[kj] ot - post punk cover band suggestions

[The Mighty TB]

jpwhkj at aol.com wrote:

Good call doing some Lords covers.  I saw them a few times in '83 / '84 and 
thought they were amazing (well, I was 17).

On reflection, Dave Tregunna's had a pretty weird career, hasn't he?  Sham 
69 and LoNC.  Saying that, I don't think growing his hair made him less 
inclined to have a fight.

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Tregunna was also bass player in the short lived and criminally under looked 
post Hanoi Rocks band Cherry Bombz and the post-Lords band with ex-Lords 
drummer Danny Fury in the Kill City Dragons and Shooting Gallery.  He also 
briefly played bass in Dogs D'Amour and I'm certain he played bass for a 
tour with some chick female pop metal singer like Samantha Fox around '85 - 
87.  Most recently, Dave played in a little known punkish outfit called 
Endorfeinds and reunited with Brian James in 2001 in the ill-fated Lords 
reunion and continues to play bass with James in The Brian James Gang when 
they've played sporadic dates.

I've always been a huge Lords of the New Church fan and have occasionally 
bored this group plugging them and talking about the occasional times I hung 
out with mostly Stiv Bator and Nicky Turner back in the mid 80's.  I've been 
good friends with Adam Becvare and encouraged him to join the reunited band 
in 2002 despite the obvious problems joining a band who's charismatic singer 
Stiv Bator was long dead.  Probably up in the top 3 or 4 bands of my life 
and I saw them probably close to 20 times (especially when they lost their 
deal with IRS Records and lived in LA in '85 - '87) between 1982 and 1987.

Regarding covering Lords tunes,  "Russian Roulette" has been covered by a 
lot of bands from Jesse Malin to The Black Halos.  I'd also recommend 
"Livin' On Livin', "Open Your Eyes," "Pretty Baby Scream" and "Murder 
Style."  If you want to see a really cool cover of a more obscure Lords 
tune, check out Lords Of Altamont's cover of "Gun Called Justice:"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3ILH7p0M00

Here's a pile of live Lords vids that include songs from their never 
released 4th studio album as well as one from their '03 reunion uploaded 
along with some other stuff on my YouTube Page:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Bacardicus#p/u

T.B.