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- The very first rock
concert I ever went to was in
the summer of 1981 at Disneyland.
(playful music)
At that point,
I'd been going to Disneyland
about every year for
about five years since I moved
to Orange County at the time,
I was only interested in the
rides and stuff like that.
But you know, all of a sudden
music is kind of in my brain
and it's becoming a passion of mine.
Tomorrowland's my favorite
part of Disneyland.
If I could just retire and live there
I thought of that when I was 12 years old,
I want to live in Tomorrowland.
June or July of 1981 I was at Disneyland,
just enjoying a day with friends.
We were walking around Tomorrowland
and we see these posters
for this Star Wars S
rock band called Halyx
And I convinced my friend's dad Hey,
we got to come back here in the afternoon
to watch this show.
So we went and did our Disneyland
day and we come back at
the time that they were
gonna hit the stage,
got dead center seats in
the middle of the venue
and had our minds collectively
blown by this rock band
that was playing at the Space
Stage beneath Space Mountain.
- [Announcer] Ladies and Gentlemen Halyx
(rock music playing)
(old funky music)
(singing)
- I've always been a giant Disney fan.
It's one of the first
things I became aware
of as a child in entertainment.
Most important in my life
was the movie Davy Crockett.
We all wanted to be Davy
Crockett we learned that song.
♪ Davy ♪
♪ Davy Crockett ♪
♪ King of the wild frontier ♪
Second were Donald Duck
cartoons I love Donald Duck.
Everybody wanted to talk like him.
In second grade I would
trace pictures of Donald Duck
and pretend that I drew them
and sell them to my friends.
If I could work for a company
that combined creativity
with business which I just
started taking business classes
in college that would be ideal.
So I called Disney and I
was thrilled to get the job.
I just knew I had to marketing
that's how I got in the door.
Well Disney Records had come
into being with Davy Crockett,
surprisingly and a close
friend of Roy Disney Senior
was interested in the record company
and so he started a record
company inside of Disney,
and they've good success
with Davy Crockett,
and then they didn't have much
until Mary Poppins came along
and they had another big success.
But each year I was told when
he would walk into the room
for certain annual review they say, well,
how much money did you
make for us this year?
Not fun.
I had come from working
in recording studio.
I had produced records.
So I kind of knew my
way around a little bit.
One day the word was out
they fired the head of
the record company.
And then I heard the really
bad news is that some other guy
who I didn't even know
or never heard of before
was being moved over there.
He was in consumer products and that's it.
And then the phone rang
and it was that guy.
And he said, you know,
I'd like to meet you.
The Chairman of the Board
said I should meet you.
That maybe you'd be a good
person for me to have in
the run the creative end of the music.
He gave me tons of
freedom and I was off on
the record business.
One of the things in my background
was sort of radio theater.
A guy I went to college with Jymn Magon
also did radio theater recordings.
- I was dying to work for
Disney that was my big goal.
I was just such a huge Disney
fanatic that I probably would
have worked for nothing.
How much will you do I have
to pay you to work here?
You know, I was very excited.
The reason they brought me in
is they had just made a deal
with golden records.
Disney had made a deal to do 24 of them
as read along records
these little seven inch
33 and a third records
with a 24 page book.
So that's what I did I was
pretty much the story record guy.
(video playing)
- [Character] Rayan Hart's
got plenty more of these
and we can't fight them off.
- [Character] Let's take the air car.
- [Narrator] replied old Bob
- So much what Disney
about was kind of book
and record products.
The music stuff came
directly out of the movies.
They had created other music
but none of it successfully,
we thought now that we've
got the company stable
and profitable let's get
back into the music business.
But basically a good
record company is music.
We have to find a way
to get back to music.
What would be way to get
there as a first step?
This good does nothing but get hotter.
And we just had this funny idea of doing
with Disney characters.
So we did the disco
record, mickey mouse disco,
and it seemed to be well received,
but we sold 80,000 records and
that's not a hit Bob King who
was really in the motion
picture marketing division.
He heard it and he came
around and he said, look,
would you let me cut some footage to this?
I think I could make a short
that we could put in theaters
before a movie that
would be just so great.
So cool so he got together
with one of the head editors,
Edward Polo, Bob King came back
with this clip that he'd put
together and it was fantastic.
(funky music playing)
At that point in time
there were a fair amount
of direct mail commercials on television.
There are long ads running
from a minute to two minutes.
- [Narrator] Look, it's
America's favorite mouse
All grown up and gone disco.
Now you and your children can
catch a mickey mouse fever
with this exciting new nine song album
from Walt Disney Productions.
- We figured out, you know,
it wasn't that big a risk.
You don't go nationally all at once.
You'd went market by market
this we did those days.
The retailers got very upset with me.
If you're gonna sell them
directly on television,
we're not gonna waste
our show space on you.
So I raced around the
country selling them our idea
I said I promise you where this plays,
your sales will go up
tremendously if we can say,
they're one enough.
Well, it worked unbelievably.
(funky music playing)
- Mickey mouse disco was a
huge hit for our company.
We sold 3 million copies of that record.
- This made a big mark in the business,
I mean not just in our business,
but we had offers from some
of the biggest labels to buy
our company seeing what we were doing,
they wanted what we were doing
to maybe apply elsewhere.
Of course we weren't interested in selling
we were doing really well
ourselves and the record business
was kind of shaky at that point.
- Honestly, by the early eighties,
I was getting to the point
where if I have to do
another read along record
I want to shoot myself.
You know, I mean, I had
done everything I wanted to,
I'd done Star Wars I'd done Star Trek,
I'd done Black Stallion
I did Charlie Brown,
Rainbow Brite I had done
all these different projects
for other for our company
and other companies.
- We began to think what we could do next
that would be the next step of things.
The basis of Judy Garland,
Mickey Rooney movies often was,
Hey, I know what we'll
do to solve our problem.
We'll put on a show and
my uncle's got a barn
and I've got a saxophone and
my two friends can dance.
Well we'll get together and put our show
or make some money or
whatever they need to do
it would solve their problem.
- I'm gonna write a show for
us and put it on right here
on (mumbles) how about it?
- And it was really that
spirit of we work at
this great place with all
these unsung great talents.
Let's put on a show.
(laughing)
Let's put together a band.
Carson Van Osteen he is a fascinating guy
who'd been a rock and roller,
performer who also turned out
to be a great artist in terms
of drawing Disney characters
and other things.
So I told him what I was
thinking about I said
I'm thinking about a band it
can't be a band that's based
on talent like Frank Sinatra
because they wouldn't sign
with us.
It's got to be a show
it's got to be something
that we can do visually something
we can put on television,
something we can take on tour.
