Boston Rock Archives

Muck and The Mires - Live at the Middle East 3/10/2006

2011-12-13T21:48:00.000-08:00

From the same show as my previous post, this was the headlining act. Enjoy.

http://www.mediafire.com/?rbiptcfxucbp6e6

1. You Better Write Your Number Down

2. Gotta Get You Thinking Like I Do

3. Last Time

4. One Way To Know

5. Slipping Away

6. One of These Days

7. I Never Got Over You

8. That's What I Want

9. Don't Let Her Get Away

10. No One's Gotta Know

11. Falling Back On Me

12. Hey Little Bird

13. Caught In A Lie

14. Cocoa Beach

15. All I Really Wanna Do Is Cry

16. Doreen

17. It's About Over Now

18. Open Your Door

http://www.muckandthemires.com/

The Konks - Live at the Middle East 3/10/2006

2011-12-13T21:43:00.001-08:00

I was going through some boxes of CDs and I found this show I recorded back in 2006. Enjoy.

http://www.mediafire.com/?azmqj6lfyc8r777

1. King Kong

2. Can't Get Along With You

3. Wasn't That Fun

4. Move and Shake

5. Kill Me Dead

6. Outta My Mind

7. Down To Three

8. Here She Comes

9. Lon Chaney Blues

10. 29 Fingers

11. God Says

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Konks

Ron Scarlett - Looking at the Lights EP (1987)

2011-05-10T16:56:00.001-07:00

Ron Scarlett (Lead Vocal / Acoustic Guitar) + Andy Sweeney (Lead Guitar) + Bruce Alger (Keyboards) + Paul Liberty (Bass / Harmony Vocals) + Bonk (Drums / Percussion / Harmony Vocals) + Peter Moss (Harmony Vocals)

1. What's On Your Mind

2. Looking at the Lights

3. Midnight Campaign

4. Hanging By a String

5. Feel It

6. Sketches of the Angels

7. Slave Trader (Bonus Track)

http://www.mediafire.com/?o41b3dmhoz9w72d

Viper (Chelsea, MA circa mid-80's)

2011-05-10T16:11:00.000-07:00

I've had this on cassette for over 25 years. Now YOU can have it on CD.

Viper was a band from Chelsea, MA that I used to go see in the mid-80's. I was too young to go to the clubs but they did free shows in Chelsea that I attended. I used to have a bootleg of one of those shows that I recorded when I was around 11 years old. That tape is long gone. I did make a copy for the band but they probably don't have it either. It was surprisingly a good sounding bootleg too (which also included their answering machine message too). I wish I still had it.

John Nicastro (Lead Vocals) + Andy Sweeney (Guitar) + Paul Liberty (Bass) + Bonk (Drums)

1. Daddy's Eldorado

2. You Hurt Me

3. Puppet

4. Put Me on a Shelf

5. I'm In Love With Your Pants

(I've decided to post a lo-fi MP3 of this project instead of a clear(er) folder of songs because their may be a possibility of this stuff being re-released someday. You never know.)

http://www.mediafire.com/?jbzvtm5yjle2t3y

Lou Miami & the Kozmetix - WERS LIVE 10/24/82

2011-01-09T17:44:00.000-08:00

A rare LIVE set recorded on WERS Boston on 10/24/1982. Enjoy.

1. Hawaaii 5-0
2. Secret Agent Man
3. What's New Pussycat
4. Surfer Joe
5. Indian Giver
6. Susie Baby
7. Ben
8. Do You Know The Way To San Jose
9. Delta Dawn
10. Travelin' Man
11. It's Gonna Be Alright
12. Season Of The Witch
13. Let's Dance
14. Doesn't Somebody Want To Be Wanted
15. Little Red Riding Hood
16. Autumn Leaves
17. To Sir With Love

http://www.mediafire.com/?me527wiv5g56fuh

One year...

2010-12-05T15:18:00.000-08:00

OK! So a year has gone by and I haven't posted anything on here. Sorry for that, I've been pretty busy. But soon I will start putting stuff up whether it is from my collection or links to other great BOSTON acts to share with you. Any sugestions on what I should put up that is hard to find or out of print?

The Leftovers - Sala Matisse, Valencia 11/6/09

2009-12-05T12:59:00.000-08:00

I saw these guys at TT The Bears in Cambridge, MA last night and they kicked ass so I figured I would share this link with you. I listened to this show on the way to the show last night and was blown away.. so check it out.

