Lester auditions to be the singer of a new super coprate shitty hair metal band out of Hoboken called THRUST because he can’t get a hold of beans or Lenny in California to get his band back together so Kevin convinced him in the time being to pay rent dispite his need to keep up “Mack lawyer suscess lie and his massive ego to sing for other bands
So he takes him and Wally to an audition in Hoboken looking for a lead singer in his range and he’s last at the audition, but when he finally goes up to sing 🎤 his like blows and the sound cuts out
So Lester has no backing vocals and has to sing the song he doesn’t even know ACAPELLA
But he does it anyway and because he memorized it by watching all the other autions knew the names of the players and mimicked the sounds of their instruments and just had the sheer confidence to pull it off
He gets the job
But after a few gigs with this band he hates it their boring coprate backed demand he loose waight and any songs that he wants to sing are shit down because they don’t appeal to the bands straight white male audience they try to fit him in a sensitive but still sexy fat singer with massive pipes mold like meatloaf but he hates this band dispite the money and is already looking for reasons to leave
Meanwhile Wally keeps dodging letters and calls from his father the dean of Princeton claiming all kinds of old stuffy bullshit
That Wally needs to get back to campus right away or he’ll be expelled and cut off
And if he wants to have a homosexual relationship with his roomates washed up, rock star brother then he can forget about grad school or the Paris trip
So when Lester’s New agent gets thease letters their confused and concerned
They ask if he’s gay and he says yeah he never denied it irs the most rock n roll thing there is his agent confused and offended because of the fanbase now the fanbase of THRUST who wouldn’t keep buying their records if they found a ut such news
Also we’re getting fed up with Lester’s drinking drugs praying with Wally and Kevin at Honky Tonks, drag bars and skater rinks /disco clubs on the road and playing shows FOR FREE for homless busters when the band would stop for gas or motels just because they could.
So finally at the end of their line in San Francisco the band kicked Lester out when they find a new Lead singer super skinny buff, with blonde hair a spray on tan and a thick black mustache that you could see from space golden physique and Peariced nipples and evrthing wearing even more Learher then Lester was. His name was Coach Riot he was an ex Dancer and has a rock n roll voice with more range then Lester but in a higher register Yep that guy was definitely “straight” this band sure new how to pick em.
While in San Francisco Lester celebrated his 18th birthday with Wally and Kevin
Les lemebted the fact on tour he never got to do much here
BUT in his rock god Mack lasher days he was the toast of San Francisco he misses those days
Kevin who knows he’s lying to Wally about being famous still wing man’s and says you’ll get ur glory back who needs that band anyway so they try ti have some fun while there go to a bar on the Castro Wally gets picked up by an artist type almost right away
Who takes the three of them back to his loft
He’s a werido one of those 80s freaks with modern art/art installations everywhere
He’s gay but thinks he’s above getting aids becuase he’s ab artist abd he’s rich even though he still has sex his house is filled with weird art shit wity weird expressionistic names like
A clock on the floor lester trips over called
“The folly of man”
Then Wally says SOMETHING rye and sarcastic like
Hmm, well that’s apt?
Or a Giant upsidown squid made of bubble wrap with florsent lights inside that took up the whole half of the room with tenclrs spilling over into fire escape so much so making it unusable
With a musem label hanging off to the side on an anchor made of plastic called
“Enoriormrntal prolapse”
And one on the ceeling
Of just one single blade of grass glued to tje ceeling in the dead center
Entitled
“death”
He gets them very drunk talks them
Up about life philosophy ssn Franso what’s happening why the east coast music scene is where it’s at abd they shount bother coming out here not even when their famous on the nature of fame abd truth and power and whover has the truth had power and will never wild it for good a prolific conversation for the themes of the book
Then as the night goes on
The older artist guy asks them to have a threesome they decline because Kevin is Lester’s brother but Lester convinces Wally to do it with him because sex drugs and rock n roll is something he promised to teach him
And so they do and have good time dispite Kevin’s confusion
The next day the guy sleeps in Kevin finds out he’s married and is actually not just any older artist who likes picking up barly legal boys but Is none other then Philip Oakey lead singer of the human league pop group from a couple years ago that one song that was everywhere “don’t you want me baby” a one hit wonder if you ask me what happened to him?
