tour in three years-which begins August 25 in San Francisco and includes shows in an additional 33 U.S. In January 2022, wanderlust stirred again, and he now resides in Bangkok, Thailand. At the turn of the century, Falco was feeling simpatico with Vienna, where he lived for nearly two decades. During the 1990s, Falco lived in Paris, a city that had captured his youthful imagination via the serialized adventures of Fantômas and Les Vampyres directed by Louis Feuillade. Memphis would be his homebase throughout most of the 1970s and ’80s, as Panther Burns tours took him to increasingly more exotic locales. After studying film and drama at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, he moved to Memphis in 1973. The roll call of Panther Burns alumni includes such alt-rock mainstays as Jim Sclavunos, Mike Watt, Will Rigby and Ken Stringfellow.įalco was born in Philadelphia to a family of Italian descent, but was raised in rural Arkansas. Over the next four decades, the group has steadily gigged and recorded, with Falco being the sole constant member. Chilton played on the first four Panther Burns albums, as well as produced 1987’s The World We Knew, but had retired from the touring lineup by the mid-1980s. Former Box Tops/Big Star frontman Alex Chilton was a founding member alongside Falco. Īfter extensive touring with his band Panther Burns in 2019, Falco took refuge in his homebase of Vienna, Austria as the pandemic took hold the following year.įor those unfamiliar with the history, Panther Burns played its first show in a Memphis cotton loft in 1979.
Rock & Roll Globe last caught up with Tav Falco in 2018 on the occasion of the release of his 14 th studio album Cabaret of Daggers.
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