“I was able to pay off my car at that point.”īy this point, Electric Six had scored hit singles in the U.K. “I got really lucky there,” Spencer says.
Then he was laid off from his day job, as a news editor for a promotional wire service called PR News Wire, and took six months of unemployment benefits - until, in 2002, an important independent record label, XL, signed Electric Six and turned its immortal single “Danger! High Voltage” into an underground hit. Spencer, 44, who on stage wears natty suits and goes by Dick Valentine, finally bought a Saturn in 2000. It's funny, the condition people's cars are in - there's a bunch of beaters, especially (for) people in bands.” “If you live in the city of Detroit, it helps to have a car in worse repair. “There was one where the floor was actually held together by duct tape,” recalls the frontman for punk-and-dance band Electric Six. Tyler Spencer still dreams of the $750 lemons he drove around Detroit while trying to make his bands work in the '90s.
