The Trademarks-It's Up To You

I don't really know anything about this unsigned Boston band circa 1980. This is a great song, though, and received some airplay in the area at the time.
This performance is from the TV show Boston: Live!, which aired local bands weekday afternoons on Channel 68.

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Music

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• Trademarks
• Up
• To
• You
• Boston
• Live
• WBCN
• 1980
• V66
• 68
• New
• Wave

[Whofan1000]

Very nice guys. I was in a band called Angry Young Bees and one night we played at the Rat along with the Trademarks. In the dressing room between sets, one of them made a very smart comment that must have influenced me because I thought of it frequently in subsequent years: "You know, 99% of us who play in bands are never gonna be famous or make our living from our bands, so we better be having fun!" Thanks to whichever guy said that - and I hope he's still having fun, whatever he's doing.

[51sued]

They were a BLAST to go see and dance to! I have many "bootleg" tapes of their performances (I brought a tape recorder into the club in my purse "back in the day"), but only a true fan that saw them and heard them in the glory days can possibly listen to the tapes. :-) The songwriting duo of Dave Morrison/Jack Moran were great! (see my blog about what Dave is doing now at sued51 on Word Press (from boston band members to poets a tale of two daves)

[revulayshun]

I used to work for Dave's brother Tim at the Arlington location of RBR. Dave, Tim, Bobby, Liz, Karen, Elaine....if any of you see this, its Greg. Message me! Especially Karen.....

[piwitiwi]

four awesome things in this one: the song, the band, the look and the video blurb at the end

[qwe12qweful]

Used to see them as RipChord years ago and then as the Trademarks back in the late 70's when Jack worked in a convenience store in N. Woburn and Dave worked at a sandwich shop his brother owned (or managed) in the same strip mall. Some great memories.

[ej1mshan]

The band is great but the singer...sucks

[runaroundace]

@runaroundace I meant to put "the trademarks are NOT mentioned in the tracklisting."

[runaroundace]

I never heard of this band before. I love this song though! what are the names of the 3 singles mentioned that they released? I saw a track listing for the comp mentioned and the trademarks are mentioned in the tracklisting. maybe they are on a different comp?

[robbovius]

HA! another Band we (the Hot Dates) gigged with in the early 80s....

[shaolinmonk02151]

tell your father , wally, Carter alans producer from Wbcn said hello.