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With news coming out last week that Brad Delp had passed, and more news this week that indicates his death was actually a suicide, we got to thinking about some other Boston music icons that left us too soon. Mark Sandman comes to mind, a 1999 heart attack took the Morphine front man at age 46. This Friday Flashback is a look at Morphine's 1997 video for "Early to Bed."

While all those Midwest folks are placing their bets on the home town team, we'll be sitting tight watching commercials and betting some squares like we just don’t care. Just like we don't care because we don't, the Pats are already out. So we're in it to win it with the boys of summer this year. Pitchers and Catchers report in about two weeks on February 17. Sometime between now and then the equipment truck will load up at Fenway and make its way down to Florida. This Friday Flashback is a music video flashback to Pete Needs a Friend off Universal, one of Bim Skala Bim's later released videos. Watch real close. At the 45 second mark the Bim Skala Bim guys dodge a truck as they're running down Lansdowne. It could very well be the Equipment Truck.

A true story of seven strangers picked to live in a…firehouse. Back in 1997, when Bostonist was still eligible to participate as a member of MTV's Real World cast (sadly we're too old and not enough of a stereotype for the current seasons), the show filmed a season with the cast living at a converted Beacon Hill firehouse. Yesterday the Boston Globe ran an article about an Eastie residence which sold for $1.15 million, also...

Something happened to television this week. New shows came on the air, new seasons premiered their new episodes, and a whole new network has taken to the stage – the CW. Since childhood we've known NBC, CBS, and ABC as the big three. At some point along the line that Simpson's carrying station Fox hit the UHF band, but we still had our favorite indie stations on the ultra-high frequencies. TV38 (WSBK) and WLVI 56 replayed sitcoms, showed cartoons for kids, and each had their own special flavor of programming and hosts. We've mused on it before, but TV38's movie loft certainly kept us busy in front of the tube on some rainy weekends.

Living in a city that's steeped in history, it makes sense that from time to time we get nostalgic for the past. We don't go so far back as the Tea Party. The eighties are far enough back for us. We've got a certain fondness for things like the Snorks on Saturday mornings, or Alf on Monday nights. For our local fix, Cheers became the mainstay – but Spenser made us love more than fake barstools. In the few short years Spenser: for Hire was on ABC we certainly were privy to more "on location" shots in Boston than Cheers ever gave us. Today we bring you the Friday Flashback video of the opening credits to Spenser: for Hire.