Roy Loney, the original lead singer for the influential garage rock group Flamin' Groovies, has died at the age of 73
In the early 1960s, Loney began playing guitar and singing with Tim Lynch in the San Francisco band the Kingsmen, which would later evolve into the Chosen Few. By 1965, the Chosen Few became the Flamin’ Groovies. While the band’s albums made little chart impact, they had a subsequent influence on power-pop and punk acts that followed. After self-releasing theirEP in 1968, the band landed a record deal with Epic.
Loney moved onto work in a number of music industry jobs including one as a sales representative for ABC Records. But by 1978, he began releasing his own solo music with his EP , collaborating with Groovies’ members Tim Lynch and Jordan. He’d later team up with his group the Phantom Movers, which featured previous Groovies members Danny Mihm and James Ferrell Roy Loney, to release music as Roy Loney & the Phantom Movers between 1979 and 1993.
, Loney made appearances onstage to play some of the band’s classic tracks. That led to a series of shows this year where Loney and the group were set to perform theirrecord in full. Loney was set to tour Europe with the band before he suffered his fall at the San Francisco International Airport in the spring. Instead, the Groovies had to head out on tour without him.
“Roy was born on a Friday the 13th and he died on a Friday the 13th,” Loney’s girlfriend Altmann told the
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