Fun Facts:
Mike Martinez lives in the Long Island town of Farmingville
while ex-guitarist Johnny Crash lives in the Long Island town of Farmingdale.
Wonder if they like farming?
Ex-lead singer Juan's real name is John. Ex-bassist J.J.'s real
name is also John, and ex-2nd-guitarist Johnny Crash's real name is John
too. This means that at one point the band had a line-up
consisting of 3 Johns and all 5 band member's name's beginning with the
letter J. New York City show promotor Frank Wood even used to
jokingly introduce us as "the Five J's."
When first written, the song "Earn My Love" was originally entitled
"Women Need To Treat Men Like Kings". There was supposed to be a
sequel on the following album that would have been entitled "Men Need To
Treat Women Like Shit".
In the song "Do Your Damn Job", a song about Taco Bell, the lyric "their
token retard worker Mariano is a fag" refers to a real employee that works
at a Taco Bell in Port Jefferson, NY.
The umlaut over the Y in L˙nch is for decorative purposes and does
not affect pronunciation. It was originally put there to pay
tribute to fellow Long Island band, Blue Öyster Cult, as well as one of
their favorite bands, Motörhead. Joe, who wasn't in the band yet
during the era of coming up with the name, is also a huge fan of Mötley
Crüe.
Jason Lynch owns a black, polydactyl, Angora cat. Joe Lynch
owns over 7 Golden Retriever dogs. Mike Martinez leaves food
outside for several homeless cats. Jesse does not own any pets.
J.J. Crestwood, homeless bum and former bassist of the band, was living
in the tour-van after being kicked out of the band. One night he
stole the van to go get heroin, nodded out behind the wheel, and
crashed the van
through a front lawn into several cars. He had several charges
including reckless endangerment, fleeing the scene, DWI, possession, and
more.
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