Tag Archives: 1979 in Boston

Few rings in Boston rock & move background have lasted for as long, and produced as much great music, as Lyres. Led by garage area rock and roll obsessive, record collector, Farfisa body organ ruler, and world-class megalomaniac Jeff “Monoman” Conolly, Lyres increased in the ashes of Conolly’s initial band, …

Clinton Sparks’ initial steps toward popularity were made out of his remixes of popular singles, which he sent to radio DJs in his local Massachusetts. Then set up mixtapes, distributed them along the East Coastline, and earned more than enough clout to snare big-name MCs for exceptional verses. That resulted …

Led by singer and guitarist David Minehan, the Neighborhoods had been a Boston-based rock-band whose sound and approach discovered them surviving in many camps simultaneously, fusing the tuneful approach of the power pop group, the rebellious attitude of the punk band, as well as the big sound and swagger of …

Steven Truck Zandt was raised within the same south NJ shore scene simply because Bruce Springsteen and Southside Johnny Lyon, and was carefully connected with them. He was an associate of Springsteen’s music group Metal Mill in 1969-1970 as well as the Bruce Springsteen Music group in 1971. He toured …