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Ernie and the Automatics
12+ albums
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The members of Ernie and the Automatics hold a unique place in Boston rock annals. Not only are they perpetuating the city’s rich musical history, they’re an integral part of it. At once fresh and familiar, the sextet’s blues-powered, R&B-infused brand of rock & roll brings a bracing double shot of vitality and immediacy to Beantown’s proud tradition, as EATA forcefully shove classic rock into the 21st century. Guitarist Barry Goudreau and drummer Sib Hashian were former members of the multi-platinum selling band Boston. Goudreau left the group after its first two mega-selling albums and formed RTZ with keyboardist/vocalist/harmonica player Brian Maes, bassist Tim Archibald and Boston frontman Brad Delp. Subsequently, Maes and Archibald spent six years in Peter Wolf’s House Party Five, plying Wolf originals and material made famous by the J. Geils Band. Saxophonist Michael “Tunes” Antunes spent most of his career playing with John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band, best known for their hit “On the Dark Side” and their work on the soundtrack to the cult classic rock film Eddie and the Cruisers. Collectively, these five veterans have sold north of 32 million records. The band is rounded out by guitarist and Berklee graduate Ernie Boch, a fixture of Boston’s modern-day rock & roll community. Formed piece by piece in 2006, the band sprang out of the friendship between Boch and Hashian, who kept suggesting to the younger musician that they hook up and play some music. Once Boc