The Leftovers - Sala Matisse, Valencia 11/6/09
http://rapidshare.com/files/306312896/ppvLefto09SalaMatiVale.rar

This show link was borrowed from the Power Pop Criminals page which can be found here: http://powerpopcriminals.blogspot.com/

The setlist looked like this:
Untouchable / Can't Stop / Telephone Operator / Run Away / Lose Your Head / She's The One / The Only One / Lost & Found / Adding Up / Nothing To Do / Get To Know You / Do You Wanna Dance / She She She / Girlfriend / Back In The U.S.S.R / Please Tell Me / Pick & Choose / Camel / Walking Out On Love / Dance With Me / Party 'Til We Die / Real Run Fast / You Know What To Do / Please Please Me / Woolly Bully /Gotta Go

The Neighborhoods (Part 2)

2009-06-15T15:59:00.000-07:00

Here are the first 3 albums from The Neighborhoods.

Fire Is Coming - Mustang Records - 1984

"...the high hard one..." - Restless Records - 1986

Reptile Men - Emergo - 1987

http://rapidshare.com/files/59684512/ppcneigh84.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/59687960/ppcneigh86.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/89837681/NeighborhoodReptile.zip

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"Fire is Coming" link borrowed from: http://powerpopcriminals.blogspot.com/

"The High Hard One" link borrowed from: http://powerpopcriminals.blogspot.com/

"Reptile Man" link borrowed from: http://tunatwo.blogspot.com/

The password for the first two albums is: password

(Thanks Brett for pointing that out)

Please check out these other sites...

The Neighborhoods

2009-06-13T01:17:00.000-07:00

The Neighborhoods:
David Minehan - Vocals, Guitar
John Hartcorn - Bass, Vocals
Mike Quaglia - Drums, Vocals

THE NEIGHBORHOODS - LIVE 1979

1. GETTING CLOSER

2. MONDAY MORNING

3. ONE DAY OLDER

4. THINK IT OVER

5. FLAVORS

6. PRETTIEST GIRL

7. TONIGHT

8. TEACHER'S PET

9. SHE

10. I CAN'T THINK STRAIGHT

11. SHE PROMISED ME

12. ROXANNE

13. SHE'S SO GOOD

14. NO PLACE LIKE HOME

15. STANDARDS

16. TRAPPED IN THE CORNER

Recorded at The Rat (WBCN Rock & Roll Rumble) & The Paradise...

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zqinwzeoymw

Please check out the website: http://www.thehoodsonline.com/

Thrills / City Thrills

2009-06-11T19:53:00.000-07:00

Thrills / City Thrills

You can read a pretty decent bio here: http://www.geocities.com/nemsbook/c/citythrills.htm

1. Sorry

2. I Want You Back

3. Dreamin' (Here He Comes)

4. Resistance

5. Wait

6. Don't Come Back

7. No Sympathy

8. Rave Up

9. Who Knows

10. New Breed

11. I'll Be The Heartbreaker

12. When You Gonna Quit

13. No Reason to Stay

14. A Two Bit Whore

15. Someday

16. My Little Girl

17. No Sympathy

18. Hey (Not Another Face in the Crowd)

19. Summer Street Massacre

20. Lonely Nun Song

21. Burn Down the City

22. Then He Kissed Me

23. Mother

1-4 City Thrills EP

5-7 Unreleased Studio Tracks

8-23 Cantones October 1978

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?d5igwndm44v

Milkwood - How's the Weather?

2009-06-10T19:58:00.000-07:00

Milkwood - How's the Weather?

In the early 1970's, the two future Cars lead singers, Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr, were members of a Boston folk trio called Milkwood. At that time, the two went by their real names, Richard Otcasek and Benjamin Orzechowski. Jas Goodkind rounded out the guitar-and-vocal trio, but future Cars keyboardist Greg Hawkes also played on Milkwood's only album (his name was spelled "Hawks" in the credits), providing sax and horn arrangements. The 1973 album was called How's The Weather, although some mistakenly think it was self-titled. It predates the first Cars album by a good five years.

