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Sticks and Scones

The Scones try to overcome the cover-band stigma and earn respect for their classic-sounding originals

"It's fun to be a little arrogant," says Owens. "And anyway, if you don't, you're gonna get stomped on."

Shears then decides to add a shocking revelation: "We actually got kicked out of the Coffee Plantation at the Biltmore."

"Yeah," says Owens, "kids that aren't old enough to go to clubs go to coffee houses, and they dig the music we play, so they'd go to the Coffee Plantation when we were there and sneak in booze and barf all over the patio. Somehow, we got blamed for it."

Say it ain't so. The Scones? Bad boys of rock 'n' roll?
"Yeah," Winters says with a smile. "We got banned from the Coffee Plantation. How many bands can say that

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