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Mirrored from the latest entry in Daron's Guitar Chronicles.

We arrived in Athens close to ten o’clock, too late to see anything that night but the little restaurant and bar adjacent to the motel. The only thing any of us knew about Athens was that this was where REM, the B52s, and Love Tractor were from.

As it turned out, the clerk working the night shift was a Love Tractor fan and I sat in the lobby talking to him until well after midnight. I was staggered by the number of clubs and music halls in this one town, college town or no. I didn’t think I could name as many places in Boston. We were booked into a place called the Atomic Music Hall. I wrote the kid’s name down (Jim Calandra) and told him we’d put him on the guest list. He seemed to appreciate that and said to call him at the desk if we needed anything.

With Carynne gone we needed one fewer room, so I dropped it from our reservation and thought maybe tomorrow I’d call ahead to confirm our other ones and drop it on those, too. This, however, landed Ziggy and I back together, like the rest of the band decided to see what would happen… or maybe they really hadn’t noticed exactly who was rooming with whom recently. Whatever.

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