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Old 09-14-2016, 12:47 PM
 
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It isn't, its just more underground. It's not as big as it was in the 80s or even 90s, sure, that's most of the country. Records sell a fraction of the press that they used to, I know, I was involved. People are pressing 25% of what people were pressing 20 years ago. That's just the way things are. There are still Democracy Center shows, Hardcore Stadium shows, etc. It's just not much of a club thing now, there isn't the money in it... Bad Brains at The Channel would have 1000+ people. Converge now would have a fraction of that, or American Nightmare in their prime.. I don't even know who the other big acts would be, but its a splintered scene.
Sounds like you are the one I should be getting a martini with.
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Old 09-14-2016, 12:52 PM
 
Location: RI, MA, VT, WI, IL, CA, IN (that one sucked), KY
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Sounds like you are the one I should be getting a martini with.
I'm sure he knows the martini bars better than I do.
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Old 09-14-2016, 02:10 PM
 
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Sounds like you are the one I should be getting a martini with.
How dare you!

I’m not punk and don’t know all the **** jazz I guess. But I did see Valley Girl a bunch of times.

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I'm sure he knows the martini bars better than I do.
Why you gotsta bust on me yo?
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Old 09-14-2016, 03:56 PM
 
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What does that have to do with the changing structure of the city? Just because i am in my 30's doesn't mean that this city hasn't fallen to complete **** in the arts/entertainment/culture category. so unless im in my 20's its cool that this city is essentially an outdoor mall for soulless idiots that think going to see Pearl Jam at Fenway park and having a beer at jerry remis after is the gritty boston experience that lured you in here? You came, You stripped the soul out and made it a safe place for you to wear your uniform around other people that are essentially the same as you and get a chuckle when you hear a 63 year old union laborer with an actual Boston accent.

Maybe its time for you to move on.
Thanks for making an old lady cry. I am in my late 40s and ran wild in Lowell and the city back, way back. Both me and my husband were crazy hard in the punk scene. I could tell you stories if i could remember them.
I never go into the city anymore. It's so bland and generic now. My husband, a plumber, goes in for work alot. He hates what it has become.
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Old 09-14-2016, 04:15 PM
 
Location: The Moon
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I never go into the city anymore. It's so bland and generic now. My husband, a plumber, goes in for work alot. He hates what it has become.
I'm sure he'd hate it even more if all the work dried up, lots of investment going on right now and the trades are going nuts. I wasn't alive or old enough for the supposed "glory days" but things change and you both still benefit from it .
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Old 09-14-2016, 04:23 PM
 
Location: Massachusetts
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I'm sure he'd hate it even more if all the work dried up, lots of investment going on right now and the trades are going nuts. I wasn't alive or old enough for the supposed "glory days" but things change and you both still benefit from it .
Do we? It's 6 of one half dozen of another. Less work but much more affordable...more work much more expensive. Pick your poison.
We actually were doing better quality of life wise before.
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Old 09-14-2016, 06:58 PM
 
Location: RI, MA, VT, WI, IL, CA, IN (that one sucked), KY
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Thanks for making an old lady cry. I am in my late 40s and ran wild in Lowell and the city back, way back. Both me and my husband were crazy hard in the punk scene. I could tell you stories if i could remember them.
I never go into the city anymore. It's so bland and generic now. My husband, a plumber, goes in for work alot. He hates what it has become.

I could remember some, its the curse used to being SXE.
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Old 09-15-2016, 05:39 AM
 
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Do we? It's 6 of one half dozen of another. Less work but much more affordable...more work much more expensive. Pick your poison.
We actually were doing better quality of life wise before.
$550 a month 1 bdrm S. Huntington and $2 16oz Brubaker's (you aint sh!ttin)
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Old 09-15-2016, 07:45 AM
 
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I'm sure he'd hate it even more if all the work dried up, lots of investment going on right now and the trades are going nuts.


Yup. been that way for a while, at least during the time I was doing electrical work. Banged out a few good years right after college, paid off the student loans, and saved the rest for a home.
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Old 09-15-2016, 09:06 AM
 
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maybe i can sum it up for you here. Boston: PUNK IS DEAD

Thats all. I like you too
Is there a city anywhere where it is still going on? I'm wondering if this thread belongs on the General US forum, in that it's not really specific to Boston.
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