Dead Boys - Live at CBGB's 1977

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  • 01 | 00:46 | Sonic Reducer
    02 | 03:37 | All This and More
    03 | 06:23 | Not Anymore
    04 | 09:44 | I Won't Look Back
    05 | 12:24 | Flame Thrower Love
    06 | 14:58 | I Need Lunch
    07 | 18:33 | Ain't Nothin' to Do
    08 | 21:14 | What Love Is
    09 | 23:17 | High Tension Wire
    10 | 25:21 | Search & Destroy
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  • @pmfnr
    @pmfnr 6 ปีที่แล้ว +277

    The the city is so gentrified now, but The 86's are still making music today in the classic 70's NY punk style. A few members of the band are from the old scene and Detroit at the time. th-cam.com/video/qsjnrzy2Frk/w-d-xo.html

    • @TheBigMclargehuge
      @TheBigMclargehuge 6 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Real shame about turning a shitty neighborhood into a nice one, gentrification is so evil.

    • @cycologist7069
      @cycologist7069 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It is but there is still somewhat of a punk scene there. At least there was when I was last there in November.

    • @cycologist7069
      @cycologist7069 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      TheBigMclargehuge Gentrification is a double edged sword and there is always two sides to it. While there are some good things that can come out of it, if not done right it can completely ruin a neighborhoods character.

    • @jppaul1261
      @jppaul1261 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@TheBigMclargehuge You forgot the sarcasm font.
      For a second I actually thought that you favored gentrification and its soul-sucking evil. The Bowery has never been the same since the money moved in. Sure, it's cleaner and safer, but it's unrelatable and shallow, essentially like any old dormitory suburb. NYC deserves better.
      Every since Robert Moses, Manhattan has failed to preserve its essential values that made it interesting to begin with.

    • @jppaul1261
      @jppaul1261 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@NYC_Metal_Scene That's great, and as Johnny Thunders famously sang in the late 70s, "you can't put your arms around memories." As if to say, we need to live in the moment rather than sulk that the past has indeed passed. But this period at CBGB's was my sweet spot of late teens, early twenties. The difference compared to the punk that lingers today is that it was happening for the first time in the late 60s and through the 70s. It was new and radically different, and many of the bands at that time were still somewhat melodic with poignant lyrics compared to the banal hardcore screaming punk that followed from the 90s and onwards.
      Bands, writers and visual artists doing the same thing now are purely 100% derivative. Only those who experience an original period understand the additional power of radical change. I agree, there are far more options today, but they're tangents rather than replacements.

  • @TheChadTI
    @TheChadTI ปีที่แล้ว +43

    This footage is an unbelievable historical document.

  • @slowblueoval1997
    @slowblueoval1997 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    I can't believe this was in 1977. Man their sound and these songs were ahead of their time.

    • @user-iv7ts3zm4y
      @user-iv7ts3zm4y 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      They were "right on time". To combat disco.

    • @morbidmanmusic
      @morbidmanmusic 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@user-iv7ts3zm4y that didn't work out to well, as dance and drum oriented music is the most "popular" and punk, not so much.

    • @tedkell3039
      @tedkell3039 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@morbidmanmusic that may be, but when you don't give f"#k about being popular and just perform your heart out every time you hit that stage, that's how you create something as timeless as this.. .
      You obviously don't get it, but like you mentioned most people don't...
      Btw, punk is a state of mind, not a fashion statement.. .

    • @DR-xt9ux
      @DR-xt9ux 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Fk that intro is sick

    • @user-iv7ts3zm4y
      @user-iv7ts3zm4y หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@tedkell3039
      You expressed my thoughts very well, based off my original comment. Thank you.

  • @rwckirby
    @rwckirby 9 ปีที่แล้ว +513

    Incredibly high quality for 1977....like having a time machine

    • @tarshiha146
      @tarshiha146 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      skids marquee i got my time machine got my electronic dream

    • @gravelevel3084
      @gravelevel3084 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      skids marquee was thinking the same thing!! How come they weren’t filming everything, shit?!?!

