[kj] ot - post punk cover band suggestions

[jpwhkj at aol.com]

Yeah - I really rated them in the early / mid eighties.  I thought the second album had some great tracks (especially the two singles), but I really struggled to like the third.  And as for Like A Virgin.....

My first-ever gig was the Damned at Hammy Palais, with the Lords (whom I'd never heard of) supporting - I was instantly converted.

Stiv was a great frontman - RIP.  

Jamie






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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.  
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