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Smith’s wild night: Pink visits, tree falls
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Even as the folks at Smith’s Olde Bar were sorting through the tangle of borrowed extension cords Wednesday, rock fans couldn’t stop talking about Monday’s wild night at the Midtown rock club.
For starters, pop star and former Atlantan Pink was sitting at the bar. Ex-Atlantan and current A-list rock producer and Pink songwriter Butch Walker was in the house. Former 99X midday fixture Steve Craig was hanging at the club, attending his final Atlanta show before joining his former and future boss Leslie Fram at his new gig at WRXP-FM in New York.
Los Angeles Americana singer-songwriter — and current Pink boy toy — Jim Bianco was opening for former Refreshments frontman Roger Clyne, who was headlining with his band, the Peacemakers.
“Judging from how they were staring at each other while Jim was playing his set, it looked like it was only Pink and him in the entire room,” Smith’s Olde Bar bartender Brittany Burdett told Buzz Wednesday. “It was electric.”
The “Get the Party Started” gal got up to contribute backing vocals to Bianco’s current single, “Sing” as Walker playfully played percussion on Bianco’s guitar.
Then, during Clyne’s set, a tree landed on some power lines outside.
“It was 300 sweaty people packed into a shoebox,” said Burdett. “We were running extension cords and borrowing power from the Atlanta Room and Cowtipper’s. It was crazy.”
Clyne then grabbed the band’s bottle of tequila from backstage and the Peacemakers banged through a six-song set acoustically as fans sang along until power could be restored to the amps and a few lights. The air-conditioning? Not so much.
Still, some patrons didn’t seem to mind the heat. In addition to swigging from the tequila bottle being passed around and a few bottles of Newcastle Ale, Pink entertained herself in a darkened corner with Bianco.
“Nobody could even get to Jim to talk to him since they were in a corner making out,” said Burdett. “It was cute.”
On Wednesday, Smith’s managers were intent on coming up with a strategy to battle such future calamities.
Said Burdett: “We’re thinking of calling it the ‘Oh [expletive]!]’ box.
RAZOR-FREE FRIDAYS!
Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture Tommy Irvin isn’t forgetting about the state’s drought problem. Starting this Friday, Irvin is encouraging all Department of Agriculture employees to forgo using a razor.
“We’ve had Casual Fridays … now we’re instituting a Razor-Free Friday to help with water conservation efforts,” Irvin said via a release. “Every little bit helps, and I want to encourage everybody to conserve water in any way they can during this drought.”
In response to our obvious follow-up question Wednesday, rep Tyler Adams told Buzz: “We certainly wouldn’t want to leave women out so, yes, it’s open to both men and women. But we’re not going to check.”
A ‘GOLDEN’ MEMORY
The death of Estelle Getty this week reminded Buzz of an anecdote from long, long ago. She was here in 1987, when “Golden Girls” was a huge hit on TV, to do a cooking demonstration at Pittypat’s Porch downtown. She was staying, as visiting celebs frequently do, at the Ritz-Carlton Buckhead, and had breakfast with the AJC to talk about “Golden Girls.”
But she was utterly unfamiliar with Atlanta. So she asked us whether she was missing the point of some obscure affront she had never heard before. In her room, she had found a complimentary fruit basket. And on that fruit basket was a tag.
“It said, ‘Welcome to the Ritz-Carlton — Buckhead!” she said, but she inflected “Buckhead” with an actressy swirl of nastiness, as if it was some hideous insult.
She was utterly sincere. We explained that no, the Ritz-Carlton was not insulting her.
Getty died Tuesday at age 84.
OVERSCENE
Rock god Carlos Santana catching a game and a banana split at ESPN Zone in Buckhead.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“I’ve never been into dope. I smoked two joints in my life and ate the furniture in the hotel room.”
Veteran Hollywood actress Shirley MacLaine, hawking her new paperback “Sage-ing While Age-ing” on “Extra” Wednesday night.
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Actress Lynda Carter is 57. Director Gus Van Sant is 56. Actress-singer Jennifer Lopez is 40. Actress-singer Kristin Chenoweth is 38. TV personality Bindi Irwin (“Bindi: The Jungle Girl”) is 10.
Contributing: Phil Kloer and news services
If you have a tip, call 404-526-2749. Or fax 404-526-5509. Or e-mail: buzz@ajc.com.
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