Better Off Dead by La Peste

[BurtWorm]

Is a nasty, twisted little song, but if you're going to have an earworm, you could do a lot worse.

http://www.emusic.com/album/10592/10592641.html

[Kathy in Cambridge]

1. I saw them at the Rat, Cantones, and other clubs as a teenager

they were a great band. One of the guys died a few years back. I wonder what ever happened to Peter Dayton?

On edit: Thank you for the link! WAY COOL!!!!

[BurtWorm]

2. Oh my god! Which one?

I think Peter Dayton is still around. Doesn't he have a new band--or a new version of LaPeste?

[Kathy in Cambridge]

3. I think Roger Tripp

I'm trying to find out-calling a friend.

Here are some links from my bookmarks:

http://www.smasheasy.com/lapestephotos.html

http://www.rockinboston.com/lapeste.htm

http://www.lorrydoll.com/Shows78.html

You said you lived in Somerville. Did you go to clubs a lot?

[BurtWorm]

4. I went to Cantone's, the Paradise, the Rat, some place on Landsdowne

someplace in Inman Square... I can't remember all the names of the clubs. A lot of Boston bands played the Downtown Lounge, the one "Nu Wave" club in Portland, Maine, where I lived just before moving to Boston in 1980. That's where I first saw Mission of Burma, Unnatural Axe, Human Sexual Repsonse, and the Lyres, for example.