Wicked Local Mendon, MA
April 25, 2008
Aerosmith, with Tom Hamilton, Steven Tyler, Ray Tabano and Joe Perry, plays its first show, at Nipmuc Regional High School…
(Photo courtesy of Aerosmith biography “Walk This Way”)
MENDON - Aerosmith may only play huge arenas and stadiums now, but the Boston band had to start somewhere, and that first gig took place at none other than the Miscoe Hill School gymnasium.
The location, which was the Nipmuc Regional High School gymnasium at the time, is gaining prominence again as it is featured in the new “Guitar Hero: Aerosmith” game, according to a story on the band’s Web site.
Fans of the band and the game at Miscoe Hill School, from students right up through the principal, said they are pumped that the school will find itself in millions of homes when the game is released in June.
Roy Spindel, a counselor at the school, was at the first show back in 1970, when he was a Nipmuc student.
“I remember being blown away by their sound,” Spindel said. “When they were playing, it seemed obvious they were going to go some place. All I could think of was, ‘this is what it must feel like when the Rolling Stones play.’ They sounded like they had been together forever.”
The show probably cost about a dollar, Spindel said, adding that his brothers’ band was supposed to play that night but they were bumped for Aerosmith….
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