Songwriter John Forbes is best known around these parts for time spent deep in the Atlanta underground, as a member of such elusive and free-form rock groups as Dirt and Phantom 309. His Tijuana Hercules project is based out of Chicago, where Forbes has resided for decades, but it centers around the same sort of unhinged, horn-laden rock and roll energy. With his urgent, bluesy guitar-picking and resonant Beefheartian growl, Forbes leads his starry-eyed cast of supporting characters through one consciousness-altering garage-rock workout after another. Local cult figure the 8-Track Gorilla opens, as do far-out genre defiers Future Ape Tapes and Leslie Grove’s Sound Safari.
9 p.m. 706-546-5609
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