40 Watt Club

In '83 we sent the record to Sue Murphy who was, uh, the general manager or the music director at WGSA, the, uh, Georgia radio station.

Well, I said, "Where should we play?" He said, "Well, you gotta play the 40 Watt Club."

You know, through those phone numbers, Dennis would call those radio stations and say, "Hey, we're 10,000 Maniacs.

Um, w- you know, we saw you, you were playing our record.

Where do the bands play that tour? You know, the small bands that come through town." And they'd say, "Oh, they play at the 40 Watt Club."

Um, she was the Georgia, University of Georgia radio station.

And I call her up.

We had our list of everybody and she said, "Yeah, we'll get you a gig at the 40 Watt.

But then, you know, a, it soon enough became, uh, you know, trying to, to branch out from the immediate area.

S- uh, the first, the first town that we ever, the first time we ever played outside of the state of North Carolina was in Athens, Georgia, in '85 at the original 40 Watt Club.

Oh, wow.

So that was, that was a head-scratcher that, "Are we really doing this?" You know? So-

Where do the bands play that tour? You know, the small bands that come through town.

And they'd say, oh, they play at the 40 Watt Club.

College towns, that's

why college radio, I think, was the impetus for this whole new movement is because the college towns would bring people together from very disparate cities and backgrounds, but then there was a commonality to it.

All right, well, here we are.

I think it's cool they played the 40 Watt Club in Athens, too, for Hand House.

That would have been a fucking cool show to go see.

Man.

wall.

The 40 Watt Club is the famous bar there.

Still rocking? Still getting

after it? Oh,

It's in that area.

Is that right? Waffle House is Atlanta? Yep.

40 Watt Club will be hosting Classic City Wrestling the weekend of September 25th.

Well,