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Description: They'd graduated from UMass probably 8 or 9 years before I did, so I never saw them around campus; but when I heard Doolittle and Surfer Rosa, the way those albums sounded made sense only in the context of what had been happening in western Massachusetts for many years. I'd been into punk rock since I was 13, but along the way I'd met so many quirky people and I'd come across a lot of interesting music. I don't have the space for it here, but for those of us who've lived out in western Massachusetts (all in all, I've spent about 15 years there since I was 18), the idea that "grunge" began in Seattle is a bit grating on our nerves. See, both of my brothers went to UMass as well, and I'd been visiting the campus and partying in the area since I was a kid (I wouldn't recommend hitchhiking on the Mass Pike anytime soon, but this was the 80s, different world back then), and I'd met all these people that could only be described as "hippy punks." They liked the Grateful Dead and the Dead Kennedys equally--I found them fascinating. See back then, high school really was like a John Hughes movie (the jocks, the punks, the stoners, the "richies," etc.), and thus I had no idea that one's taste could be so diverse and that people, generally speaking, could be so open-minded about things. So follow the timeline here: I'm immersing myself in this funky ass scene during my formative years at exactly the time when the Pixies and Dinosaur Jr and Sebadoh are building their fanbases--not making a lot of money (because the "scene" hadn't broken yet), but touring and putting out albums, and also playing locally around western Mass. Those gut-wrenching guitars, the shrieking vocals, but also the acoustic guitars and the heart-rending vocals--the whole melodic-verse-thrashing-chorus sound--this is where it really comes from: western Mass, where 60s folk blended with 80s punk, and we got all these incredibly influential bands. Let's not forget: the reason that Kurt Cobain wanted Steve Albini to produce In Utero is because Kurt loved the sound of Surfer Rosa. And Albini didn't "produce" the Surfer Rosa sessions; he recorded them (check the credits on any of Albini's work). Doolittle, Surfer Rosa, Death to the Pixies--all of their albums--that's the quintessential western Mass sound. So you might be asking yourself: If this guy's so hot on the Pixies, what took him so long to list a (dope ass, affordable) shirt? The answer is simple: you can't just stock any old Pixies tee. It's gotta be perfect, which is to say that it has to look great; it can't be new; it should be vintage, well preserved. It can't be boxy or flaring out anywhere. It's gotta be slim, sleek, flattering for the bod (they're called the Pixies for pete's sake). This one's an absolute gem: vintage deadstock from the "Sell Out" reunion tour, 2004. It's perfectly preserved, never washed nor worn, a newborn baby. And that stitching--absolutely fantastic! A dope ass tee for some dope ass sounds. With your feet on the air and your head on the ground/Try this trick and spin it, yeah...

Price: 69 USD

Location: Westwood, Massachusetts

End Time: 2024-12-27T02:05:48.000Z

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