{"id":39316,"date":"2018-08-17T09:08:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T08:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=39316"},"modified":"2018-08-18T21:52:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T20:52:55","slug":"unfinished-ex-junkie-business-waldos-walter-lure-on-heroin-the-heartbreakers-and-comeback-album-wacka-lacka-boom-bop-a-loom-bam-boo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/08\/unfinished-ex-junkie-business-waldos-walter-lure-on-heroin-the-heartbreakers-and-comeback-album-wacka-lacka-boom-bop-a-loom-bam-boo\/","title":{"rendered":"UNFINISHED EX-JUNKIE BUSINESS – Waldos’ Walter Lure On Heroin, The Heartbreakers And Comeback Album ‘Wacka Lacka Boom Bop A Loom Bam Boo’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Walter Lure<\/strong> has a mouth like a machine gun and he’s not afraid to shoot it off.<\/h4>\n

Back with his first album in 24 years, he waxes lyrical on everything from his time with The Heartbreakers to his extraordinary parallel career as a Wall Street stockbroker.<\/h4>\n

The sole survivor of what’s been described as “the most self-destructive and contrary band” in rock, Lure’s got more stories than the Empire State Building and he’s happy to share.<\/p>\n

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Walter and his Waldos – Takanori Ichiuji (bass\/vocals), Tak Nakai a.k.a. Takto (guitar\/vocals), and Joe Rizzo (drums\/vocals).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Talking nineteen to the dozen, he sketches the motley cast of reprobates who blazed a trail for what became punk with the use of just a few well chosen words.<\/p>\n

Thus, Johnny Thunders <\/strong>is “a typical mess”,\u00a0David Johansen\u00a0<\/strong>“a control freak”, Richard Hell\u00a0<\/b>`’funny but obnoxious” and poor old Kiss<\/strong> guitarist\u00a0Ace Frehly\u00a0<\/strong>“the ugliest guy on earth”.<\/p>\n

By turns hilarious and tragic, there’s all of punk’s rich tapestry here – from a bickering van-load of\u00a0Ramones<\/strong>, to the destructive chaos of long term drug abuse and the loss of much-loved friends and talented musicians.<\/p>\n

So buckle up, dear reader, as the Waldos’ mainman takes Matt Catchpole<\/strong> for a walk on the wild side.<\/p>\n

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Sole Survivor – Waldos frontman Walter Lure<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He may not have made a record for the best part of a quarter of century, but Walter Lure has not exactly been resting on his laurels.<\/p>\n

Gigging regularly in his native New York with The Waldos and other bands over many years, he’s also toured\u00a0The Heartbreakers’ much hallowed\u00a0LAMF\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>album backed by stellar line-ups including\u00a0Blondie<\/strong>‘s\u00a0Clem<\/strong> Burke<\/strong>,\u00a0Sex Pistol<\/strong>\u00a0Glen Matlock<\/strong> and\u00a0Wayne Kramer<\/strong> of the\u00a0MC5<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Now thanks to a hook up with LA-based Cleopatra Records<\/strong>, he’s finally nailed the follow-up to The Waldos’ 1994 debut\u00a0Rent Party<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

“I ran into the Cleopatra VP at one of my shows out in LA and we started chatting and after three or four years they finally made an offer last year and we did it and now it\u2019s done,” he says matter-of-factly.<\/p>\n

“The sound is good, especially with the Heartbreakers’ sound problems back in the ’70s, it\u2019s nice to have a record come out that sounds good.”<\/p>\n

Lead single\u00a0Crazy\u00a0Kids<\/strong><\/em>, features The Waldos performing live, intercut from scenes from\u00a0Thunders: Room 37<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong> – a new documentary about the last hours of Heartbreakers’ co-frontman\/guitarist\u00a0Johnny Thunders<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Thunders died aged 38 in a hotel room in New Orleans of an apparent overdose, just one day after arriving in the city.<\/p>\n

But as Lure explains, the details are somewhat suspicious.<\/p>\n

“With Johnny everything was suspicious! It\u2019s just like with Sid and Nancy there was never a straight answer out of that one either. With Johnny, the story I heard was that he had gone across the street to some bar and supposedly found some guys to sell him drugs. He bought some and went back to his room and shot up, but it turns out it wasn\u2019t heroin, it was like LSD or something like that. He took whatever Methadone he had to bring him down from it and overdosed on it.”<\/p>\n

Some say the musician was deliberately delivered a fatal “hot shot” as part of a robbery plot.<\/p>\n

“He had a ton of cash on him, because he had just signed some deal in Germany when he went over there and apparently all the cash was missing after the investigation was over.” Lure explains.\u00a0“But that\u2019s just a story I heard, I\u2019ve no idea whether it\u2019s true. No-one was ever brought up on charges or anything. It\u2019s a real mystery. A typical mess, everything Johnny ever did was a typical mess!”<\/p>\n

Lure has yet to see the completed film , but says the actor playing Thunders appears to have done his homework.<\/p>\n

“The guy who plays Johnny clearly spent a lot of time studying him,” he says. “When I saw the clips, he had a lot of the same mannerisms as Johnny had, the way he would talk and so on.”<\/p>\n

While the video hearkens back to The Heartbreakers, the music recalls the output of British punk pioneers The Sex Pistols.<\/p>\n

“That’s definitely deliberate,” Lure says, “It starts off with that high A chord that has a lot of resonance and I was thinking of the Pistols when I first wrote the song in the late \u201880s, early \u201890s something like that.”<\/p>\n

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