Roy Loney


Roy Loney was an American rock musician, the original lead singer of the Flamin' Groovies, a band with releases on Epic Records and Kama Sutra Records, which Rolling Stone magazine described as an "influence on power-pop and punk …" Loney's albums with the Flamin' Groovies included Sneakers, Supersnazz, Flamingo, and Teenage Head.Billboard magazine contrasted their "gritty" sound to the "flower power" approach of their San Francisco contemporaries.
After leaving the Flamin' Groovies, Loney remained in the music industry both as a performer and in other jobs such as a sales representative for ABC Records and in various San Francisco-area record stores. Besides solo projects, he fronted bands, often in collaboration with former Flamin' Groovies bandmates, performing and recording under band names including the Phantom Movers and the Longshots. In the last two years of his life, Loney appeared with a reunited Flamin' Groovies, and before his health failed in spring 2019 had expected to tour Europe with them later that year.
He died December 13, 2019 of "severe organ failure."

Discography

Full-length LPs or CDs unless otherwise noted.
With the Flamin' Groovies:
Other: