It is not a rock, it is the Athens Rock Lobsters. New minor league crew honors B-52s
It is not a rock. It is the Athens Rock Lobsters.
Ah-ahh-ahhh-ahhhhh!
The minor league hockey crew that may start play subsequent season within the dwelling of the College of Georgia paid homage to the town’s wealthy musical heritage by selecting a nickname made well-known by certainly one of its most well-known bands.
The B-52s launched their quirky, crustacean-themed music “Rock Lobster” within the late Seventies. Now, it is shifting from the seaside to the ice to adorn an enlargement crew within the Federal Prospects Hockey League.
The venerable band endorsed the brand new moniker in an announcement launched by metropolis officers.
“Athens, Georgia is our birthplace and the place we began our journey ‘down the Atlanta Freeway’ to unfold our dwelling grown groove out to the universe,” it mentioned. “‘Rock Lobster’ was certainly one of our very first songs and we will testify that thousands and thousands within the galaxy have gone wild to this deep sea surf anthem. We’re actually honored to have our hometown hockey crew named the Rock Lobsters. Because the music declares ‘Let’s rock!’“
The Rock Lobsters will play in a 5,500-seat area that has been constructed within the Traditional Heart complicated, the place the B-52s performed the ultimate present of their farewell tour in January 2023. The band has continued to carry out in Las Vegas residencies.
The FPHL is a third-tier, impartial league that had 11 groups this season, stretching from the Louisiana bayou to upstate New York. Athens and Danville, Illinois are set to affix for the 2024-25 season.
A fan vote of greater than 8,000 members resulted within the Athens Rock Lobsters edging out one other music-themed identify, the Traditional Metropolis Panic, which might’ve honored the Athens rock band Widespread Panic.
“From the beginning, we knew we needed a reputation that encapsulates the distinctive vitality and spirit of Athens,” Britton Briley, the crew’s director of selling, mentioned in an announcement. “The identify ‘Rock Lobsters’ struck a chord with our followers, mixing music, creativity, and a contact of humor. It’s the right identification for our hockey crew.”
The crew handed on an opportunity to honor maybe essentially the most storied act to come back out of the musical hotbed: R.E.M.
The Athens Nightswimmers, anybody?
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