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Lost Horizon: Syracuse's
Rock & Roll Landmark
Part Three of a Four Part Series
by
Tom Carpenter - www.TomAroundTheWorld.com
As we continue with Part III of the History
of The Lost Horizon, more stories continue
to pour in. Here are more memories from
the people that helped make The Lost Ho-
rizon a legendary concert spot...
Coleman Edwards of Undergang (for-
mer member of Canine Christ, Excoria-
tion, and Noxious Truth): Fugazi, Carcass,
D.R.I., Kreator, GWAR of course, Anthrax,
Exodus, there's so many I can't pick one.
My second show ever was at The Lost
Horizon. That was with Noxious Truth.
I broke a string halfway into the first song
and it was horrible. Scott Sterling said
something to the effect of `These guys
are done before they even started.' But it
turned out alright."
Paul Silverman (Long-time barback and
all-around Go-To Guy @ The Lost):
Tom: Paulie, what were your favorite
shows at The Lost?
Paul: "The Exploited, D.R.I., The Crumb-
suckers, Ludichrist, oh... and GWAR. I for-
got GWAR."
Tom: Having worked at The Lost for so
long, you have probably met more bands
than anyone else I know. You've been
involved in the scene for so long, you've
been such a major supporter. You've spent
more time here than almost anyone in the
Syracuse scene, what show sticks out the
most in your mind?
Paul: "The Exploited. I drank heavily that
night with Watty, the lead singer, until five
in the morning and then I got sick. They
were here and everyone was pestering
them. Watty went up to the bar and I
think he bought two bottles of Jack. Or
he had them, I don't know, but he had
two bottles of Jack.
So after the show we sat at the back pool
table and pounded. Greg was at the bar
going, `Let's go home, let's go home...' It
was a great show."
Mike LeGrow (Freya, The Last Season,
and Subpar Breakers):
The most memorable show I saw at the
Lost Horizon was probably my first show,
Marilyn Manson, back in probably 1996.
Smells like children tour, I was 15 at the time
and had no idea what I was getting into. It
was a typical 20 degree below in January
and 117 degrees in there. I was wearing a
big puffy, fuckin Starter Jacket. Needless
to say It was hot as fuck...and then they
played 6 songs and the roof was almost
falling on top of my head...so that's pretty
memorable. Show wise, it would proba-
bly be my first show there...when I was in
6 and. We played Chucky Love's birthday.
It was 3 local bands: Us, Jamus Breed and
The Neural Groove. We were the first of
the three, and by the time we went on the
entire place was packed. For a local band
you don't get that anymore. The whole
bottom was chock full of people, all the
way back almost to the end of the bar, as
far as I remember anyway. I was like 19 at
the time. It was cool that then you could
see things like that... now you don't really.
You will see 50 or so, but not as much...
I think it was not at it's peak,
it was
falling down from it's peak at that time,
which was like `99 or 2000. But I am a
pessimist, so I think everything sucks.
Eeroy (Flackjacket, Black Sunshine): Musi-
cal Memories... I broke my leg at D.R.I.
seventeen years ago. They carted me out
the third song and I had to stay in the
car while everybody rocked out while
I'm sitting in the back seat with a broken
leg. That was fun. Oh wait, I remember
Testament one night and then Nuclear As-
sault the next night. Gwar four times...
holy shit...see now I am getting the brain
bubble. Uhhh! This is wicked bad. I had
a week to learn Flackjacket songs. This
was during the hardcore scene, `87 or `88.
Pete Speilman had gone into rehab and I
had to fill in for a set at the Lost Horizon...
so I had a week to learn like 6 songs. I
learned 2 of them real good...until I got
on stage. I did one semi-good and my legs
were shaking real bad, and I was nervous,
and it was just terrible. I blacked out on
stage totally sober. It was a great perfor-
mance by the rest of the band except me.
It was more punk than Hardcore.
Gregg Yeti (Gregg Yeti & The Best Lights,
Flashing Astonishers, fuctifIno, many,
many more...): That is I. I am Gregg Yetti.
It is he who is Gregg Yetti. Ok, Shit. You
are putting me on the spot, but I remem-
ber a show with Super Touch. I wish I
knew they were named after a Bad Brains
song. I didn't know that but I loved Super
Touch. They were a Revelations Records
band way back in the day. You know they
put out a couple records early 90s, very
early 90s. I was fucking diving and go-
ing around because I knew everybody, so
I would go around back stage and then I
would dive into the crowd. I was doing
it so much I was kind of like overdoing it
so people started to
just like "ehhhh," or
just like drop me. So
this one time, I swear
to God it was the big-
gest fall. When I was
trying to do a little
crowd surfing, fuck-
ing like, you know,
raging
with
the
song. I jumped into
the crowd and I just
dropped like a corpse on the ground and
nobody even touched me. It was like the
crowed opened up. I dove and it was like
the red sea opening, but not in a good
way. And I fell, and I remember I was talk-
ing to the band afterwards and they were
like, "Oh my god, you scared the shit out
of me. And then I saw you fall and we
were all laughing while trying to play the
song."
That was a bummer. At the same time it
was comical. When you are 16 or 17 that
is funny. Why not jump 13 feet in the air
and then fall on the concrete? Why not?
Why not? Fuck it.
As for a show, that we played there, it al-
ways goes back to one of the first Flash-
ing Astonishers shows that we played. We
were together for something like 8 years.
But, in the beginning of that, like 1995 or
so, me and Dan Muscal, the other main
guy in the Astonishers, were doing a band
called The Mildreds for a couple of years
with this guy called Ian Purdy, and then
we started our own thing which was a
I dove and it
was like
the red sea open
ing, but
not in a good w
ay.