    • @69zenos1
      @69zenos1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Believe it or not, they did have high quality movie cameras back then. Have you ever seen an old black and white movie on the big screen?

    • @paulsavage5057
      @paulsavage5057 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Give me your real name, you bastard! Who are you to judge?

    • @nyx9208
      @nyx9208 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@paulsavage5057 what?

  • @K._Oss
    @K._Oss 2 ปีที่แล้ว +151

    I remember hearing those words “and then I’ll be 10 feet tall and you’ll be nothing at all” For the first time as a gawky gangly 14 year old pushover So many years ago feeling like I could take down the whole football team with my own bare hands. Of course I couldn’t, but punk rock made me not afraid of my bullies anymore.

    • @kevinryan4251
      @kevinryan4251 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      the first time I heard it, it was a Pearl Jam bootleg, and for awhile we thought it was their song, a B-side or something. lol. Same with how killer that line is.

    • @michaelvance1118
      @michaelvance1118 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      EXACTLY ONE OF THE MAIN THINGS ABOUT PUNK AND METAL THAT STUCK TO MY HEART AND SOUL WHEN I WAS ABOUT 13/ 14 AND STILL KEEPS ME GOING MOST DAYS STILL AT age 46!

    • @CuzzinVinny100
      @CuzzinVinny100 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      "Rock out, let it crush your fear." - Motorhead

    • @jacobrheaume1
      @jacobrheaume1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I have "Sonic Reducer" tattooed around my wrist.
      I'll be a pharoh soon, rule from some golden tomb. Things will be different then. The sun will rise from here.

  • @muzicmachine1
    @muzicmachine1 10 ปีที่แล้ว +627

    I feel bad for anyone who didn't live through this era. I was 21 in 1977 and had just finished college. I came back to NYC (I'm from the Bronx) and everywhere you went there were incredible experiences. In that one year I saw Patti Smith, Television, Pere Ubu, The Ramones, Elvis Costello, Rockpile, Eric Emerson and the Magic Tramps, The Dolls and way too many more band to list. It was an incredible time to be young and free and living in NYC.

    • @michaelhead3916
      @michaelhead3916 10 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I was there '75-'76 and OH YEAH!

    • @janemuder4472
      @janemuder4472 10 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Wouldn't you have seen The Heartbreakers? The Dolls were long gone by '77.

    • @cheesedips
      @cheesedips 10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Lucky as hell. I love punk

    • @csedan7916
      @csedan7916 10 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I was 13 and saw them at CB's this vinatge. Also at Max's, Club 57 among other long gone NYC venues. I miss the New York of this time, going to punk shows when you're 13-14 years old? Where else could you do that!

    • @csedan7916
      @csedan7916 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ***** My band The Idle Rich played all around Boston/Prov. in the mid eighties...opened for all of the SST bands and even for The Bad Brains when they did their reunion...those were the days.

  • @frankdiscussion2069
    @frankdiscussion2069 9 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    Stiv Bators...one of the most amazing intense epic legendary front-man to ever live...RIP dude...

    • @TheGrandmasterMan
      @TheGrandmasterMan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The first few seconds into Sonic Reducer confirms that and he doesn't even say a word.....star quality

    • @user-tx3zx2yf8h
      @user-tx3zx2yf8h 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The man loved his cold cuts

    • @XGRIMYONEX
      @XGRIMYONEX 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Along with iggy,Wendy and gg

    • @thegoose0m1
      @thegoose0m1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I saw him perform with "The Lord's of the New Church". Unfortunately never saw him with the Dead Boys...

  • @vintagerpem930
    @vintagerpem930 8 ปีที่แล้ว +459

    blessed to see them and Ramones on same bill for 3$ ,for real!

    • @AislingPhoenix
      @AislingPhoenix 7 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      William A. Broderick as an 18 year old kid growing up on this music, I wish I could have been around during cbgbs prime

    • @natelucas3510
      @natelucas3510 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I would LITERALLY kill to have seen that!

