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Although relatively unfamiliar outdoors Boston, Willie “Loco” Alexander is familiar to rock trivia professionals as the response to the brain-teaser: Who took Lou Reed’s put in place the Velvet Underground? He was created in Philadelphia in 1943, but emigrated to Boston within the ’60s, where he created the folk duo …

Shaped in 1964 at Goddard University, Vermont, USA, the Shed made up of Willie Alexander, Walter Forces, Ted Myers, Lee Mason and Kyle Garrahan. They eventually shifted to Boston, Massachusetts, USA, where they truly became part of a little, but thriving, garage area band scene, going by the Remains to …