Season 3 · Episode 10
Toilet Boys singer · Squeezebox DJ · Boy Bar star
Released 17 Aug 2023 · 48:33
Every name, club, book, song, night and look from the interview - 166 references and 369 mentions in this episode. Fresh off a month on tour doing Debbie Harry's make-up, Miss Guy remembers the first meeting at Stephen Sprouse's Soho shop - in a tiny paper KISS fan-club jacket. A big brother's records (Parallel Lines, Devo, the B-52's), best friend Lauren Pine since fourth grade, and a Malcolm McLaren party that sends them both to New York. Boy Bar on their very first night, meeting James - a better version of Guy - and Matthew Kasten's Boy Bar shows, from Hooray for Hollywood to Cherry Bomb. Then the House of Field balls, a day job at Pat Field's, the Cat Club rock nights, Squeezebox at Don Hill's with Michael Schmidt, and the Toilet Boys - from opening for Debbie to arenas with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Wow!
Long platinum hair, smoky dark eyes, a black glitter top
At home in front of a big pink Debbie Harry portrait, with blue-and-white teapots and crystal decanters
Paper fan-club jacket
The teeny paper jacket from the Blondie fan club that Miss Guy wore to Stephen Sprouse's shop - Debbie Harry liked it
Miss Guy and Lauren moved there after high school, in 1985
Miss Guy was copying Marilyn's look at the time; Guy and James both remember him as unfriendly to them
FashionMarilyn's look
Heard as “Marilyn / Maryland”
Miss Guy's best friend since fourth grade, who moved to New York with Guy and ran the make-up counter at Patricia Field's for the second half of the 80s - Bo Peep on the scene
FashionBo Peep drag
Heard as “Lauren”
Miss Guy's first night out in New York, the Thursday they arrived - and the stage where Guy started doing shows
Heard as “Boivar / Boy Bar / boy bar”
Where Miss Guy and Lauren went shopping and to shows as teenagers - and where Guy still DJs
Heard as “LA / Los Angeles”
Miss Guy does her make-up on tour - just back from a month in the UK with her. They first met in the late 80s at Stephen Sprouse's SoHo shop and became friends in the early 90s
FashionMake-up for Debbie Harry on tour
Heard as “Debbie”
Lauren and Miss Guy befriended him in California - he invited them to TV tapings and, in New York, to the Paradise Garage
Heard as “Boy George / George”
Gave Miss Guy a day job and early words of encouragement that, Guy says, built up her confidence - the first guest of the season, Miss Guy the last
Heard as “Pat / Pat Fields / Pat's”
The band that changed Miss Guy's life
Heard as “Blondie / blondie”
Ran the door at the Cat Club and always let Miss Guy in; later gave Squeezebox full freedom at Don Hill's - the nicest person in the world to work for, Guy says
Heard as “Dawn / Don / Don Hill”
The Toilet Boys toured arenas there opening for the Red Hot Chili Peppers
Miss Guy's roommate; brought Miss Guy and Debbie together, and co-produced Squeezebox
Heard as “Michael / Michael Schmidt”
Host; says Miss Guy's Sharon Tate look at a ball got him started on his own bloody looks
Heard as “James”
The gay rock and punk club Miss Guy started at Don Hill's in April 1994 with Michael Schmidt, Lauren and Martine - on fire by that summer
Heard as “Squeezebox / squeeze box”
The month-long tour with Debbie Harry; so much great music came from England in the early 80s
Heard as “England / UK”
Miss Guy's favourite band for years
The Toilet Boys' video made its top 20; James says MTV did for their generation what Instagram does now
Wilder than Boy Bar; Miss Guy performed there a handful of times and loved the Sunday shows
Heard as “Pyramid / pyramid”
Saturday nights; the House of Field ball where Miss Guy walked for Face
The Wednesday rock night Miss Guy went to - straight, with friends among the girls of the Cycle Sluts
Heard as “Cat Club / cat club”
Co-host; wants a part two
Heard as “Barbado / Randy”
Miss Guy's glam-punk band: first put together to open for Debbie Harry at Squeezebox, then tours with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and more
FashionGlam punk
