#433/2112
October 13 1986
Lyres
Lyres Lyres
Genre: 60s Garage Rock
3.5 out of 5
Highlights:
Not Looking Back
She Pays the Rent
What can be said about Lyres that I didn’t say last time? They are driving in a lane that, in 1986, no one is really caring about unless it’s the Rolling Stones. But they do it so damned well on this record that it’s impossible not to wonder what life would’ve been like for them 18 years earlier.
Eventually it runs out of steam and just sounds like the same song over and over and someone turn down that guitar!
“Beneath the streets of Kenmore Square, it was 87 degrees and every bit as arid as a Sears humidifier testing facility 20 minutes into The Lyres’ set at the famed Rathskeller. The Rat. The sweat soaked sardine crush swayed to and fro aggressively, but with no apparent rythmic connection to the Danelectro & Farfisa tsunami washing over them. I’d never seen him before, but he was obviously an asshole. We were evil eyeing each other for a good three songs when I made the mistake of losing myself in the music. I never saw the sucker punch coming, and he never saw the thick-walled refillable Budweiser bar bottle. You wouldn’t think a little waif like 105 pound Alison could break a bottle like that on a man’s head. They threw him out, gave me a free beer. I married Alison. It was a mistake.” - Luca Barnacles
