Robby Roadsteamer is back, and the man has come to save the Boston music scene. The animated, but oh so very real, creation of Rob Potylo has resurfaced in recent weeks with a string of hyped-up videos on YouTube and social media aimed at rallying the troops and putting the city’s music scene back on the map. Where it fucking belongs!
We’re not sure how many of these videos Roadsteamer has ready to roll, or when he magically returned from a few years out in Los Angeles, but we do know three clips with a dedicated message are already circulating and gaining attention.
And to save our city’s scene, he’s got a multi-faceted plan we can all support, one that involves creating jam spaces out of the old Hilltop Steak House on Route 1 in Saugus, renting out a Jordan’s Furniture and turning it into a massive music venue, and bringing back long-gone FM radio stations like WFNX, WBCN, and WAAF by using “dirty force” to overtake the pop stations that still exist.
Oh, and he plans on enlisting Ernie Boch, Jr. and a host of other local luminaries — like Kowloon owner Andy Wong and Phyl of Bernie and Phyl’s, apparently — to bankroll the whole damn thing.
“Let’s rebuild the music scene. We were the new Seattle, at one point we had the nu-metal scene,” Roadsteamer rages in his “Save The Boston Music Scene!” video, viewable below. “We can get back there, we have the tools. We can build with wood.”
And if that grand ambition fails, Roadsteamer does have a new album on the way, one he describes as “the new Nevermind.” That might be enough to save everything on its own, honestly.
Oh-wah-ah-ah-ah, indeed.
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