Our customers, or "BELLAMI Bellas," as we call them, are glamorous, confident, and not afraid to express themselves. After all, we created BELLAMI Hair because every woman deserves to feel like her best self. That's why we're here to embolden each one of you through the transformative power of hair. So this project has been a joy for me.BELLAMI means "Beautiful Me," which we believe every woman is. "But I was always better at promotion and marketing than as a musician. "At the beginning of this year I picked up a bass, because bass players are always in demand, and thought about playing in a cover band," he says. It puts a smile on your face."ĭoes Maloney ever get the itch to play again? I think a lot of people involved with this project feel the same way. I wanted to keep my good memories intact. Seven nights a week you could see a band. "The booklet is 20 pages and includes a thumbnail bio for every band, band lineups and song information, including songwriting and publishing credits and who played on the track," says Maloney, who compiled the information.Īsked why he was willing to devote time and money to such a project, Maloney answers, "When I was 18 to 24, it was such a fun scene. Dirty Blonde guitarist and graphics designer Bryan Zimmerman worked up a logo, and Kings Chamber bassist Jeff Baker, who now lives in Las Vegas and is a graphics designer for Retrospect Records, did the CD booklet gratis. Chillz (ne Michael Horvath) remastered and cleaned up the tapes in his home studio in Sellersville. Maloney and LeFevre have had help in keeping down the project's cost. We originally had a budget of $2,000, but now we're close to $4,000." The money is coming out of our own pockets. "We were tossing and turning about what to do. "For example, the guy in Jolly Roger told the guy in Dirty Blond about the project and he turned me on to a contact for someone in Omynous."īut the "overwhelming" response also presented Maloney and LeFevre with a new problem: Could "Lehigh Valley Rocks!" be confined to a single disc? "We decided to go to two CDs in August," says Maloney.
Once word of the project spread, "things went pretty smoothly," says Maloney. Ultra, Lethal Tender and Riff Raff wanted to participate in the project, but, says Maloney, "their tapes had deteriorated badly over time." Jojo is a successful businessman in northern New Jersey, totally removed from the music scene." Jody Hawk, the lead singer of Endzone, used to roadie for Vicious Barreka in the mid-1980s.
"Joe Nemeth, who went by the name Jojo Monroe - nobody had heard from him in 15 years. It was, and a couple of weeks later, he called me out of the blue and asked if Washed could have two songs on the disc."Īnother band on Maloney's wish list, Vicious Barreka, a metal outfit whose sole CD was named "Outrage, Profanity, and Insanity," also was hard to contact. "I finally got a phone number, but it didn't sound like his voice on the answering machine. Bellew, and had sent out a bunch of e-mails," Maloney says. "I was trying to get hold of lead singer J.J. One of the most difficult acts to reach - and one on Maloney's wish list - was Washed, a hard-rock group that played from 1986 to 1992 and was WZZO's first Backyard Bands winner at the Allentown Fair in 1989. Some people hadn't been heard from for a very long time." "We already had some from The Mob, Fantazy, Endzone, Teeze and Mizery, but everybody else we had to contact," says Maloney. I was doing mortgages out in Phoenix."īut this time they committed to the project, and in July they began soliciting tapes. "He was running the Main Street Jukebox in Stroudsburg. "We had talked in the months between, but we were busy with other stuff," says Maloney. LeFevre contacted Maloney about the project again in June. "We were reminiscing about the old days, and that's when he brought up the idea of both a disc and a documentary," says Maloney. LeFevre, who had played with Riff Raff and Mizery, first broached the idea of "Lehigh Valley Rocks!" a year ago, when Maloney was in the area visiting family. They were more about the music than the look." They were regular working-man's bands that didn't have that glammy, made-up look. The Lehigh Valley bands did not fall into that. Asked why, Maloney replies, "A lot of bands that got signed were manufactured. The bands played at Allentown venues such as the Airport Music Hall, Chubby's, Lupo's and the Green Pine Inn, and Bethlehem nightspots such as Mickey Kelly's, the Four G's, Wally's and Odysseus.
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