“Dry Ice was a Massachusetts band who had a great future. They had made several unreleased recordings and they were getting bigger audiences and record label attention. Unfortunately, the Vietnam-era draft took two key members and the band never recovered. “Mary Is Alone” remained unreleased for decades, until psych collectors began circulating a bootleg of their unissued songs.”
Nineteen Pages: The Oral History of Drop Nineteens 1989-2024
As it happened, the winds of change brought Drop Nineteens’ founder Greg Ackell to Boston from Northfield Mount Hermon, a coed boarding…