David Watts and the Great Train Robbery still deserve the adulation they received from young audiences, especially teenage girls, in their heyday of the the mid to late 1980s when they were far and away the biggest draw on the city’s rich local music scene. Back then the Great Train Robbery was less scary than the Ramrods or the Splatcats, easier to understand than Mercury Rev, less fleeting than the Moment, less ironic than the Real Wigs, hipper by far than the Goo Goo Dolls. David Watts sneered his way through sardonic lyrics and cut across the top of the mix with his rhythm guitar, while Vince “The Iceman” Fossitt led a changing lineup of brass players and extraordinary percussionist Andrew Case held down the ska and reggae influenced beats. The current lineup, re-established in 2004 after a long hiatus, includes these three as well as Naheem Shabazz on trombone, Rodney Chamberlain on bass and David Malia on lead guitar. What’s left to say about a band you’ve been listening to for 20 years? That, though time never runs backward, they are all they ever were. Juxtaposse opens the show.

Saturday, June 16; doors open at 7pm. Tralf Music Hall,

622 Main Street (852-2600). $10.