#sonic reducer

Side A: Sonic Reducer (Dead Boys Cover)

I don't need anyone

Don't need no mom and dad

Don't need no pretty face

Don't need no human race

I got some news for you

Don't even need you too

I got my devil machine

Got my electronic dream

Sonic reducer

Ain't no loser

Got my sonic reducer

Ain't no loser

People out on the streets

They don't know who I am

I watch them from my room

They all just pass me by

But I'm not just anyone

Said I'm not just anyone

I got my devil machine

Got my electronic dream

Sonic reducer

Ain't no loser

Got my sonic reducer

Ain't no loser

I'll be a pharaoh soon

Rule from some golden tomb

Things will be different then

The sun will rise from here

Then I'll be ten feet tall

And you'll be nothing at all

I got my devil machine

I got my electronic dream

Sonic reducer

Ain't no loser

Got my sonic reducer

I ain't no loser

I said my sonic reducer

Sonic reducer

Yeah my sonic reducer

Sonic reducer

Sonic reducer

Side B: Ramblings continued

"DEAD BOY! -- DEAD BOY RUNNING SCARED! DEAD BOY! -- CAUGHT IN A NUCLEAR WEIRD!"

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a mega photo-set of American punk rock band DEAD BOYS, performing live in New York (maybe CBGB, maybe not), c. 1977. 📸: Mykel Board.

"THE DEAD BOYS are part of a new generation at CBGB, a generation that has finally succeeded in erasing that fine line that divides the cool from the retarded. The most prominent of the new bands, they recently signed a contract with Sire Records and their first LP, "Young Snotty And Loud," is due for release in September.

British fans will already know them for the two impressive tracks on the "New Wave" compilation -- "Sonic Reducer" and "Dead Boys."

Stiv Bators (vocals), Johnny Blitz (drums), Jeff Magnum (bass), Jimmy Zero and Cheetah Chrome (guitars) grew up in Cleveland Ohio. They went to Catholic schools (where Stiv claims he used to fake epileptic fits in study hall), worked in factories and eventually joined together in a band called ROCKET FROM THE TOMBS. A fight where they beat up another band with pool cues got them barred from playing in Cleveland clubs. There were fist fights at rehearsals, and on one occasion Stiv attacked Cheetah with a spaghetti strainer." JIMMY ZERO: "I think it was a transitional phase. We were pretty violent people. We hadn't learned to channel it out through music."

-- SOUNDS (UK), "New York's Answer to the Pistols, and they've got the Scars to Prove it." August 27, 1977

John Belushi turned 31 on Jan. 24th 1980 and he celebrated the next night at the L.A.'s Whisky A Go-Go, sitting in on drums with Stiv Bators and the reformed Dead Boys (Stiv Bators, Frank Secich, Jimmmy Zero, Johnny Blitz, George Cabaniss) for a thrashing rendition of the band's anthem, "Sonic Reducer", as captured by Donna Santisi.

Bators, for one, was impressed:  "He's a good drummer -- there's a lot of rolls in that song." 

Decent history of one of the greatest punk bands. I’d never heard the airport story. And as usual, some rock writer says there was no scene in Cleveland in the mid-70s, then proceeds to say, “Oh well, there was Rocket from the Tombs” -- a band whose import trumps the entirety of punk bands in the state of, oh say, Florida, Montana, and Washington for the entire decade. Anyway, check out the link for the article, good stuff!!