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Whereupon the band discovered--you guessed it--that fame was more than it could handle. Says Frischmann: "The punk-rock ethos we started with got watered down." There were touring difficulties. "I think the final straw for me," says drummer Justin Welch, "was when we had just finished Australia, and I arrived home at Heathrow airport with my sandals on and it was snowing outside. That's when I decided we needed a break." There were personnel problems. Bass player Annie Holland, whom Frischmann describes as "the most punk rock of the lot of us," quit the group during...
...with The Menace due to hit U.S. stores this week, Elastica and its leader are trying to stage a comeback, complete with a tour of America in September. Last year Frischmann and Welch coaxed Holland back into the band ("She was itching to get back in," says Welch), drafted two new members (guitarist Paul Jones and a second keyboardist, who goes by the single name of Mew) and pounded out the new album in six weeks in the fall...
...LAURA (WELCH) BUSH Born: 1946 Aspiring first lady...
INDICTED. THOMAS WELCH and DAVID JOHNSON, high-ranking Utah Olympics officials; for allegedly paying $1 million in bribes to bring the 2002 Games to their state; in Salt Lake City. Both men denied the charges...
There was lots of crime news in the big type too. Over in Utah, a 15-count indictment was handed up against Salt Lake City bid-committee principals Tom Welch and Dave Johnson in connection with the $1.2 million in graft that preceded--led to?--Salt Lake's selection by the International Olympic Committee as host of the 2002 Winter Games. The feds went ballistic on Welch and Johnson because they wouldn't cop a plea to bribing I.O.C. members. The two say they're innocent because schmoozing members at the time wasn't against I.O.C. policy--it was I.O.C...