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Lyres-Live At Cantones,Boston 1982-NEW LP

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Lyres

Live At Cantones,Boston 1982

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Live At Cantones, Boston 1982 * by Lyres (Vinyl, Jul-2011, Munster)


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The 1970s garage punk band from Boston, DMZ, had dissolved in a 1978 train wreck. Jeff “Mono Mann” Conolly, DMZ’s inspired singer and songwriter, decided to take a Vox organ-driven direction next in his Lyres. Lyres evolved into an amorphous group of players moving in and out of the band over the years with certain mainstays like Paul Murphy and Ricky Coraccio, DMZ’s drummer and bass player respectively, hanging in longer than most.

Ricky “Little Man” Carmel was the original guitarist for Lyres and was with Conolly, Murphy and Coraccio when they recorded the classic 1979 45 ‘Don’t Give It Up Now’ / ‘How Do You Know?’ By the time Peter Greenberg, DMZ’s lead guitarist, returned to Boston from Cincinnati in the summer of 1980 to join Lyres, the original line-up had also dissolved and Conolly was filling in players on an ad hoc basis.

The next iteration of Lyres had some staying power and included, along with Conolly and Greenberg, Michael Lewis, DMZ’s original bass player, and Howie Ferguson, who had been the drummer for the Real Kids. This band recorded Lyres’ first two releases for Ace of Hearts Records, the EP AHS1005 and the 45 ‘Help You Ann’ / ‘I Really Want You Right Now’. This batch of Lyres collapsed at the end of 1981.

Conolly re-recruited Murphy, Coraccio and Carmel back to Lyres at the start of 1982. However, for the recording at hand, “Live At Cantones, Boston 1982”, Carmel was indisposed and Greenberg got “the call” from Conolly to fill in the night of the show. From a historical perspective, this night at Cantones is reported to be the only night where Conolly, Murphy, Coraccio and Greenberg – four fifths of DMZ – played together as Lyres – except for a much later Spanish tour in 2009.

Cantones was an Italian restaurant in Boston’s financial district by day. By night, the suits were gone and left those cold and empty streets to the kids. This particular show is an energetic and raucous representation of the many, many nights Lyres cranked it out at Cantones. It was commonplace for the night to end at 2:30am with brawls that spilled out through broken windows into the street.

This is a great rock & roll recording of early Lyres material with a bit more of a DMZ-edge to it. None of this material has ever been released before.



Tracklist
A1     I Really Want You Right Now

    Written-By – Conolly*

    3:12
A2     Lily

    Written-By – Sallee*

    3:12
A3     Help You Ann

    Written-By – Conolly*

    2:41
A4     Come On Up

    Written-By – Cavaliere*

    3:40
A5     Don't Give It Up Now

    Written-By – Conolly*

    4:05
A6     Mighty Idy

    Written-By – Conolly*

    3:03
B1     Let's Have A Party

    Written-By – Robinson*

    2:27
B2     100 CCs

    Written-By – Conolly*

    2:37
B3     Since You've Been Gone

    Written-By – Ormsby*, Morrill*, Dangel*

    2:53
B4     Hang Up

    Written-By – Gardner*

    2:13
B5     Cinderella

    Written-By – Roslie*

    2:48
B6     Dirty Robber

    Written-By – Greek*, Morrill*

    2:34
B7     Journey To Thyme

    Written-By – Jerry Smith (8)

    2:24
Credits

    Bass – Rick Coraccio
    Drums – Paul Murphy (6)
    Guitar – Peter Greenberg
    Vocals, Organ [Vox] – Jeff Conolly

Notes
Back cover reads:

Recorded March 26, 1982 at Cantones, Boston, Massachussetts

℗2011 The Lyres
This Release ℗ & © 2011 Distrolux, SL

Song publishers (on both labels):

Bug Music (BMI)/Crook And Flail Music (BMI) [A1, A3, A5, A6 and B2]
Mark Nine Music [A2]
Slacsar [A4]
Gladys Music [B1]
Valet Pub [B3, B4 and B5]
CFG Pub [B6]
Copyright Control [B7]
Barcode and Other Identifiers

    Barcode: 8435008831110


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