The Atlantics – Boston’s Common 1970s Electrical power Pop Band

The Atlantics were being fashioned in January 1976 by bass player Bruce Wilkinson and guitarist Tom Hauck, two learners at Tufts College in Medford, Massachusetts, just exterior Boston. They wee joined by drummer Boby Bear and guide guitarist Jeff Lock. To finish the lineup Wilkinson recruited singer Bobby Marron, a friend from his hometown in New Jersey.

The Atlantics performed their very first live performance in the spring of 1976 at The Rat in Kenmore Sq.. In Might of 1976 they carried out as the opening act for the Ramones, who ended up taking part in two nights at The Club in Central Square. The Atlantics designed their initially outings to New York in the summer months of 1976, taking part in at CBGB and Max’s Kansas Town. The band speedily grew to become an crucial and genuine aspect of the rising punk/new wave movement.

The next spring Ray Fernandes changed Boby Bear on drums. In the summer season of 1977 the Atlantics recorded their initial impartial 45 on Jukebox Records, “When You’re Younger,” composed by Bruce Wilkinson, backed with “Where by Would I Be Devoid of Your Enjoy,” prepared by Jeff Lock. A thousand copies ended up pressed but in no way produced, and the solitary is now viewed as a collector’s item. In the spring of 1978 Jeff Lock left the band and was replaced by Fred Pineau of the Bonjour Aviators.

The Atlantics had been signed to ABC Data that summer months, and in December the band recorded their LP Major Metropolis ROCK at the Hit Factory in New York. The album was introduced in March, 1979, just right after ABC Documents was marketed to MCA Documents. Their new label, with each other with Premier Talent, put the Atlantics on a nationwide tour with Roxy Tunes, followed by a regional tour all over New England. The band carried out with artists like The Ramones, The Automobiles, Low-cost Trick, Boston, Graham Parker, Chatting Heads, and many other people. The one “A person Past Night” by Bruce Wilkinson gained regional and global airplay, and the album garnered a glowing review in Rolling Stone.

In the summer of 1979 Paul Caruso joined the team as drummer, and the band came back again in 1980 with what was to turn into one of New England’s largest impartial singles, “Lonelyhearts,” prepared by Tom Hauck. It was the flip facet to “Can not Hold out Eternally,” a Motown-flavored song by Bruce Wilkinson. “Lonelyhearts” rocketed to the leading of New England radio and dance charts and stayed for months, and can however be heard on Boston radio stations like WFNX-FM.

During the subsequent two many years the Atlantics produced various extra tracks on tape to Boston radio stations, together with “Pop Shivers,” “Improper Amount” and “Weekend.” In June 1983 the band performed their final show at the Channel in Boston.

The original analog tapes of a lot of of the Atlantics most well known tracks had been consigned to storage. In 2006 these tapes were recovered and thirteen tracks have been digitally restored for the ATLANTICS CD. These tracks ended up recorded in between 1979 and 1982 in studios in the Boston region, and have no overdubs or other alterations. In 2007 the Atlantics produced a dwell established from the Paradise club in Boston. ATLANTICS Live was recorded in March, 1979 and attributes lots of of the tunes from Huge Metropolis ROCK. Atlantics CDs are accessible at CDbaby and at Newbury Comics.

In Oct 2011, the Atlantics ended up honored to have the “Lonelyhearts” solitary protect included in a amazing new book by Matthew Chojnacki – ” Put the Needle on the Document.” It is really a selection of above 250 one addresses by artists ranging from The Ramones to Pat Benatar to Operate-D.M.C. The addresses are accompanied by remarks from the artists. The “Lonelyhearts” cover was intended by Tibor Kalman, who experienced not too long ago begun M&Co, which grew to become a main layout agency. When the band initially met with Tibor, he had numerous other ideas a person of them was to cover the sleeve with sandpaper (the rough side out!). The band assumed this was a awesome strategy but it would not endear them to history vendors or radio stations. The cover strategy that they went with – the rows of little pictures of customers of the band – was an quick strike, and luckily the tune was way too.

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