"Making your way in the world today takes everything you've got...." (Especially the world of goddamn, bleed 'em dry comics!) Which is why, of course, a trip to Boston - or should that be "Bahhston"? - just wouldn't be complete without sinking some swill in the one place "Where everybody knows your name!". (Just to clarify, that's the Cheers bar and not SCCAM....)
Hmm, I wonder. Y'reckon this is Cheers...?
Guess so. Looks like it....
Cheers, The Wilderness Years....
"First you look so strong...." What a Friday night flashback this proved fer Agent Rob, taking him all the way back to his early teens, the family gathered round the One-eyed-god 'fer to watch' Sam Malone and his regulars provide their, er, regular dose of 22 minutes of wholesome chuckles. Who'd've thunk that one day Rob'd be lucky enough to descend those iconic stairs - it's the sound of the authentic underground actually going underground via the seriously overground, innit...? "And then you fade away...."
"One small step for man...."
"Norm!"
"Indian rope man sees the times...."
"Kiss him quick, he has to part...."
"You seem to come and go...." This is the interior of the Bull & Finch pub on Beacon Hill, the original 1982 inspiration for Cheers (presumably after the producers had heartily swilled their way around Boston and the US on a big, fat TV corporation meal-ticket). No such form of the divine clattered Agent Rob, sadly, and he and Miss Moneypenny downed their respective half litres in exhausted silence, watching the perpetual throng of enthusiastic tourists. There's even a replica of the TV bar upstairs for those who fancy warming Norm's seat in his absence. One-liners not included. "I never seem to know...."
The Bull & Finch's actual bar....
"You are a vapour trail...." Close enough, as this is in fact The Cheers Trail, which takes you past eleven historical landmarks as you walk from (er, the other official) Replica where the bar - if not the decidedly airy surroundings complete with, um, street conservatory - is again modelled loosely on the show's television set. This, and a sizeable souvenir shop, which at the very least is underground, is located at Fanueil Hall in downtown - or should that be "dahhntahhn"? - Boston. "In a deep blue sky...."
"Pass through different times, leave them all behind...."
The (other) replica bar's, er, replica bar....
The Cheers bar actual, um, TV bar....
"There's a moose loose aboot this hoose...."
Branded swill glass....*only $8!*
Branded napkin....
Brande- Alright already! We get the idea!
Tourist trapped! "I'm with stupid...."
"If seeing is believing...." As if all this schlepping around and swilling wasn't hard enough on the soul and soles, somebody thought to bang a Newbury Comics in Faneuil Hall Sq. - approx. 3,033 miles by drone from Agent Rob's present location, just so ya know - where there was nothing for it but to stump up and shell out $11.88 for RIDE's (rather fine) new album, Weather Diaries - in a "limited edition embossed mini-gatefold sleeve", just so ya know. "Believing is not seeing...."
Braw Books not available at time of writing....
"Sun is up and the day goes right for me...."
Hmm, not quite my recollection of Cheers, but still....
RIDE - Cali
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