By Devorah Ostrov
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Richie Detrick and Mike Varney - photo by Chris Highsmith
This was the photo used in my school newspaper, although Pat
Ryan had already replaced Varney on bass.
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Monitor: So, how's the album coming along? When is it due out?
Jeff Olener: We've got a May deadline, so probably May. We're gonna be the first band not to put out an album.
Richie Detrick: Have a great career, tour, everything!
Monitor: Are you going to tour Europe?
Jeff Olener: Yeah, this summer.
Monitor: I've heard that punk rock is already dead in Europe.
Jeff Olener: They've tried to suppress it, but it's getting too big so they can't. Record company people don't like the music. Punk rock hasn't sold that much, and they'd like to kill it, but it's getting bigger and bigger. By this summer and fall, it will be real big. It's just really getting started.
Richie Detrick: Out here, it's only been like a year.
Jeff Olener: We played the first show at the Mabuhay, last December ['76]. We rented the place. The Mabuhay was a Filipino club, and we rented it out...
Alejandro Escovedo: I think she knows the story [laughter]. What else do you want to ask?
Monitor: What songs are going to be on the album?
Jeff Olener: Most of them that we do. Probably about 14... "Decadent Jew," "Suicide Child."
Monitor: Alejandro told me that you're really a "hippie band" into love and peace. Is that true?
Jeff Olener: Yeah, he's right. We love everybody! We love all the bands! The record company people really love us. We got turned down like, "Not them, please!" Like, "Oh, my God, not them!" The New York press hates us; everybody hates us.
Alejandro Escovedo: We had a confrontation with Blondie. The Ramones didn't want to play with us.
Jeff Olener: We got along with the Sex Pistols. [Sid] Vicious liked us. Vicious is my pal. There's a guy whose intelligence is worth about like, shit.
Monitor: Do you guys have any goals for the future?
Jeff Olener: Europe! Europe's the first goal, then the world. First, you gotta take Europe.
Alejandro Escovedo: Strategies! Take Poland.
Jeff Olener: We want Poland, then we'll take a piece of Italy. You have to put it into a battle. We're gonna ruin New York when we play there. We promised the Sex Pistols we'd take care of it for them since they broke up.
Monitor: A friend of mine said the only song he liked of yours was the one Jennifer opened with.
Jeff Olener: It's called "Lazy and Then They Come On." They [the press] go, "Jennifer taunted the audience with a slow..." Because it's slow, they like it. Then they go, "Then they came on with their noise, filth, barrage, dirt!" They think we're creepy or something.
Jennifer Miro: I don't know why.
Jeff Olener: Especially me and Alejandro. How could anybody not like us?
Jeff Olener: We've got a May deadline, so probably May. We're gonna be the first band not to put out an album.
Richie Detrick: Have a great career, tour, everything!
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| Richie Detrick at the Mabuhay - 1978 Photo: Devorah Ostrov |
Jeff Olener: Sell out the "Garden," but never have a record. We won the New York Rocker poll for "Best Unrecorded Band." We've never played in New York; we don't even have a single out.
Monitor: Are you going to tour Europe?
Jeff Olener: Yeah, this summer.
Jeff Olener: We played the first show at the Mabuhay, last December ['76]. We rented the place. The Mabuhay was a Filipino club, and we rented it out...
Alejandro Escovedo: I think she knows the story [laughter]. What else do you want to ask?
Monitor: What songs are going to be on the album?
Jeff Olener: Most of them that we do. Probably about 14... "Decadent Jew," "Suicide Child."
Monitor: Alejandro told me that you're really a "hippie band" into love and peace. Is that true?
Jeff Olener: Yeah, he's right. We love everybody! We love all the bands! The record company people really love us. We got turned down like, "Not them, please!" Like, "Oh, my God, not them!" The New York press hates us; everybody hates us.
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Mabuhay flier - October 20 & 21, 1978
L-R: Richie Detrick, Alejandro Escovedo, Jennifer Miro, Pat Ryan, Jeff Olener & Jeff Raphael (photo: Mick Rock)
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Monitor: Do you guys have any goals for the future?
Alejandro Escovedo: Strategies! Take Poland.
Jeff Olener: We want Poland, then we'll take a piece of Italy. You have to put it into a battle. We're gonna ruin New York when we play there. We promised the Sex Pistols we'd take care of it for them since they broke up.
Monitor: A friend of mine said the only song he liked of yours was the one Jennifer opened with.
Jeff Olener: It's called "Lazy and Then They Come On." They [the press] go, "Jennifer taunted the audience with a slow..." Because it's slow, they like it. Then they go, "Then they came on with their noise, filth, barrage, dirt!" They think we're creepy or something.
Jennifer Miro: I don't know why.
Jeff Olener: Especially me and Alejandro. How could anybody not like us?
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