The Waldos (Walter Lure) 'Rent Party' CD + bonus tracks

Walter Lure, best known as co-frontman and songwriter of the Heartbreakers, also led his own band, The Waldos. 

Walter Lure’s guitar-sparring partner in The Waldos in place of Johnny Thunders is Joey Pinter, whose self-titled solo album was released in 2015. The rhythm section is the late Tony Coiro on bass and Jeff West on drums except on the bonus Crazy Little Baby 7” tracks, the late Charlie Sox.

The album features six Walter Lure originals, plus covers of Jerry Nolan, Gary US Bonds, Claudine Clark and Ray Charles songs.  As well as the bonus Waldos 7" tracks, the CD version features two tracks by The Blessed, the cult punk punk that Walter also played with just after the Heartbreakers.

Sadly, Walter died in August 2020, the last of the ‘L.A.M.F.’ Heartbreakers. His memoir "To Hell And Back: My Life In Johnny Thunders’ Heartbreakers - In The Words Of The Last Man Standing" will be published by Backbeat in paperback edition on July 1, 2021. Upon the original Rent Party release, AllMusic.com said - "The long awaited Waldos album proved to be a big success, at least artistically ... the Waldos tear through a set of tunes that are as much fun as a CD can have with its clothes on."

14 tracks: Cry Baby; Love That Kills; Sorry; Seven Day Weekend; Never Get Away; Golden Days; Flight: Countdown Love; Busted; Crazy Little Baby; Crazy Bout Your Love; Party Lights; Crazy Little Baby (7” ver); Cry Baby (7” ver); The Blessed: Deep Frenzy; American Bandstand.

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