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Styx's stint in the band was brief. The band played at Max's on August 18 and 19 with Lee
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album with the "new" recordings appended to it. Walter Lure and Billy Rath participated in the mixing. Thunders was unable to participate due to other commitments, but was played the results, and gave them his full endorsement, requesting only that the 1979 recordings were released "just the way it
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habit escalating. The first two nights of the three-night stand resulted in very little if any usable material, but by the last night, the band were in rare form, with
Thunders and Lure delivering their usual witty introductions between songs. After playing five songs, Thunders suddenly left the
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Lure acknowledged in the liner notes of the 2002 reissue of L.A.M.F. that he actually wrote the song himself but gave
Thunders co-writing credit since it was basically his life story. Thunders would often introduce the song onstage by saying that Lure had written it with
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The band had continued to play occasional shows in New York throughout late 1978 and early 1979, and Jerry Nolan eventually returned to the drum throne. Released on Max's Kansas City
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had participated in some of the sessions for the album, and after finishing the album, all three decided to play some gigs in New York "for old time's sake" and some "chump change." With drummer
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is, including the talk." The reissue would not be released until 1995, a few years after
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stage, claiming he had to "tune up" — never to return that evening. Ironically, two songs earlier, the band had played their semi-autobiographical "Too Much Junkie
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