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The Hotel Commonwealth is where their childhood went to die

By adamg on Wed, 03/31/2021 - 10:27am

D-Tension - Kenmore Square

Five musicians who had never met got together and wrote four new songs and performed them at the Sinclair, including this ode to old Kenmore Square. Performed in the Before Times, but just released today.

Neighborhoods: 
Fenway
Topics: 
Entertainment
Free tagging: 
Kenmore Square
Hotel Commonwealth


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Comments

By BostonDog on Wed, 03/31/2021 - 10:59am.

Good song that will be lost on most.

At this point you've got to be 40-45+ to have actually been to any of those places.

The Rat closed 24 years ago. Deli Hous closed 20 years ago which was the last vestige of Old Kenmore as far as I'm concerned.

Nuggets is still around, amazingly.

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By bostnkid on Wed, 03/31/2021 - 11:06am.

would look pretty cool on the corner there where he used to jam in front of the rat

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By Muerl on Wed, 03/31/2021 - 12:54pm.

I am old enough to know songs lamenting the closure of the rat, but not quite old enough to have gone.

Went down to Kenmore the other day
Where us punks used to hand
The Rats boarded up, its been bought out
Theres not a whisper where we used to shout

I feel I may have been to Bills Bar. That closed at the same time as the Avalon & Axis right?

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By enigmue on Wed, 03/31/2021 - 2:14pm.

Nuggets always looks closed, but I always enjoyed rummaging through there when I could.

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By bikenerd on Wed, 03/31/2021 - 11:30am.

6 bucks

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By anon on Wed, 03/31/2021 - 11:34am.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl_SErnDE64

Stepped out to take a closer look, held in with every step I took
The sadness I felt just to look around
I looked up to the citgo sign, you used to be a friend of mine
Do you agree with me at one time this was once such sacred ground
But now

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By Jess Idres on Thu, 04/01/2021 - 10:00pm.

I want my city back, back the way it used to be....

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By ZachAndTired on Wed, 03/31/2021 - 11:39am.

We all go to Kenmore Square
All of our friends are waiting there
Trouble is brewing whenever we're around

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By anon on Wed, 03/31/2021 - 11:46am.

Let's Go To the Rat
Willie Loco Alexander
1976

www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7NHZQlE7L8

"down in Kenmore Square
all the bands play there
at the Rat..."

Now THAT was Kenmore Square.

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By anon on Wed, 03/31/2021 - 1:54pm.

One night band!

This has been going on for years. You meet your bandmates on Saturday morning and perform that night.

https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/01/10/timing-and-magic-is-everything-a...

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