W8ing4UFOs is an Atlanta band composed of Bill Taft, Brian Halloran, Will Fratesi, Billy Fields, Katie Butler and Sean Dunn. “City Lights” heard from guitarist, banjoist, and singer Bill Taft, who describes his band’s offerings as “folk drone ballad ambient improv noise rock sing-a-longs.”
Taft has been a fixture in the Atlanta scene as far back as the ‘80s, having played in bands across venues like Blind Willy’s, the Metroplex, the Little Five Points Pub and other mainstays of yesterday and today. One of his projects included The Chowder Shouters, which “almost” opened for Johnathan Richman once, as Taft tells it.
“We played outside on the sidewalk. Johnathan Richman walked by as we played, and he gave us a thumbs up,” he says.
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