The Method Actors

The Method Actors

Infobox Musical artist
Name = The Method Actors


Origin = Athens, Georgia, USA
Background = group_or_band
Genre = Rock and Roll, alternative, New Wave
Years_active = 1979–1982
Label = Armegeddon, db recs, Press
URL = http://www.myspace.com/methodactors
Past_members =
Associated_acts =

The Method Actors were an alternative rock/new wave musical group from Athens, Georgia, founded by Vic Varney and David Gamble in 1979. The Method Actors were among the first wave of alternative rock acts to emerge from the burgeoning Athens, Georgia music scene which included legendary bands The B-52's, R.E.M., Pylon (band), and Love Tractor. (For a detailed entry in Wikipedia, see Music of Athens, Georgia).

Discography

ingles and EPs

*"This Is It" 7" ep: "The Method" / "Can't Act" / "Bleeding" (AS006 - Armageddon Records, 1980)
*"Rhythms of You" 10" ep: "Distortion" / "Privilege"/ "Dancing Underneath" / "No Condition" / "She" / "You" / "My Time" (AEP12005 - Armageddon Records, 1981)
*"Dancing Underneath" 12" EP (DB, 1981)
*"Rang-a-Tang" / "Big Red Brain" 7" (P1004 - Press Records, 1981)
*"Round World" / "E-Y-E" 7" single (AS 011 - Armageddon Records, 1981)
* Commotion (dance mix) / Bleeding 12" dance single (Press P2004, 1981)
*"Live in a Room!" EP (Press Records, 1982)

Albums

*" Little Figures" 2 x LP (MAD1 - Armageddon Records, 1981)
*"Little Figures" 1 x LP (Press Records, 1982)
*"Luxury" LP (Press Records, 1983)
*"Luxury" 2 x LP (P 4004 - Press Records, 1985)

Members

* Vic Varney: vocals, guitar, bass
* David Gamble: drums, vocals
* Michael Richmond: guitar, bass, backing vocals
* Robert Schmid: drums
* Stan Satin: saxophone, percussion, vocals

Quotes and Reviews

quote|Working with the most basic instrumentation imaginable, the Method Actors is able to make the combination musical...the guitar makes deft use of chords with moving inner voices and meshes beautifully with the drumming.
Robert Palmer, New York Times

quote|Little Figures" is the best album of the year, fashioned from manic, maverick maneuvers and displays a pop sense that sets heads spinning. The Method Actors achieved an uncanny ability to imbue arbitrary squibs of noise and staggering meter with an alluring sense of shape.
Sound Magazine

quote|Their version of "All Tomorrow's Parties" is one of the 10 best New Wave cover songs ever...Countless bands have listened to, covered, imitated and assimilated the work of the Velvet Underground, but it took the Method Actors to capture their spirit.
Spin Magazine

quote|Far from being restricted by their lack of personnel, they flaunt the kind of freedom which gives full reign to their extremely angular, passionate approach. Devoid of derivatives, this week's best single proves that far from the Big City Kultural quicksands, some of the most challenging music is conceived free of destructive influences for no other reason than the music itself.
[On debut single "This Is It" being awarded Single of the Week,
Roy Carr, New Musical Express, London

quote|Take a young Jeff Chandler and Jack Nicholson and make a band.
Time Out

quote|...riveting psycho-Ramones drive heightened by choogling guitar and the pair's vocals, one a droll sing-speak, the other a madhouse wail...
The New Trouser Press

quote|The Music of pshychedelic despair.
Tip, Berlin

quote|...more interesting than Pylon...
New York Times

quote|The most pretentious band sense creation.
University of Georgia's Red and Black

External links

*myspace|methodactors
* [http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=method_actors entry in trouser press]
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:j9fqxq85ldke allmusic guide]
* [http://www.vicvarney.com/ Official Vic Varney Website]


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