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The Boston Tea Party was housed at two locations. The first location was at 53 Berkeley Street. It opened on January 20, 1967 with a performance by The Lost. The first location on 53 Berkeley Street closed on July 11, 1969 with performances by The Velvet Underground, Country Funk, and Quill.

The very next night, July 12, 1969, the nightclub The Ark, located behind Fenway Park at 15 Lansdowne Street, was renamed the Boston Tea Party and reopened with a performance by Larry Coryell, Country Funk, and The Quill. The decision to close the Lansdowne Boston Tea Party club was made on Thursday, December 31, 1970.

Here's a link to a photo of Robert Plant backstage at the Boston Tea Party (Jan. 69):

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And here's yet another "new" photo of Jimmy at the BTP in January '69:

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Actually, the first photo here is from the same roll of film. The man speaking with Robert Plante was my father's partner in Lights By The Road, a film maker named John B____.

[Led Zeppelin Photo Mysteries]

I'm wondering if anyone here knows that The Boston Tea Party was housed at two different locations? The first (original) one was on East Berklee Street, in the South End. The next location was in Kenmore Square on Lansdown Street. I might suggest if you have questions about the backdrop or architecture of the venues, contacting Steve Nelson of The Music Museum of New England might fill in information that I don't know or have. He was the manager of the BTP and has an incredible memory for details.

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Actually, that last picture looks nothing like the Boston Tea Party, in fact it also looks like John Bonham is using two bass drums.

Maybe I can clear some things up about the photos. All were taken by my father, Roger Thomas, the director of The Road Light Show at The Boston Tea Party. These photos are all on the same negative strip, as well as contact sheets from his old Hasselblad camera. These were definitely taken at the East Berklee Street location. There are several others, but I have yet to scan and upload them.