Nervous Eaters - Loretta - 1976

[@slimedog]

One of the songs that definitely need to be nominated as the best song to represent early Boston punk rock'n'roll.

[@jrose2014]

Saw them a number of times in the late 70's and I still have the album!!

[@erichimmelreich8814]

Damn good rock n roll!!! How have I just now heard of these guys!!!! Great lead guitar and good harmonies !!! A definite foot tapper or a song that will get u a speeding ticket!!!!🎸🎸🎸🎸

[@mag-nm7tw]

Heard this on XM radio the other day. Had to look it up on KZbin. Great song to crank up while driving.

[@erichimmelreich8814]

And cranking it up Is just what it deserves!!!!🎸🎸🎸

[@Mrariesdave]

My crazy friend Diana was fucken one of the guys in the band, I think his name was Kevin...I loved the mid to late '70s in Boston with DMZ, Willie Loco, The Rat, Paradise, Cantones...Living in a squat and working in the Combat Zone...Absolutely EVERYONE I knew from that time is DEAD, plus I picked up a bitch of a drug habit that almost killed me, but no regrets and I still remember every minute of that era fondly!

[@lastmanstanding1954]

the door guy at the "canones" in the 70's "LEO FAHEY" married one of my sisters. also , my roommate "ALPO" was the bass guitarist for nervous eaters.

[@Mrariesdave]

@@lastmanstanding1954 Do you remember Kenny from Kentucky? She was living in the loft with us on Washington St near the Combat Zone, dealing coke. She would come home from Cantones with about 15 people, pass out cold, my boyfriend would sneak into her bedroom and clip a few quarters, crawl back down the hall and we'd shoot coke for days. I loved when Kenny came busting out of her room naked and jump on my back whenever Martha and the Vandellas song came on.

[@lastmanstanding1954]

@@Mrariesdave I was the roady for the real kids when alpo played bass for them. i also was a roady for tenny coma and the silencers. then i ended up working for cid stone sound company doing sound for top acts. check this out, " johnny angel Wendell" from thrills is living in LA and has a book out "looking for lady dee" also, barb the lead singer of thrills died of an overdose. i remember "the police" at the rat, they had some top acts there. i loved living across the street from the rat. i got to go to the rat every night, get drunk walk across the street and i was home. "the Buckminster building"

[@mick2spic]

I wished in lived in your guys’ time. You were lucky to have the best punk rock. Which bands from your scene back then were great and I need to look up their music?

[@G8GT364CI]

I remember this from the late great WBCN, 104. The Rock Of Boston. Those were great days, I really miss them.

[@lastmanstanding1954]

remember "rick varny and the sky patrol" , and charles loquidara.?

[@Adrianafaith123]

Great station!

[@tomsorocco2903]

Chucky, Chucky, chucky

[@G8GT364CI]

@@tomsorocco2903 Remember the jingle they used to played that started with Chuck Berry's "They're Really Rockin' in Boston" then followed it by the same thing by a bunch of different bands covering it?

[@myradioon]

Oedipus would play this definitely.

[@absotivelyposilutely6164]

Glad to come across this, and a bunch of other local hits from the mid to late seventies, here on KZbin. I miss the real WBCN, "The Rock of Boston, 104.1". They could do another whole channel of just Boston '80's music, The Cars, Til' Tuesday, Tracy Chapman etc.

[@tomsorocco2903]

I still have a BCN t shirt. Wear it proudly

[@walpolescrew]

I went to BCN after WCOZ went down. The Cosmic Muffin Dwayne Ingalls Glasscock etc

[@jimmann2391]

Still played 40 years later on Boston radio Thanks Brian Young WMFO

[@sidsizzeler88]

I'm in Massachusetts what radio station do you listen to

[@sidsizzeler88]

Sorry IC wmfo

[@anfrankogezamartincic1161]

Boston was rich with pre punk bands,and this band is the proof of greatness.

[@johneckhart8198]

Yup Le peste is my all time favorite although they were much later the neighborhoods and mission of Burma fuck the modern lovers list goes on and on

[@m.brackett6769]

Yeah ! The Hoods !!

[@tiffany-lorettateague8919]

Glad to be named after this song💕

[@DanGoguen]

I was born shortly after this song came out. I consider myself lucky to have seen them at The Rosebud in Somerville about a year ago.

[@BazWildeClub]

Just discovered this by chance, and it's bloody great!

[@blankfrancine]

I remember WAY back when this was on the radio. Good times.

[@spudboy56]

My favorite Boston band evah!!!! I have the 45s!

[@lorrettaclews5759]

Nice to have my name in a song!!😀

[@rustytuney7]

I used to book these guys at Jacks in Cambridge on Mass Ave and they packed the house!

[@haroldkrishna4116]

My mom had a friend named Loretta who she always talked with on the phone (Quite a concept, eh' kids?) I had to tell her about that song. They got a chuckle out of it.

[@PaulV513]

This is a great version. More New York Dolls inspired. The eventual album version morphed in to more new wave sounding. Both are wicked awesome!

[@Drumguitarman]

This is really a great sounding song with a catchy background.

