"Let's Go To The Rat" Documentary Benefit Concert @ Johnny D's

When:
Wednesday, Aug 28, 2013 7:30p -
Thursday, Aug 29, 2013 1:00a

Where:
Johnny D's
17 Holland St
Somerville, MA 02144

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Admission:
$10

Categories:
Charity, Film, Music

Event website:
http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=3695184&pl=jds

Proceeds from this show will go to funding the completion of this exciting documentary about a Boston rock and roll institution, The Rathskellar in Kenmore Square. The Rat was to Boston what CBGB's was to NYC, launching such local bands as Til Tuesday, Willie Loco Alexander, and Jonathan Richman, and national acts like REM, the Talking Heads, The Replacements, and more.


Lizzie Borden & The Axes
https://www.facebook.com/groups/lizziebordenandtheaxes/


Lizzie Borden & the Axes (LBA) was a very important band to come out of the many punk & new wave groups of the 1980's. They were an all female band that played their own instuments and wrote their own songs. Like the female bands before them, Goldie & the Gingerbeads, Fanny & The Runaways, that paved the way for LBA, Lizzie Borden & the Axes opened doors and set the path for many of the future Girl Bands.


Loose Ties
http://www.terrykitchen.com/


LOOSE TIES' roots go back to Ohio, where Terry, Bill and Chris met in high school and began jamming on Bowie tunes together. They moved to Boston en van, and played their first gig at the Rat in 1982. They added Brice the next year, and released an EP (produced by Fred Pineau of the Atlantics) in 1985. They were in the 1986 WBCN Rumble, and their video "Last Time" was played on MTV exactly once. Terry Kitchen has subsequently performed as a solo artist, releasing nine CDs, and his debut novel Next Big Thing, set in the Boston music scene, will be published this fall.


Rick Berlin
http://www.rickberlin.com/


Rick Berlin, singer/songwriter, has fronted some amazing Boston bands. Orchestra Luna, Luna, Berlin Airlift to name just a few. A Yale graduate, Berlin has been writing and performing a distinctly theatrical form of rock and roll since the early 1970s. He achieved much of his early success with Orchestra Luna, whose eponymous debut was released on Epic Records in 1974. Orchestra Luna, co-produced by Rupert Holmes, captured many of the dramatic eccentricities that made the band a renowned live act, particularly on "(You Gotta Have) Heart" (a cover of the Damn Yankees tune).

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