[kj] UK / Europe - Lords of the New Church - Bootlegs Question(noKJ content

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Dear Jim,
 
        I was very interested to see  that background info on the Flys.  I 
had no idea they had a previous life  as "Mozart".  The whole Roy Thomas Baker 
angle sounds very true to  form.  The Flys had two brothers (right?) that were 
kind of pretty boys,  and Roy definitely likes his men cute.  You probably 
have heard this all  ready, but there has been a long standing rumor that
Tommy Lee of Motley Crue did some "favors" for RTB to get him to do the  
first Motley ep- not that I have any problem with that, mind you.  It's  just a 
nice piece of folklore that I wanted to pass along.
         Back to the Flys... I have  a great Flys story for you.   A few 
years back when they had a song  that was doing well on "alternative" radio (WFNX 
in Boston), I was mixing sound  for a
Boston band that was opening for the Flies.  In true a-hole headliner  
fashion, they do a soundcheck that takes the better part of a day and still  sounds 
like crud, due to clueless soundman with loads of gear and minimum  savvy.  
They have an equally clueless tour manager lady who, swear to god,  looks like a 
"Scores" girl, and even though she seems to know very little, it  doesn't 
really matter because all the guys who work at the club are fawning all  over 
her, anyway.   
          My band gets  virtually no soundcheck, but we manage fine.  Their 
set sounds like poo,  and the two brothers get in a fight after the show.  
Freaking train  wreck.
           One side  note,  ten years previous, there was a band from Boston 
called the Flys who  were fucking great, but outside of Boston, nobody really 
knows about them.  
                                                                              
    Thanks,  Carl P.
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