There weren't many examples to
look to Kiss was making noise
definitively, but there was no Lady Gaga.
There was no Janet Jackson
there was none of this
or there was no Michael
Jackson show really
Everybody that did shows
before were four guys
in suits that looked identical and,
and danced in rhythm together.
So we were thinking
something much more outreach.
So that was kind of the nascent,
beginning of thinking about
what later became Halyx
and Carson began drawing up
what this might look like.
And we went through a
lot of drawings and said,
what if we did this from
that type thing, you know,
and creative process, you know, I mean,
I guess you could compare
this to the Cantina Band
and Star Wars but boy did
they have nothing in common
with them.
Coming from music side my thing was, well,
this is likely not to work
because you're trying something
so radically different
than anything that's done.
We need a producer who understands
show production as well
as record production.
And we have to find somebody
that is intrigued with the idea
as much as we are that
eliminates almost everybody.
(laughing)
So I went to my friend
Sonny Anderson and he came
with four or five names and
I finally got to Mike Post.
(funky music playing)
- So my name's Mike Post
I'm a record producer.
I'm a composer for television shows.
I don't even know when it was
but it was a long time ago.
A guy named Gary Krisel at
Disney Records called me up
with an idea and the idea was Halyx.
- All of us took a backseat to Mike Post.
Gary Krisel got ahold
of Mike post and said,
this is our dilemma we need
to put together a band.
Then it's going to be the
sort of outer Spacey thing.
And we don't even know what to do.
Basically he was the producer of the show.
- Gary had an idea just
these wild ideas about
what this rock and roll band
you know would look like in
the realm of the future in the realm of
not just human beings,
but aliens and everything
you know that that entails.
So how would we staff
a rock and roll band if
we could choose from, you
know, not just a homosapien.
- And Mike Post said
oh no it's no problem.
We'll have auditions
and well we'll do this,
that and the other,
but basically an ad went out in Variety
or Hollywood reporter, you know,
looking for strong female
singer for this rock band.
We didn't say what the name of it was.
We didn't say what it was for.
And we rented this
soundstage down in Hollywood.
There was this huge line of
girls lined up to audition
for this.
And the first girl that came
in out of this long line
of singers was Lora Mumford.
And I remember writing down
on a pad of paper number one,
Lora looks like a punk snow white,
and that just sort of
set it for me, you know,
that's we were looking for
like we needed something
that looked wholesome but also looked hip.
She fit the bill and she had great chops.
- She seems authentic you don't
just sing songs for effect.
You're sing the lyrics
like they're inside of you.
Like you know you're bleeding the lyrics.
- I remember hearing Laura and
knowing that she was perfect,
you know, cause she was
not Janis Joplin, but,
but close close.
- And we both thought about it
a little bit and came to the
same conclusion that's the one.
- We got to design these
outer Spacey things, you know,
with a girl lead and whatnot.
I remember looking through some magazines
for here's a picture of Suzi
Quatro in a leather jumpsuit.
And you know here's
some fashion things out
of time magazine that kind of thing.
- And we then went on a
search for the rest of
the band members we needed a keyboardist.
So Thom really came to
the band through Lora.
The question was she's
married to a keyboardist.
Certainly life is easier if
that keyboardist is her husband
and not someone else
but is he good enough?
And as we got to see with Thom,
as we had more expansion
suddenly found out he actually,
he wasn't just good
enough he was really good.
- We were worried because it looked like
all he would do is sit
there and play the keyboards
on this little cart.
So we wanted it kind of an entrance.
So I ended up going
through a lot of magazines,
looking for golf carts
or maintenance cars.
And I found one that we wanted to mount
all these different keyboards
on it and put lights on it
and make it look all fancy.
And I go over to this
manufacturing company,
I show them and I say
this is the cart we want.
And these are the keyboards
and we need this build.
Now this company is the
one that put together
the main street electrical parade.
That's a big project, you know?
So they, they were used to
doing these elaborate things.
So when he said to me,
so how do we do this?
And it's like I don't know
you did the electrical parade.
- As far as developing the characters
obviously the bass player you know
we wanted a large person that
could be something a kin,
a cousin of Chewbacca so you know,
that's that's where we got
a furry guy wasn't hairy
was furry.
- So the next I went
over to makeup to work
with Bob Schiffer who was
the makeup artist at Disney
at the time Bob was supposed
to make this huge wookie suit.
And I remember him
scratching his head like
how am I gonna make this thing?
What do I use?
What you know polyester fur would I use?
And they decided nope
it's gonna work best if
it's yak hair and it was not cheap.
So we built this gigantic suit
and he's up on platform heels
and everything and he had this
whole head built (laughing)
and it went around his
eyes which were you know,
they put black makeup around
it put this hat on him.
I can't even imagine how hot
it was to be inside that suit
and trying to play bass
guitar at the same time.
- You know, for Lora she's
gonna just wear cool clothes
and be herself. Great.
Hardest one is the bass player
Roger, he's a good basist.
And like every artist at that period,
they wanted to be cool and be themselves.
We started talking with
him and saw him in the club
and started talking to him.
So wait a minute, you want
me to wear this costume,
this bear suit?
And here we're going, yeah.
He said, I'm not doing (laughing)
- As you can see nothing's
changed white hair white hair.
It's all the same.
I did audition I met
Mike Post and auditioned
and met the rest of the folks
involved costume was fabulous.
It was well done because
it was Disney Star Wars
meets rock and roll.
That was the essence of
it that may have sounded.
I don't know I don't know
how it sounded to people.
I don't know if it sounded
like it was like it was jive,
but it wasn't.
I don't know how seriously you
can take something like that
but it wasn't supposed to be.
- [Jim] We eventually came up
with a percussionist who was
also a gymnist.
- I think I may be wrong
but I think that was again,
Mike Post that he was looking for some,
something more unusual to happen.
But hearing that this guy was an acrobat,
it all started to come together.
And then we found out later
he was more than just an
acrobat he was really
something quite special.
I think everyone was kind of
impressed with Tony because of
the stuff he could do on stage.
- Five six seven eight (mumbles)
Hi I'm Tony Coppola I was
the percussionist with Halyx.
I guess I was mostly the
visual part of the show.
When Halyx came along I
was about six years into
a dance career and I
was injured and trying
to come back slowly from an injury
and protect myself.
I had started full on dancing intensively
for a career in 1974.
And Halyx came along in 1981.
(drums beating)
When they talked about this
character he was an amphibian,
Not a full on frog but an amphibian.
It took awhile they molded
this latex mask to me
which was very, very hot by the way.
