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History of Rock and Roll in Boston


Here's some chronicling that will make your little cerebral cells churn a bit... and maybe you'll even say, "Wow- Things really were as fantastic as I remembered them. My kids were wrong- My brain isn't totally fried after all!"

The music which is now referred to as Classic Rock was not the prepackaged repetitious crap we now hear on boring commercial radio- and it was not disposable and forgettable, as most current popular music is. The music back then was spontaneous, energizing, and (in many very important ways) the music really was the message... and Boston had the best music, the best musicians and the best radio in the United States for almost two decades.. L.A, New York and Detroit were bigger- but not better.
(not bragging- Fact).

Please go here and read a chapter or two when you've got some quality time to spend- as you would with a good book.
(and maybe lignt up a fatty when you get to chapters fifteen through seventeen. :)


In case you can't get to the above site, the URL is http://www.dirtywater.com/museum/original/index.html. Try that.

Comments

Uh Wow! I've been lost in this for the last 40 minutes. What a TRIP down memory lane. I haven't heard some of those names in a thousand years! Ultimate Spinach. Beacon St. Union. Orpheus. Jonathan Richman's Modern Lovers. Yikes! Even WBZ's Dick Summer- I used to listen to him with my transistor radio hidden under the pillow because he was on the air late on school nights. I haven't finished all the articles yet...