brooklynvegan: Willie Alexander & The Boom Boom Band w/ Deborah Frost opening for Yo La Tengo on Chanukah night seven

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Posted in music | tour dates on December 24, 2008

Willie Alexander & The Boom Boom Band w/ Deborah Frost opening for Yo La Tengo on Chanukah night seven

Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band

Willie "Loco" Alexander (born 13 January 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American singer and keyboard player based in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

He played with The Lost, The Bagatelle and The Grass Menagerie before becoming a member of The Velvet Underground in late 1971, joining fellow Grass Menagerie alumni Doug Yule and Walter Powers and replacing Sterling Morrison, who had gone off to pursue an academic career.[Wikipedia]

Brain Surgeons (Debbie Frost) - 2008/09 Tour Dates
Dec 26 @ ReHab w/ the Black Angels
Dec 27 @ Maxwell's w/ Boston's legendary Willie Alexander & The Boom Boom Band
Jan 02 @ Don Hill's w/ the Dirty Pickles

December 27th is also the seventh night of Hanukkah. It would be amazing if Lou Reed were also the special guest that night (although Lou and Willie were never actually in VU at the same time, so maybe not).

Metal Mountains are opening the eighth. John Zorn and Marc Ribot opened the third.

Boom Boom video below...

Filmed in February 2005 - Willie Loco Alexander & the Boom Boom Band performing live at the Middle East Club in Cambridge MA. The Boom Boom Band is Willie Alexander - vocal & keyboard, Billy Loosigian - lead guitar, Severin Grossman - Fender bass, David McClean - drums. Guesting on the Les Paul Jr. is David Minehan of the Neighborhoods.

Tags: Chanukah, Debbie Frost, Hanukkah, Maxwells, Velvet Underground, Willie Alexander, Yo La Tengo

Posted on December 24, 2008 2:48 PM