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

[Leigh Newton]

It was probably ALbum Of The Year-era FNM in which
case I have no problem believing that they were
horrible. By then, they were a group of disinterested
slobs going through the motions.

Leigh


--- gregslawson at aol.com wrote:

> 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...  
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CEPLASTER at aol.com
> To: gathering at misera.net
> 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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