1. With You With Me

2. Dream Trader

3. Lincoln Park

4. Bring Me Back

5. Timetrain Wonderwheel

6. Makeshift Pawn

7. The Light Won't Burn

8. Along The Way

9. We've Been All Through

10. Winter Song

http://rapidshare.com/files/142171259/PVAc0044.rar

Pwd: PVAcblog

This info and link borrowed from http://digivinyltal.blogspot.com/

The Blackjacks

2009-06-10T18:33:00.000-07:00

The Blackjacks:

Johnny Angel - lead vocals, guitars
Whitey - bass, vocals
Jeffrey Erna - drums
Raphael Mabry - guitar, vocals, harmonica

Dirty Water: The Boston Rock & Roll Musuem Biography on The Blackjacks.

By 1983, hard rock in Boston was a dead issue. The metal scene that began making waves in LA early in the decade hadn't really reached New England yet, the punk scene was dead, and the hardcore movement had begun to devolve into art-metal and noise. The notion of aggressive yet sexy music was deceased, and for all intents and purposes, there were three distinct camps in Boston: The would-be Angloid synth-pop, foo-foo haired sons and daughters of Boy George, the pseudo roots types who sucked Buds and wore flannel and claimed Hank Williams as god (but were really just collegiate simps trying to glom onto Americana and trailer-park culture, but as such were scruffier beatnik-y versions of their true role models, Britain's Teddy Boys), and dull bar bands. 'Til Tuesday were the big hype, as were the Del Fuegos, both fine groups, but hardly the spiritual heirs of Chuck Berry, the Stones and all the nitty-gritty societal bilge that tends to make the angriest and most heartfelt noise.

In June of 1983, Johnny Angel had returned to Boston a broken and beaten dude. His prior group, Thrills, had relocated to Manhattan with wide-eyed dreams of a new life in the Apple, only to find New York even less receptive to the straight-ahead charge than Boston. Besides, in B-Town, he could chill in a cushy job in the family business. His last bit of employ in New York was hauling boxes in a stinking Broadway warehouse, where he'd had a vision that the only time he'd ever ride down the magic boulevard in a limo would be in his own coffin, so it was NYC toodaloo!

Horrified at the total de-evolution of rock and roll at home, he hooked up with Whitey, ex-bassist with the Outlets, who was similarly bored and angered by Boston's local music scene. Whitey knew a former Outlets fan named Jeffrey Erna who was reputed to be a great drummer, and the three hooked up, bashing out Outlets songs at their first rehearsal, August, 1983.
Combining Angel's love of primal 60's psych and 70's punk with White's basic approach and Erna's speedy, rushed rhythms, the Blackjacks begun gigging a month later. Angel's year and change in exile in New York had provided wads of inspiration for new songs. "Generic New York City Woman" was a hate screed aimed at art-gallery inhabiting Manhattanite know-it-alls. "Junk Train" was a thinly veiled swipe at former Thrills singer Barb Kitson, who'd become seriously strung out on dope in New York. "Dreaming Of Saturday Again," was written about the horror of warehouse life. The latter song had been written with the intent of being a new Thrills single before that band broke up in 1983, and was to be produced by Tommy Erdelyi, but Thrills called it quits first!

In Boston, no one really knew what to make of the trio at first. Unlike the synth-pop combos, the Blackjacks were totally raw and guitar based, unlike the roots bands. They refused to posture like bumpkins, and even dressed in a kind of glam mode that infuriated their peers. Still, they were sharp-dressed men in a time when that was out of style, and as a result, the kinds of folks who missed the days of lads in make-up began to flock around them.

With tapes of "Generic" and "Saturday" on college radio constantly, and a theme song entitled "The Blackjacks Manifesto" (AKA "Motherfucker", which they knew would never get printed on an album sleeve), the Blackjacks attracted the fledgling Homestead Records into signing them as their first ever act. They preceded Sonic Youth, Big Black and Nick Cave onto that label. They also landed an incredible plum of a gig in early 1984, opening for the Clash at the Worcester Centrum. Because of this, they were regarded by some as a new hype, and others as well-connected bullshit artists. (The latter is closer to the truth as per the Clash gig; Don Law's second in command was a client of Johnny Angel's when Angel was selling stocks, and if you remember history, you'll recall that 1984 was a boom year--the Clash gig was a thanks-for-all-the-bucks-you-made-me, quid pro quo. The Blackjacks didn't mind).

