SOLITUDE AETURNUS Comments On 'Joe's Garage Tribute Weekend'

May 22, 2009

SOLITUDE AETURNUS and WARBEAST (formerly TEXAS METAL ALLIANCE) are among the confirmed bands for the Joe's Garage Tribute Weekend, set to take place May 22-24 at the Rockstar Sports Bar (7120 South Freeway) in Fort Worth, Texas.

The festival billing is shaping up as follows:

SOLITUDE AETURNUS
WARBEAST (formerly TEXAS METAL ALLIANCE)
PUNCTURE
PUMP'N ETHYL
GRUESOME FATE
THE DARK ALLIANCE
BLOOD OF THE SUN
HELL GOAT
MITRA
VIOLENT INTENTIONS
DEAD RISING
100 PROOF HATRED
VERDICT OF VENGEANCE
MY LAST NERVE
JOHNNY KNUCKLES
S.I.I.K INSOMNIA

Admission is only $5 per night.

The Joe's Garage Tribute Weekend remembers Abboud "Abb" Greig and the impact his club, Joe's Garage (where bands like PANTERA and RIGOR MORTIS got their start),had on the original Dallas metal underground.

Greig was found shot in the head on January 12. He was 74 years old.

Commented SOLITUDE AETURNUS: "This weekend, the Dallas/Fort Worth music scene finally gets the chance to pay their respects and celebrate the unforgettable life of Abboud Greig. They will also pay a long-overdue tribute to Abb's former club... the legendary Joe's Garage. Joe's Garage was without any doubts the most important club in the history of Dallas/Ft. Worth's underground metal/rock scene.

"This weekend's event will be like a 20-year reunion for so many of us. This might be one of the last times that so many of us from those golden-era early years all can get together at the same time. But this event isn't just for us that are ready to have a flashback and a blast from the past. We expect the younger music crowd will also be there in full force because they know of the legend and importance of Joe's Garage to this areas music scene. We truly expect the atmosphere, crowd and music at Joe's Garage Tribute Weekend will make this one of the most memorable local music events of 2009 in Dallas/Fort Worth!

"Abb deserves this tribute for what he did for so many great bands from Dallas/Fort Worth. His wife, Ruth, and some of Abb's family will be in attendance. So come on out and let them see what Abb and Joe's Garage meant to so many of us. We also hear they have found all of the old band memorabilia that Abb's saved from all of those years at Joe's Garage. A lot of it will be auctioned off at Joe's Garage Tribute Weekend. So this is also a chance to collect a small piece of Dallas/Fort Worth underground history with the money going to a great cause. You would be a fool to miss out on all of this!

In a recent interview with the Dallas Observer, vocalist Bruce Corbitt of veteran Texas thrashers RIGOR MORTIS stated about Greig, "He didn't like our music at all. He was a funny guy, a nice guy. He was in his 50s, and he didn't like our music, but he was smart enough to see that we had a pretty big crowd. Joe's became our home for all of that. People from Dallas would drive a good hour just to get out there. It was far, but it was the original birthplace for underground metal in the area, so we'd drive."

Joe's was just a small part of Greig's legacy, said Corbitt, who pointed out that Greig helped bring youth soccer to Fort Worth as well.

"He always loved helping kids," Corbitt said. "And he knew that we [in the metal scene] didn't have a place of our own. In his life, it was a small thing. But for us, it was a big deal. I don't think he ever realized the impact he had on the metal scene in DFW. As soon as [Joe's Garage] was gone, we were lost there for a while. It was like the best of the metal scene, and then the end of an era when it closed. We felt it for a while. For years, I've been getting messages from people from back then, and they all remember the same thing: the Joe's Garage years."

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