Beggar Weeds Sure Pants Alot 1988 Mini Album

This short-lived Athens, GA bands 1988 Mini Album really caught my attention when Denny Walley brought it to my attention. Denny was the guitarist for Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart's best bands ever yet and he had introduced me to Don Van Vliet (loooong story remind me to tell you it sometime). Denny was living in the Athens area at the time these boys were gigging and had just recorded this record. I was doing A&R for Rough Trade US on a tight leash and the remotely controlled Tea Bags in charge of the decision making process simply didn't "get" the Weeds.
Well, I sure did. Listening to them made me sure pant. A whole lot.
Robin Hurley and Geoff Travisty were far too preoccupied with vanishing yet another $100,000 in a row on the third future failing album by Soiled American, quite possibly the worst band comprised of the worst group of people that I'd ever been forcibly made to not only listen to but to watch "preform" as well. So I just continually nagged the fuck outta them about The Weeds and another Southern Rock Group that I thought I could make famous, Rein Sanction (looong story, remind me to tell you tell you it sometime). Just as I had figured my incessant nag, nag, nagging got me sent out of their earshot and onto an all my expenses paid Junket south of the Mason-Dixon Line to see the Beggar Weeds play (and as a side bonus, I got to meet Denny too.) and then on deeper into the swampy Florida brackish backwaters to see Rein Sanction play but mainly to meet the Gentry Brothers Mother, Barbara Jean Gentry, in order to reassure her of my good intentions on her boys and the overall safe handling of her Son's. However, I digress. More on the Rein Sanction Saga when y'all ask me to show and t
ell you that part later.
Back to my first stop in Athens and the Beggar Weeds. The guys were all great people. Deeply modest about what they were up to and certain that they were doomed to fail. When it became appallingly apparent that RTUS wasn't going to go anywhere with the band, I offered to put out an all new single on my No.6 Records label but they broke up right after they said "Yes". As far as I know, none of the three of them ever wrote another song or carried on in another group. What a shame. So much talent.