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Come came into being after a mutual acquaintance invited Brokaw, O’Brien, and Johnson to play with him.
Brokaw was playing drums with Codeine, Johnson had previously drummed for Athens, Georgia band Bar-B-Q Killers, and O’Brien had played with two other 1980s Athens bands, Kilkenny Cats and Fashion Battery. After playing one show together, Brokaw, O’Brien, and Johnson decided to split off into their own project and invited Thalia Zedek to join them. In 1992, Come released its debut album, 11:11, on Matador Records. 11:11 received acclaim from both the independent and established media, with David Browne, from Entertainment Weekly, characterizing it as “enthralling, like watching someone howl into a rainstorm.” After the release of 11:11, Brokaw left Codeine, devoting himself full-time to Come. Already after the release of the debut album, Come received praise from Dinosaur Jr.’s lead singer J. Mascis, Hüsker Dü’s Bob Mould, and Nirvana’s frontman Kurt Cobain among many others Throughout its career, Come has supported and toured with Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Sugar, Dinosaur Jr, and many other seminal 1990s rock bands. Chavez’s guitar player Matt Sweeney characterized the band as “mind-blowing and one of the best bands ever”. ~~~ DUMBASS YOUTH Imagine a songwriter’s workshop hosted by VIP Knoxville magazine, dosed with CIA ‘sponsored’ LSD, and invaded by the ghosts of Alfred Jarry, Don Rickles, and Paul Lynde. The bassist and guitar player are accomplished musicians, but have been stricken with an amusingly severe case of amnesia which renders them (seemingly) incompetent accompanists. The drummer knows how to play drums, but isn’t a drummer. Somehow it all works. The End. P.S. One of the guys used to be in Deerhoof, so they must be good, right? ~~~~ Now REAL BURN from NYC are opening this show! “A 4-piece indie rock band from nyc drawing on midwestern and northeastern influences to shape their take on melodic grunge,” Real Burn is a new project featuring Sumner Bright of Plains.