THE SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY Phenomenon: RELEVANT ASPECTS
"Sure. I know Handsome Dick.” says the guy w/cool. black shades and laconic East Coast drawl. “Manitoba (x-Dictators singer, connoisseur of fine food) and I are pals.” Johnny Lyon, product of Neptune, NJ, laughs about those wild frogbound nites in Paris with the ’Tators.
"Motion and energy's what it's all about."
THE SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY Phenomenon: RELEVANT ASPECTS
by Gregg Turner
"Sure. I know Handsome Dick.” says the guy w/cool. black shades and laconic East Coast drawl. “Manitoba (x-Dictators singer, connoisseur of fine food) and I are pals.” Johnny Lyon, product of Neptune, NJ, laughs about those wild frogbound nites in Paris with the ’Tators. He can afford to smile these days; credit a switch of labels (Epic to Mercury) and management for successful tours and current hit elpee, Love Is A Sacrifice. Consequently, retrospect and hindsight of more miserable times way back when proves less bothersome and grating.
“Few years ago, we played a show in Toronto Stadium, must’ve been 40,000 people there—80,000 maybe—some incredible amount. We were on the bill with Emerson, Lake and Palmer and the show was late in starting. It'd been raining all day, so these kids were wet and cold and they didn’t want to see us. We walked onstage with five horns and fuck.. .they threw shit at us, yelled, 40,000 people gave me the finger at one time—yelling, flipping me off.
So-called “yelling” and ill-mannered reprisals of dubious partisan participation rankles this man’s fur.