The life and times of Stiv Bators, legendary frontman of the Dead Boys and The Lords of The New Church.
▻https://vimeo.com/199202135
When he was a senior at Boston’s Emerson College in 1982, Chris Epting was enticed by members of Lords of the New Church (Stiv Bators, Brian James, Dave Tregunna, Nick Turner) to tag along on a short band tour with a video camera. They wanted their own version of Gimme Shelter. The fresh-faced collegian leaped at the chance to hang with the punk supergroup (and, in New York, Johnny Thunders). The following is his account of that wild ride.
▻https://pleasekillme.com/stiv-bators-lords-of-new-church
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34KI7v1HzPc
„Russian Roulette”
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOii45HUP40
I guess the Lords seed was sown back in Easter 1977, when my then band, The Damned, played with Dead Boys at C.B.G.Bs in New York City.
The singer with the Dead Boys was Stiv Bators, and him and I got on like long lost brothers. Later that year Dead Boys came to England as a special guests on The Damned’s Musical Pleasure tour and Stiv made vague plans to work together in the near future.
In the winter of 1980 Stiv invited me to play guitar with his solo band, for a short US East Coast tour and we began to seriously formulyse plans for what was to become The Lords. Trough either fate or shrewd planning Stiv moved to London during 1981 and we started to jam with various rhythm sections including Glen Matlock and Steve Nichols (from the Pistols and Hot rods) and Tony James and Terry Chimes (from Gen X and the Clash) but through various reasons, mainly prior commitments, things didn’t quite gel until Stiv suggested Dave Tregunna, whom he had briefly played with in The Wonderers and Nick Turner from the recently split Barracudas.
The Lords Were born !!!!
Brian James
▻https://www.discogs.com/The-Lords-Of-The-New-Church-The-Lords-Of-The-New-Church/release/776240
Pascal Comelade - Russian Roulette
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WFMWR_HAfk
