{"id":467,"date":"2008-01-14T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2008\/01\/14\/works-january-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-01-14T08:02:07","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T16:02:07","slug":"works-january-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2008\/01\/works-january-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Works: January 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/millworkpbvan0108.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/millworkpbvan0108.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"261\" width=\"209\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>In their days on the road, the Pressure Boys  went through three vans \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Death Pete, Cr\u00c3\u00bcel Eugene and Almighty God. They were the home away from home for a crew of eight. They all bore the scars of the road. By the time Death Pete was retired it was probably more object d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122art than transportation.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Fans and other bands slapped stickers on it or spray painted slogans in layer after layer. Pictured above is Pete parked at a club in Austin, Texas in 1984.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Through MILL, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve tried to use our cover to provide a focus on some of the best works by local artists. Our first cover featured sculpture; our second, printmaking; and last month, a winter-themed work from one of the area\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best photographers.<\/p>\n<p>This month we answer the question, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153When are you going to do something about music?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->For that, we stepped back into the past and for good reason. Although they haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t played a note together in nearly 20 years, the Pressure Boys were and remain one of the key homegrown musical acts from this area.  Their music was not indicative of the jangly guitar rock that came to be emblematic of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the Chapel Hill sound.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d But they were straight outta Chapel Hill High School and filled the clubs with their classmates and locals. They also took to the road and for a lot of people in the world beyond Orange County, their first contact with a band from this area was at a Pressure Boys show.<br \/>\nThey return to the stage after an almost 20-year hiatus May 2 in a benefit show at Cat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Cradle (see story on page 10). We mention it this early because tickets just went on sale. If the sales go well, the band plans on adding another show the next night.<\/p>\n<p>There is, of course, a lot of music ahead between now and then, notably at The ArtsCenter, which kicks off its annual Roots Music Series with a two-night benefit this weekend (Jan. 4-5) for WCOM radio.<\/p>\n<p>We can think of plenty of ways to survive the chilly days ahead, but probably none better than basking in the warm glow of a good song.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u201dKirk Ross<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their days on the road, the Pressure Boys went through three vans \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Death Pete, Cr\u00c3\u00bcel Eugene and Almighty God. They were the home away from home for a crew of eight. They all bore the scars of the road. By the time Death Pete was retired it was probably more object d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122art than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}