On May 28, the Channel will be reincarnated, in a manner of speaking, at roadrunnerbos, which is to say a handful of acts that often made the South Boston venue home in the ‘80s return to the fray. The reunited Del Fuegos top the bill:
The facility was a low-slung, black-walled, 1,700-capacity general admission club that occupied what was then a deserted and/or desolate territory on South Boston’s Necco Street. It saw a lot of action over the years.
“One of the things I appreciated most about The Channel is the range of music that came through,” says Del Fuegos singer-guitarist-songwriter Dan Zanes. “A lot of education going on for me. The Channel felt so big compared to other places. It was kind of the big league, a place where we could learn and see how professionals were operating in very different styles.”
The Channel had been a disco in a prior life. When the site went up for sale and Harry Booras considered a potential purchase, he thought, “It was very risky. We weren’t overly financed and were pretty much bootstrapping it. This was not a location where you could rely on people walking by or driving by and seeing you — it was a destination and people had to drive there. But it had almost unlimited parking and was less than a 10-minute walk from South Station.
That part of South Boston where the Channel was, like so many in Boston, has been upscaled and is unrecognizable from what it once was.For the upcoming show dedicated to the club, the Del Fuegos — the Zanes brothers with bassist Tom Lloyd and drummer Woody Giessmann — will play an hour-plus set and the Nervous Eaters will play 45 minutes. Opening up will be a group comprised of other local notables called the Channel All-Star Band.
That’s not Zanes’ take. He had the good fortune to grow up a teenager in the 1970s, when there was an oldies circuit that came near enough his hometown of Concord, New Hampshire. “I loved the music of the ‘50s, and in the ‘70s, they were having this revival and were out on the circuit,” he says. “It meant not only were you bringing your music to your original fans, but in some cases, new fans, knuckleheads like me. I’m seeing all groups going out and doing their thing.
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