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The Rotten Apples: Beach Party at the Orchard

by Gordon Marshall
February 4, 2012

The Rotten Apples, “the tightest out-of-tune band in the world," had an antecedent in guitarist Keith Waters' Belmont High School band (Belmont is a town just north of Boston). Even that early evolutionary ancestor of the current band blew effortless attitude in the face of the powers that be. Waters remembers playing a party at the Romney estate in town. “We didn't like the party and we didn't like Romney's kids, so we left early and got back in our ...