SOMETHING ABOUT THE WATERBOYS
Suppose for just a moment there was a fellow who named his band the Waterboys because “a Waterboy was something fluid and ever-changing” and also because it was part of a lyric (“And I am the Water Boy, the real game’s/ Not over here”) from Lou Reed’s Berlin.
SOMETHING ABOUT THE WATERBOYS
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Dave DiMartino
Suppose for just a moment there was a fellow who named his band the Waterboys because “a Waterboy was something fluid and ever-changing” and also because it was part of a lyric (“And I am the Water Boy, the real game’s/ Not over here”) from Lou Reed’s Berlin. And suppose he used to be in a couple of other bands, too, called Funhouse and The Red And The Black.
One need not know the complete works of the Stooges and the Blue Oyster Cult to ascertain a pattern here. Compound these facts with yet another: that this same fellow, a Scotsman, would go out of his way to ask Lenny Kaye to produce him.
His name is Mike Scott, and he is The Waterbcffl He is sitting across from you in a small hotel room, one early Saturday morning, arid you’ve just mentioned that pattern.