Jimi LaLumia

Actually undergrounds have their very own undergrounds (sub-undergrounds?) of performers who will hardly ever quite make it also towards the “total unidentified” stage. Although Jimi Lalumia’s ever mutating support music group included, at onetime or another, such punk luminaries as Johnny Thunders, Cherry Vanilla, and Jayne State, the group just maintained two singles and an EP during its chaotic life. Developing up in Lake Ronkonkoma, Longer Isle, LaLumia became increasingly more interested in the brand new York Town music scene from the later ’60s, finally shifting to the town in the first ’70s and learning to be a freelance music article writer and a picture staple on the renowned Max’s Kansas Town, befriending Thunders and State along the way. In 1977, LaLumia produced Jimi LaLumia as well as the Psychotic Frogs, self-releasing the manic “Loss of life to Disco (Disco Sucks)” afterwards that calendar year. The aptly entitled EP Typically Tasteless made an appearance the following calendar year, offering the originals “Mangle Me” and “YOU MAY NEVER Walk Once again” over the A-side and hilariously vulgar renditions of “Eleanor Rigby” and County’s “I ACQUIRED Fucked With the Devil YESTERDAY EVENING” over the turn. 1979 saw the discharge of two even more Beatles-related addresses, the Isley Brothers’ “Twist and Shout” as well as the Shirelles’ “Children,” on the gold-vinyl 45 offering vocals by Cherry Vanilla and Blondie’s early backup vocalist Donna Destri. However the group survived in a variety of forms for quite some time, that was their last public discharge. When the oddball ’60s indie ESP-Disk unexpectedly resumed functions in the first ’90s, among their first produces was Live at Max’s Kansas Town 1981, a reissue of the self-released cassette of the late present by LaLumia and firm. ESP-Disk’s edition thoughtfully added the entirety from the group’s three public releases by the end. Although LaLumia has the casual gig in NY, he’s mainly retired from carrying out and owns an archive shop in his hometown of Lake Ronkonkoma.