The almost as star studded 'Delegation Time' appeared two years later and continued the party rock tradition. But, since then, nothing. Since we had Peter Zaremba at the mercy of our microphone during the latest Fleshtones appearance in London, we decided to ask about just what was happening in Delegation country.
WW: What happened to the Love Delegation?
PZ: What happened to the Love Delegation is kinda like what happened to first class sleeper cars on transcontinental trains. It was just too expensive basically. It's just difficult to get that Many people together and play all these instruments and record all that and try to do it for a ridiculously small budget. I lost money on both records. I was happy with the records, I was disappointed that none of then were ever released in North America.
WW: Was the second only released in Spain?
PZ: No, it was issued in France and sold quite a few. And in England too, it got really good reviews surprisingly. It was never released in America in any way. So I was very disappointed about that actually.
WW: Did the band ever play live?
PZ: The band started by playing live. It played live in New York a lot and actually went to France and did a weekend tour - 3 shows in France. We did some great stuff. Played the Mardi Gras in New Orleans and stuff. But, what it really boiled down to was that it was too expensive. After all you can't ask people to do things for free or for $20 or stuff.
WW: Especially some of the names you had on the records.
PZ: They're all really nice people. At any rate though, to tell you the truth, The Fleshtones are now making records again and stuff so there's more than enough to do really. That's the truth. If we had been making records at that point we would never have done the Love Delegation. Who knows, maybe there'll be another record someday.