]

Randy: I haven't talked to anybody in a really long time.

Well, I'll pretend that counts for something. But I do want to touch on the breakup thing. Pylon has accomplished a lot over the years, but you don't seem very good at breaking up. You keep on getting back together.

[both laugh]

Michael: We don't do it very well.

Let's do a quick history. The two of you were roommates, and the original goal was to form a band, go to New York, play one show, get written up in New York Rocker, come back to Athens and break up.

Randy: Word. That's exactly what we wanted.

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Comments (4)

DecaturGuy says:

Thanks for the interview - Randy and Michael and Village Voice. As a long time fan and UGA contemporary of Pylon, I had the good fortune to finally see Pylon at their recent Atlanta show for the first time since my student days in Athens! The energy at the show brought me back to my days in Athens so many years ago, and of course Melissa and I danced the night away just like old times... LOL! Anyway you guys sounded fantastic and it was great to see the young pups in the crowd react to their first encounter with the iconic Pylon. Keep up the great work!!

Posted On: Sunday, Dec. 14 2008 @ 6:54PM
Tito Alba says:

Pylon and Romeo Void at the Peppermint Lounge for me and now this. Break a leg tonight!

Posted On: Monday, Dec. 15 2008 @ 7:40PM
Phil Warren says:

It was great to see you again in NYC - last time was at Metro in Chicago circa 2000. I did bump in to Michael at La Casita in East Atlanta a couple years ago, I think he was eating a fish taco . . . I am a charter fan from the glory days when you were playing 688. Thanks for the memories.

Phil

Posted On: Wednesday, Dec. 17 2008 @ 8:03AM
Dave says:

I meet Michael between Pylon I and II in Athens. Awesome guy who mentioned to me he used to play in a band. It was everyone else in Athens who told me that Pylon rocked it. Hope to see the band in 2009.

Posted On: Tuesday, Feb. 3 2009 @ 1:26PM

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