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A Boston music
scene institution.
The Boston-metro music scene
The Boston-metro music scene has been dying a slow death since the 1990s.
Too bad
Saw friends play in bands there. Haven't been in years, but the place holds good memories. Tommy Stinson played there years ago, I think that was the last time I was there. Then, Hi-Fi pizza. the good old days.
For their final show they
For their final show they should have Minus The Bear play. And of course Keytar Bear would open.
Was just there last month
My old college neighbor was touring and played there. I've seen some bands that are HUGE in the UK play there to 300 people. It's a classic divy, music hall. You just can't build them like that anymore. RIP TT's.
Aw, hell
I've been wandering into TT's on random nights for years just to see whoever was playing. Best memory of the last few years was the spectacular memorial for Billy Ruane in late 2010. So many memories.
Everything falls apart. Rats.
The Middle bought the building.
That probably was the end. They've been at odds since I was there in 90.
The gen x period indy rock dump had a shelf life. People obsessed about being in bands then. It may be a defining feature of the cohort.
The reviled boomers before were mostly indifferent to the ordeals of finding places to park a shtick involving really loud stuff and drunks.
And it began to taper off with millenials. Now it's geriatric as Basie 78s were when I was a kid. I predicted in 90 that it wouldn't age well.
I wonder how the Killers will hold up? https://youtu.be/ZgTyIqTJdYw
I see what you did there
Rats.
The Rat
http://www.universalhub.com/2014/when-dana-hersey-just-barged-right-irs
Well crap
Xmortis was, after all these years, still a fun night out for all the elder goths.
Cool place...
I go to a lot of shows in the area and since Brighton Music Hall came into being and The Sinclair opened, my visits to TT's and the Middle East have dwindled. It seems the bands that would have previously gone to the latter are being booked in the former. Even Great Scott in Allston is getting bands that would probably have gone to TT's.
Gryver marghoulis
High Valyrian for "All bears must die".
It's a shame about TT's
I saw the Lemonheads play there in the early 2000s, a friend's band sometime in the late 90s and helped out a little with the Elliott Smith memorial concert held there and organized by Mary Lou Lord in December of 2003 (and saw her play there a couple of times too). I'd hate to see it go.
It's another watershed change.
The scene was a very complex ecosystem that had lots of niches and people making a shitty living. It had fevered support from things when they actually worked.
If Breakfast of Champions/Late Risers decided your stuff was the thing, you were assured of a packed pit.
You had T Max running actual an treeware artifact called The Noise to do high oscillation tail wags about everyone in clubland to assure all that it was a heroic thing.
The pendulum swung back to dinner music and dance propellant. The idea that you're supposed to give some noisy bunch your undivided attention for the duration of a set seems peculiar now.
And clubland employees tended to get hosed. Basic bar staff have longevity but the other people had to move on. The function of a booking agent is as quaint as a scrivener. What does an aging sound person do now?
It's all detritus and flotsam. The world changed and forgot to ask permission. My sound tech friend from there works in convention a/v where you get paid a lot more.
T Max is at Tavern at the End
T Max is at Tavern at the End of the World tonight, along with the Heathcroppers. You should go say hi.