The highlight of the tour: Blondie went on right before Elton John
Heard as “Glastonbury”
A childhood favourite - scary and exciting, as Miss Guy and James remember
Heard as “Bowie”
One of James's teenage idols - and a regular at Squeezebox
At a small party in his LA hotel suite, he told the 17-year-old Miss Guy and Lauren they should move to New York - so they did
Miss Guy's first night at Boy Bar: Connie lip-synced Walking on Thin Ice, cartwheeling in a bikini and white mules. Links to Connie's Night Fever episode
FashionBikini and white mules
Heard as “Connie”
Did a show on Miss Guy's first night at Boy Bar - so demented, Guy says
Heard as “Glamemore / Glamomore”
Lip-synced at Peanuts; later a Squeezebox regular and a band the Toilet Boys played with
Heard as “Joan Jet”
Miss Guy came to a ball as her ghost, as James recalls
Heard as “Sharon Tate / Shon Tate”
Came to Squeezebox, came to see the Toilet Boys and wrote about them in his book, Miss Guy says
Heard as “De Dee Ramon / Didi Ramon”
Came to Squeezebox and to Toilet Boys shows; they played his annual birthday party
Heard as “Joey Ramon”
Likewise - James wants her on the show. Links to Bebe Buell's Night Fever episode
Heard as “B.B. Buell / BB / BB Buell”
Came to Squeezebox the same night as Tura Satana - Miss Guy went over to say hello for Guy's mom
Heard as “Goldie Han / Goldie Hond”
The Toilet Boys opened their European arena tour
Heard as “Chili Peppers / chili peppers”
The guest: Boy Bar beauty, DJ, make-up artist, photographer, singer of the Toilet Boys and co-founder of Squeezebox. Links to Miss Guy's Night Fever episode
FashionGlam-rock drag
Heard as “Missed Guy / talked, guy”
Away for this episode, off travelling, as James says
Heard as “Fenton”
The teeny paper jacket from the Blondie fan club that Miss Guy wore to Stephen Sprouse's shop - Debbie Harry liked it
FashionPaper fan-club jacket
Heard as “made out of paper / paper kiss jacket”
The album that changed Miss Guy's life, brought home by an older brother
Heard as “parallel lines”
Where Miss Guy grew up
In the same pile of records
Heard as “Ramones record / the Ramones”
Creepy and eerie at first - then Miss Guy was obsessed
Heard as “Planet Claire”
One of James's teenage idols; Miss Guy thinks he was at the Palladium on their first night
Heard as “Warhol”
Straight after Boy Bar on the first night
Heard as “palladium”
Miss Guy caught the tail end of it
Heard as “area”
Matthew Kasten asked Miss Guy to do a show at Boy Bar, picked the songs and styled the hair - until he said: pick your own song
FashionBetty Grable hairdo
Heard as “Caston / Matthew”
Miss Guy's first Boy Bar lip sync - no connection to the song, Guy says
Heard as “Hooray for Hollywood”
Miss Guy's own pick - and the crowd ate it up
Heard as “Cherry Bomb / cherry bomb”
Its house ball at Nell's - category: dead celebrities
Heard as “Jackie 60 / Jackie Sixty”
Worked at Patricia Field's; Randy recalls living with Cody
Heard as “Cody”
Of the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black - Randy wants her on the show
Heard as “Kimbra”
Debbie Harry came to see the Toilet Boys there
Heard as “CB's”
The Toilet Boys played his annual party
Heard as “birthday party”
On the bill in London
Played right before Blondie at Glastonbury - incredible, Miss Guy says
Miss Guy first met Debbie Harry when his shop opened in SoHo, around 1987 or 88
Heard as “Steven Sprouse”
Where Miss Guy, in the paper fan-club jacket, first met Debbie Harry
Heard as “opened his shop”
Debbie and Chris had the same paper fan-club jacket, Miss Guy remembers
Heard as “Chris”
An early obsession: Debbie looked Marilyn-ish but also like an alien, Miss Guy says
What every girl in late-70s Southern California looked like, Miss Guy says - nobody wore all black
Likewise
Blonde hair with the back dark - outrageous in the late 70s, Miss Guy says
FashionTwo-tone blonde hair
Heard as “back be dark”
James's mother turned the TV off when Bowie sang it in a dress
Heard as “keep swinging”
James remembers her in Berlin with dip-dyed bleach-blonde hair with black tips
