I found a cd I had burned awhile back from an "LP" :laugha: remember them? Scratches and all! Anyway...the album is called "The Journey Is Worth The Reward" by local Quincy band called "The Drive"! I followed them pretty religiously back in my clubbing, hard drinking days of the 80's! It is a great album...all the songs are great and the Gibson Les-Paul played by Jamie Walker the lead player and singer is just the best local guitar I had ever heard. They never made it big and I was always surprised by that...probably poorly managed though they did play on the Tonight Show once. The band broke up and a few members went on to start the band "The Swinging Steaks"....anyone ever see/hear these bands?

Any local favorites you can recall from your youth? :grins:

I saw the Monkeys in Yarmouth once.. Does that count...Hey,hey... :grins:

I remember the Cars playing a free concert in Barry park in Lynn. I saw Matt "Guitar" Murphy (from the Blues Brothers) play his last gig there before going to play w/ them

Locals when I was growing up were The Stompers, Private Lightning, Revolver, The Jon Butcher Axis, New England, The Fools...saw them all, except The Fools....used to love the local music back then.

Larry, we used to go see The Drive at Nostalgia all the time. For some reason they even had a hard time getting airplay on Boston stations :huh:

I just dug through my closet......I have that album on vinyl :laughs:

Two of my brother in laws were in a band called Bad Larry. Ever hear of them?

Hopedale town hall.... $1.50 1971 just prior to Steve Tyler joining them and other band member revisions.

Then Lake Pearl.... $2.00 1972.... its all kinda hazy still

used to follow a band called Rizzz all over ri and ma. it got nuts on a regular basis. wonder we survived and did'nt get locked up,'cept for once at the ledge.

I saw Boston before they made it big!
Saw the Fools lots of times
A freind of mine saw Billy Joel in Boston LONG before anybody knew who he was!!! saw him at the paradice club on Comm ave that holds less than 300 people!

my interest was cut short....when going to a battle of the bands at age 16
with a bunch of buddies...in a Braintree Hockey rink....
i met a very pretty girl who decided to make me her instant boy friend.:kewl: i thought. Unfortunately her recently Dumped ANGRY
ex- boyfriend was there looking for her with all of his friends too.

the pretty girl and i had gone from behind the hockey safety glass to the main floor where the battle broke out and in self defense i managed to knock a few down
until i was over powered like 7 to 1....then i got madder than the HULK and wanted to see if i could actually rip the trouble makers head off of his neck.
being endlessly kicked in the back head and face.

Soon, i saw a striped pair of pants (cops) breaking up the fight as i choked this little creep ...in a headlock....on the floor...and my friends who all were unable to help, met me in the bathroom where i was dressing my wounds and rinsing off all the blood... then the "Gang" came in saying.... and i'll never forget this line...." lets make him bleed" with the sound of switch blades in unison all popping open.... then the cops all rushed in ..Thank god....and threw us all outside....without any medical assistance i found myself alone outside a rear door barely able to see...with my eyes swelling shut...i began pounding the crap out of one gang member who finally fled.

the pain was ok.... i healed .but my mother's cries of sorrow were heart breaking when she saw her battered almost un -recognizable son come in the door. That year we moved to the beach and hunting and fishing was all i cared about....and began turning plugs 36 years ago.

I clubbed hard from 15 (fake I.D. remember those)to early-mid twenties
It went from punk/new wave to heavy metal....I had a blast.....I wish I could remember all of it.
Mission of Burma, Del Fuegos, The Neihborhoods, Real Kids, Human Sexual Response, The Lyres, The Outlets
The Stompers. Fools, Jon Butcher, Til Tuesday, Treat her Right, Scruffy the Cat
Bang, Shout, the Dream(Extreme), Steel Assasian

the Drive was a chick band....I saw them a zillion times...........................to pick up chicks :grins:

The Fools
The Stompers
and the best local band , Extreme...before MTV and those ballads killed them.

I remember the Fools :gu:
Anyone ever catch Rick Derringer at that club in Hull, that was way back.

Fat City

I remember the Fools :gu:
Anyone ever catch Rick Derringer at that club in Hull, that was way back.

Fat City

Uncle Sams? Saw Molly Hatchet there.

Uncle Sams was cool....saw Cheap Trick there.....and the RAMONES

Roomful of Blues. :think: :boots: :smokin:

Does anyone remember the "Way Station Club" in Bourne ?

I saw Zack Wilde when he was 15.Made me wanna give up guitar.
I was a big metal head.
I saw twisted sister1978 i was 17 at a place they usta play all the time called emmets inn.They where a big anti disco band when they started.
I could go on an on.
A friend of mine was the guy who brought metallica out east from california,they stayed at my house a few nights as they where piss broke.Dave Mustane was my fav.was mad as hell when they sent him packin.we had em playin all the small local places around the hood.very cool.my name is on the credits of a few albums just for bein a good guy.Some of my friends would roadie wit Met.i remember a gig in boston the truck wit all their gear was stolen.

foxtrot zulu tonight at the ocean mist.

catch a few between sets!!!!

