The Lyres : Don't Give It Up Now
In 1980 Boston's best garage band, Jeff Conolly's Lyres, released their debut single "How Do You Know?" b/w "Don't Give It Up Now". Here's how Trouser Press reviewed the single:
These fellows used to be DMZ (more or less); why they would want to advertise that fact is way beyond me. "Don't Give It Up Now" is one of the better 1966-ish one-finger organ ravers ? And The Mysterians never recorded. Nuggets fans should dig it; it's a real neat little song, and superior to the alright-but-so-what powerpap on the A side. Produced bu the somewhat legendary Oedipus and Mono Mann Jeff Conally ( sic) , the band' singer composer.
"Don't Give It Up Now" would be the lead off track of the Lyres debut album, On Fyre, which got a ton of airplay on college radio. We also played "Help You, Ann" which featured the same tremolo guitar sound as "How Do You Know". Kind of jealous of my music-loving friends who would up going to college in Boston in the 80's.
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