Let's change coast and go from LA to Boston, MA, to get into the original sound of the Lyres.
Who was involved, like me, in the garage revival during the 80ies, maybe will agree with me. The Lyres were, are and will be one of the three best band.
Thank you Jeff, for your passion!
These are, as usual, gigs I found all around, so for strange title like "Live in Tibet" (!!!!) is not my blame!
Enjoy
Lyres - Live in Tibet 1980
Lyres - Live @ folk city NY 25-9-1985
From ALLMUSIC.COM
Few bands in Boston rock & roll history have lasted as long, and made as much good music, as Lyres. Led by garage rock obsessive, record collector, Farfisa organ king, and world-class megalomaniac Jeff "Monoman" Conolly, Lyres rose from the ashes of Conolly's first band, DMZ. Sporting a similar high-energy trash-rock sound indebted to the Seeds, ? & the Mysterians, the Stooges, and the early British Invasion (especially early Kinks), Lyres, for a brief, shining moment, were the kingpins of Boston's punk rock scene. Resembling venerable British blues-rockers Savoy Brown because of a constantly changing lineup (something like 40 musicians have passed through the ranks), Lyres (or more specifically, Monoman) gleefully party on, oblivious of trends or the assorted vagaries of the alternative rock marketplace. A dinosaur in his own right? Perhaps, but as long as Jeff Conolly has his organ, a few guys behind him, and a place to play, the simple joy that can only be had through rock & roll will exist in this world -- hipness be damned!
