END WAR NOW
It is my conviction that killing
under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
~Albert Einstein

SUMMER SONGS

Rita: BANG CAMARO and HRT in the same place could create a hormonal revolution. Summertime is a great time for a revolution. But what are your favorite summer songs? Lolita: I get it. I’ll go ask our fellow rockers for their favorite local and national summer song. MARLANE PINKOWITZ (HRT): My favorite local song is “Psychedelia in A” (Emily Grogan) and my favorite national song is “Soul Singing” (Black Crowes). *** IZZY MAXWELL (Count Zero): “Blue Summer Sunshine” by Jack Drag, and “Summertime Rolls” by Porno for Pyros. *** JOHN HESS (Awakening Stick/ The Noise): My favorite local summertime song is The Neighborhoods’ cover of “Southern Girls.” I love cranking it really loud and singing along to it. It’s the perfect soundtrack to a hot, sunny day. I could listen to it over and over cruisin’ the coastline from Nantasket to Hampton Beach. My favorite summertime national tune is “Scarlet Begonias” by The Grateful Dead. The first time I hear it in the late spring, I know that summer is on its way. I couldn’t listen to it anytime of the year except from late April until August. *** CORIN ASHLEY (Corin Ashley): My favorite local one is the old Gigolo Aunts number “The Sun Always Shines In Somerville,” and nationally, I’ve always had a soft spot for “Hot Fun In The Summertime” (Sly & the Family Stone). That said, I cried to “Boys of Summer” once when I was really drunk. *** LINDA VIENS (Angeline/ Cosmic-Trigger): My favorite local summer song is gonna be a song I wrote last night called “No Regrets” that has a killer, unapologetically uplifting chorus, and my favorite national song is “Best Day Ever” by Spongebob Squarepants. Ruby and I can’t stop singing it! *** LEATHER VIC (Shööt The Möön): Gotta’ go with “Sailing” by Christopher Cross. I don’t know if it’s an official summer song, but it sure as hell feels like it when I hear it. Or, “Summertime” by Will Smith, just because. Local song? I’ve got nothing, sorry... Lolita: Leather, you’re going to have to do your local music homework if you want to be in these pages. *** ANNGELLE WOOD (WZLX/ WMFO):Everything on Wheat’s Medeiros, especially “Summer” and “Karmic Episodes” and Thin Lizzy’s “Dancing in the Moonlight” and “Downtown Sundown” off Bad Reputation. I can never just pick one; each is a pure delight. *** MR. CURT (Mr. Curt Ensemble): Locally, let me offer one of my tunes, “Summer is the Season of Dreams,” which I wrote for Mr. C’s Camaraderie in late ’80s. I name check Buzzard’s Bay, Cape Cod, Orlando, and Akumal. Actually, it’s pretty cool. Nationally, how ’bout “Add Some Music to Your Day” by the Beach Boys, the ultimate summer group? To quote Brian Wilson: “music, when you’re alone, is like a companion for your very soul—ooh, ooh, ooh!” Too true, indeed. *** SAMMY MIAMI (Shööt The Möön) Vic! What about “Summer” by Sweet Cheater, “Summertime” by Bang, and let’s not forget Phoebe Cates coming out of the pool to “Moving In Stereo” by The Cars in Fast Times At Ridgemont High. That’s local and national. *** CHUCK U. (WMFO/ WMBR): My two favorite summer songs are both local so I’ll guess I’m cheating a bit... but if I don’t do a national one, then that’s still two songs. They are The Future Dads’ “Dorchester Summer” (way back in the early 1980s) and Mr. Curt’s “Summer is the Season of Dreams.” Lolita: Chuck, that’s wonderful that you’d rather give us two local songs.