FashionDip-dyed blonde with black tips
Heard as “Terry Nunn”
James drove two hours every month to get it
Heard as “interview magazine”
Likewise
Heard as “village voice”
Lauren brought it to science class - it bonded them
Heard as “Kissing to be clever”
Where you could catch your favourite act moving, before MTV
Heard as “Don Kirschner”
James remembers sneaking up to see Adam and the Ants on TV
Heard as “Adam and the Ants”
Miss Guy's favourite band until Culture Club
A small party in his suite, Miss Guy remembers
Heard as “Malcolm McLaren party”
A friend from San Diego who had moved to New York a month or two before them - with them on the first night at Boy Bar
Where Boy George would invite them to meet him
Long blonde hair, sequin pants, pumps and a blazer, as Miss Guy remembers James at Boy Bar
FashionSequin pants, pumps, blazer
Heard as “sequin pants”
Marilyn turns around at the end of the video - Randy fell out of his chair
Heard as “Who's That Girl”
The next time Randy saw Marilyn
Heard as “Do They Know It's Christmas”
The club everyone thinks they missed, as James puts it
Heard as “mud club”
Likewise
Heard as “dancetiria”
One of the downtown stars James and Miss Guy felt were on a par with Madonna and Boy George
Miss Guy was as excited to see Bernard Zette as a film star
Heard as “Zette”
As exciting as Bernard Zette, as Miss Guy puts it
When they happened, everyone felt anybody could be next, James says
Heard as “D-Light”
A platinum Betty Grable do, 50s make-up and a tangerine beaded gown for Hooray for Hollywood
FashionTangerine beaded gown
Heard as “tangerine beaded gown”
Miss Guy saw him lip-sync Alice Cooper at the Pyramid in drippy eye make-up and a 60s Cher wig - that's what I want to do, Guy thought
FashionDrippy eye make-up, 60s Cher wig
Heard as “Tabu”
Tabboo! lip-synced him at the Pyramid
The House of Jackie 60 ball at Nell's, category dead celebrities, as James recalls - where Miss Guy came as Sharon Tate's ghost
FashionGhost costumes (see Mood)
Heard as “Dead celebrities”
White make-up and stage blood at the Jackie 60 ball at Nell's, as James recalls
FashionGory ghost drag
Heard as “ghost of Sharon Tate”
Miss Guy walked for Face in a hooded black catsuit
Heard as “house of field called the Roxy”
Walking for Face at the House of Field ball: a hooded black catsuit, painted face, big pigtails and a blacked-out tooth
FashionHooded black catsuit
Heard as “cat suit with a hood”
Where the Jackie 60 ball was, in its first days
Heard as “Nels”
Likewise
Heard as “sound factory”
In a March 1989 diary entry Miss Guy found: me and Bunny went to the Pyramid, The Building and the Roxy
Heard as “Bunny”
In Miss Guy's 1989 diary entry - with the Pyramid and the Roxy in one night
Heard as “The building”
Where Miss Guy DJed at a little bar
The restaurant in the space before Don Hill's, as Miss Guy remembers
A Squeezebox regular
Heard as “Jane County”
A Squeezebox regular, as James remembers
Among the 70s names who came to Squeezebox. Links to Cherry Vanilla's Night Fever episode
Heard as “Sherry Vanilla”
Came to Squeezebox once
Came to Squeezebox with Marc Jacobs
A Squeezebox regular
Likewise
Came to Squeezebox
The Toilet Boys' guitar player, who brought Miss Guy out as a performer
Heard as “Sean”
Brought Ace Frehley to see the Toilet Boys
Among the bands the Toilet Boys opened for or played with
Likewise
Two nights in every city, arenas of 20,000, Miss Guy says
Heard as “chili peppers in Europe”
Happened at a venue the Toilet Boys had just played; back home they were questioned about their pyro, cancelled the tour and broke up, Miss Guy says
Heard as “great white Fire”
Miss Guy DJs there when in LA, as heard
Heard as “Georgios”
At home in front of a big pink Debbie Harry portrait, with blue-and-white teapots and crystal decanters
FashionLong platinum hair, smoky dark eyes, a black glitter top
His home library
FashionBlack rectangular glasses, a cream scarf printed in black
In front of a unicorn tapestry
FashionA navy Carhartt cap, dark glasses frames, a pale blue shirt
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