Peter, I know. Just referencing another great Dylan classic. Also, love the lyrics in 'Tangled up in Blue'.

Heard this from a dealer last week at a card show:

"If you want a great card, you have to pay up."

I couldn't agree more.

I suspect Positively 4th Street and Like a Rolling Stone are about the same woman, but not sure if anyone ever figured out definitely who he was so angry at.

I remember playing Blood on the Tracks over and over and over. Tangled Up in Blue may not be the best song from it but certainly the catchiest one.

She turned around to look at me as I was walking away
I heard her say over my shoulder
We'll meet again some day
On the avenue
Tangled up in blue

I don't and never have. I think it smells disgusting. I have never done any type of drugs. When I worked as a bouncer in a new wave dance club behind Fenway Park in 1980/81 I was always throwing away vials and the folder paper filled with cocaine.

Spit?

I'm guessing a drug in liquid form that could be carried in a vial.

Not being an expert in such substances, I won't hazard a guess as to which one it might have been.

I believe that Positively 4th Street is about Pete Seger and the folkies who turned on him after he went electric

Spit is the name or former name of a notorious new wave club on Landsdowne Street behind Fenway.

I didn't know that, interesting, thanks. I always assumed it was about an ex.

HA. Thanks for the education!

I guess that’s a pretty sweet name for a club.

Yes. I was an original employee. It was an interesting place to work. I remember a few musicians who came in - Frank Zappa, Daryl Hall and Tom Hamilton from Aerosmith. I gave Hamilton a ration for doing lines. He apologized. Dennis Eckersley also came in once. For the new wave fans I also saw some interesting shows there - The Fall, Chelsea, Waitresses, Skatt Brothers, The Neighborhoods and the Modettes. In 1981 they moved the WBCN Rumble from The Rat to Spit. One of the bands I saw was the Young Snakes with lead singer Aimee Mann. This was a few years before 'Til Tuesday.

It was powder. People used to carry around these little screw top vials filled with it. Some would have it as a necklace.

Spit of course had a reputation, but when I went out during law school it was more to "sophisticated" clubs like Maxwell's which was a favorite of Robert Parish among others. I am sure it was incredibly tame compared to Spit.

I was there, though I do not remember it. I do recognize a few people from the video. I believe the DJ, leather jacket with pins, near the beginning of the video is Albert O. He worked at WMBR, the MIT station, and WBCN. I thought I also saw David Minehan, lead singer of The Neighborhoods. One of the still photos in the article below the video shows someone wearing an "Uncle Sams" t-shirt. That was a more traditional music club at Nantasket Beach, though the Pretenders played there in 1980.

It was actually quite tame. Mainly a lot of 'trendies' from the 'burbs and southern NH and a lot of BU kids. The real punk/new wave scene was the live music clubs like The Rat, Cantones, The Underground, The Club, Lulu White's, 1270 Boylston, The Paradise, The Channel, Bradford Ballroom.

The Paradise was almost a go to club for many bands. It was small at 550 seats, but considered the real club to get into. I saw some good acts there - Ramones, Boomtown Rats, The Cars, Greg Kihn, Waitresses, Thin Lizzy, Rick Derringer, Elvin Bishop, Cheap Trick. I had to work at Spit the night U2 was an opening act.

The Channel was much larger at about 1500 capacity. It was out of the way and with being a poor college student with no car living in the western suburbs I did not go there a lot. I did see The English Beat and the Specials, The Jam, The Fleshtones and the Dead Kennedys.

The Bradford Ballroom, in a hotel across from The Wang Center, was also a good size place that hosted a fair amount of shows. The only one I saw there was Gang of Four with Mission of Burma.

So - at the upcoming National - why don't Net54 members put together a band. I can sing the blank out of some U2 songs, and can do any Billy Joel/Elton John/Bob Seger set that people want to hear...