Mighty Mighty Bosstones Sell Out 'Hometown Throwdown'

11/16/1999 1:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Craig Rosen

(11/16/99, 1 p.m. ET) - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones sold out their Hometown Throwdown in just 20 minutes. The Throwdown is the band's annual, multi-night stand at the Middle East club in Cambridge, Mass. This year it's scheduled for Dec. 8-12. The Bosstones remain a Boston area favorite, but the band let the rest of the country in on the local party with their 1998 release, Live From The Middle East.

The band is still working on a follow-up to its last successful studio album, Let's Face It, recording the still-untitled collection at Longview Farms studios with an eye on an April 2000 release. The band has influenced many others since its 1990 debut, Devils Night Out, spawning numerous ska-influenced bands who rose to attention in the mid-'90s.

LAUNCH asked vocalist Dicky Barrett about the band's influence. "I think we inspire, but a lot of bands are doing their own thing. It's nice. If people are influenced by us or get inspiration from us, that's nice. I think when we started 500 years ago, one of the things that we said was that when we're finished and the dust settles and the ashes fall and the chips are...wherever chips go...that we're considered somebody who invented and created something, as opposed to people who have imitated."

-- Darren Davis, New York

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