Blue Macs - It's The Real Time 7"
Mean Bean Records The Fallon brothers, John and David, had a habit of popping back and forth from Dublin to Los Angeles throughout the 1980s. In 1982 they teamed up with John's former bandmate from Chicago, Eddie Grzyb. John and David had been furiously writing songs since before Easter and by July '82 they were in the studio recording a 5 song EP as THE BLUE MACS in Los Angeles. They also did several shows around town and were involved in the Southern Californian neo-Mod scene. The self released EP was pressed in Chicago that autumn under the banner, "Blue Mac Records" (only 200 pressed). These copies were only given out to magazines, record companies, and collage radio stations. The record was never released commercially.John and David went back to Dublin in early '83 and immediately received that fantastic review in the March 5, 1983 issue of MELODY MAKER in London. Their sound was compared to Paul Weller, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, and The Undertones. Paul Weller even sent them a pers