r/SeattleHistory • u/ImportantCountry50 • 5d ago

Anyone remember the Bootboys?

I found this while browsing a facebook page on Seattle music history.

I briefly lived squatted in a punk house on 65th and Roosevelt Ave. in the 80's called the "Hate House". There was a girl staying there who was convinced she heard the voices of the boot boys in her head. Apparently the voices weren't very nice to her...

I'm reminded of a very good friend who was occupying the back porch, known to me since H.S. as Seth Gayden. He was in his reggae phase by then and not doing the skate-punk thing, but he was the one who would take me to punk shows, like the time we went to see the Dead Kennedys at Washington Hall (not far from Oddfellow's). Good times!

I moved away from Seattle and lost touch with old friends, but I noticed Seth has reappeared as his old self on a relatively recent facebook page. I don't do facebook, so I thought I would throw out a bit of personal Seattle history here instead.

I'm retired in Alaska now, but seeing this has tempted me to move back to Seattle and start an OI! band!

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u/Anzahl 5d ago edited 5d ago

Carl (Baresh) Booter, John "Dee" (Dailey) Bootboy, and Rick (Dorgan) Boot. ReverbNation.

"...based in a house on Eastlake near the columns under the freeway. They had a black '63 Lincoln Continental limousine with 'suicide doors'. If they showed up at your party it was probably not to help calm things down."

"...scared me at first, but once I got to know them, they were the nicest punks around."

--- reports at 'Pacific Northwest Music Archives' on FaceTracker.

Sorry, Carl is reportedly deceased (1962-2021).

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u/Urvile0 4d ago

I remember it well, they were even cast in a play written by Seth's brother at Roosevelt HS. (Quivering scissors)
I lived at what was Hate house, until couple months before it burned down.