Mistle Thrush

In the 90s, I was in my 20s and much more familar with the Boston music scene. My favorite 90s Boston bands were MISTLE THRUSH [I think they thanked me on an album] and FUZZY. I dated the lead singer of The Gravel Pit. I loved Orangutang and The Cavedogs. So when I heard that WMBR’s Pipeline! would be putting on all these cool shows for its 25th anniversary I got terribly excited and nostalgic. If you don’t know these bands you’re way too young and too hipster for your own good. Sorry there’s no Tribe show. loved that band too. These bands were and are the Boston music legacy.

Cavedogs

I can’t say it better than the press release:

Cambridge, MA (August 3, 2014) ¬- WMBR’s Pipeline! show (airing every Tuesday evening 8:00-10:00 with host Jeff Breeze) today announced the dates, venues, and band line-ups for the 50 Years of Boston Rock festival this fall. These bands from decades past come roaring into the present day, among them: The Remains with their stunning garage beat and The Freeborne rediscovering their psych virtuosity from the ’60s; Reddy Teddy and Willie Alexander & The Boom Boom Band bringing back the pre and proto-punk sounds of the ’70s; Stranglehold, The Dogmatics and the F.U’s delivering early ’80s punk proper and hardcore…and later in the decade O Positive and Big Dipper representing the burgeoning indie-rock scene; Gigolo Aunts, Fuzzy, and the Dirt Merchants nearing the millennium with their ’90s indie-pop/rock brilliance; and finally The Sheila Divine and The Charms, arriving in the 2000s, recasting pop and garage verities into their own thrilling style. This is a half century’s worth of the Boston music underground…and this festival revisits a good chunk of it!

50 Years of Boston Rock takes place from Friday, September 12 – Sunday, October 12 at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston, The Middle East downstairs in Cambridge, the Brighton Music Hall, the Regent Theatre in Arlington, and Cuisine en Locale in Somerville, a new ballroom-like space with a capacity of 425. There are current plans to add a 14th night to the series.

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the shows:

1.Regent Theatre—9/12

O POSITIVE
Cordelia’s Dad
The Freeborne
We Saw the Wolf
String Builder

2. Cuisine en Locale–9/13

Baby’s Arm
Miranda Warning
The Dogmatics
The Neats’ Eric Martin & friends
Stranglehold
The Turbines

3.Cuisine en Locale—9/19

Mistle Thrush
Nisi Period
The Pods
Purple Ivy Shadows
Someone & the Somebodies
Curious Ritual

4.Cuisine en Locale—9/20

Dirt Merchants
Fertile Virgin
The Gravel Pit
Honeybunch
The Sheila Divine
Evol Twin

5. Regent Theatre –9/26

The Barnies
Big Dippers’ Bill Goffrier & friends
Dumptruck
The Jigsaws
Vapors of Morphine

6. Regent Theatre—9/27

Barry & The Remains
Cardinal
The Downbeat 5

7. Brighton Music Hall—9/28

Anastasia Screamed
The Flies
The F.U.s/ Straw Dogs
Men & Volts
Bentmen
The Nervous Eaters

8. Middle East down—10/3

The Blood Oranges
Buttercup
Fuzzy
Lazy Susan
Robin Lane and The Chartbusters
Tacklebox

9. Middle East down—10/4

Birdsongs of the Mesozoic
Bulkhead
The Clamdiggers
Crazy Alice
Kudgel
Orangutang
Quintaine Americana

10. Paradise Rock Club –10/5

Heretix
Big City Rockers/Atlantics
The Dents
High Risk Group
Reddy Teddy
Shake the Faith
Willie Alexander & the Boom Boom Band

11. Cuisine en Locale—10/10

The Red Telephone
Hullabaloo
Green Magnet School
Luca Brasi
Orbit
Permafrost
Unnatural Axe

12. Cuisine en Locale –10/11

The Cavedogs
Dambuilders’/Gramercy Arms’ Dave Derby & friends
Drumming on Glass
Flying Nuns
Gigolo Aunts
The Natives
The Rising Storm

13. Middle East Down—10/12

The Bags
Ed’s Redeeming Qualities & The Breeders’ Carrie Bradley & friends
The Gizmos
Kenny Chambers/Electric Ears
The Underachievers
The Voodoo Dolls