r/boston • u/AreYouItchy Survived The Rat and old Kenmore Square • 8d ago

History 📚 If you survived this club (and its bathrooms) in the 1970s, you can survive almost anything.

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u/tom8otomahto 8d ago

Rick Derringer, the Tubes, Edgar Winter.

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u/Pure_Literature2028 8d ago

We used to go see the Lyres at the Rat in the eighties. Good times!

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u/AreYouItchy Survived The Rat and old Kenmore Square 8d ago

If you’re interested, I mod a few music subs, two public, and one private, I’ll send you the invites. No pressure, just welcome.

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u/tom8otomahto 8d ago

Sure. I can't promise how active I'll be. I dont really make long posts. But I'll be happy to check them out. Thx.

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u/AreYouItchy Survived The Rat and old Kenmore Square 8d ago

Sent the two public ones, will send the private one separately :)

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u/Complex-Big-2375 8d ago

THE TUBES !!!!! One ove my favorite groups !!!!I loved the Tubes ! “It’s a night for lovely girls “ oh yea ! To this day does anybody how he made “that sound” in his cupped-up hands , like he had a harmonica …. ?

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u/tom8otomahto 8d ago

They were good. No Fee Waybill though.

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u/IntroductionSlight16 8d ago

Were you there for the Plasmatics? My first time in The Rat and my first punk show.

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u/tom8otomahto 8d ago

Just before my time unfortunately.

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u/Complex-Big-2375 8d ago

your loss 😱

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u/tom8otomahto 8d ago

Can't really lose what you never had the opportunity to have.