The Flyboys were a punk rock group from Los Angeles formed by John Curry-(Jon Boy) guitar/vocals, David Wilson (David Way) Bass/Vocals and Dennis Walsh (Denny Drummond) on Drums. Scott Lasken (Scott Towels) joined on Bass soon there after causing Wilson to switch to Keyboards
This was the line up that started to play Hollywood clubs in 1977 but was derailed by Wilson's death in an auto accident in 1978 shortly after a show sponsored by Brendan Mullen of The Masque at Baces Hall supporting the Go Go's and The Avengers.
The group had recently released a color vinyl single on there own FlyGuy Records. Crayon Word b/w Square City was one of the first self-released singles in the growing LA punk rock scene and quickly sold out the 1000 copies pressed.
Tim Sincavage (Thames) was later added to the line up on guitar and Curry began splitting his duties between guitar and Keyboards as well as singing the majority of the songs.
This line up recorded the first ever release for Lisa Fancher's Frontier Records in 1980, a seven song EP titled Flyboys that included proto-type punk/pop tunes such as I Couldn't Tell and Dear John as well as the Flyboys Theme Song, a surf inspired rave up that was covered by Jody Foster's Army.
The group splintered in 1981, Curry spent time in LA based band The Plugz, writing the music for the title track to there second album, Better Luck, although he left the band shortly before the recording of the album to form Choir Invisible with Lasken and Sincavage.
The latter two had submitted an demo with a different singer to Frontier as a possible release but Fancher would only release a record if Curry returned to the fold. She also found drummer, Danny Benair formally of the Quick and later the drummer in The Three O'Clock and Choir Invisible was born.
The Flyboys reunited in 2003 for the LA Weekly's 25th Anniversary Party and again in 2007 for the release Party for Brendan's Mullan's book on the seminal Punk rock Club, The Masque.
You recorded these tracks directly from vinyl didn't you. I love that. You can hear the needle go down at the start. Have these tracks ever been put on CD. It's about time!