And when you take it off
it smelled pretty bad.
As well as the mask there
was like a hood and a burlap,
almost like a cape and a hood like
a druid amphibian combination
is what it came out to be.
At one point my character
was called the waag w-a-a-g
as in pollywog.
So I assume my wife's name
would have been Polly.
- Do you want it to call his
little froggy guy a waag.
And it's like you can't call them that
that's a derogatory term
in great Britain (laughing)
Anyone who was of any color was a waag.
- And I guess it didn't stick but a
they didn't really have
a name for my character
because I remember after that.
- [Jeanette] I was just so
excited to get the backup part.
I actually secretly of course
I wanted to get the lead,
but I knew in my heart that
they chose somebody a little bit
more experienced for
heading up a band like that.
So Lora was awesome and
our voices blended well,
and we got to pick out all
these cool world war two
and world war one pins and
badges and stars and things
so that we could decorate
our little you know,
warrior space girl outfits (chuckles )
- [Gary] We went to a club
and I don't know how we got
there I think we were
going there to see Roger,
but we were both impressed with Brian.
- Okay right before Halyx I was playing in
a band called well I was playing with
a girl singer named Rainey and Roger got
me involved with Halyx
told me I got this job
this new job coming up with
this band at Disneyland.
And they're looking for
a drummer and he told me,
he talked to Mike Post who
was gonna produce the band.
And so Mike Post came out
one day saw us and liked it.
And the rest is history there.
- You know I can't remember
how we found Bruce.
I just remember that
the moment we saw him,
we all just said yes that guy is just
who we've been looking for.
- My involvement with Halyx was I was
the guitar player songwriter of the group.
I just heard Halyx was
looking for guitar players.
I grew up with great guitar players.
So all of them were out for the gig.
The audition process was, gave
me a tape had to learn it.
They probably wanted a
visual kind of guitar player.
That was exciting on stage so
I wouldn't have done enough.
I had to wear the thing like
Thom and I wouldn't have been
a wookie bear and I wouldn't have been
a frigging percussion
player as a frog (laughing)
I didn't like the first
costume they gave me.
I almost refused to wear it.
- Everyone had a costume
except the drummer.
And it was kind of like woof okay do
I just come up with my own costume
or do I wear my jeans and my t shirt
like I'm comfortable playing
in or they decided that
because Bruce was not
going to wear that outfit,
they were going to put me in that outfit.
So they put me in the outfit
and it was immediately
uncomfortable because what I had was
these big puffy kind of tubes
that ran across here torso.
And it was in the tubes on
the shoulders and stuff like
that and what it did is it
interfered with my movements,
my drumming movements that I that I had.
- And then they came up
with that nice space jacket.
That was like okay now we're talking.
(soft music playing)
- We were very forthright
in the hiring process
we said look this is
the gimmick here this is
what we're doing you know.
You're going to be wearing
some crazy stuff here and
- It's kind of silly but who knows?
And again I was costume I didn't care.
It wasn't going to hurt
anything that I did outside of
the band because nobody
would know I was in the band.
- So it really was the thing
of let's put on a show.
We have some of the best
customers, best makeup people,
best choreographers and the missing link.
When I thought of it said
wait a minute Disneyland.
(classical music playing)
- Hi there you know this is
one of my favourite times
of the day here just about sundown.
I like to be around
when the lights come on,
it seems like that new
kind of magic takes over
in disneyland after dark.
(classical music playing)
- Basically there were
numerous stages around the park
and the park was always
looking for some band to be on
that stage perform for half
an hour and then disappear
and then people were supposed
to sort of gravitate toward
the next show on the next stage.
- Hey while you're in the Tomorrowland,
I suggest you take in our band over there.
(old funky music)
- [Connie] It started out
as a Tomorrowland stage.
It was there before I
started working there,
they had a lot of different
acts there at nighttime cause
they used to do a lot of main talent.
Then when they built space mountain,
they put a stage in there
called the Space Mountain Stage.
And that's where Halyx performed
- Only big acts that kind of came
through Disneyland played Space Mountain.
It was like a little amphitheater
a small Greek theatre
outdoors wasn't enclosed.
All the other bands that I
knew played Disneyland played
the smaller stages.
This was the big stage for Disneyland.
- We did the kids of the
kingdom during the daytime,
they did Disneyland is your land
which is another kids of the kingdom show.
(funky music)
- Disneyland didn't like the idea at all
what an unknown actor we
can have these sort of bands
that are known in Orange
County and everybody likes.
It's a big risk and I got
it because a band needs time
to play together to get
together, perform together,
to find themselves.
The Beatles didn't leave a
pull playing crummy dance halls
10,000 times we didn't
have quite that luxury.
We were still facing our
biggest challenge music.
I felt that at some point
the music and the image
and the idea of what they
were had to find meaning
in a unified way.
- I'm Bambi Moe and February 9th, 1981,
I started a new job at Disney.
I was a copyright assistant
in music publishing
and I was trying to find songs songwriters
but since there was no
guidebook on how to put together
a rock band you know we all found out
through trial and error.
Al right okay I can talk
about that's that one
I remember Jailbait was
written by Jeannie Cunningham.
What would be fun is for to hear it again
Cause she put her own
spin on it and it coming
from a female voice was
really like kind of turning
it on its ear and giving
it a really fresh feeling.
- But I'd been told by a number of people,
if you really want to get good
creds as a singer songwriter,
you got to do some writing for Disney.
I said well I'd love to work
for Disney that's great.
Okay. Then you need to
contact this girl she's in
the publishing department
her name is Bambi Moe.
So I called up Disney and I said, hi
my name's Jeanie Cunningham
and I was told to call Bambi.
So they said well yeah come on in.
And if you have any demos,
bring them with you so that
we can hear how you write.
So I put it on and I was
pretty proud of myself
because it's fresh out
of the box and put it on
and they're listening to it and tapping.
And then they fast forward
it to the next song
and they listened to a few bars
and then fast forward it to
the next song and let's do a few bars
and then it was very nice to meet you
and we'll get back to you something okay,
they'll get back to me
and I'm looking forward to
an opportunity to work for Disney.
Well when the next phone
call came they said, Oh,
by the way we have selected Jailbait.
This is the I believe this is the demo.
(rock music playing)
Wait a minute did you say
Disney wants to do Jailbait?
You have to wait until you're
older you'll understand,
baby I want you bite your Jailbait.
Listen to the (mumbles)
(rock music playing)
It's almost very edgy.
They had just done this thing back then,
which is probably why Jailbait
was all over the place
during the seventies is they
just created a law that said
if you're over the age of 18
and you're dating somebody younger
than 18 year you're in the
risk of dating jail bait
and then the part we all know sing along.
