{"id":851,"date":"2007-11-11T22:59:03","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T02:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=851"},"modified":"2007-11-12T00:44:23","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T04:44:23","slug":"old-skool-stately-thunderchild-manor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=851","title":{"rendered":"Old Skool: Stately Thunderchild Manor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Way back, lo many years ago, before I was a starving artist, I pursued even less-green pastures and was a starving musician. I, along with two of the other three members of the band I was in, Come on Thunderchild, purchased a circa-1910s house in Cornelius, NC (known among us locals as “Corntown”), which we used both to live in and as a practice and recording studio.<\/p>\n

I recently heard from a friend and Davidson classmate<\/a> from those heady days who’d dug up some old pictures of various goings-on from back in the day, some of them at the house\/studio, known at the time as Stately Thunderchild Manor. She’s posted a bunch of them to her Flickr account<\/a>. Mostly they’re just a bunch of liquored up folks doing liquored up stuff, but I thought this pic was pretty cool:<\/p>\n

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This is the interior of our practice studio. It was originally a bedroom but (If I remember correctly) the walls, and windows beneath, were covered in several layers of sheetrock, then over that, several layers of carpet obtained from a “contact” at a local carpet warehouse who would let us know when large scraps became available in the dumpster behind the store. The exterior-facing walls also had some added noise insulation courtesy of a bank of food-service size egg palates (on the left) that the guitarist collected via his day job at Davidson’s Soda Shop.<\/p>\n

The Manor was the (in)famous site of the Thunderchild Halloween party, which drew several hundred folks from the surrounding area, as far away as Charlotte, and was mentioned disparagingly at least once in the sermon of the church across the street. We eventually got tired of taking the minor decorations up and down each year, and as you can see our shiny pumpkin and crepe paper are still in evidence here. The guillotine and mock electric chair and other large items had to be stowed or returned, however.<\/p>\n

The Manor is currently occupied, and beautifully restored, by the onetime guitarist of the band and his wife. I believe it’s now on some sort of local register of historical places. Had there been such a thing when I lived there though, I’m certain The Manor would have been on a local–if not national–register of disreputable places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Way back, lo many years ago, before I was a starving artist, I pursued even less-green pastures and was a starving musician. I, along with two of the other three members of the band I was in, Come on Thunderchild, purchased a circa-1910s house in Cornelius, NC (known among us locals as “Corntown”), which we … <\/p>\n

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