Lou names a variety of reasons behind leaving the band, including a marriage that never happened, but his primary conflict was Miki’s new musical direction.  European disco, music that Lou epitomizes through the work of Georgio Moroder, and Man Machine era Kraftwerk, became Miki’s passion, and Lou, who wanted The Fast “to be like Cheap Trick,” dissented.  Though time has put tongue in cheek, Lou seems ultimately sincere when saying  “I wanted to be a rock band, I don’t want to be in a disco band, I want to be a rock star.”

       The Fast had also been an entity at this time for approximately 15 years, and Lou felt by this point that it was just “not gonna happen, there are just some things you can just do and do, and it’s just not going to happen.”

       On a humorous side note, Lou admits to having had concerns about being in a Fast where Miki and Paul were “coming out of the closet.”  When The Fast started having an increasingly gay fan base, the heterosexual Lou and Joe Poliseno would be sitting around, wondering “how are we going to get laid?  Everybody’s going to think we’re gay!  This sucks!”  Though Lou is obviously not homophobic, due to his involvement (and close friendships) with the largely gay/bisexual Max’s contingent, he does state that this situation is not one you want to be in when you are 18-20 years old. Lou had apparently never heard David Bowie’s accounts of heterosexual Mick Ronson’s increased ability to “pull” women as a member of the bisexual rock vanguard, the Spiders from Mars!

       Unfortunately, the decision to leave was not taken well by Miki, who assumed that Lou, like Paul, was along for the long haul.  Lou felt quite often like another brother, mentioning that he found himself staying at the Zone household for weeks, finding “another plate thrown on the table” for him during The Fast’s heyday.  Because of the length, and depth of the friendship, Miki was “hurt” and the Zone brothers had no contact with Lou for “quite a few years.”

       Miki, around this point had begun work with an all girl band called Crayola, renting rehearsal space, and teaching them songs and guitar skills.  Crayola featured a lady named Jana Allen.  Lou mentions that Jana is Sara Allen’s sister, and Sara is of Hall and Oates fame, immortalized by the song Sara Smile.  As a result of this connection, Lou met Darryl Hall, Sara’s long time “partner” and ended up being a valet for Hall and Oates, around the Private Eyes era!

       Ultimately, Lou feels that “babysitting” rock stars “sucks” and after a year, moved to Toronto, since the NY music scene had pretty much “died.”  Unfortunately, the Toronto music scene exemplified by The Diodes, had died also, and Lou never formed another band.

       Lou, living in Toronto, heard about Miki’s death through a high school friend of his, Leah, who called “out of the blue,” and broke the tragic news.  By this time, Miki had already been buried.

       Thankfully some closure was made, prior to Miki’s death, at a Toronto Man 2 Man gig in ’86, where Lou had to go and see if the guys “totally hate my guts or what!”  Lou had not spoken to the Zone brothers since leaving the band.  Miki, being a “big-hearted guy,” was not only willing to forgive and forget, but wrote Lou, wanting him to be the M2M road crew manager.  Lou had just been married, and had to say no.  Even though Lou didn’t go back full time, when M2M returned to Toronto that year, Lou ended up, just like in the glitter days, helping them in the road crew capacity.

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