Boston Duers...name a good band from your area...

[Tom Kitten]

besides Mission of Burma!

[Xipe Totec]

1. This may be a bit out of date, but I like The Bag Boys

At the Plow & Stars

[tcfrogs]

2. The J. Geils Band

they rocked back in the 70's & early 80's

[Tom Kitten]

3. well I'm surprised!

What no Cars? No Lyres?

[BurtWorm]

4. I was just about to say the Lyres.

But not the Cars.

[BurtWorm]

7. I used to like the Del Fuegos, too.

Modern Lovers were from Boston. So was DMZ, The Neighborhoods, Willie Alexander, Unnatural Axe, La Peste... A lot of more obscure ones like Someone and the Somebodies, The Young Snakes, V, The Stains (a personal favorite of mine), Human Sexual Response, Lou Miami... and many, many more even more obscure ones.

I lived in Boston in 1982-1983, and in Portland, Maine, where a lot of those bands gigged, from 1978-1980. I don't know what's going on in Boston these days.

[jpgray]

5. I'm not from Boston, but the Remains have the garage goodness thing (nt)

[nankerphelge]

6. The Cars

n/t

[Tom Kitten]

8. Didn't those Throbbing Lobster comps come from your town?

with the Turbines
the Odds
the Blackjacks
the Noonday Underground
Dumptruck (who can forget fucking Dumptruck!)
the Volcano Suns
the Flies
Christmas
the Neats

Hayzoo Christe! I live 3000 miles away and I do better!

[BurtWorm]

9. They must be out a-rockin' and a-rollin'!

:beer:

[curse10]

10. I like the Bosstones

:-)

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

11. Isn't Aerosmith a bunch of chowderheads? n/t

[Tom Kitten]

12. By golly I think you are right!

But then so was the Beacon Street Union, come to think of it...

I was born in Boston and have fond memories there from my extreme youth...Went back to visit and was struck by the lack of curiosity my so-called relatives had...They didn't seem to give a shit about anything!

[maveric]

21. Aerosmith actually has roots in NH.

Lake Sunapee NH. They palyed at "THe Barn", a great little rustic club up in the mountain/lakes region.
Read "Walk This Way". The autobiography of Aerosmith. Its a great read.

[jonnyblitz]

30. as does Godsmack., but I don't wanna hijack this to a NH band

thread. :P

[OneBlueSky]

13. Roomful of Blues made their mark in Boston . . .

althought they were originally from Providence, I think . . . the Radio Kings are a good band . . . as are/were Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers . . . there's more, but my head isn't as clear as it should be right now . . . :)

[enigmatic]

14. Moving Targets!!!!

I'm listening to "The Other Side" right now...

[foo_bar]

15. Angry Salad

and Jim's Big Ego.

[fishwax]

16. Morphine

I'm not from Boston, but Morphine was. Man, I miss those guys.

[jpgray]

17. Well, in a sense the guy did find a cure for pain

:)

[ghostsofgiants]

18. ...

Dropkick Murphys

[shawmut]

19. The Pixies

[Tom Kitten]

23. You get the brownie points!

The Pixies were the only reason for being for awhile! I just luuuuved the Pixies!

[HEyHEY]

20. Notice how no Bostoners would openly admit Aerosmith?

[maveric]

22. They were great when they were drug addicts.

Back in the days of the "Blue Army". 1972-77.

[Tom Kitten]

25. Is that not weird?

I love the "Rocks"album...Especially "I'm Back in the Saddle Again"..

[maveric]

26. I must have seen them live 25 times during that period.

First time was 1972 at Canobie Lake Park in Salem NH. The next year they backed up ZZ Top at The Gah-Den. In 1974 they headlined The Gah-den.
Damn, those were great times.

[maveric]

24. Duke and the Drivers

Or were they from Lowell?

[Renew Deal]

27. Mission of Burma is a great band.

I don't know how many people would have said them. They really are a great band.

[Squeech]

28. I might know a few

My favorite band in Boston is Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, but maybe they don't count for this post because Burma's Roger Miller founded Birdsongs as a side project, and then it became his main group when his tinnitis got too severe-- so Birdsongs is clearly in the Burma heritage.

Then there's also:
Mascara (not the makeup; the singer/guitarist's name is Chris Mascara)
Cul de Sac (still cool, even though I'm not in it any more)
Magonia (also instrumental, "post rock")
Dreamchild (folk-goth in a Dead Can Dance vein)
Amber Spyglass (more rockin' goth)
Turkish Queen (lo-fi experimental female empowerment all over the map)

And of course the band I play in now, Tim Mungenast and his Pre-Existing Conditions. (We're opening for Nik Turner's Space Seeds at the Milky Way on October 4th.)

[shawmut]

29. more:Throwing Muses, Lemonheads, Til Tuesday, Face to Face, Bullet Lavolta

Slapshot.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

32. You must be about my age-saw a lot of those bands in my 20s.

:D

[jonnyblitz]

35. Lou MIami and the Kozmetics (sp?), Human Sexual Response

oh yeah I still have your "Human Sexual Response" CD (among others). :P

[AngryAmish]

31. Modern Lovers

[tuvor]

33. fronted by Jonathan Richman! Whoo!

Not to mention supported by David Robinson, later of the Cars and Jerry Harrison, later of Talking Heads.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

34. Buffalo Tom, The Turbines, The Neats, Classic Ruins, The Neighborhoods

The Lyres, The Five, The Prime Movers, Unnatural Axe, LaPeste, The Flies, The Titanics, SSD, The Real Kids, The Pixies, Human Sexual Response, Treat Her Right, The Oysters

Shit I forgot the DOGMATICS!!!

[Caution]

36. The Heretix

[Caution]

37. Sam Black Church

[Caution]

38. Letters to Cleo

[Caution]

39. ThinkTree

[Caution]

40. Tree

[Caution]

41. Boston

[Caution]

42. Powerman 5000

[Caution]

43. Bim Skala Bim

[Caution]

44. They Might Be Giants

[Caution]

45. Del Fuegos

[Kathy in Cambridge]

46. Oh yeah-look at this list of gigs and see if they bring back memories

http://www.geocities.com/boomboomboombingo/giglist.html

I knew he fuegos well. Those were fun times.

[rbnyc]

47. THROWING MUSES!

I'm not from Boston, tho.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

48. They were a good band-Tanya went on to form Belly

[AlCzervik]

49. this is an old one but popular when i was in my teens

Jon Butcher Axis.

[WilliamPitt]

50. Morphine, Mission of Burma, Mr. Airplane Man

[Kat45]

51. The James Montgomery Band

[IronLionZion]

52. Dropkick Murphys