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Boston Calling for the rest of us
By adamg on Fri, 05/17/2024 - 10:11pm
Megan Johnson had some spare time today, so she came up with the bill for the Boston Calling for folks who keep up with the weird and wonderful world of Boston, with a playlist that stretches from the '90s to today. See it larger.
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OMG This is fanfuckingtastic
But Todd English seems to be missing from Karen Read edit: (and the Todd English star fucker's I should've noted)
What about.....
Eliot Davis? Althea Garrison? No Boston Olympics? Missing Prints from BPL that surfaced 45 minutes after the BPL President resigned over it? Stiletto Dee? Sam Yoon? Light Brites that caused Menino to shut down the city? Angry JP Southwest Corridor guy? Nimbys? Doyle's? Jevelli's? Durgin Park? Don Bosco HS? The Glass Slipper?
scheduling issues
It's hard to book everyone you want. :)
there
there to see Karen Read.
Caldor???
But not Bradlees, Lechmere, Building 19, Jordan Mahhhsh, Filenes and the Basement, or Spag's? No Chet & Nat or Shelby Scott in a Snowstorm? No Storrowing or Reverse Curve or Central Artery or Thickly Settled?
I don't get it either. I
I don't get it either. I assume they had Caldor here back when, but they had it lots of places (including the faraway land where I personally grew up) and I never thought of it as an especially Bostonian thing. Anyone wanna explain the reference, if there is one to explain?
How is Storrow Drive not a headliner
There's a band called Lake Street Dive … how about Storrow Dive?
Storrow Drive
Storrow Drive is too popular to ever play a piddling little show like Boston Calling.
Predicted no-show
They wont make it to the venue due to the equipment getting the can-opener treatment!
Boston Calling? it should have
"Free Brissette & Sullivan" and
"Righteous Judge Sorokin".
never forget that case. peak Obama corporate shitlib.
Spinal Tap (Cancelled)
I would have loved to have seen Spinal Tap finally play a Boston show.
No Mr Butch?
And also, Jimmy Flynn dubbed the inflatable lock on the storge facility "The Lock Of Boston"
Adam, you're
set to appear on Friday. Are you prepared?
Adam is prepared 24/7/365
Adam is prepared 24/7/365 thank you very much. He has to be: you never know when someone in this town is going to drive a truck into an overpass or photograph a turkey.
Shh, don't give away the whole opening
But, OK: Was planning on riding down to the stage in a helicopter carrying a UHaul with its roof sheared off and as we land, a rafter of turkeys bursts out of the back of the truck.
Still working on the music, though.
Wild turkey are good flyers.
Don't use the domestic types, its been proven disastrous. (Les Nesman) "Oh, the humanity!"
The music
Gotta be "Roadrunner," right?
Also notably missing...
David Scondras
he ended up too creepy cringe
for any event
Ray Flynn Solo
Ray Flynn has pretty low billing, compared with other mayors. Might've been higher if he was still fronting his tour band, The Pope's Umbrella?
out there for the taking
Why isn't there a dispensary called "Kevin's" yet?
They could do a huge Mother's
They could do a huge Mother's Day sale.
Also missing:
Bike-Lash against Bike Lanes!
Smiley Face Killer couldn't
Smiley Face Killer couldn't make it. Per his agent, "Smiley will unfortunately not be able to play Boston Calling, as he will continue not to exist on that day."
The Mooninites
Dedham Rackettime Athletic Club, Two-headed bunnies, New England Associates, The Pit, Swedish Nannies, The Lower Deck, The Upper Deck
Jesus is Lord guy
Is that the same guy who would have an amp and talk over gospel music in (I think) the 80's ? He's been on my mind lately, which I find very disturbing.
Nope
I think it’s the elderly Black gentleman with the Caribbean accent and the frog in his throat who bellows out “Jesus is WHOA! Jesuh SAVE! Jesuh SAVE! Jesus WHOAD!” on the Orange Line. He gets very lathered up into a tizzy. I’ve seen him almost get himself arrested.