(funky music playing)
Who's gonna sing this and well,
they inform me there's gonna be a band
of excellent musicians excellent singer.
It's like the wookie is
gonna be seven feet tall.
The Wookie?
Yeah. He's the bass player.
The bass player okay.
And yeah and the keyboard player has,
and they show the stuff and
I'm thinking, oh, that's,
that's good that's be really serious.
Okay. Well it's Disney.
Don't be afraid of your mama please.
What was I thinking back then?
(laughing)
And I said but Jailbait
are you sure that's gonna
be appropriate for a you
know kid's theme park?
Oh sure yeah and everybody's
gonna be dressed up
in Star Wars characters
stuff and I thought okay,
that's fine.
- Jailbait at first was not something that
I thought would work.
So I went to Ron Miller
who's Disney family.
He listened to the song and he said yeah,
I get us a close call he said, really
When we get down the road,
just playing it as a live performance.
I'm not too worried about it
instead if we get complaints,
we have to pull it back.
I was never a hundred
percent comfortable with it,
but it was a pretty good song.
- I remember the rehearsal process.
We did it at Buena Vista
Disney and they blocked out
a whole section of one of their buildings.
And at the time Tron was being filmed.
So we would see these guys
dressed in Tron suits.
So we were all really hyped up on it.
- Even finding a name was
hard that came pretty late
the whole experience.
- I think we call it the band strike.
We called it StarFire.
I suggested S.K.W.A.D which stood
for Skylar Ward Air Defense.
We got all these wacky names.
- I think there might've even
been a contest or something
or a, something that went
on to try to name the band.
- Partly it was out of
somebody proposing helix,
which was a real word of,
not everybody knew
about DNA in those days,
but the ones that did
knew of the helix thing.
- No and I don't even
know how they arrived at
the name Halyx.
I never heard how they
arrived at that name.
- Not a big fan with the name Halyx
- I don't even know what Halyx means.
Is it does it mean
something to do you guys
ever heard here that.
- I hated it.
What the (beep) is a Halyx?
What in the (beep)is a Halyx?
Okay I mean kiss my Halyx or suck my Halyx
I don't know what it
is I mean I don't know.
I'm sorry.
- [Interviewer] Do you
remember any of the other names
that they went through beforehand or
- No but they had to be equally stupid.
- [Man] I just remember we
wanted to make this band look
as legit as possible.
And so we got a movie poster artist to
this beautiful painting
of the band for coming
to Disneyland summer 81
it looked impressive.
It looked like something was going on
you better not miss it.
- [Connie] Well, I'm sure
everybody was a little nervous
because it was totally different
than anything we had done
at the stage before.
- We had rehearsed a lot
we probably felt prepared.
The first night you do any show,
any production where your mind goes is,
is all the tech and the lighting
and the sound gonna happen.
- [Announcer] Ladies and Gentleman Halyx.
(music playing)
- It's a horrible venue
in a way for new band
because people were just
milling about passing by.
Nobody goes to Disneyland sit
down and spend time watching
a band they're eating hamburgers
at the Tomorrowland stage.
And it was you know it was like,
what you really don't want
is a dinner theater audience.
(rock music playing)
- Halyx had this logo that
was kind of like wings,
the had each in the middle for Halyx.
That was the logo that
was in lights behind them
on the stage.
- We have some special effects stuff.
I had a laser light that
was strapped on the back
of the neck of my base and you know,
I would shoot the light
out at the audience
and they really liked that.
(rock music playing)
- They used to spray
fog on the stage right.
And they wanted me to kind
of jump in and ramp up
and I think into my knees,
but this spray that they
used for the fog machine
was oil based so when I
came in and ramped up,
I slid all the way through
the stage off (chuckles)
off the stage.
- We did a few experiments we listened to
a lot of other people's music.
If there was a hit song by Billy Joel,
I think it was called
just the way you are.
And it was a very mellow
romantic sort of song.
(singing)
And I thought you know I
could see Lora at one point
to break up the show
singing that to Roger,
that would be bringing
together who they are so
and give it a different meaning.
Billy Joel singing it's like, no,
you don't have to be something special.
Don't go change I think
this puts the lyrics.
Don't go changing to try and please him.
So it's a weird process of
searching that sometimes works
and sometimes doesn't.
♪ I take you just the way you are ♪
- I remember one particular
thing they had an acapella thing
that we used to did I think
we did it once maybe twice.
- One of the songs that they did,
we originally heard it on
an album by the Bothy Band,
which was a hot Celtic
Band around that time.
(singing)
and the band learned it and
they sang it in harmony.
- I remember the first
time I went out to do it,
I got the key wrong.
So I was one guy singing in
the key and everybody else
was in the right key so it
sounded very, very strange.
- So they did a noble attempt of doing it
and it was (laughing) it
did not work (laughing)
- After that one really horrible forpal
they took it out of the show
which was I was thankful for.
- Then I get a phone call from
either Bambi or Gary or Tom.
And they said so we're opening
over at Space Mountain.
Do you want to come?
And I said sure I'd love
to see this I mean come on
who doesn't want to see a
seven foot wookie playing bass
and your song I can hardly wait.
So I decided to take a
friend of mine with me.
We're sitting there and I'm
listening to this whole thing.
We're watching them and watching
kids screaming and having
a great time and I think
this is good this is good.
And I'm observing the lead
vocalist and I'm already starting
to process how is she going to do Jailbait
because the way that the
lead vocalist sounded,
it sounded as if she had
been properly trained.
Her breathing had was proper.
Everything about her enunciation
everything was very proper.
And the thing about Jailbait
is it's very guttural.
It's like, Ooh, it's meant
to be done like that.
All of a sudden a new song starts.
That is Jailbait oh my
goodness it is Jailbait.
And so I'm listening to it
and the band sounds great.
They're taking it they're kicking it.
And then Lora starts to sing,
I'd say hey little sugar.
♪ Don't want to see you tonight. ♪
♪ Oh, you made me weak. ♪
♪ Ooh, you give me butterflies. ♪
And so I'm hearing, oh,
they've changed my words.
How dare they?
And she's not going with a
guttural attack on everything.
So meanwhile out of the corner of my eyes,
I'm seeing the publishing
department leaning board to see
what's a reaction and Bernadette goes,
start tapping your feet, smile, smile.
And I go, why?
She said smile they're looking at you.
And I go okay, okay.
Tapping my feet trying to get it going.
This sucks.
(rock band playing)
- It's good we were good.
I mean we didn't crash and burn you know,
I think there were a
couple of technical things.
