For all you Bostonians, past and present - The Standells - Dirty Water

[ificandream]

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[asiliveandbreathe]

1. There is a rich history as well as present performances..

But not for what we have thought all these years..

The Standells are an American garage rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in the 1960s, who have been referred to as a "punk band of the 1960s", and said to have inspired such groups as the Sex Pistols and Ramones.

They are best known for their 1966 hit "Dirty Water", written by their manager, Ed Cobb (Ed Cobb is also noted for writing "Tainted Love", a Gloria Jones song which became world famous when Soft Cell did a version of it), now the anthem of several Boston sports teams and is played following every Boston Red Sox and Boston Bruins home win.

Despite the references to Boston and the Charles River in "Dirty Water," the Standells are not from Massachusetts. Tower Records producer Ed Cobb wrote the song after a visit to Boston, during which he was robbed on a bridge over the Charles River. None of the Standells had been to Boston before the song was released.

Too..

The Standells played "Dirty Water" before the second game of the 2004 World Series at Fenway Park. The band played at Fenway Park again in 2005 and 2006. In 2007, the Standells performed the National Anthem at the first game of the 2007 American League Division Series, also at Fenway Park.

One of our favorite "Dirty Water"


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Standells#Boston_connection

So much more at link..

[highplainsdem]

2. You beat me to posting that this was a song from a California band, a song

written by their manager, also a Californian.

Oh, well. I did find a live performance of the song from the Mike Douglas show in 1966:

[asiliveandbreathe]

3. WOW!!! That is awesome...now I feel old..1966...

We did have some GREAT music during that era..Thank you for posting..

[Trueblue1968]

4. this was my TRY OUT FOR RALLY SQUAD song. I made it of course. i was a good dancer !!

[True Blue American]

5. Larry used to be on a board with us.

He has 8 children. Amber Tamblyn is his niece, Russ daughter. He used to be on Peyton Place.

[highplainsdem]

6. How cool!

And it's also cool that he's a strong Democrat. I saw you mention that in Sarge's thread on Pure Prairie League.

[True Blue American]

7. This was back when Hillary was running

For office. Think how different our country would be today if she had won t(at stupid electoral vote.

[highplainsdem]

8. Know what you mean about how different things would be if HRC had won. Or Al Gore.

Not just our country, but the entire world, would be much better off...

[ificandream]

9. He's on FB now.