Fly Ashtray is an American rock band, formed in 1983 in the Bronx, New York, 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 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. Eric Marc Cohen took over drum duties in the same year.
The band released two records on Shimmy Disc 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 in New York City.
Discography Albums 1990 - Nothing Left to Spill 1991 - Clumps Takes a Ride 1994 - Tone Sensations of the Wonder-Men 1997 - Flummoxed 1999 - Sawgrass Subligette 2007 - The Pantswind Folder 2009 - Reports 2012 - Fly Ashtray 2016 - We Buy Everything You Have 2017 - Grit Is The New Privilege 2018 - Live at Rubulad March 3, 2018 2019 - Why Are You Asking Me? 2024 - Doggerel
Singles and EPs 1987 - The Day I Turned Into Jim Morrison 1990 - Extended Outlook 1991 - Soap / Bip / Feather 1992 - Let's Have Some Crate 1995 - Stop the Zockos 2007 - Doodnat Mahadeo 2020 - In the DSM Again / Air 2021 - Rigorous Deliverables / Why Can't Things Be a Little More Nifty?
References
External links Fly Ashtray's Bandcamp page Fly Ashtray's MySpace page Fly Ashtray's website Good Trouser Press article on Fly Ashtray by Ian Christie Last Plane to Jakarta profile of Fly Ashtray