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‘Boston’s Best’ Steps Out

Newsweek Magazine – November 1983
By Ron Pownall

Today Boston, tomorrow the world. The Stompers have been playing the rock-and-roll clubs of the East Coast’s college capital for more than five years; along the way they built up a loyal local following and issued an album on the defunct Boardwalk label. Now they’re getting ready to shoot the moon. Their first single for corporate giant Polygram will be released this month, with an album to follow.

Manager Peter Lembo is quick to credit Boston’s enormous college population for a good part of The Stompers regional success. Students have formed the bulk of the band’s audience since the beginning, he says, and college radio stations were among the first to play their tapes on the air. The question now is whether the group, led by 26-year-old East Boston native Sal Baglio, can broaden it’s local success into national fame. It won’t be easy, but the early signs are promising. Radio programmers have already raved about “Rock, Jump and Holler” and “Never Tell an Angel,” two dance tunes, and advance word out of Boston is that the band’s live shows are electric. It’s on the strength of those shows that New England clubgoers voted The Stompers “Boston’s Best Rock Band” in The Boston Globe’s annual readers’ poll in January. The J. Geils Band came in second.