_Z_

I used to go to a club in Providence all the time called the Living Room, and saw a bunch of local and national bands, before they got big. Too many drinks back then to try to remember thru of all the bands I saw there :grins:

Aerosmith at school dance in Franklin early 70's. Used to follow a club bad named Ice mid to late 70's never made it big they were mostly cover band but they were damn good. Been to the living room many a time. Very hazy though. Paul

you guys remember lupo's 1 and 2 ? thing i remember most is my feet sticking to floor. almost forgot beaver brown.

Saw James Taylor at the Brockton High School way back when..There were only about 100 people there..Went to high school with Steve Smith drummer of and also was friends with one of the singers with Meat loaf..Lived only a 1/2 mile away...

Your looking at the lead singer of "Crusty Mustard & the Fresh Condiments" :cool:

The "Michael BOLOTIN Band" at my CT high school in 1977....

changed his name to BOLTON and has been taking it up the old dirt road ever since......

Jimmi Hendrix on the cape one night with a bunch of my buddies. They were all 18 to 23 or4 and I was 15. Mitch Rider and te Detroit Wheels did the opening act. This joint was so full if someone hit and knocked you out you never would have hit the floor. They all looked out and protected me and let everyone think I was just a young looking person in my early twenties. I really had no business being where I was and I distinctly remember being afraid of the surroundings. Thier is more to this story, but people here who know me might get the wrong idea. You know 5th amendment and all.

Oh ya I forgot and this will further date me as a person in my fifties. At the surf in Nantasket, the Kinks along with as an opening act and who were actually the house band, The Pilgrims with Lenny Baker on alto sax who still to this day performs with SHA NA NA!

Hey, AH, I used to see Beaver Brown at Schiller's way back when - I was tending bar at the Bon Zoo and the house band was Kenny Lyons and the Tombstone Blues Band...

Whew, that's a trip in the Wayback Machine :hs:

crafty- betcha you served us molson's goldies. and schillers- ahhh the cuties.

Living in MD our "local band" was KIX, they kinda sorta hit big enough to go national for a few albums... Wish I could find my "Not For Sale or Airplay" LPs :)

Still got "The Itch"

A little Midnite Dynamite :grins: :btu:

John Bucher Axis, The cars and

does anyone remember THE PLASMATICS ???????

I think her name was Wendy O'Williams. (WOW) She sang topless except for 2 pieces of electrical tape. What a show.....


HEY BF, did you ever play that CD of a local blues band I gave you like a year ago??????

does anyone remember THE PLASMATICS ???????

I think her name was Wendy O'Williams. (WOW) She sang topless except for 2 pieces of electrical tape. What a show.....


Reform School Girls.....She was an Ex-Porn Actress and she killed herself if I'm not Mistaken......She was twisted.

I remember Wendy more for the tape than for her music.....

I think it was 1978, summertime, I went to see this band at the Compass lounge no one had ever heard of before. Bought an record they had for $3 and took it back to college in the fall. That Cars album was played so much it was worn out by Christmas break and they had skyrocketed to hugely popular.
Once in 1976, in high school, it was a snowy day and alot of kids didn't even make it in to school. We get an announcement to go to the auditorium for a special event. There's Harry Chapin sitting on a stool playing guitar. Only one of his backup guys made it so it was pretty much all Harry. Said he'd been working on a new song and wondered if we'd give ourt opinion......we some of the first to hear Cat's In The Cradle.

I remember Miss Williams with whipped cream for a bra and being closed down for doing leud acts with the mic stand. I couldn't handle the volume of a band like that now and I am as deaf as a haddock. P.

The Fugs :)

DTF, THATS HER where the hell did you find that cover??

The show I saw she trashed various appliances with a sledgehammer, and dropped them off a ladder. (As best as i can remember) it was in
the 70's-80's ya know !! WEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeee.....

Big Bo - Roomful, definitely! Back in the day with Duke Robbilaird.... there are still a few of original members but when they went more toward frat house rock I lost interest. Duke is STILL the man, as far as I'm concerned. Pure class, not a bazillion notes per second like some, but every note is the right one. Saw Roomful dozens of times in the early - mid 70s, they actually played *in the rain, under a tiny tent* at my sister in laws high school graduation party on the beach at Esker Point in Groton, CT! Also saw them many times at the Knickerbocker in Westerly - what a place - and man, those RI kids who grew up with them knew how to swing dance waaaay before it got popular again. Many of them were so good you didn't even want to get out on the dance floor. Groups like Voodoo Daddy are a pale imitation.
Also, a singer/songwriter named Randy Burns from New Haven. He was great and had a really fine acoustic band and could have been as big as J. Taylor or J. Browne or any of them but the bottle did him in. sad.

DTF, THATS HER where the hell did you find that cover??
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The internet is a wonderful place....just ask and ye shall receive :D

MartinD18, that's the stuff brother! Duke and the Drivers before that too. :rotf2: :smokin: I still like to listen. Never get tired.