Flagpole Magazine & Udder
William Orten Carlton (ORT)— Special Correspondent for Flagpole Magazine— wrote about the band UDDER on January 22, 1992.
“It is regretted that I get to tell you that Clamp is no more, but several new bands have sprung up, and the river of music flows on, unabated. Udder is still my favorite of the newer bands I’ve seen lately, and they are reportedly on hiatus. I’m ready for their return: they have a lot to say and a novel way of doing same. Once in a photo caption that wasn’t used, I referred to their style as “three-person psychod(r)amage,” and that says it all. If they stick together, Udder can be immensely successful, because they have something intangible that renders them really unique. In my 22 years of listening to pop music, that’s one thing I’ve learned to look for: bands that refuse to be stingy with their creativity and refuse to do just what everybody else is doing for the sake of popularity. That night at The Church on Oconee Street years ago when three bands were born at Kathleen O’Brien’s birthday party, I remarked to someone that one band had “something extra” that I liked and noted. Of course that band became R.E.M. (or r.e.m., as they spelled it in those days. Once in 1988, I was driving across the rolling hills of early morning Western Kentucky when “Fall On Me” came on the car radio, played by WBGN on Bowling Green. The mist was just rising: the earth was “breathing” out of the sinkholes. Driving along, alone on the road, I was moved to tears by the spectacle, both aural and visual, unfolding before me at that moment. Thank you, R.E.M., for giving me that special time.”