In fact I know there was
- It was really hot under
the lights in the summer.
And I would usually lose about
five pounds of water weight
every night.
- I think we thought we were okay.
I thought that we were
doing the best we could.
And you know we were fine.
The audience reaction
was, was pretty decent.
- This was, I don't want
to use the word artificial,
but it was manufactured.
But after a while it did get a groove.
- Lighting stuff didn't work.
And some of this stuff didn't
work and that stuff and,
and we definitely improved
on the mix as we went along.
It's art it very rarely
is perfect the first time.
- [Lora] Welcome everybody
we're called Halyx
(crowd cheering)
We like to thank everybody for
coming to our show tonight.
(crowd cheering)
- She did a very good job
but I think that first night
she might've been nervous whatever.
So I just hated it and then I listened
to newer versions of Lora's performance
and I thought, yeah, she nailed it.
(rock music playing)
- I wasn't expecting an audience reaction.
I was expecting get them on stage,
get them experiencing
what an audience like
which is for good or for
bad is real entertainer.
You can't be going up there saying, Oh,
I'm gonna be a good entertainer
because the audience loves me
that's not the way it works.
You're gonna be I'm going up there
and I got to make these people love me.
And they learn from how the
audience responds to you
and they did.
(crowd cheering)
There were lots of little
fun glitches at Disneyland.
The security guards weren't too sure
about these long haired people because
they didn't allow long haired people in.
- We were employees of the
park but it was a show.
I do remember that there was some tension
and I think we thought
that was kind of funny
because we were gonna go and do our show
and pay there it is.
- It was just that was our
characters that we were playing
in the Disneyland world.
We were the long hair rock band.
- I had to sign a contract
and I was the first guy
to perform with long hair at Disneyland.
So I was stopped by the security guards.
Cause my hair was shoulder
length hair and they go,
you we're going to kick you
out it's like, no, no no
I'm playing Space Mountain shut up.
(rock band playing)
- [Jeanette] unfortunately I
don't think everybody involved
was as proud of it as I was you know,
they were a little bit more
it's cheesy it's Disneyland
but it really wasn't cheesy
I mean it was phenomenal.
- I had moments when I had
to really encourage the band
look, I know you felt it
was very disrespectful
when this guard asked for your ID,
because he looks at
you and doesn't believe
you could be performing,
but they have a whole another
business they're trying
to accomplish and that's more
important than my little band.
- You know, I want to do all this pyro
Cause you know, that's just
the rock and roll show.
You know, you gotta to blow stuff up.
But you know they had really strict rules.
I mean really strict rules.
I mean we were looked at in
the park as like lunatics
because it was all barbershop
quartets and you know,
the rock and roll that was put
on at the park traditionally
was really kind of milk toast.
- [Announcer] Ladies and gentlemen,
Disney land proudly
presents The Kay Osteen Show
- Al right now ladies and
gentlemen please welcome(mumbles)
Nash Ville Tennesse Kay Osteen.
- Thank you
(singing)
- We had to be extremely
careful with any sort
of sexiness to the actor or the language.
It was really, really restricted.
So it was our job to push
the boundaries in their job,
to hold them just too loud
and seeping into other venues
and other, I go, well, you know,
it's you just can't
play this music quietly.
I'm gonna just not gonna
happen guys you know.
(rock band playing)
- Thom was in this remote
truck and he was dressed as
the storm trooper.
He had a sequencer that program
all these sequence notes
and he would solo over
it and really impressive.
- And that added a whole other
layer to the overall look
feel design of the band.
(rock band playing)
- The drum riser was kind
of neat and it would rise up
and blast smoke out of
it and stuff like that
and the lights would flash
on it as you were playing
(rock band playing)
- The one thing I didn't
like about it was that
it wobbled (mumbles) so I
tried to keep my movements,
my enjoyment of playing drums to a minimum
because it would jiggle the
entire stage the entire riser,
which in turn would jiggle the symbols,
which in turn would jiggle the drums,
which in turn would throw
everything off a little bit
and it made it harder.
(rock band playing)
- well, the fans to use an old expression
it was teeny boppers Bruce was probably
a big, big star with the teeny boppers.
- He had the Jailbait
experience which is he
would have these girls who
we didn't know how old they
were propositioning him.
- I do remember getting a
lot of fan mail from girls
and my girlfriend at
the time just hated it.
- Bruce Galley was just
this really good looking.
I remember he had like
long dark hair and just
a great smile he was really handsome.
I liked Bruce and all but
I think personally for me,
you know, I kind of saw
myself as a peer you know,
so I thought that the guys
of the band were cute.
- If I remember correctly Bruce
would do some of the stuff
where he'd come over and
we'd lean against each other
while he was playing his
solo and that kind of stuff
everything that a proper
rock and roll band would do
at the time.
(rock music playing)
- He does have a solo in the thing,
but you can see him
just work in fret board
and just having a great time
at it but he sounded great.
He was a real players player.
(rock band playing)
- And (mumbles)behold
there's a baby bag there were
a lot of girls who wanted to meet the guy
in the (mumbles)suit
because he was so cool.
- All the guys I know you
couldn't pay them $3 million
to get dressed up in a
wookie suit with some kind
of flashlight at the
end of it all the guys,
I know they would have been
way too macho to pull that off,
but they, they pulled it
off and they did great.
- And I would you know get
down on my knees and lean back
and put the bass up in the
air and play and stuff.
(rock band playing)
It was rock and roll.
(rock band playing)
- I had congos I had bongos
which they programmed
to make different sounds.
These were the old fashioned
syndromes and you could,
you could hit them and they
can program them to make
all kinds of ripple sounds
or screeching sounds
or whatever they wanted.
And then I had a lot of
little instruments a handheld,
cal bell and shakers and things like that.
And they allowed me to be more visual.
I could move away from the coldness
of the (mumbles) and stuff.
The venue the space theater,
I think was perfect for this
group who had just enough room
for the number of bodies we had on stage.
And it was still room
for me to move around
because as I said I was
supposed to be a visual element.
Roger was great Roger
was full into character
from the first day of rehearsal.
I think he created a lot of
things about the character.
People refer to that
character as a wookie.
And if you look at that costume
you can understand that,
but Roger has a special
name for that character.
He called it the Baharnoth.
It was like a cross between
a bear and something else.
I don't know how he spelled that,
but I specifically remember
Roger calling his character,
the Baharnoth.
And he played that character great
because we were antagonistic
to each other on stage
and I was supposed to bother him.
- He would be an annoyance
was the way we played.
He'd sort of be bouncing around and stuff
and I'm you know get out of here.