    • @dynjarren7523
      @dynjarren7523 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      emma duncan
      Aah, the old go back in time and kill Hitler plan. Would you kill him as a baby or young boy? That would be difficult and a Sin. Kill him as an Adult then? Good Luck getting close with him being surrounded by SS Men!
      Ah, the best laid plans of Mice and Men! Not as easy as it sounds.

    • @gussstavo
      @gussstavo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You got robbed buddy

    • @protectchildrenatallcosts2652
      @protectchildrenatallcosts2652 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@natelucas3510 What if I have murdered you first? You would've missed seeing Lady Gaga.

  • @DiegoMartinPintos
    @DiegoMartinPintos 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1259

    Someday Punk Rock is gonna comeback and save Rock And Roll one more time

    • @DrUgly-rj5nz
      @DrUgly-rj5nz 9 ปีที่แล้ว +122

      Punk rock never left you just have to know where to look in the industry.

    • @luke-da-duke
      @luke-da-duke 9 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Diego Martin Pintos Urzagaste everything in rock nowadays is influenced by or derived from punk.

    • @WillVafuth
      @WillVafuth 9 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Diego Martin Pintos Urzagaste and the genre has evolved.. there is now Ska Punk, Folk Punk, and more.. in addition to trad punk

    • @Cyclopat
      @Cyclopat 9 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Diego Martin Pintos Urzagaste Ah ! sounds like necrophilia to me, man...

    • @STRATCAT101
      @STRATCAT101 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Diego Martin Pintos Urzagaste lEts hOPe so.

  • @Mr.Steve-O
    @Mr.Steve-O 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Saw the original lineup of the Dead Boys at the Whiskey-A-Go Go in LA in the spring of 1980. We took Stiv after the show down to 7-11 as he could buy beer and gave him money to buy us a 12-pack and we sat in the parking lot drinking beers with him. I was 15 and having the time of my life. Saw him a few years later at Perkins Palace with Lords of The New Church, which I had to admit was even better. R.I.P. Punk Rock Legend

  • @ouzo6000
    @ouzo6000 9 ปีที่แล้ว +387

    A girl I was dating back in 1978 took my to see the Dead Boys at the Rat in Boston. It was my first punk rock concert. I was mainly a fan of British progressive rock and American classic rock. I was certain that I was not going to like them at all. How wrong I was. I was absolutely blown away by these guys. I will always remember that show.

    • @stevieray56
      @stevieray56 6 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      I was also a fan of prog rock (King Crimson, Yes, etc) and I was also probably at the same Dead Boys show at the Rat as you were. They blew me away as well.

    • @zookeeper2872
      @zookeeper2872 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Did you tear up your Pink Floyd posters after the show? Great story. Did you see any other bands around that time?

    • @alexandervoog9396
      @alexandervoog9396 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You were a MOST FORTUNATE citzen.

    • @variationzero
      @variationzero 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes, OUZO!!!

    • @lupodelupis3672
      @lupodelupis3672 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Prog is the most boring and onanist form of rock that ever existed: Long Live Punk!

  • @claybeach117
    @claybeach117 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    First PuNk rock LP I ever bought. Loud Young and Snotty. And I never looked back. At 64 I'm still listening to this music. Former co-founder of VILE.

  • @benrawson6684
    @benrawson6684 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    This is one of the coolest things ever captured on film.

  • @oldfriend327
    @oldfriend327 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    This is a gem of a historic footage. Thank you and God bless you a million times for this.

    • @jimbohi3648
      @jimbohi3648 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      You're not alone dude we're all listening in 2023

    • @surfboard396
      @surfboard396 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jimbohi3648 I’m watching right now . Brings me back to high school. This was such a great time to be in the mix.

