Rare In-Person Live Event The Making of Mondo Deco for LA’s Post Glam, Pre-Punk L.A. Cult Band 1976 Debut Album Mondo Deco June 1 Expanded Edition Reissue from Real Gone Music Will Be the Band’s Only Live Event
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LOS ANGELES, CA (THURSDAY MAY 31, 2018) – The Los Angeles mid-seventies post glam, pre-punk, power-pop band The Quick confirmed today a once-in-a-lifetime live event The Making of Mondo Deco with Moderator/Actor Mark Hamill, panelists Producer/Engineer Earle Mankey, band members Danny Benair & Steve Hufsteter and The Quick Fan Club President and Frontier Records founder Lisa Fancher. This event will take place at Beyond Baroque on Thursday June 14 at 8pm, admission is $10 and will be first come, first served RSVP via this Facebook link: The Quick In Conversation.
This live event is in conjunction with a reissue of The Quick’s 1976 Mercury Records debut Mondo Deco as Expanded Edition on June 1 from Real Gone Music for the first time ever on CD. Mondo Deco’soriginal 10 tracks were produced by Kim Fowley and Earle Mankey (original Sparks guitarist and also engineer) at the Beach Boys’ Brother Studios. The Expanded Edition is now a jam packed 21 tracks and features those original ten tracks newly remastered by Bill Inglot plus an additional ten demos (which got them signed to Mercury Records) and an unreleased bonus track. The package also includes a track-by-track commentary by band member Danny Benair, extensive liner notes by Lisa Fancher, a new essay on the bands legacy and never-before-seen archival photos.
Rising from the smog encrusted, sun baked San Fernando Valley, The Quick only existed for three short years (1975-1978) but in that time band members Steven Hufsteter (guitar) and Danny Benair (drums), Ian Ainsworth (bass), Danny Wilde (vocals) and Billy Bizeau (keyboards) managed to carve out a rabid fan base who could were looking for a band that could ‘break down the walls between AM and FM radio’ as Lisa Fancher mentions in her liner notes. It’s no wonder that each went on greater heights in music as Hufsteter, who wrote most of The Quick material went on to form the seminal Los Angeles band The Cruzados, Wilde and Ainsworth formed the band Great Buildings, Wilde then formed The Rembrandts who co-wrote and sang the song “I’ll Be There for You” which was the theme song for the hit NBC sitcom Friends, Bizeau went on to write “Queens of Noise” for The Runaways and Benair went on to fame behind the kit in bands like The Weirdos and The Three O’Clock.
Right now we finished The Three O’Clock (my band) project. Just need to add a surprise and a little more mixing and later this year it will see the light of day.
You can hear some tracks being mixed by the very talented Brian Kehew and yours truly on the sidelines… out takes from The Quick’s Mondo Deco being released in April or thereabouts.
If a glass is half full, I always think it is a 1/4 full, just to protect myself for my love of the Dodgers. Dodgers back in the World Series YES!
Come back for a deciding game 7 First time ever in Dodger Stadium history. Last game 7 by the Dodgers was 1965 Dodgers Minnesota won by grey haired man in the front row below. Sandy Koufax. I could write pages on how I feel, but I just have to accept it, climb into the off season. Maybe I should take up checkers…
Thank you Dodgers for taking it all the way.
From my wife Dianne Benair
It’s probably no surprise to learn that Tiger Lily of Studio City’s 1st Birthday celebration was a classy affair. Tiger Lily welcomed an intimate selection of friends and family to the legendary Mulholland dog park. She wore a red Gatsby-esque fringed dress.
In romance news, Phoenix and Poppy Lake were snapped canoodling under the jungle gym. According to our sources, the soiree allegedly descended into debauchery securing its place in party folklore.
She insisted on donations to charity over birthday gifts.
Los Angeles Dodgers have the best record in baseball. I should be jumping for joy as we head into the playoffs. I am a Dodgers fan always reluctant to get overjoyed. This view from my seats on a cloudy day. While visiting lovely Los Angeles stay at our lovely AirBnB.
Finally I just have to say, there is no need for semi-automatic weapons in the hands of civilians. We all know that the Las Vegas tragedy is really beyond words, and the world we live in just not right.
