Gene Loves Jezebel Desire You!
“There’s a lot of people in this hotel who’ve flown in just for our New York date,” reveals blonde-tressed Michael Aston. “Every time we come to New York, we get lots of really strange people. And then we’ll arrive at our next hotel and find that some girls have flown in from Japan to see us.
Gene Loves Jezebel Desire You!
Harold DeMuir
“There’s a lot of people in this hotel who’ve flown in just for our New York date,” reveals blonde-tressed Michael Aston. “Every time we come to New York, we get lots of really strange people. And then we’ll arrive at our next hotel and find that some girls have flown in from Japan to see us. The first thing you always hear is, ‘I’m not a groupie, but ..”
I’m sitting with Mike, his dark-haired brother Jay (sometimes spelled J.), and guitarist/keyboardist/co-writer James Stevenson—three-fifths of the current Gene Loves Jezebel line-up—in the restaurant of the upscale Manhattan hotel where the band is staying. We’re discussing the truly fanatical ardor displayed by the band’s persistent female admirers, while our fellow diners shoot politely inquisitive glances at the Aston boys, who are looking exotic and mysterious even without their stage finery.