I lived in this not-quite-legal loft on Causeway Street in Boston.

March 2, 1987. Day .

I don't have pictures of my own, but this is a video still that shows the loft I lived in for a short while in 1987...I think. There were other knocked-together loft spaces in Boston then, this might be a different one. I don't know who this guy is.

Here's the video where I found the picture. It's a band called The Eels (way before the major-label Eels), a couple of the members were my housemates. I played with them, once. The drummer was late for practice so I asked if I could sit in and just try to keep a really fast beat. I kinda got it for a minute or so but I didn't notice the drum throne was slipping a little with each kick, and I suddenly fell off the back of the drum riser, along with the throne. No more than a four-foot drop. Fortunately I landed on a pile of folded canvas and raincoats and maybe an inflatable dinghy or something.

And this is the building. We called our place "Watson Studios" but I never knew the building said "Watson" on it. Remember at this time the T (Boston' subway) ran on elevated tracks down the middle of Causeway Street. We were on the tird floor, upstairs from the kung fu dojo.

Boston Massachusetts The Eels 117 Causeway Street Watson Studios

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