Charlie Pickett and the Eggs!
Welcome to Monday, peoples.
Wow -- I had no idea Charlie Pickett now practices securities law in Palm Beach:
You can relive the cooler version of the 80s at Tobacco Road on Saturday, where Charlie plays a gig at 10 p.m.Before Pickett, 55, was a lawyer at West Palm Beach's Casey Ciklin Lubitz Martens, he was a South Florida musical god. With his bands The Eggs and then The MC3, this guy from Dania injected a sweaty dose of rock-laced country and blues into the local '80s music scene. He toured the United States, made one record on Minneapolis' Twin Tone label, and then another produced by REM's Peter Buck.
''At the crossroads where Johnny Thunders and Son House intersect, Charlie whipped up a bad voodoo vibe of heroin rock and midnight blues,'' Buck wrote glowingly of Pickett's music.
But it wasn't enough.
''He was one of those great forgotten guys,'' says Bloodshot's Rob Miller, who encountered Pickett as a fan when the band hit Ann Arbor, Mich., in the 1980s.
That is, until last fall, when Bloodshot released the retrospective Bar Band Americanus, which brought Pickett a rave review in Rolling Stone and an invitation to Austin's famed South By Southwest music festival.
''He has never given it up,'' says longtime supporter Leslie Wimmer, who with then-partner Ted Gottfried released Pickett's first discs through their OPEN Records label in Miami. ``Why stop just because you didn't quote-unquote make it?''
Hey, if you ask him his views on the PSLRA and the automatic discovery stay, you can bill for it and charge it to the firm.
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