I recently received a pleasant blast-from-the-past jolt when I learned that a local award-winning filmmaker, Vinny Straggas, is putting the finishing touches on a new documentary on Boston’s punk/new wave/whatever music scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They’re all included: The Neighborhoods, Mission of Burma, Human Sexual Response, the Nervous Eaters, Pastiche, Robin Lane and the Chartbusters, The Atlantics, the Lyres and many more. … I briefly talked to Vinny, who told me he expects his feature-length “Life On The Other Planet” to be released around mid-September. He’s hoping to nail down theater locations and dates soon. ..

Why the “Life On The Other Planet” title? “Because that music place we lived in long ago no longer exists,” said Vinny, an Emmy Award-winning producer who worked for years at WGBH. “It was like another planet.”  … Screen shot above via Life On The Other Planet, where you can view the actual video trailer (scroll down).

Fyi: I played a very small role in the late ‘70s/early ’80s music scene as an assistant entertainment manager at the now closed MacPhie Pub at Tufts. I hired many of the bands mentioned above. I had a blast doing so. Such fond memories.