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Favorite Local Band of all Time

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greg11

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Maybe I am a little out of touch...but do any Boston Radio Stations play Local music anymore...or do any stations have a segment that features local music? Also, what is your favorite local band of all time? I would pick "The Fools"
 
Didi Stewart and GIRLS NIGHT OUT were one of the best bands ever out of Boston. Underrated.

I hear a reunion is in the wind!
 
The J.Geils Band. Sold a ton of tunes and rocked the house at concerts and parties.....The "original" House Party band......imho
 
Hmmmm, so many good choices.

I'm going to have to go with Jon Butcher Axis followed very closely by til tuesday.
 
Another vote for The Fools. Best local live show! Love them on The Big Mattress! (this is a radio board after all) ;D
 
I'm gonna leave out the "big" Boston bands, just as I believe they should be omitted from consideration from the Boston Music Awards.

Beradini used to play Axminster from Newton on 'BCN during "Heavy Metal From Hell" I thought they were f'n great. Sad they didn't get a break. I also remember Bang on WAAF and recall they actually got a video on MTV's "Basement Tapes" Their classic "Summertime" which was a note-for-note ripoff of Van Halen's "So This Is Love?"

Boston's music scene has always been vastly underrated.

Joe will know this...What was the name of the local music show that Cablevision used to show in Boston during the late 80's/early 90's? They used to show a club show by Robert Holmes' ('til tuesday) band Ultra Blue a lot. That was a pretty decent band as well.
 
The Fools were great. I saw them many times at the old Channel. I saw them for the first time at Scotch and Sounds(?) The club that was next to Westgate Lanes in Brockton.

Another one I'll have to put a vote in for is The Drive. They are now Swinging Steaks I think. They were always a great night.

There are always the ones that made it to the "big time" but I'll stick with the local club bands..
 
ROUNDHOUSE! Best local band of the 70's!
Do the Dropkick Murphy's count as local still?
 
Ah yes, the Fools. One of the great bar bands. The drunker the crowd would get,
the wilder the band would get! Used to see them alot up at UMass/Amherst back in the day.
Also saw the Cars there (believe they were doing covers at the time...) before their
first album came out.

Incredible Two Man Band, also..
 
WLYN GM! Mickey Spiros of ITMB is a good friend of mine, he lives two cities over...we went up to the
North Shore this past summer to trade war stories with Pure & Easy Records president (who trolls but never posts on this board). ITMB is still playing around...

http://www.itmb.org/

When Mickey lived in Medford last year I wrote an article for the Medford Transcript on ITMB - it's supposed to make its way to their website at some time in the future.

and speaking of GIRLS NIGHT OUT I saw Didi Stewart yesterday morning at Starbucks and got to drive her to her mechanics! She looks great and will be playing the new TAJ (the old Ritz) performing jazz. YES, the rumors seem to be true, GIRLS NIGHT OUT should be performing somewhere by summer...

O Positive's Dave H. is now a music biz attorney.

THE FOOLS are tremendous. On the Wharfield experience we played the original lost 4 track demo to
PSYCHO CHICKEN. After the EMI 45 RPM bonus disc came out with the album people forgot about the
local hit...we came up with the original tape...which is somewhere here in the Varchives...
 
How about Barrence Whitfield & The Savages?

Completely different from anything anyone else was doing at the time locally.
 
Neanderpaul said:
I'm gonna leave out the "big" Boston bands, just as I believe they should be omitted from consideration from the Boston Music Awards.

Beradini used to play Axminster from Newton on 'BCN during "Heavy Metal From Hell" I thought they were f'n great. Sad they didn't get a break. I also remember Bang on WAAF and recall they actually got a video on MTV's "Basement Tapes" Their classic "Summertime" which was a note-for-note ripoff of Van Halen's "So This Is Love?"

Boston's music scene has always been vastly underrated.

Joe will know this...What was the name of the local music show that Cablevision used to show in Boston during the late 80's/early 90's? They used to show a club show by Robert Holmes' ('til tuesday) band Ultra Blue a lot. That was a pretty decent band as well.
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paul....was it v-66?
 
I learned my first lesson on why you ALWAYS use a 7 second delay while broadcasting a Fools show back around 1978 sometime. I failed to do it that once, and never again did I forget.

The Fools still exist as a band, and according to John "Muzz" Muzzy's Bio,( currently drummming for Brad Delphs Beatles band,) "He also did a stint with New England fun group ‘The Fools.’ In an interview from that time Muzz is quoted as saying "Every drummer in the Boston area has played with The Fools at one time or another from, Jonathan Mover to Joe Pet. Where else can you have this much fun?!"
 
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