- He would (mumbles) and you
know throw his bass at me
and eventually chased me around the stage
which was kind of fun and then
eventually when he chased me
I had to go up the rope and hang off
and play tambourine in the space.
(rock band playing)
- There is no question about
the talent of the band.
The players and every one
of them including Lora,
every single one of them
was a really great musician.
(rock band playing)
- You know I'm looking at these shots,
which are not the greatest
shots but it's like
I remember the star field
looking so amazing and cool.
The picture doesn't
necessarily reflect that.
It's funny looking at this I,
I have a memory of it
being bigger than this
you know in a funny way.
There were a lot of songs
and I'm asked about the songs
and I don't, I can't honestly
remember all of them.
I mean if I heard them I go oh yeah, yeah.
That's but the one song that
I thought was incredible was
Hey there boys.
(rock band singing)
Cause I'd watched the
band playing each night
and it would seem to be the
one that got everybody really,
really excited.
I would have made this tape to
play for the bosses to see if
anybody would have
responded to the music so
(rock music playing)
It's a cool song.
And then it bails and then they rock out.
(rock band playing)
- [Gary] Lora really was the
anchor she held it together.
- Lora sang her ass
off and what I loved is
that voice really cut through.
She obviously was an
experienced performer.
I think she really loved doing it.
The audience really related
to the audience loved her.
- She was really the star
no matter what anybody else
in the band it was really about Lora
(rock band playing)
(playing piano)
- My name is Thomy Miller.
I was the keyboardist
in Halyx and the husband
of Lora Mumford the lead singer.
(playing piano)
That's basically what I did
for my sequence is just that
This is a monophonic so
you can only play one note
at a time so you can play
no one they cancels out
the other one.
I would play a sequence
into the sequencer.
So when I had my feature during the show,
I would drive this card up
to the front of the stage,
had these aircraft lights I'd switched on.
I had two buttons to blast
CO2 out I'd push the button
that sequence would go,
boop, boop, boop, boop.
You know and I had a certain chord pattern
then I would play along with it.
So it kind of sound like switched on bach.
(classical music playing)
One night I sequenced the
thing and everything was cool.
And then when I drove up there
did all the lights thing.
When I pushed the sequencer
button it went haywire.
It just went random
all over the place.
And I it was something
I couldn't play with.
So I thought what am I gonna do?
So I started because I
looked kind of like a robot.
I started doing these
erratic robot things like
I was having technical
difficulties and I just went
I turned it off and went well
and they pulled him back and
we started the next song.
And that was the end of it.
I was like, Oh crap on the
break they're gonna yell at me.
I was worried I was in trouble (laughing)
but whatever.
Lora and I were living in Buena Par
we had a band called Vixen.
I think it was about two
or three months into it.
Lora and I kind of start
going out you know.
Right about that time Lora
had a connection through
the US military for the USO tours.
She called them and they came and looked,
and they heard the band and they hired us
and we went to Korea, Japan
we were out about six months,
I think on the tour.
When we were in Seoul, Korea
that's where we were stationed
out of for awhile and
the consulate I guess
the American Consulate Building.
We were walking around we
found it we went in there
and there was American,
the lion American soldier
getting married to Korean woman
and we just got wine and we
got married and it was just
a stamp stamp, stamp, no big deal.
But we said we're just getting
married for the hell of it.
And we did call our parents
and yeah we are in Korea,
we got married you did it.
(laughing)
Lora was reading a newspaper
and she saw a cattle call for
a girl singer and she went
up and did the audition
and came home and you know we
didn't hear nothing about it.
And then a couple of
days later she got a call
and they asked her to
come back up to Burbank
and she came home said she
got there she auditioned it.
They would come and watch us to check Lora
and I mean they watched
for hours they'd watch her.
And then that's when they decided well,
just bring him in on it.
There's a keyboard player
already happens to be
her husband so.
At first I thought it
was just gonna be Lora
I had already planned to
carry on with the band to get
another singer and then let
her do what she wanted to do.
But yeah I guess I was
lucky that I got thrown
into the whole fray of it.
They could have had her without
me and I would have totally
been thrilled to have her go
and work at Disney you know,
her mom and dad owned a
bar that was their business
and we'd go up there and he
would just announce to the bar.
My star is here everyone and
they had a guy on the piano
that played and he made her get up there
and I think that might have
a little bit of you know,
(mumbles) on her for being
pushed like that from her dad.
But Lora was a total
entertainer I mean she,
she had the moves she
was not clumsy on stage.
There wasn't anything they
had to tell her to do.
(crowd cheering)
- Thank you
Thank you welcome everybody.
Al right
- Sometimes I felt I was brought into it.
So they thought it would
make my wife happier if I was
around her she had somebody familiar
Cause it was kind of a,
it was put on her a lot.
You know, she was gonna be the star of,
and she had the fortitude
for it and stuff.
But I guess they may have
thought that me being around
would help her with all that but hell
I'm not going to stand in
the way of anybody succeeding
and what they were meant to do.
(rock band playing)
But there was a group of kids,
about 30 kids that were there
every night in the front row
and they were our biggest
fans and we'd go out
and shake hands with
them probably you know,
how Disney loves to merchandise
I'm sure there was gonna
be dolls and t-shirts
or anything the only marketing
was done was by some fans.
These kids they asked me what my name was,
which I went by Thom Miller
then and I always spelled mine,
Tom with a H and these kids
took it upon themselves
to reverse my name to Moht Rellim
which was Thom Miller backwards.
And they called me Moht
Rellim Beethoven from space.
And they made bumper stickers
with their own money.
But one day I went out
there to shake hands
and they hand me like a
packet of bumper stickers.
And so these kids were
doing this on their own.
- I mean there were a fair
number of folks that came,
that would come back and
come back and come back.
They really enjoyed it and they had this,
this hand sign that they
did this was an H for Halyx
and they (laughing) you
know they would do this
and they really enjoyed it
that was the thing that I
thought was great about it.
- Those guys hit the stage
and that pretty much changed
my opinion about my big favorite
thing being music forever.
It blew my mind it just my
12 year old brain melted
because I'm sitting here
basically watching Luke
and Chewy rock out in Disneyland.
That was the only way a 12 year
old brain could process that
- The audience reaction was just crazed.
They loved us and they kept
coming back and back and back.
And as I said, you know,
occasionally they'd sing
the top of a chorus with us.
But yeah we did feel like
rock stars that summer.
- They were all doing these
dances like in their sheets
or they all go forward together
and they dance and you weren't
supposed to dance there
and they'd dance on their
seats every night it was crazy
these kids.
- That very first time
that they performed,
the kids went nuts.
