Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boston's musical past suggests why an attempt to recognize Boston's music scene and to attribute such importance to it is unlikely to succeed. Twenty years ago, when San Francisco was hailed as the breeding ground for innovative rock music, record executives had similar success in mind for Boston, for no particularly good reason. They convinced Boston musicians--and themselves--that the "Bosstown Sound" was going to be the Next Big Thing. The public didn't buy it, though, and such memorable local bands as Phluph, Ultimate Spinach, and Beacon Street Union found themselves millionaires one month and broke...
...together, was bound to become a Frankenstein monster with multiple personalities. Altogether, there were 44 award categories, representing everyone from Brother Blue to Bim Skala Bim, from the obscure to the nationally famous, from singles to albums to videos, from folk to country to jazz to reggae to rock to hardcore...
...Student Production Association (SPA), the council offshoot organizing the concert, and the Department of Athletics said it would take too much time and money to take the plexiglass down for the May 1 rock show. The shatterproof glass is a permanent fixture in the rink, serving in part to protect fans from players or airborne hockey pucks...
Thus, I never fail to be disappointed when the Oscars degenerate into a giant orgy of self-congratulation. But this year's ceremony dropped to an absolute, all-time, rock-bottom...
...young set drank and danced to loud rock music until 1 a.m. "There was always a lot of booze," recalls a former American nanny. "People got more and more rowdy as the night progressed. You'd see couples sprawled all over the couches, and others would head off into the Marines' rooms." She claimed that even a Marine noncom leader joined in the "Animal House" carousing. "When you see your boss getting dead drunk and going around pinching women, it doesn't make for a very strict atmosphere...