Leroi Z Coondawg aka Iain "Dead" Livingstone

  

Leroi at the Garage Fuzz Sessions, 1983

Played : Bass 1981 - 85

After the Subterraneans and the original MLATRFOD, Leroi jammed with  jangly singer/songwriter Yuji Oniki in Edinburgh in 1986/87. Yuji placed an ad looking for musicians influenced by Big Star and the Soft Boys, and it was a nice change for Leroi to play some tuneful subtle stuff. But not for long. After Yuji headed back to the states, Leroi fell back into his old ways and went back to playing noisy rock n roll with No Head Jackson and the Sharecroppers from Hell.

This led on to Edinburgh garage outfit Johnny & The Deadbeats, probably the hardest-working combo Leroi played with. The Deadbeats practiced and gigged regularly in Edinburgh in 1988 and 89 before petering out when some of the guys left and proved impossible to replace.

From then until 2004, Leroi's "musical" activities were sporadic, and mostly involved starting loads of songs off on the portastudio at home then failing to finish any of them. In recent years, however, his involvement with Memphis Louie an the Rockin Firebird of Death has actually spurred him on to finish a few things and he's played a couple of semi-impromptu "unplugged" MLATRFOD gigs.

Leroi is thought to be a long-standing member of the Guireans but has never been convicted.

Rumours that he is also associated with a certain mysterious Lewis Gaelic garage psych combo are probably not true.  

Leroi works for a big bad dee-fence company in Edinburgh but is back on the croft quite often, and it's here that he does a lot of the little that he does.