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Great Scott! Longtime Allston bar/music venue shutting down forever after landlord refuses to renew its lease
By adamg on Fri, 05/01/2020 - 2:41pm
Great Scott, which has offered live music for four decades at the corner of Commonwealth and Harvard avenues in Allston, announced today it won't be re-opening. Vanyaland reports Great Scott's landlord refused to renew its lease.
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Oh man, the shit just got real
Forget all those old time Boston places that closed recently. This one really meant something to me. Damn!
no
problem for the jejune transient glass box set as they need another starbucks (at like 500 ft from the next starbucks) or a chipotle right there.
"jejune transient glass box set"
Brilliant Luke. I am going to use this if you don't mind.
Hundred bucks
Says it’s replaced with an Asian fusion place.
I live across the street
and I hope you're wrong.
I'm heartbroken by this
My guess is another bank. It
My guess is another bank. It's always another bank.
ugh you're probably right
it never ceases to amaze me how many gd banks there are
For real
And when’s the last time you set foot in a bank? Hell, I can’t remember the last time I went to an ATM, much less had to step foot INside.
Starbucks
I'm sure Starbucks has been eyeing that corner for some time now.
This sucks. So many good memories.
Sorry to hear this
Sorry to hear this. A legendary place I thought would always be there. I first went there in the 70s when the drinking age was 18 and so was I.
stinks
stinks that its closing, but the sound in there was always terrible. the only band i saw there that sounded any good was eyehategod, which was an unforgettable show.
Eyehategod is an
Eyehategod is an unforgettable experience live- still recall opening moment of their 1998 show at Middle East
Am I only one who recalls the early-mid 90's period where GS was regarded as a BU/ BC dance hangout?
Doomriders, Mutoid Man... the
Doomriders, Mutoid Man... the sound was always great if the band was loud enough.
Really? Maybe my standards
Really? Maybe my standards are low but I generally remember pretty good sound. I dunno if it was always the same person on the board though, probably not.
I think it totally depends on
I think it totally depends on the sound person- I've worked with people with people who could produce a Brian Wilson record on a couple bussed 4-channel mixers and others who couldn't get feedback out of a state-of-the-art board
Trying to recall if was GS or the Linwood that was still running sound on an ancient Mackie 1400-level board in the early-mid 2000's
Yes
The sound there was usually very good.
Your sound is terrible...
It was a fantastic venue and so many great shows were there. We are still fighting for Great Scott. You can go somewhere else with your perfect ears.
another great venue gone
This is a huge loss.
So many good memories.
I'm glad I at least got to play there once, missed out on TT's.
Maybe the only Brighton/Allston bar I've never been in.
Always had cover charges and good bouncers that would take good fake ID's.
Too bad I guess.
Yeah this one and Common Ground hurts
Legit my two favorite music places, a good show at Great Scott with that funky stage near the bathroom area or 90s night with DJ Phat Mike at Common Ground.
ha! yeah it was weird how you
ha! yeah it was weird how you had to kinda push up to the front/side stage to get to the bathrooms, but given the room it was either there or by the front door for the stage.
aww
played there a couple times. cool staff, good vibe, right next to berklee practice space. will be missed
Dear Landlord, thank you for
Dear Landlord, thank you for successfully contributing to Boston's rapidly disappearing character.
Will the liquor license
Go to some new, huge, boring place in the Seaport?
Many great shows there over the years, though I'd been to
fewer and fewer of them over the last ten. Glad I got to a couple last year.
RIP. Goddamn it.
While blasting tunes at my speak easy
this place came up. WTF BS is this, I can hardly type and this sucks.I may boycott Allston for this,
Orchard’s gone too
Orchard Skateshop moved out yesterday too after 10 years on Harvard Ave. Heard it’s the same scenario as Great Scott and new landlord refused to renew the lease.
Looks like Cheap Chic is empty now too. What’s happening in Allston?
No need to go too Allston anymore
I have had no need to set foot in Allston since my favorite place, Urban Renewals, a couple of blocks from Great Scott's, up and moved to some utterly inaccessible place in some God-forsaken part of Roslindale.