It sounds like a near impossibility to put the whole of New England music history online. But an ambitious pair of local rock veterans is giving it a try.
Former Boston Tea Party manager Steve Nelson and Orpheus drummer Harry Sandler are the brains behind the Music Museum of New England, a Web site that launched this month at www.
mmone.org. Though the Music Museum site is only skeletal so far, Nelson and Sandler are out to build a definitive local music resource.
But the museum rsquo;s initial list of artists goes beyond the usual suspects. The first 50 artists named on the site include natural choices such as the Cars and the Pixies alongside exotic ones such as pre-rock trio the Ames Brothers (who hailed from Malden) and the .
Saturday marks the 40th anniversary of the opening of the club, which saw Led Zeppelin rsquo;s American debut along with legendary gigs by Fleetwood Mac and the Velvet Underground.
, a plaque will be installed at the Tea Party rsquo;s original location at 53 Berkeley St. (the club later moved to Lansdowne Street, the current Avalon site). A reception will follow at the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology across the street.
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