Dead Boys Guitarist @CheetahChrome Comes Back to Rock His Hometown @BeachlandCle

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Sun 2/22 @ 8:30PM

Back in the ’80s, not many people would have given you good odds that Dead Boys guitarist Cheetah Chrome would be alive in 2015, let alone that he would be the busiest and most productive member of the ’70s Cleveland punk band.

Known for his ferocious attitude and ferocious guitar playing, epitomized by his flaming red hair, as well as for his prodigious appetite for alcohol and drugs, he seemed destined for a crackup after the band pulled up stakes and moved to New York in the late ’70s.

Somehow it was singer Stiv Bators who went first, dying in a pedestrian/auto accident in 1990. And by the mid ’90s, Chrome (born Eugene O’Connor) was starting to clean up his act after 15 years in the desert.

In the last several years, he’s appeared with numerous bands, started his own eclectic label with partners Shannon Pollard and Don Cusic, wrote a pitiless and entertaining autobiography without help of a ghostwriter, started writing a very astute leftie political column called Ain’t It Fun for New Noise Magazine, and continued to be as outspoken as ever, fueled by his own keen intelligence and not drugs.

Currently he is on tour with a five-piece band called the Bulemics, warming up for his annual South by Southwest appearance on the Plowboy Records showcase. They will be at the Beachland Ballroom with local band Archie & the Bunkers opening.

Tickets are $12 in advance, $14 at the door.

cheetahchrome.net/

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Cleveland, OH 44110

 

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