My band is "The South End Lunch". I have a new bass player for the band.
The name comes from a little restaurant called "The South End Lunch" that used to be in the South End of Boston. Only poor old people used to go to it.
I was in a band called "The Third World Raspberry", and we had the whole building next door to the South End Lunch. Since we were poor too, we couldn't pay the rent, but we couldn't be evicted because of the city ordinances. If you can remember "The Monkees" tv show, it was something like that except for real and 1000 times more wild
One day I got curious about what was inside the little restaurant, since you couldn't see through the windows because they hadn't been cleaned since the end of WWI. I went inside and found some old people that looked like they were left over from WWI too and ambled on up to the counter. The owner, who was also old enough to have been in the battle of Verdune, came over, and I asked him if I could have a piece of blueberry pie I had spotted.
I didn't really know what he was going to say because I didn't fit in too well with my long hair and Psychedelic clothes. The old people were looking at me like I was some kind of alien from another planet.But, he said yes and wanted to know if I wanted to have it heated up with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top of it. I of course said yes and had the best blueberry pie I could ever remember having. After eating that, I had another one. It only cost about 25cents for one piece of pie and ice cream.
It was such an amazing experience, and I rushed upstairs next door and told everyone they just had to go there and eat some blueberry pie with ice cream. Nobody believed me, but finally a bass player from a viisting band went and tried it. He was surprised too about how good it was.
Soon, everyone was going there and eating blueberry pie and ice cream. We ate all the pies. We then discovered that there was food there too, and soon we were eating cheesburgers and stuff like that.
Soon other bands started going there, and it was full of old people and musicians (many of them blues musicians). A cool place to go. They had coffee too, of course.
The South End Lunch closed a long time ago, but I still remember it as being a good place to go to.So, I named the band The South End Lunch to remember the place.
You can see our web site here.
www.southendlunch.com. It's still a work in progress and very simple.
We play blues/rock music and like to jam. In the future we would like to make a cd of course.