It’s been a banner week and a half or so for us in terms of some of our all time favorites seemingly coming out of the woodwork with unexpected new material. The most surprising of those has to be Boston’s Stompbox who is just about ready to not only re-release their debut Travis for the first time ever digitally (With loads of bonus music) but also drop their first batch of new material since 1994’s Stress. That’s right, kids, 30 years. Being one of our bucket list Boston bands since we never got a chance to see them back in the day (We’ve since ticked that, ahem, box when they played the Boston Rocks For Julie Duffy shows in 2021), we jumped on the chance to review the new EP called Final Summer a little early and thanks to drummer Zeph Courtney that became a reality (You can read what we thought of that here). While we had Courtney on the line we thought it’d be silly not to catch up on all things Stompbox and, luckily for us and you, he obliged:
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As much shit as I give Mrs RNRF about her love of the sequels over the OG’s (T2 over The Terminator and Die Hard 2 over Die Hard specifically), my first and favorite Friday The 13th remains Part 6 (With Part 2 a veeeeeery close second). So first: I’m a hypocrite. Second: Zombie Jason owns. And Three: Lead protagonist, the now adult Tommy Jarvis in Part 6: Jason Lives, played to perfection by Thom Mathews also owns.
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