WALRUS

File Under Water—Reckoning turns 40 today! The band’s second studio album, recorded at Reflection Sound in Charlotte with Mitch Easter and Don Dixon, was released in the UK on April 9. Share your favorite Reckoning track with us in the comments.

WALRUS in East Memphis!

This SATURDAY April 13th

Swankys Taco Shop

9pm

WALRUS TONIGHT!

Lafayette's Music Room

9pm - 12am

44 years ago on April 5, 1980, the band played their first show, and Sandra-Lee Phipps took these photos that historic night in Athens at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church on Oconee Street.

The R.E.M. Timeline gives a full account:
5 April 1980 - St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Athens, GA
support: The Side Effects
supporting: The $windle$
possible set:
set 1: I Can’t Control Myself / God Save The Queen / Narrator / Baby I / Action / Needles And Pins / Hippy Hippy Shake / There She Goes Again / All The Right Friends / Shakin’ All Over / Secret Agent Man / A Girl Like You / Permanent Vacation / I Can Only Give You Everything / Dangerous Times / Different Girl / Mystery To Me / (I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone / Lisa Says / Nervous Breakdown / Schéhérazade
set 2: H***y Tonk Women / One Nation Under A Groove / Roadrunner / California Sun / Gloria
notes: First ever R.E.M. performance. Some reports have the band playing under the name ‘Twisted Kites’, other reports claim there was no band name. Song order is not known (although ‘I Can’t Control Myself’ and ‘God Save The Queen’ have been acknowledged to be the first two songs played) and it’s not known what other songs were played

Shows Upcoming:

Saturday April 6th at Lafayette's Music Room

Saturday April 13th at Swankys Taco Shop

Saturday June 1st at Lafayette’s Music Room

All shows 9:00pm start.

On this day in in 1983, the INXS LP “Shabooh Shoobah” debuted on the US Billboard 200 Album Chart at #190 (March 19)

INXS's third studio album is one of their most underrated, full of excellent material like “Don’t Change”, “Black and White”, “The One Thing” and “To Look at You”.

The production by Mark Opitz is lush, but also vibrant.
Tim Farriss said "Mark was the first producer that was able to capture some glimmer of what the band felt it was like live.
Prior to us, Mark had done bands like AC/DC, Cold Chisel, The Angels. Big guitar sounds, mighty drum beats".

The album peaked at #5 on the Australian charts and remained on the chart for 94 weeks.
It was the band's first album to be released worldwide and eventually broke into the Top 50 in the US at #46.

Click on the link below to watch “To Look at You”:

https://youtu.be/71YvHBkNWco

WALRUS Tonight on 30A!
We’ll be performing at Redfish Taco in Blue Mountain Beach from 6:30-9:00pm on the patio.

Live Music 7 Nights a week! ST. Patricks Day Weekend we host the BLUES, TACOS & TEQUILA FESTIVAL! Free and open to the public, the event features multiple blues bands. Blues on 30A Casey Kearney Music Moody

Kevin Griffin of Better Than Ezra

On this day in 1987, U2 released their fifth studio album “The Joshua Tree” featuring singles "With or Without You" "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" "Where the Streets Have No Name" and "In God's Country"

WALRUS Springs Eternal

3/2 Lafayette's Music Room Memphis 9pm

3/9 Chiringo Grayton Beach, FL 7pm

3/11 Red Fish Taco Blue Mtn Beach, FL 6:30pm

4/6 Lafayette’s Music Room Memphis 9pm

Inside R.E.M.'s Surprise Appearance At Athens, Ga. Tribute Show - SPIN The four original members of R.E.M. made a surprise appearance last night (Feb. 8) in Athens, Ga., at a tribute show for their album 'Murmur.'

WALRUS has sprung

Saturday, March 2 Lafayette's Music Room Memphis, Tennessee

Saturday, March 9 Chiringo Grayton Beach, Florida

Monday, March 11 Red Fish Taco Blue Mountain Beach, Florida

Saturday, April 6 Lafayette's Music Room Memphis, Tennessee

The rumors are true . . .

WALRUS Returns to 30A for Spring Break 2024!

Saturday, March 9th at Chiringo in Grayton Beach

Monday, March 11th at Red Fish Taco in Blue Mountain Beach

Roll call! Who’s in?

Nashville! You know what to do.

40 years ago: January 9th, 1984 was the beginning of round 2 of recording Reckoning at Charlotte’s Reflection Sound Studios with Mitch Easter and Don Dixon producing, the band’s sophomore effort after Murmur’s release in the spring of 1983. It was a busy time on the road for the guys; the sessions for Reckoning were just a week in December and 9 days in January— and that was that and then it was on to the next show,, a benefit for the Legal Environmental Assistance Foundation (L.E.A.F.) at the old Moonshadow Saloon in ATL. Things were perking up and the good songs just kept on coming. - Bertis Downs

From the The R.E.M. Timeline:

9-18 January 1984 - Studio A, Reflection Sound Studios, Charlotte, NC
tracks recorded: Harborcoat / 7 Chinese Bros. / Time After Time (Annelise) / Little America / Second Guessing / Letter Never Sent / So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry) / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Pretty Persuasion / Camera / White Tornado / Voice Of Harold / Burning Down / Windout / Windout (w/ Jefferson Holt & Bertis Downs) / Burning Hell (Instrumental) / Mystery To Me / Crazy / So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry) (Video Vocal)
Live To 2-Track: Gardening At Night (Acoustic) / Gardening At Night / Femme Fatale / Walters Theme - King Of The Road / Pale Blue Eyes / Just A Touch
notes: Recording Sessions for 'Reckoning' with Mitch Easter & Don Dixon.

It’s good to be in WALRUS. Wrestlers love us.

Superstar Bill Dundee!

It’s good to be in WALRUS. Rock stars love us.

Rick Richards of Georgia Satellites!