Anyway they sneak out before he can wake up and before giving up and trying to hitch a ride back to Princeton so Wally and Kevin can face the music for missing a week of class on one of Lester’s labs rock n roll escapees
They stumble into a bar headlining an Elton John cover band called “Bennie and the jets”
Witch just happens to be one of the most sleezy gay/keroke /strip clubs in San Francisco The Music Box Areana
And our boys will never guys who the cover band made of playing right before them?
Beans and Lenny! They were in San Francisco the whole time! They never left California it turns out
Book two scene /content ideas
Book two of lying flatt:
Lying Flatt Brand new Book two ideas:
Lester stealing Lou Reeds recording studio then the Vekvets actually listening to Lying Flatt tape with Poltics And Relgion song he was recording in their studio that turns out to be a huge 8 min long rock n roll opus sampling gothic Choir and human screams and the notoriously cold Lou reed himself is actually impressed after that /so he hunts him down and starts premoting his band and letting them open for them at CBGBs Somtimes if they can proove themselves
Lester comes back from red hot chilies tour to Princeton to find Beans and Lenny back from California, broke start Elton John cover band called either the Jets or The Tiny Dancers
Lester and Wally sneak into Srudio 54 just by looking cool and confident enough
Lenny has lunch with Lou reed before realizing who he is.
Trent dies of aids (more pepole die of aids b4 Orgygate to highlight the moral/stakes of Orgy gate)
Orgygate:
Red hot chili Peppers lore:
SInce anthony Keddis in real life had a drug addiction to herioin (timelines match up) that almost destroyed his life, (constnaly leaving running off tour to find drugs, the band forced him to go ro rehab or quit, ect.) during the time of Lester being on tour with them
Instead of an early idea of having the conflict that forces Lester to be kicked off the tour, early, be Flea is spending too much time romantically and he makes him a drug dealer for him and the band and it makes flea distracted drawing a rift between him and the band who force Flea to let him go
What if, instead, for Lester’s arch, Flea tells anthony he’s sleeping with this Roaide not a groupie but he’s like crazy about him and there still be the conifct during the tour as Lester’s Flea’s favroite, doing all these drugs and crazy things to please him spending more time with flea away from the band and Jude/the other roadies, Anthony is jealous and mad at Flea…and the rest of the band for making the ulmiatum about sending him to Rehab, (fudge timelines for dramatic effective, narrative ect) So instead what if Anothy Jelous of Lester and having motive due to the tensions with his band over cracking down on him for his serious Heroin addiction, is the one who makes Lester the mule, teaching him how to buy drugs from sellers (just as his dad would have) and showing him the dark underbelly of hollywood, and the music industry witch density comes back later, and Lester goes along with it but anthony basically blackmails Lester to lie to Flea, that he’s doing this, (Helping Anothy get drugs, lying to flea about it while still sleeping with him and having a relationship with him basically behind the scenes while being a roadie, all the while lying to all of them that he’s a famous rock star “Mack Lasher” and has seen all this before…when really he’s freshly 18 year old kid so wildy out of his depth. Because to tie it into the Atalata show (When Lester and the other roadies form a band, an end up filling in for the opener who dropped out, he writes a song that in a very obvious metaphor basically spells out exactly what’s going on and Flea know’s, so he kicks Anothy out of the band but before he does he explains everything to Flea, but he lies and says that Lester kept him on heroin and was doing it on the side himself, and hiding it from you because he knew how Flea felt about it so, also drops the hint Mack Lasher isnt who he says he is, getting the hint it would be good to get out anyway before his cover could be blown, so Anthony is given a second chance (sent to rehab) Lester get’s heartbroken for the second time this time by his lifelong rock n roll idol, by Flea, his favroite person in the world since he could remember, by someone by this point he truly was in love with and wanted to stay with and be with, over some drugs and lies, Like rubin this just renforces in his mind as he is, even though he wasnt fully himself with Flea he still gave too much of himself away, told him too much like bonding over their love of cetrian bands, and abusive drunk fathers. But now what he takes away also, dont trust your idols,dont trust anyone, become better then them. Also he himself gets deepr into drugs to cope, mostly Weed since he secretly kept most of what anothy made buy, after being kicked off the tour before having to return to princon in shame, says goodbye to Jude and promises their Roaide band will ruinite and Jude is welcome after the tour with him to join his band anytime, jude thanks him (Jude who he also slpet with is sad to see him go, warned him not to get too close to the band) -that would be a superior, plotline.
