Dead Boys Were One Of The First Punk Bands To Escalate the Level of violence, Nihilism And Ugliness

The Dead Boys were one of the first punk bands to escalate the level of violence, nihilism and pure ugliness of punk rock to extreme new levels. Although considered part of New York's mid 70s CBGB's scene, all of its bandmembers originally hailed from Cleveland, The group's roots lay in the early 70s Cleveland cult band Rocket from the Tombs which included future Dead Boys Cheetah Chrome AKA Gene O'Connor on guitar, and Johnny Blitz AKA John Madansky on drums along with future Pere Ubu members David Thomas and Peter Laughner. The group's sound was a bit too comparable to art rock for Chrome and Blitz's tastes, and by 1975 Rocket from the Tombs had split up. Chrome and Blitz decided to enlist local singer Stiv Bators AKA Steve Bator, second guitarist Jimmy Zero AKA William Wilden, and bassist Jeff Magnum AKA Jeff Halmagy and formed a new group more akin to their musical tastes and dubbed Frankenstein. But the group only managed a handful of local shows before fading away, Noticing that there was an underground punk scene flourishing in New York City's Bowery, the group befriended one of the leading bands from that scene the Ramones, who had come to Cleveland on a tour stop. At the insistence of Bators, Ramones frontman Joey Ramone helped arrange a tryout for the group at CBGB's, as the whole former Frankenstein band made the trek to New York, Not only did the group land a spot at CBGB's, they enlisted the club's owner as their manager and signed a recording contract with Sire shortly thereafter.
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