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in Rolling Stone, he was ragging on some
new country band and he wouldn't name
the name, but he said, `These people did for
country music what pantyhose did for nger
fucking.' I changed it. Under The Gun did for
original music in Syracuse what panty hose
did for nger fucking. That's my feelings
about it. That's why I think there's really no-
body here tonight. It's bad now, but it used
to be a lot better.
Kevin Dean of Brand
New Sin: It's funny be-
cause both of the bands
I saw this particular
night really were major
in uences on my style,
even my taste in music.
But I have to remem-
ber King Diamond and
Flotsam & Jetsam. I don't
know why but that was
the one show of all the
friggin' shows in all the
years. It was just killer...
killer. King Diamond
didn't take his make-up
o , even in the parking lot.
And they showed up at ve
o'clock and he was dressed
in his garb.
I'm sorry, but I'm gonna
side-track myself. We
toured with Motorhead,
and Mickey D would always
come into the dressing room
and tell us stories about
King. He was telling us that
they were out on the beach,
you know, hanging out and chilling with the
ladies and here comes King walking down
the fucking shore. He's got this body-length
leather jacket and his make-up on and
everything in ninety- ve degree heat, he was
never out of character. I don't know why I
threw that in there, but it's hilarious.
As far as playing here, my favorite memory
is like the rst show I ever played here. I've
got to give credit to the two bands that
helped my band The Third Party get rolling
here, Mannslaughter and Sacred Death. We
opened up for them right after Je Tortora
got into Sacred Death. He kinda gave us our
start. There were like three hundred people here
and it was totally mobbed. That was right when
the Punk rock, crazy scene kinda meshed with
the long-hairs and they started getting along.
Because I remember going to M.O.D. and it was
like a death pit, ya know? Broken bottles and
razor blades... and it was getting dangerous.
And then, like a year later, it seemed to dis-
solve and worked
itself out. We were all
going to the same shows. You'd have the Punk
rock playing with the Thrash players, and even
early Hardcore. They just got along nally. There
was no more animosity as opposed to going to
Weedsport and watching Slayer and again, it
was a death pit and you had eight or ten body
builders standing around the pit just looking
for the smallest dude to kill. I was probably that
guy, getting beat up, and then getting back up
anyway.
But, The Lost, I gotta thank Scott Sterling for that.
Thursday showcases... free beer and The Ben
Wah Boys. But they'd give anybody a fucking
shot no matter what. If you got a band and you
Lost Horizon continued
could play for forty- ve minutes, Scott would
say, `I've got three rules for you: 1.) Don't
suck, 2.) Bring a lot of people, and 3.) Don't
suck!'
There are tons of stories from The Lost Ho-
rizon, and in the next installments, there
will be more funny tales
from the musician, and
management that made The Lost Horizon
the Rock & Roll icon that it is.
If you want your story in Tool & Die,
email me at: tom@tomaroundtheworld.
com and I will include it in a future col-
umn.
Until next time, keep rocking!