Word: zircon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beginning last summer, Jack's, a bar on Mass. Ave, across from the Orson Welles, has been featuring consistently excellent live entertainment without charging cover. More recently, Club Zircon--located on North Beacon St. at the Cambridge-Somerville line--has followed suit, usually charging a dollar cover while offering a better price on beer. Both clubs have enjoyed roof-raising engagements by the James Montgomery Blues Band, a group which has perfected the art of blues for drunk humans. Backed by an outfit which includes Harvard graduate Peter Bell on guitar, James Montgomery blows a wicked harp and sings Junior...
...last two weeks Zircon has presented besides Montgomery two other local bluesmen of extraordinary calibre: Luther Johnson, a black guitarist who used to play in Muddy Water's band; and last week, Billy Colwell's blues band. Colwell is a longtime veteran of the Boston music world who has seen enough ups and downs to send any sensible person into retirement. Fortunately for the world, however, Colwell is so demented that he continues performing phenomenal music for obscure personal reasons. The core of his band consists of Colwell on lead guitar, a second guitarist with a flair...
Other talented performers besides Colwell and Montgomery have been making regular appearances at Zircon or Jack's. Particularly noteworthy are "Spider" John Koerner, Reeve Little, and a group called Road Apples (formerly Finnerty, Morse, and Richmond.) A group of three men and one woman, calling themselves the Sheiks, are putting together a good-time style of light rock, slightly reminiscent of the Mamas and Papas, covering tunes by the Band and Chuck Berry. And when certain folk and blues luminaries are passing through this city, they may make an unscheduled trip to the bandstand at Jack's, as Rosalie Sorrels...
...beginning to agree In a recent test for an electronics manufacturer, the furnace fused several tons of bauxite and ceramics to produce high-voltage insulators of unmatched purity The oven could easily fuse other highly heat-resistant materials: quartz crystals for radio transmitters, corundum for industrial grinding stones and zircon parts for nuclear reactors. It could also be used in experiments to develop new space-age alloys, such as special tungsten or cobalt steels, and even materials to withstand the searing heat of a nuclear blast...