Scene Snapshot - Joel Simchez
Posted May 2nd, 2007 by Jill
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Joel Simchez - tonight working at TT the Bear’s Place - is Boston’s travelling sound guy.
“I’m freelance - I don’t work for any of the clubs, but I sub for other people.”
How long have you been on the Boston music scene?
I’ve been around since the mid-eighties. Things were a little more interesting back then.
What do you think of the musical landscape right now?
It’s just starting to get interesting again after the last six or seven years where there was not much happening; you could go to a club and see four bands, and they’d all be cut from the same indie-rock cloth.
Which bands do you think are stepping up and making things interesting again?
I’m working with a band - Camaro - that are just exploding right now. There’s another band, Three Day Threshold; they’re a mixture of bluegrass, punk and country. They’re in your face, but they’re wearing cowboy hats while they do it.
The vital question: TT the Bear’s, or The Middle East?
TT’s manages to put on a more consistent bill of local acts.