They were screaming you
know and we're like wow.
You know they're really kind
of speaking to an audience
a young audience that's who we were
you know trying to appeal to.
(rock band playing)
- And we were put on the Disney
stage as more of a showcase
to show us to Hollywood to
get another label in on it.
And I think every night there
was a Mike Post and Gary
and they would be host to
different record label executives.
- And I began talking to my counterparts
and other record companies
because I felt like I want
a legitimate record company
to be their label more
than Disney.
(rock band playing)
(audience clapping)
So we would invite record
executives down you know,
ranging from lukewarm I
don't get it to wow I get it.
This is really interesting
it's so different
than anything else that's going on.
I think in the end we were down to
I think it was at Warners
that and one other offer,
but one just came one night
and said I'm signing him great.
So we were off and running.
- This was real rock and roll.
We wanted it to feel that way
and so when they were planning
to be distributed by Warners
that gave it a legitimacy
that Disney records
didn't necessarily have.
You know Disney records is
the world's biggest
children's record label
but not necessarily the right label
to be distributing Halyx.
- The unifying factor was really Lora
Lora was just emerging as a star.
So by time we were finishing
the record contract,
they said to us look we
really just want to sign Lora
(rock band playing)
This is not a band of equals.
This is a band of Lora and the group.
And that was concerning because everybody
had given their heart to
it properly and so we had
a frank talk and we said look
we will have to find ways
to compensate you as it goes forward but
this is the reality it's Lora
And then when we're done at
Disney and we'll start recording
and we'll be set by them.
(rock band playing)
- The last performance we
were all just glad it was over
there that we can, it was like I said,
it was so hot and so kind
of uncomfortable for us
on this stage and we
were excited that okay,
now we've done our stage thing.
Now we can go into the
studio and make a record.
I remember driving out to
Chatsworth and recorded some of
these things and it was like great
this is gonna be wonderful.
- We went in the studio
with Mike and everything was
overdubbed so the other
tracks were already laid down
and we were just there to
lay down percussion tracks
and stuff like that.
- Honestly, I thought they were amazing.
I mean it was so exciting.
I just saw all this potential,
so for me I was really excited about it.
It just seemed like it
was only gonna get better
and better and better.
Well this was where their
album the first Halyx album
would go so I kind of wanted
it to be you know in fact,
I remember when I gave it to them I said,
this is not the Beatles
white album but with any luck
who knows?
So that's this is kind of a treasure love
always Bruce Goudy Thom
to Bambi keep in touch.
To Bambi thanks for
sharing the beginnings.
Yeah it was.
To my wonderful friend Roger.
I feel the same way I
felt that way about him.
Let's hope it's not over see you soon.
You know, it sounds a
little for voting like
it wasn't gonna happen like
there might be a chance that
it might not happen.
- [Interviewer] And who was that from?
- Lora
Yeah Lora
- Meanwhile, I was
investigating how we might tour
how we might promote what could we do
how we would get on televison
and all these other things.
So we finishing summer
they're stopping performing.
We're still in the final
throes of the record contract.
We sign it they give us the money.
We've now basically broken
even on everything we've done.
The record company falls
apart the executive scientists
is gone and we're dropped.
How do we go forward
was the tough question.
How are we gonna bring the
record companies back in?
We don't have a venue anymore.
Do we stage it to be and you
just can't fake this kind
of thing was our conclusion.
So we began to drift.
My time was really becoming
more and more difficult in terms
of what I could devote to it.
It was a giant swirl of things and we,
Mike tried a couple of
things I don't remember what
his contacts were and
I tried but it just suddenly was like
there was nothing there.
♪ Hey there boy ♪
♪ Spread the word around ♪
♪ Make some noise ♪
- I remember feeling
horribly disappointed.
I mean when you think of all
the effort and the energy
and all the people involved.
- Mainly I do remember
feeling bad for the players
and singers.
I felt bad for them they worked hard
but that's showbiz.
- But then just one
afternoon I got a call.
That's all we got was a phone call.
It was very abrupt no
explanation really of what
was going on or why it was suddenly over.
- I think I got another job Disney decided
you know what we're done
what do you want to do?
Do you want to continue
and it's like well no,
I need to make money.
I think that's when my
next situation came up.
- Well we knew it was our
last performance of that run
at space theater because you know,
the weather changes and
all that summer you know,
they shift over.
But I don't think we knew
that that was the last thing
the band was gonna do.
- We all kind of went into a funk and
didn't really communicate
with each other and went
about our ways.
- We went to the four winds man.
Everybody went back to what
they're doing before Halyx.
Lora got a job as a
waitress at a restaurant.
I started branching out and
playing with Been Bands in LA
and she was more still hooked to Disney.
She felt that she couldn't
be involved in other projects
because you know Disney
called you want to be on
the ball with it.
- Well for the individual band members,
they had a realistic perspective because
they were band members and
that's what they had done before.
They've gotten gigs
played for two nights here
wait a week and maybe get something there.
and it was very uneven world.
Lora had come from it was really
like a whole another world,
just suddenly she's a star.
♪ Take a good look remember
there's no way down ♪
♪ On our own for the talk ♪
♪ All the tired excuses ♪
♪ We've learned so well ♪
♪ Tonight we make them stop ♪
♪ No one cares how you struggled ♪
♪ After the lights go out ♪
♪ So heads high boys ♪
♪ Our night has come ♪
It was a kind of paralysis
because here she was with
a record contract and it wasn't
like you could just go out
and be Lora Mumford and get
another record contract.
It was a record contract
as Lora Mumford with Halyx
with Disney behind you
that was part without that
I don't think there was a direction.
So days turned into weeks
and weeks turned into,
I don't know how long the
other band members went out
just could get work as musicians.
Lora was just really torn that
she was waiting and waiting
and waiting for something to happen.
And ultimately the bad news was
nothing was going to happen.
It was over.
We gave her her trunk of the
advance from the record company
and, and that was it.
- And Lora got the news that
the Disney thing is over.
She got to keep the money and
she took her money and ran
and we got divorced
and like I had her dog,
she came by and got the dog and,
and we're outside and talk and see,
she kind of apologized for
running away and you know,
by then I was all good
with it and you know,
and I didn't see her for
probably 13 years after that.
- You know there was definitely
an effort was made to see
how you know they could bring
Lora into other projects.
She did sing I think she
made her Disney records debut
on Mousercise and she
sang on Ducks Dance, Too.
(classical music playing)
Lora doing Ducks Dance Too
doesn't necessarily promote
the idea of a real rock
and roll artists career
launching point you know.
So in some ways I don't know
that that was necessarily what
she was all about and what she wanted.
