Dead Boys : Punk NEO Sound - Cleveland
In the mid-1970s, Northeast Ohio competed with New York City and London as the birthplace of punk, and Cleveland's Dead Boys was among the first wave
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Cleveland bands played a fundamental role in the development of American punk. Short-lived bands the Mirrors, electric eels, and Rocket from the Tombs were highly influential, spawning groups like Dead Boys, Pere Ubu, and the Styrenes.
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Formed in 1975 from the breakup of protopunk rockers Rocket from the Tombs, Dead Boys was known as the rowdiest and most violent group of the era.
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Stiv Bators and Cheetah Chrome of Dead Boys
Rolling Stone's David Fricke said of Rocket from the Tombs: "No one else in American rock, underground or over, was writing and playing songs this hard and graphic about being f*cked over and fighting mad."
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Young Loud and Snotty was one of two studio albums released by vocalist Stiv Bators, lead guitarist Cheetah Chrome, rhythm guitarist Jimmy Zero, bassist Jeff Magnum, and drummer Johnny Blitz.
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Dead Boys, "Sonic Reducer," 1977
"Sonic Reducer" appeared on Dead Boys' 1977 album Young, Loud and Snotty.
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Stiv Bators, 1980
Dead Boys were initially active from 1975 to 1980, and then again beginning in 2004, for the first time without Bators who died in 1990.
