Tue 10/18 @ 8PM
What can you say about Cleveland’s Dead Boys, the ’70s punk rock icons who headed for New York City to take legendary punk dive CBGB by storm before flaming out in a blaze of drugs and dissolution by the end of the decade? You can read all about it in guitarist Cheetah Chrome’s excellent 2010 autobiography A Dead Boy’s Tale: From the Front Lines of Punk Rock in which the most dissolute Dead Boy makes the band’s entire life story come alive — without using a ghost writer. (When vocalist Stiv Bators died in a car accident in 1990, more than one person opined “The wrong Dead Boy died.”)
Anyway, Cheetah pretty much cleaned up back in the mid ’90s — two decades of being a junkie was more than enough for him — and has toured with a reconstituted version of the band, though not recently. He’s remedying that though with the current Dead Boys tour. While he’s the only member of the ’70s lineup still playing, punk rockers will want to hear one of the genre’s most recognizable guitarists blaze through classics like “Sonic Reducer,” Ain’t Nothin’ to Do,” “What Love Is,” “I Need Lunch” and “Caught With the Meat in Your Mouth.”
They’ll be appearing at the Beachland Ballroom (of course), with the Briefs and Suzi Moon opening. Tickets are $25.
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