The behind the scenes machinations didn't matter to the fans that were jonesing for raunch, though, and the Blackjacks fan-base was growing quickly. Sensing that one more component was needed, the band hired its roadie Rafe Mabry to play guitar along side of Angel, partially to re-create its studio sound, but mostly to separate the Blackjacks completely from the flannel hordes. Mabry was a dead ringer for Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue, with hair sprayed a foot straight up in the air, and bedecked in full glam regalia. The initial reaction was complete shock, the Blackjacks had become Spinal Tap in the eyes of many, but that hardly bothered them at all, for every snot-nosed intellectual they'd alienated, three beautiful girls from the suburbs took their place. Who'd you rather have in your crew?

With that, the band released "Basic Blackjacks" in June 1984 to much local fanfare. "Dreaming of Saturday Again" was a local hit, and the combo began headlining. Shortly afterwards, the band cut a song that had been in progress around the time of the "Basic" recording. (Mabry didn't play on the debut disc). The tune had morphed from an offbeat psych jam loosely based on the chord changes of the Stones "Paint It Black", into a driving anthem whose lyric reflected the group's mindset. The song was called ("That's Why I Always) Dress In Black."

Released as the lead track of the Throbbing Lobster compilation "Let's Breed", "Dressed In Black" was #1 on WBCN's local countdown for two months, and a top 20 college radio track in the rest of the nation. This, coupled with a video of "Dreaming of Saturday Again" which got moderate play on local music video channel V-66 (and cost a whopping $340.00 to make), made the Blackjacks a big deal in Boston by spring, 1985.

At which point the band began to unravel. Blackjacks gigs were debauched, fucked-up affairs with constant brawls amongst audience members, and occasionally, among the band itself. At one Allston show, Mabry did a flying leap and landed directly on Angel's foot, and without missing a beat, the lead singer knocked the guitarist down with a right cross to the jaw. After the gig, Angel was out-of-control enraged, and his bandmates dosed his beer with Valium to try and sedate him, not knowing he'd already downed a handful of the benzo's. Out for three days.
And that was typical. Drunk, coked-up, stoned, wrecked on pills and heroin, the band got loonier and loonier as it got more popular, and its already wack fashion-sense went out the window.

Their gigs at the late, lamented Jumpin' Jack Flash were as close to the magic of the Dolls or Aerosmith as they got, one night an appreciative Steven Tyler gave the group a thumbs up from the club's gallery. The Blackjacks were a notch away from full-on drag at most shows, and were hard to take seriously, except that the new songs they'd cut for their second disc, "Dress In Black," were much more introspective and sad. Unlike the debut, where every tune was a "fuck you'' to something, "Dress In Black" was more like "I'm fucked," even closing with a melancholic acoustic solo balled called "If I'd a Been Your Daddy," written about Angel's suicidal, alcoholic girlfriend in New York.

Figuring that they were likely to burn out if they stayed in New England much longer, and having had some success on the road in New York and New Jersey (where they'd opened for Run DMC!), Angel recruited Husker Du's agent to book a national tour in October, 1985. By then, the Blackjacks leader had been drunk for three straight years, was sick of being sick, and quit drinking -cold turkey, three weeks before the tour began. Underestimating the seriousness of his habit, Angel was still in withdrawal as the tour commenced in Ohio, and had a nervous breakdown a week later. The tour was cancelled after six dates.

Back in Boston, the Blackjacks were more popular than ever, Angel recovered, and the band began to play bigger venues, co-headlining a Rock Expo show in '86 that drew 3,000 fans. But the band was getting sillier and sillier, inviting female singers onstage to sing their parts for them, and their new songs were becoming bad metal rip-offs of classic 70's acts like Aerosmith. Fed up, Angel dismissed Mabry. Erna then quit and Whitey resigned. Prompted by new manager Charlie McKenzie to adopt a more mainstream approach, Angel hired two former members of the New Hampshire bar-band Aces and Eights, Tom Hostage and Bill Mello as well as Hidden Secret's drummer Steve Lytel. The new Blackjacks debuted at TT the Bears Place in October, 1986.

The reaction was completely negative, shocking Angel. The band's fans loved the dirty, sloppy original band and hated the professional tight version with a gusto. With no club draw left, the Blackjacks were on their last legs when Angel's side project, the novelty, jokey Swinging Erudites, unexpectedly hit massively with their single, "Walk With an Erection." Thus the Blackjacks, per se, simply ceased to be.

