Word: avalons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Avalon. 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. 262-2424. High energy-top40-techno-progressive dance music...
...Avalon. 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. 262-2424. High energy-top40-techno-progressive dance music...
Boston has plenty of bands with this vision, but Buffalo Tom, who appeared last week at Avalon, is among the best. With simple, irrestible rhythms and vocals pleading raspily for lost love, the band's universal sound drew together traditional city rivals into the mosh pit--frat boys bent on dancing to anything with a hard beat, and the flannel-and-nose-ring crowd, fiercely attentive to every inflection in singer Bill Janovitz's songs...
With such sparing, honest music, Avalon seemed inappropriate. The flashy lights and disco balls were too gaudy for a band which thrives on simplicity. With ads for WFNX and the Phoenix hanging every few feet, the band often looked like they were playing in a soda commercial...
...headed a quadruple bill at the Avalon, following Boston blues rockers Morphine. Looking and sounding like something out of a David Lynch movie, Morphine left the crowd a little stunned. With pumping bass and soulful sax, the band, which came close to winning the WBCN Rumble last year, won some converts in the plaid and fratboy crowd...