[@fazbell]

I used to see this band mentioned in a music newspaper called "Boston Rock". I lived near Atlanta at the time (1982) and would take to the highway to see bands like Human Sexual Response at the 688 Club. I never actually HEARD this band until I heard this clip on KZbin. These guys rocked HARD!!!

[@chrisbotelho7212]

Yeah, used to see them in a small, dark, Boston club called the Channel. What a place. Good times.

[@kevinflynn4519]

Rich Gilbert is a great player ..him and his wife play up in Maine...the HSR people who were in the Zulus just played a reunion show at the paradise.

[@chestertimmins4820]

Just played with these guys! So much fun!

[@rockstar9488]

Yo! we have a show with them in 3 weeks, looking forward to it!!! And for the record, its always great to play with you guys too!

[@BigDumApe]

The Fools did a great cover of this song. Look for it on KZbin.

[@Bawwwstinnn1997]

I loved seeing the Nervous Eaters at the Channel, the Rat. Boston's 80's music scene was popping off. Always a great time. My adults kids would always ask me about growing up in the 80's, they thought it was so cool lol it kinda was though!

[@lisamartick6979]

Awesome Song!! They would play this on BCN in 70s

[@zolarczakl3880]

Hip kids were listening to 'BCN and the college radio stations ('MBR 'ERS 'HRB (during the spring Orgy seasons...) and the rest were listening to 'COZ and 'AAF. 'Nuff said! Oh, and FUCK KISS 108, although among all those stations, KISS is the only one there, with Matty from The Big Mattress. Oh, the SHAME!!

[@sandsoftime1954]

Did you mean Charles (Duane Ingalls Glasscock ) Laquidara ?

[@barrydudelson4853]

Camper van beetoven

[@Dustyfingers]

You smell like fish !🐟

[@johnl1468]

They stole our guitar tuner from backstage in 77 ! Nice guys!

[@chriscaron6442]

Saw them several times at the Paradise. Still have the single.....somewhere

[@morebento]

Sounds like oz garage punk - radio birdman, etc

[@BoulevardTrash99]

The whole Eaterville album rocks. Love them.

[@ezandycle]

Earlier, slowed-down version of the song heard on their debut LP. Surprisingly, its equally kick-ass.

[@ajlarue12]

man those shows at The Rat were brain melting.

[@lastmanstanding1954]

i lived across the street from the rat and i went there every night. alpo , the bass guitarest for "the nervous eaters" was my roommate and he later died of a heroin overdose. the kicker is that he was a drug councelor when he overdosed.

[@Dustyfingers]

@@lastmanstanding1954man that’s sad. I heard of this band back in 2007 well after the fact a punk friend had this on her playlist. Years later I feel like crying whenever I hear this band. Tears of joy.

[@PromisingLocalBandsEtAlia]

Neko Case covered this on her live album, The Tigers Have Spoken. Surprised but not surprised she knows the Nervous Eaters.

[@murraypassarieu9115]

I wasn't surprised too much either. Lazy Cowgirls cover version is great too.

[@Dustyfingers]

I remember searching on Spotify and heard that version and thinking damn. Punk has evolved. The original wasn’t even on Spotify. Still isn’t . I’m glad other people can enjoy such a cool song

[@sandraleepitts]

And The Sadies were backing Neko with that tour. They surely loved this song . I saw 3 shows on that tour ! Great shows , amazing

[@11q20z]

damn..takes me back to my Berklee day's.

[@davebolick]

Saw 'em at Cantones in '78!

[@lastmanstanding1954]

those were the days......!!!!

[@lisamartick6979]

There playing the Spire Center this August. Will be there!!

[@withfootnotes]

Great song!!!!

[@albertducroq9141]

great track (it remind me The Roughneck (Lou Reed) debut ) !!!!

[@countrypaul]

I played this song on WDRC-FM in Hartford when it was new! This must be a different version; it seems to be harsh and trebly - I remember the bottom as being "bigger."

[@paulhooson6850]

Pure power pop here for a punk song. One of the finest punk singles ever made! A great song that fires on all cylinders!

[@Foxswoop]

This is fucking great, how come its taken me 40 years to find it?

[@fazbell]

Me too!!!

[@Rski1234]

Going to see the guys tonight !

[@jmac5058]

I can smell the urine as I walk into the RAT.

[@danvalentine2480]

Man, i miss that smell. Today's Boston punk scene is completely lacking.

[@lastmanstanding1954]

i still smell it

[@johnbradley3805]

@@lastmanstanding1954 Better have your ID and $4 ready or Mitch will not be amused.

[@jrose2014]

Rat would not let me in under age, but Paradise did back then!

[@TheFreezeCriminalFetusvideos]

One of the best!

[@kevinflynn4519]

New Nervous Eaters music is out now....

[@harryknackers7892]

Sounds like a song off "Loaded."

[@GoodbyePanama]

first punk band i saw - opened for the Ramones at Brown University, a matinee/daytime show. they were rocking. maybe 30 people there. This song sounds like the Velvet Underground's White Light Heat.