(piano playing)
- I'm not mad at her or nothing (mumbles)
I don't blame her being pushed like that
and she was just waiting every
day for that phone to ring.
(playing piano)
She come home you know
that was before cell phones
she checked that phone machine.
See if Gary called or anything you know,
after her shift at the restaurant.
Then I'd go play gigs at
night and she'd be at home.
I know that was frustrating
for her and it brought to
a head so no remorse I enjoyed
the Disneyland thing overall
it was a good thing.
She gave me $5,000 of the money (laughing)
So that was al right you know,
here's $5,000 I've got to go.
I think she was pretty disappointed with
that whole thing enough to want to run
run way from the LA and
run away from Disney
and run away from me.
I don't think she was in
contact with Bruce or Jeanette
or any of the friends that
we made from the Haylx thing.
She went back to LA back to Orange County,
got an apartment and that
was the last I heard of her.
Pretty amazing.
And then I was looking
through Facebook one day
and I saw this Facebook site,
remembrance of Lora Francene Mumford.
And I went on and I got on
it and she had passed away
and that she had moved
to Colorado and I guess
had some complications with diabetics.
- I heard about Lora Mumford
I had no idea she was gone.
You just assume that somebody
like Lora who was so talented,
will just go on and do great things.
So it was very hard to hear
that Lora hadn't bounced
through and her friends
had put this Facebook thing
together I was her only husband.
I wasn't even on it anywhere you know,
I didn't even know she
passed away until I saw
that Facebook day.
- My life was like a rocket
that just kept going.
And so you sort of feel
like it will keep going
for everybody else when
you're on that rocket ship.
I just, you know I didn't have
time to stop and look around
and stay in touch and
it was one of the things
it's funny when Bambi
told me that about Lora,
it was one of the things
that reminded why I stopped.
I stopped because I didn't
have enough time to have
a long lunch with
anybody I stopped because
I didn't have time to talk to friends.
I didn't have time to read
a book I didn't have time to
to do what I could say what
I really loved in life.
So it was really hard to
think about Lora out there
without the support that we had given her
carrying on in a very different trajectory
with a very different outcome.
Really tough it's hard
to even think about now.
(soft music playing)
- I don't know that I ever
heard a completed track.
I heard us live on stage and
I don't know if they recorded.
I don't know if they recorded
live on stage tracks for sound
as well but I never
heard a completed track.
- I wanted to believe
an album was out there.
I'd heard, I'd read rumors
that demos were recorded.
So I figured someone may have saved them
someone may have trashed them because
that was very common p&ractice,
especially in the seventies
and into the eighties
of masters not being
used just being dumped.
Before CDs record labels
generally didn't save
a lot of masters.
I like to believe that I
would eventually get to hear
something but you know until
that day presented itself,
I figured maybe it will maybe it won't.
- I don't know if it's
gone I don't work who found
I was stunned that you found anything.
If somebody come to me and
say I heard about this Halyx
can you show me some stuff
I have nothing to show.
- I wanted to keep the
jacket they wouldn't let me.
They claimed it was like $10,000.
Maybe back when maybe so,
but it's like no, sorry.
- [Interviewer] Do you think
that any of that stuff is lying
around anywhere?
- First of all I'm not a hoarder.
And I took everything that
was on two inch audio tape
and went nope.
You know and there's never
gonna be a bunch of nerdy,
young people that come around
and want to know about Halyx
or hear it.
- [Announcer] Hello ladies and gentlemen
and welcome to Podcast the Ride.
The show about theme park
hosted by three childless men in
their thirties I'm Scott
Gairdner joined by Mike Carlson.
- Hello
- and Jason Sheridan.
- Hi
- so I'm at a meeting with a
producer and we get off track
and discover that we're both Disney nerds.
And we start trading this
reference that reference.
Do you know about Video
Apolis yeah of course.
You know trying to best each other.
And then he says well
obviously you know about Halyx.
(rock band playing)
I said no, I do not know about Halyx.
His next sentence he just
tosses it off like it's nothing.
Oh yeah that's like
when Disney tried to do
like a Star Wars kiss
anyway he keeps talking,
the meeting goes on.
I am stuck back in Halyx
land what the hell is this?
I go home I open my laptop.
The first picture I see
so entranced and I know
that there is something bigger here.
I'm so excited that you
guys don't previously know
about Halyx.
(mumbles)
- I remember Scott texting us like hey,
did anyone come across Halyx?
It's not a word you encounter regularly.
- They were playing
that on the theme park,
I would make everyone see
them every time we were there
I do that with much less
good stuff in theme parks.
So I would have had to do it for this.
- I told the guys this needs to be seen.
(Halyx Band playing)
A group that was only
there for one summer,
but those who know this
band loved it H-A-L-Y-X.
- [Boy] Yes I've seen
photos of it it's insane.
- Just for whatever reason,
I think I was on a lunch
break and I was just messing
around online and I was looking at stuff
and Google serves up a picture
of the poster in its images.
And it was a link to eBay,
10 bucks plus shipping.
Okay click and lo and behold,
I won it and it shows up.
And it's the exact poster that I saw
around Tomorrowland pointing
you to the Space Stage
in Tomorrowland.
- It's sort of still alive
a little bit I guess.
Halyx somewhere in some
minds we're still around
- We're talking about Halyx.
- Yes Yes
- I love it. I think they're great.
- I honestly couldn't
believe that it was real,
wish they would come back
I would like to see
them in action someday.
- The Colts is building people
are shouting in the streets.
Halyx Halyx.
- I think it's wonderful
I think it's really cool.
I'm just sorry that Lora's
not gonna be able to see it
cause she was a real big part of Halyx.
(rock music playing)
- I've been this my whole life I'm 74
I've been playing since I was six.
You can't play me any music
I don't understand intellectually.
But the art of it is like God, why is that
so, so meaningful and moving emotionally?
Well, you can apply that same
magic and same mystery to
why something makes it and
why something doesn't make it.
There is a big giant
part of this whole thing
that is magic.
And sometimes the magic
just doesn't happen.
- She probably the best
singer I've ever seen
or been around.
You know I still bring her
up to people I said God,
I wish my first wife was still alive.
We talking about a singer who
that girl could belt them out.
- Halyx was not a success.
It was not a disappointment.
And it's not bittersweet.
It was a joy from beginning to end.
I wouldn't trade that
time that experience,
that pleasure of being with those people,
trying to do something
creative and getting as close
as we did it's what it was
it didn't keep on growing.
It grew to a point and just had to stop.
All shows come to an end.
(Halyx Band playing)
(crowd cheering),
