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Re: (TV) Neon Boys & Richard Lloyd



Was Ivan from Stab City also involved in this project Michael?

>Michael Carlucci wrote:
>
>>     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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