[@joefesto8817]

Saw them at the Frolics, Salisbury, MA Maybe 1977.

[@TheOuternative]

классная песня

[@Vonhoganschmidt-13]

Tremendous

[@losestigmas2]

increíble!

[@jarirusi]

Thanks P.K. Purvis !

[@mariorumaldogutierrezhuaro6237]

QUIEN EN AGOSTO 2019,CREO QUE SOY UNICO PERUANO AQUI

[@gobceaglesgo]

@bobyoung53 it may have been "the big mattress" song of the week with charles laquedera

[@rubberman72000]

saw them at the channel

[@wchase62]

@a1stooge First heard these guys when Charles Laquidara played them on his show.

[@jpfiloramo]

The club in Beverly on Cobot Street was "The Cantbury Pub"

[@twocanines8150]

Cabot Street

[@DanConroy78]

@bobyoung53 I do listen to it in HD (which is better than online because online has commercials), and the antennas do have to be in the perfect spot and position in order for it to work right. Sometimes the HD signal gives out due to technical difficulties on the part of the station, but what can you do.

[@lazlokovacs2263]

Last phase of Velver Underground + Modern Lovers + Punk Rock

[@harryknackers7892]

Yule-era V.U. done very well!

[@fuggity1]

that's jim harold's aftershave.

[@EddieC3336]

Jimmy's aftershave was Miller light.

[@paulorben6830]

Wicked pissah....remember this well.

[@denisetracy7712]

Hopkiton Center for the Arts with Robin Lane 9/23 y'all

[@LarzGustafsson]

Nice tune

[@DogDamour]

hehe, man, I find you in every old school punk rock video. Cheers!

[@MysticOblong]

@@DogDamour Yeah I keep seeing Larz in comments in 2023!

[@thehorrorist3471]

Best bj song of all time

[@josephmauricio1956]

at the rat: #1. nervous eaters, then in random order: 3rd Rail. luna. human sexual response. neighborhoods. the Vinnie Band ! willie alexander boom boom. then all the lesser punks from elsewhere like talking heads. jam. police. dead boys. maybe the dead boys weren't lesser. but the cars were (snore) even tho they weren't entirely elsewhere. ramones weren't lesser to any band, but didn't play the rat, don't think. they played Cambridge like the made up royalty they were. but, the nervous eaters were our best band. the late jerry W boston's best drummer. steve cataldo our rock god poet. and andy paley as the blonde.

[@exitscreaming]

Most of the other bands you mentioned were much more popular

[@markbloomstein3027]

Went there all the time, love the Vinnie Band mention...Do the Ravioli!

[@cindywhitford702]

The Ramones played the Ratt.

[@lastmanstanding1954]

i remember when allen Polino "alpo" bass guitarist from the real kids joined nervous eaters. i was his roomate at the time and when he went on tour i ended up taking care of his cat and rabbit. alpo died a few years ago. long live alpo...!!!

[@lastmanstanding1954]

remember the thrills band with " johnny angel" he wrote a book about the rat. reads like a machine gun.

[@randyburke5519]

Remember.... way back to BCN... hehe

[@DanConroy78]

@bobyoung53 Actually WBCN isn't dead. They now have two HD stations in Boston. WBCN The Rock of Boston on 98.5 HD2, and WBCN Free Form Rock on 100.7 WZLX HD3. Definately spread the word on it, especially when it comes to the latter of the two!

[@anothaparson]

🔥

[@chrisforeman3478]

Neko Case does a fun cover of this

[@jackal59]

Sounds exactly the same at 720p. In this case, that's a good thing.

[@KrisannaMarie]

Under-rated song.....

[@valdane8371]

All I can say is thank god for shit like this, when nutless Willie Aames with a guitar was ruling the airwaves.

[@jaymusseato]

...i AM the Urine at the Rat...and the masque and CB's and Dingwalls and Max's and the Mab !!! Neh Neh Nuh Boo Boo !!!

[@luiskern8910]

I think this was '77

[@TheMrmojo23]

Power pop?

[@LucyOLastic]

A bit "Foggy Notion."

[@margiepolitzer895]

Yes, as I commented below!

[@koolkatvintage1960]

Red Sox!

[@youamwho]

Allow me be the first to second that! Thanks!

[@christianbavan2083]

french band?

[@BoulevardTrash99]

lol from Boston

[@twocanines8150]

@@BoulevardTrash99 North Shore Beverly Massachusetts RIP Jeff Wilkinson

[@margems]

I like this; I think it rocks. But it sounds a lot like Foggy Notion by VU.

[@luiskern8910]

Thanks for putting that out! Just discovered this song and was like ' hmm, this sounds a lot like something i listen to on a regular basis, but i can't pin-point what it is. ' thank you!

[@lastmanstanding1954]

oh, ya, talk to laretta. owwwwwwww , owwwww ,,,owwwwowww

[@2010pjm]

bye the way Loretta was a waitress at Cantones

[@Dustyfingers]

Punk Rolling Stones!

[@marcusportee1]

Very bad copy of "Foggy Notion" by the V.U. !