*sniff*

[dancerjodi]

Someone posted this article to a list that I'm on:
http://www.boston.com/globe/calendar/dropping_in/

I miss the Rat :( I went to my first hardcore show (of many) there; it was an all-ages one on a Sunday afternoon and it was to see http://www.wonderdrugrecords.com/sbc.htm and http://www.roughedge.com/cdreviews/o/onlylivingwitness.htm with my friend Melissa. It was before they re-did the basement and added all of those rubber rats in the wall with the red glowy-eyes. I was in heaven :)

I wish I still had my first Sam Black Church album; it was from http://www.taang.com/ when they were still based in Boston and had that great teeny store in Harvard Square (sigh, I miss that too). Such greats such as the early Bosstones and Slapshot hailed from those studios . . .

Other fun all-age show haunts were of course the Middle East downstairs, that church in Harvard Square over across from OONAs that has the yard sales during the summer all of the time, Club 490 in Fitchburg and this little divey VFW Hall (or was it an Elks?) In Worcester. I was never able to get my butt out to the Espresso Bar unfortunately - there is a great article here discussing the scene at the time and what happened to it: http://www.worcesterphoenix.com/archive/features/00/04/28/HARDCORE.html

*****

Does anyone out there want to hit a hardcore show with me sometime soon (and/or a Ska show?) I'm really missing it lately for some reason

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[dirtyknees.livejournal.com]

Fred is spinning punk and hardcore (not the same as a live show, but...) at Bottle Rocket (O'Brien's) this coming Tuesday night!

--Andrea