Re: (TV) Neon Boys & Richard Lloyd

["Michael Carlucci" <michael@recordsnyc.com>]

    I had the privelege and the grief of rehearsing 6 months with Richard.
In that time we had done 8 songs. 2 of which were co-written by me, 3 covers
"I'll Keep It With Mine", "Hurt Me"(Hell/Thunders) and a countrified(gag!)
"Purple Rain". Richard wrote the other 3. It was both a blessing and a
curse. It was interesting to see how a song could be written from a
bassplayer's perspective. The rules are left wide open especially with the
lines that Richard plays, they're so twisted. Anyway, for the songs that he
wrote there were basslines for, the others not. The lyrics came very slowly
as well. After 6 months, "Go Now" came out and Richard abandoned the
project. Needless to say I was really pissed at him for that. It was all for
the money of releasing an LP in various countries who would be interested.
Most notably, here, the UK, and especially Japan. So I don't think he was
totally lying when he said that he wasn't writing songs anymore. If someone
offered him enough money he'd find the motivation to make another record.
This internet project is a perfect example. M T C

> From: eric s gregory <esgregory@uswest.net>
> Reply-To: tv@obbard.com
> Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 13:21:12 -0700
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Subject: Re: (TV) Neon Boys & Richard Lloyd
> 
> & i realize it's a "new" unheard song, but anyone know when it was written?
> title, etc?
> last time i saw hell (seattle 96 at a book reading for GO NOW, he claimed he
> wasn't writing songs anymore).
> 
> Michael Carlucci wrote:
> 
>>> 
>>> The same person that told me Lloyd has a record deal , also told me that
>>> Richard Hell and The Viodoids are reforming to do one song . They are being
>>> paid a large amount of cash for this.
>>> From what I understand the people paying for this get to keep total rights
>>> to the song.
>>> 
>> 
>> Hell and the boys are going in for rehearsals starting the 9th of June.
>> Shouldn't take them very long to get it down. By total rights do you mean
>> that they own the song or just hold the publishing? I'm curious as Quine is
>> my source of info but he's not writing the song, it's all Richard's. M T C
>> 
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