THE NOW (1979)
Hailing from New York City, Jeff Lennon (Geoff "Lip" Danielik), Mamie Francis, Robin Dee and Bobby Ore were The Now. They were playing the Max's Kansas City scene when they signed to RCA distributed Midsong International Records and hooked up with producer Bobby Orlando. An album was "produced, arranged, engineered and concieved" by Mr. Orlando and sold about 200,000 records - enough to warrant a second LP which the band started to record. Then the label literally disappeared from their New York City offices. The band never received a dime and that was the end of The Now. The band splintered off into various bands but none achieved any level of success. A live disc recorded in 1979 was released on CD. Check also the Japanese import from Wizzard In Vinyl that unearths a retrospective from Geoff "Lip" Danielik who during 1978-1981 had 4 bands (Alter Ego, Peroxide, T.K.O and The Now) all which did the major label flirting thing but never quite getting to where they all had hoped. Danielik`s closest call was with The Now, which power poppers from this time period will recall. "Can You fix Me Up With Her" was featured on the Shake Some Action Vol 7. (notes from lostbands.com).
Can You Fix Me Up With Her / What's Her Name / Baby I'm Bad / Flex Your Muscle / Christine / He's Takin' You To The Movies / T.V Private Eye / You Are The One / Reaction / I Wanna Go Steady With You
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SongsCan You Fix Me Up With Her / What's Her Name / Baby I'm Bad / Flex Your Muscle / Christine / He's Takin' You To The Movies / T.V Private Eye / You Are The One / Reaction / I Wanna Go Steady With You
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Could somebody maybe post that Geoff Lip Danielik stuff?
Ultimate post !!!!!
Thanx for The Now ...
Thanks for this great post.
I remember going thru the racks of the record store and looking for bands that started with "The" and found this.
A Statement about the punk/new wave era in the midwest U.S. ?
My Gawd! This brings back some memories.
Thanks!
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robin dee thanks to all who listened and rememberd our hard work it was good times and bad times to bad there wasnt mtv then
hi from robin dee thanks to all who listened and rememberd THE NOW it was good times and bad times to bad we were before MTV.
I have this album. Heard "I Wanna Go Steady With You" on a college radio station> I always wondered what happened to them. Back in the days before the internet you really had to dig to find cool bands. Especially in Peoria! Sadly I have no working turntable anymore.
Any hope to have the artwork of this album??
Can you re up please?
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