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

[gregslawson at aol.com]

I went to an all-day show at the Rat once with the Flies and about 10 other local bands, and Faith No More as a headliner (the worst of all the bands). My fave 80s bands: Scruffy the Cat, Dogmatics, Unnatural Axe, Neighborhoods...  
 
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From: CEPLASTER at aol.com
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Sent: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:28:02 EDT
Subject: Re: [kj] UK / Europe - Lords of the New Church - Bootlegs Question(noKJ content


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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