From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V8 #66 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Friday, March 27 2009 Volume 08 : Number 066 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Subject: Re: [loud-fans] More Tommy Keene [jason hernandez Subject: Re: Subject: Re: [loud-fans] More Tommy Keene The name of the band is a reference to Boston's album covers. The story goes that Robert Pollard was having a conversation with a fan about iconic rock album cover art and the fan mentioned "the Boston spaceships", which struck Pollard as a good name for a band. - --- On Tue, 3/24/09, Tom Marcinko wrote: > From: Tom Marcinko > Subject: Re: Subject: Re: [loud-fans] More Tommy Keene > To: loud-fans@smoe.org > Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 12:07 PM > I can only think of the cover to the Boston > guitar-as-giant-Close-Encounters-sorta-spaceship when I > read that name. > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 7:51 AM, outbound-only email > address < > eeimmnno@antithetical.org> wrote: > > > Tom Marcinko said: > > > > > I hadn't realized that he worked with Robert > Pollard as the Keene Bros., > > but > > that's what I saw on Last.fm. > > < > > > > Keene is also playing the Doug Gillard role in the > touring edition of > > Pollard's newish band Boston Spaceships. He/they > were really good > > when I saw 'em last fall -- the two studio albums > don't quite do the > > live band justice. > > > > > > -- > http://tomaq.livejournal.com/ > > Recently published: > "A Close Personal Relationship" in New Writings > in the Fantastic, ed. John > Grant > http://www.pendragonpress.net/books/new-writings-in-the-fantastic/ ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V8 #66 ******************************