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recordings that broke loose into southern-fried boogie rock by the time the group’s third album, 1998’s The Pleaser, surfaced. Soon after, Harvey Milk went on hiatus, and Tanner decamped to Portland, Oregon, and then to Brooklyn, where he’s lived ever since. After six and a half years working in the kitchens of Diner and Marlow & Sons, Tanner decided to strike out on his own. In 2006 he opened the southern eatery Pies-n-Thighs in the shadows of the Williamsburg Bridge. Receiving kudos from the Times, Edible Brooklyn and even Bloomberg magazine, the restaurant’s quick rise to fame mirrored that of Egg. “MAKE SOMETHING GOOD, AND DO IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN.” “I always wanted to have my own place,” reflects Tanner. “So I saved my money, spent it all getting the place ready, and it went through the roof. But I fucking hated it. It never fucking stops, and it’s one hassle after another. Someone will rip you off. Something breaks. The Health Department of New York is insane. It’s amazing that any of these places are able to stay open.” In 2007, Tanner sold his share of the business; soon after, city inspectors forced Pies-n-Thighs to close, though its new owner is preparing to reopen in a nearby location. “I don’t think I’d ever try to open another restaurant in this town,” Tanner says. “But it’s a pretty noble thing to do, if you’re honest about it.” That search for honesty led Tanner back to the kitchen. At Egg, which is owned and run by George Weld, Tanner oversees the restaurant’s lunch and dinner menus. “I could have gotten a job where I’d have made a lot more money, but you can’t really put a price on working for somebody that you actually respect,” Tanner says of Weld. One could draw parallels to the reactivation of Harvey Milk, in that honesty and persistence can pay off. The band has parlayed an eight-year absence into a series of reissues, a limited-edition live DVD and a return to the studio. Working with heavy/indie label Hydra Head, the band reunited with Pleaser-era drummer Kyle Hughes and landed underground metal legend Joe Preston (Thrones, Melvins, High on Fire) on second guitar. The group’s latest, Life the Best Game in Town, is its most diverse and uncompromising effort to date. “Kyle always says that stopping was the best thing we ever did, career wise,” remarks Tanner. “At our shows in March, heading down to SXSW, people were driving from all over the country to see us, and there’s all these really young kids in the crowd. Even little towns like Denton, Texas, had all these psychotic Harvey Milk fans showing up. “A lot of bands stop touring because they don’t like it or they’re fighting,” he continues. “We’re all good friends. All we like to do is eat fast food, 25 make jokes and listen to comedy albums. We want to make Harvey Milk whoopee cushions with Creston’s face on them.” Back in the kitchen, the excitement’s turned to the whole pig that’s come in from a local farm. “This’ll provide two shoulders for pulled pork and country ham, about fourteen chops and two loins,” Tanner claims. “Plus, we’ll make head cheese and bacon and use all the fat for our biscuits.” Rotating three daily seasonal menus that focus on southern cooking with organic ingredients, the restaurant now has a farm that Weld purchased upstate on which he’ll try his hand at growing fruits and vegetables as well as raising livestock, all of which will end up on his customers’ plates. “Most people who I know who play music do it because they want to blow people’s minds,” Tanner reflects. “I think the mentality behind people who cook for a living is pretty similar: Make something good, and do it over and over again.” DOUG MOSUROCK / PHOTOS BY TOM WINCHESTER Best One-Two-Punch Opening of Fall 2008: Parts & Labor, Receivers (Jagjaguwar) There’s something incredibly triumphant about the curtain-raising cuts on Parts & Labor’s third Jagjaguwar LP. For starters, “Satellites” turns seven potentially draining minutes into a digestible slice of noise pop—a static-laced epic that’s about persevering through “the rain and the snow” despite the fact that there’s “nothing more to know here.” And nipping right at its heels is the much more compact “Nowheres Nigh,” which one of selftitled’s friends referred to as “what the Killers should be writing.” That’s a bit of a stretch, of course. It’s not exactly dance-rock done right; more like a sign of life after the departure of P&L drummer Christopher weingarten. And yeah, that life’s poppier than the group's ever been. 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