I'm heartbroken to hear this news as I was a huge fan of SPR ever since I first saw them back in November 2010 at McGann's, and was amazed with the band's stage presence and their ability to incorporate the audience in as a part of the act with the song "Whisky", where the members would invite random concertgoers to come up on stage with them and have a shot of whiskey as they were performing. The band has been covered extensively here on the blog as an Artist Spotlight shortly after that aforementioned performance, and their album Postcards From Purgatory was reviewed glowingly here on the blog upon its release in April 2011, plus I conducted an interview with them shortly after that totally encapsulated the free wheeling, fun spirit that the band were trying to emulate in their music. I really appreciate and admire the guys for constantly evolving during their time together, and adapt to the ever changing musical climate by sticking to their guns and making the audience feel like they're part of the act, something that is very rare with other local artists these days. I'm very close with the guys in the band, and I'll continue to support the guys with their new musical venture which should be announced sometime soon. A personal thanks to the whole band for being such cool guys and being huge supporters of the blog and the whole Boston music scene in general!
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