But Angel still felt compelled to rock occasionally, and so he rehired Erna and bassist Glencoe, and the new Blackjacks played New Years Day 1988 to a full house at the Rat. But the Swinging E's were still a full-time concern until Autumn of that year, at which point Erna left and was replaced by Mike Collins (Thrills, Band 19, Outlets), and the group added a second guitar, Jimmy Cambio, from Expose.

"You can't come back and think you are still nazz," sang Mick Jagger on "Out of Time," and right he was with the Blackjacks. The new band never really took off. A single "Work Sucks" was a total departure of style, with heavy slide and Zep beats, and the band's old fans didn't come back in droves as hoped. On July 1, 1989, the band played its last gig, at the Rat. Johnny Angel put his guitar and amp in his car, and drove to Chicago the next day, and LA three days later, to become a writer. The Blackjacks were done. A little indie, a little garage, a little glam, a little country, the Blackjacks were a melange of styles that came together best on "Dress In Black" (the single) and on their debut Homestead disc. Johnny Angel writes feature stories about crime and drugs (figures, eh?) for LA papers, and is working on his first book, Whitey is happily married in Boston's suburbs, Erna is in the new Nervous Eaters, Mabry, Gaudin and the others, God only knows. Had the band remained intact into '87, they might have coat-tailed themselves via Guns N' Roses into a deal as a hard-rock glam combo. We'll never know, will we?

Unreleased BLACKJACKS songs recorded LIVE in various places.

1. A Psycho Heart
2. Even a Shark Gets Lonely
3. I'd Rather Be Out With the Boys
4. Who Said the Truth Don't Hurt
5. We Are Really Nice Guys Afterall
6. It's All for the Love of Rock and Roll
7. Talking Loud and Saying Nothing
8. Lie To Me
9. Love is a Kick in the Head
10. Home is Where the Hurt Is
11. That Damn Motherfucking Tattoo
12. Nobody Knows You When You're Down
13. Pourin' it All Out
14. Sewer King
15. Second-Rate City
16. Aint it Strange
17. Dreams Fade Away
18. Small Town Cop
19. When Push Comes to Shove
20. Big in Boston
21. Modern Day Martyr

Recorded at:
The Rat 6/8/85
Celebrations 11/12/85
Bunratty's 8/6/86

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zgo2hytt3ma

Boys Life

2009-05-28T17:42:00.000-07:00

Boys Life

John Surette - guitar, vocals

Joe McCormack - bass

Neal Sugarman - saxophone

Robert Weiner - drums

01 Two Doors Down

02. I Found Her

03. It Wasn't Me

04. Heroes of the Dead

05. Keep the Edge

06. It Came From Here

07. Water

08. From A to Z

09. Happy People

10. True Believers

11. Person I Want to Be

12. Perfect Life

13. More Troubles for Modern Man

14. Everyday

15. Guilt Happy

16. Have You Heard

17. Color Blind

18. Man I Once Was

19. A Warning

20. My Love

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?z2w50itozog

Lou Miami & the Kozmetix

2009-05-28T17:12:00.000-07:00

Information on Lou Miami can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Miami

1. Facist Lover

2. To Sir With Love

3. Italian Movie

4. Women in a Western Bar

5. Dance of Death #1

6. New Romantix

7. Vehicle for Love

8. Monster Mash

9. Ghosts

10. Mack the Knife

11. Voodoo Bridge

12. Dance of Death #2

13. Get Off My Back

14. Jackson

15. Love in the Backseat

16. Play With Fire

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?jkhmrmmmuma

New Models

2009-05-25T16:44:00.000-07:00

New Models were:
Casey Lindstrom (guitar, vocals, synthesizer, songwriting)
Steven Thurber (synthesizer, machines, vocals)
Matt Thurber (drums)
Michael Johnson (drums)

This link contains the "Sight and Sound" EP + bonus tracks

1. Strangers in Disguise
2. Listen
3. Say What
4. Just a Motion
5. Looking for a Reason
6. Nothing at All
7. Shattered Window
8. I Can't Relate
9. Future Assassins
10. Silent Running
11. No Control

http://www.mediafire.com/?ujnzttkowtx

The Rings

2009-05-25T16:35:00.000-07:00

Information on The Rings can be found here:

http://www.geocities.com/nemsbook/r/rings.htm

This link contains their albums "The Rings" & "Rhythm Method"

http://www.mediafire.com/?ldmmzqwnojm