But when Jimmy embraced the fledgling punk and alternative artists, it opened the flood gates for a lot of us who had been playing their own music for years to largely no audience. But back then these artists had to play sets of current cover songs, with maybe one original song stuck in the set. In the 1960s the local scene had some great artists, including one of my all time favorite rock bands – The Remains. *** FRED PINEAU (x-Atlantics): In my opinion, the most important moment in local music history was when Jimmy Herald decided to jump off a cliff and turn The Rat into an original music venue. These were historic moments in Boston rock. The Barbarians had “Are You a Boy Or Are You a Girl” and played The TAMI Show. Along with their great Boston sound and hit songs. *** JOHNNY BARNES (Johnny Barnes & The Night Crawlers): Barry and The Remains opening for the Beatles put Boston bands on the map. There have been so many bands that succeeded on a local/ regional level to bands that went onto arena fame that somehow spun other relationships and musical partnerships that began at Berklee. It has brought so many people from so many different walks of life that landed (and stayed) in Boston because of Berklee. RICKY KING RUSSELL AND THE CADILLAC HORNS FULLI’m enjoying my forty third year as a full time musician and after eight thousand shows I enjoy performing today more then ever! *** JULIET SIMMONS DINALLO (Juliet & the Lonesome Romeos): Berklee College of Music. They wrote most of their own songs and the original lineup was intact for quite a while and the current lineup anchored by Peter Wolf continues to tour today. Geils Band established themselves as the premiere live show in New England for many years and set a high bar that was tough to match. Although Centerfold was their only number one hit, the J. Doors opened for acts like Aerosmith, James Montgomery, The Cars, Boston and a host of others. Geils Band getting signed to Atlantic Records in 1970 was a huge moment for our region and paved the way for many other New England acts that followed. *** BRUCE MARSHALL (The Bruce Marshall Group/ The Nor’easters): It’s a hard question! I think the J. So for music history in Boston that would be the most important day for me. Ronnie Horvath (soon to be Ronnie Earl) was just finishing a stint with Johnny Nicholas and was looking to put a blues band together with Mudcat… they called me and came to my house and Ronnie said “you’re going to be in my band.” I said okay and after one rehearsal quit Berklee and went on the road with what was soon to become Sugar Ray & the Bluetones – who I still play with today. Two of Muddy’s band mates were Bob Margolin and Jerry Portnoy and they both lived in the Boston area and when they weren’t on the road with Muddy would host jam sessions mostly at Great Scott’s in Allston, And they invited me to do a lot of those sessions. We got the opening slot to open for Muddy Waters for a whole week at the uber cool Paul’s Mall (The Heath Brothers were at the Jazz Workshop next door.) Needless to say every blues musician/ fan within a hundred miles made the pilgrimage there that week, and during that time I met everyone in the local blues community… and since there weren’t too many piano players around a lot of people asked me for my telephone number – Michael Ward (soon to known as “Mudcat”) was one of them. I had befriended and started to play with a blues band from New Hampshire – The John Wardwell Blues Band. It was the mid 1970’s and I was attending the Berklee College of Music. So I will relate an important musical history day from my life. Let’s ask legendary blues keyboardist ANTHONY GERACI (Sugar Ray & The Bluetones): That’s a tough one because there are so many pivotal moments we are so lucky to have here in the Boston area. But you give me a great idea for this month’s Question of the Month: Describe what you believe to be the most important moment in local music history. Rita: At least I’m not a Jon Butcher stalker sweetheart. RICKY KING RUSSELL AND THE CADILLAC HORNS SERIESYour existence is just a series of important intervals. Lolita: Yeah, I’ve heard it a zillion times. Rita: Those of you out there who have read my biography Goddess of Everything know that my whole life has been one tremendous time after another.
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