Fly Ashtray is an American
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band, formed in 1983 in
the Bronx
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,
New York
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, by Chris Thomas, James Kavoussi, Eric Thomas, John Beekman and Mike Anzalone. At some point, Thomas and Anzalone left the band which led to Beekman moving from lead vocalist to bassist/guitarist, and then Kavoussi switched from keyboard to guitar. Glen Luttman joined the band at this juncture to play the drums.
Spoog, a side project, resulted with impromptu gigs when one or another member of the band was out of town. Anzalone and Kavoussi also played in
Uncle Wiggly. Kavoussi has made solo
records
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billed as Phoaming Edison. The line-up of Thomas, Kavoussi, Beekman and Luttman was stable for a lengthy period until Beekman's duties were taken over in 1998 by Dave Abel.
In 2003, Luttman requested a leave of absence from Fly Ashtray, and in the same year Eric Marc Cohen took over drum duties.
The band released two records on
Shimmy Disc Shimmy Disc is a New York City-based independent record label founded in 1987 by Mark Kramer. Before it was sold to the Knitting Factory, artists like Bongwater, Daniel Johnston, Fly Ashtray, Galaxie 500, King Missile, Boredoms, Ruins, Ween, Gwar ...
and worked with
Kramer.
The band's music was featured in "Responsible Ballet and What We Need Is a Bench to Put Books On", a dance piece choreographed by Jon Kinzel, and performed at
The Kitchen
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in New York City.
Discography
Albums
*1990 - ''Nothing Left to Spill''
*1991 - ''Clumps Takes a Ride''
*1993 - ''Tone Sensations of the Wonder-Men''
*1998 - ''Sawgrass Subligette''
*2007 - ''Pantswind Folder''
*2009 - ''Reports''
*2012 - ''Fly Ashtray''
*2016 - ''We Buy Everything You Have''
*2017 - ''Grit Is The New Privilege''
*2019 - ''Why Are You Asking Me?''
Singles and EPs
*1987 - ''The Day I Turned Into Jim Morrison''
*1990 - ''Extended Outlook''
*1991 - ''Soap/BIP/Feather''
*1992 - ''Let's Have Some Crate''
*1997 - ''Flummoxed''
*2002 - ''Stop the Zockos''
*2008 - ''Doodnat Mahadeo''
References
External links
Fly Ashtray's Bandcamp pageFly Ashtray's MySpace pageFly Ashtray's websiteGood Trouser Press article on Fly Ashtray by Ian Christie
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Musical groups from the Bronx
Psychedelic rock music groups from New York (state)
Shimmy Disc artists