Re: (TV) Neon Boys & Richard Lloyd

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

    It was just before my daughter was born in the spring of '95. Full band
yes, there was another guitarist Evan(pronounced Ee-van), and a drummer
named Chris. My choice of a Prince song would've been "The Cross" but hey,
it was Richard's thing. But a country version of Purple Rain, as sung by
Richard, eh? M T C

> From: eric s gregory <esgregory@uswest.net>
> Reply-To: tv@obbard.com
> Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 14:04:10 -0700
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Subject: Re: (TV) Neon Boys & Richard Lloyd
> 
> no shit!
> when was this?  (i'm guessing early 90s?)
> "purple rain"???? surely there are better prince songs...
> weird.
> who else was rehearsing with you?
> full band?
> 
> 
> 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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