“Every Bar Owner in Town Stands on Kenny’s Shoulders”: Brewery Owner Kenny Hobby Dies at 72

“Every Bar Owner in Town Stands on Kenny’s Shoulders”: Brewery Owner Kenny Hobby Dies at 72

Whether or not they’ll tell it in the interests of protecting the guilty, every Raleigh club-goer of a certain age has a Kenny Hobby story. Here’s mine, from way back in 1991, when a rumor went around that R.E.M. was playing “secret” shows under a pseudonym. Raleigh’s Brewery nightclub was supposedly on the itinerary.The night it was supposed to happen, a capacity crowd showed up and a bad scene broke out when R.E.M. did not turn up. Things got …