Robert Dean Lurie

It turned out that Athens had everything he was hoping he might find in Austin, and was probably a hell of a lot cheaper, too. He never left

Tyrone’s burned down in January 1982. It was one of the most disruptive events in the early years of the Athens scene; in addition to depriving many local bands of a steady venue, the conflagration consumed much of Pat the Wiz’s sound equipment, derailing his career as a freelance sound man and music producer

They would not awake from this fever dream until the dawn of 1986, at which point they would discover that they—and the world—had changed considerably