Spire Center: Ex-Stompers singer Sal Baglio 'happy to find new audience'
Former Stompers singer Sal Baglio will perform new material in a show at The Spire Center in Plymouth on Oct. 21.
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Former Stompers singer Sal Baglio will perform new material in a show at The Spire Center in Plymouth on Oct. 21.
“Plymouth Rock,” the new song being released just in time for Thanksgiving by the rock band the Shang Hi Los, is not an ode to the First Thanksgiving (real or mythologized), but rather, it's about exactly what the title says: Being young and learning to rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
“Loud and fast/Hard and slow/That’s how I like my rock & roll,” declares Watts in “Loud & Fast,” the opening song on its sixth full-length LP. The quartet forgot to mention one thing, though: the presence of singalong anthemic hooks, and it has those aplenty here. Watts’ combo of Midwestern fire, L.A. flash and Northeast sneer means it pretty much has no choice but to write tunes with titles like “Shocking Pink” (no word if it’s a tribute to the band of the same name), “Heavy Metal Kids” (ditto) and All Done With Rock & Roll,” and to play them like they’re just as l...