Lyres: still `On Fyre' after 22 years

The Boston Globe | June 19, 1998| | Copyright

Jeff Conolly, singer-organist of the Lyres, works in used record stores by day and proudly plies the trade of garage rock by night. Here's what he says about his chosen field of music: "Garage rock goes up and down {in popularity}, but the people are always the same: At the lower spectrum of the food chain of rock 'n' roll. We're at the bottom, essentially, where there's a lot more infighting and backbiting."

And yet . . .

When the Boston-based Lyres are on -- Conolly playing his Vox Continental one-handed, shaking a tambourine with the other, and scream-singing, with his three mates ...

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