  • @AlmostReady504
    @AlmostReady504 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    This is fucking PRICELESS.
    I hope everyone appreciates this

  • @patrickportland3695
    @patrickportland3695 8 ปีที่แล้ว +150

    I saw the Dead Boys more times than I can count at CBGB's in the late 70's and early 80's. At the time didn't realize how powerful it was; when I look back realize how lucky I was...the time, the era, the anger. The Bowery was grungy and dangerous back then...fitting for the music scene at CBGB's. Today it's like Disneyland...sad in its own way.

    • @hamstergirl4444
      @hamstergirl4444 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      +Patrick Portland I could never get people to go to CBGB's with me, lol - they were always too scared...the first time I went, we had to leave early because one of the guys with us had to be back at Riker's in time (they had let him out on a pass, lol)

    • @keratacon
      @keratacon 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +Patrick Portland so sad when Mars Bar closed a few years ago, the last holdout of that world.

    • @theblackpit3159
      @theblackpit3159 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      +hamstergirl4444
      That's funny. Me and my buddy met these 2 girls at CBGB's. I can't remember much of what happened over the next 3 or 4 weeks except that I got into a shitload of trouble. But she did leave me her probation book as a parting gift.

    • @patrickportland3695
      @patrickportland3695 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +Cartel1982 Wow...didn't know...used to frequent those divey NY Lower East side bars and Mars Bar was one of them. Relocated to Portland, OR 6 years ago. Miss NYC but it's not the same city I grew up in as a kid in Brooklyn...thanks for the update!

    • @hamstergirl4444
      @hamstergirl4444 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The BlackPit Probation book, eh? Lololol - as long as that's all you got, consider yourself lucky ;)

  • @tonyeckman4822
    @tonyeckman4822 5 ปีที่แล้ว +138

    Wiped the floor with the Sex Pistols. One of the best Punk bands that ever existed.
    R.I.P Stiv

    • @chicago_rocker23
      @chicago_rocker23 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Stiv bators Rest in peace!

    • @christophercampbell1677
      @christophercampbell1677 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Cleveland rocks!!

    • @jwd29485
      @jwd29485 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No comparisons. When you read the liner notes for Night of the Living Dead Boys - when Johnny Blitz threw a snare drum at Stiv on stage, knocked him out and he got up while they played on. Too bad he died so young. LOTNC were not some flash. It would be nice to see where things would have gone.

    • @HighlanderNorth1
      @HighlanderNorth1 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      This is the first time I've ever heard these guys, and I would've thought they were a British punk band if I hadn't heard their introduction at the beginning. They look like a British punk band!
      As far as the Sex Pistols are concerned, I know more about Sid Vicious's personal life than I know about his personal musical history. From what I always heard, he was hired by the Sex Pistols not because of any inherent musical talent, but because of his "punk" attitude and image. He was hired into the band, then told to learn how to play an instrument! In other words, their band creation dynamic worked out in the opposite way that its _supposed to_ ....
      I grew up in the 80s, so I was a big metal fan. When I hear people mention the Sex Pistols, then say that 80s metal was just an offshoot and a natural progression of 70s punk, I'll usually say something like, "ok, but if that's true, then metal is basically like the Sex Pistols, but with talent and songwriting skill"! That usually doesn't go over well.

    • @jasonpeters9716
      @jasonpeters9716 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's what I thought

  • @badcomma
    @badcomma 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    The Dead Boys are Cleveland's greatest gift to the world. Fuck the Rock & Roll Hall of Shame.

  • @OfMoonlightAndGrave
    @OfMoonlightAndGrave 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    glad to have been a kid who grew up on this music. thanks to my curiousity and rummaging through my uncle's old stuff. his walkman and cassette collection and comic book collection was a highlight of living at my grandma's where there was nothing else to do lol. now i'm 20 and still rocking out to these guys.

    • @MM-vb9ze
      @MM-vb9ze 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Jesus said, "I Am the Way, the Truth and the Life, No man comes to the Father except through Me"

  • @jeffreyscott6074
    @jeffreyscott6074 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The Dead Boys were a great live band. Manic energy, back when punk felt dangerous and unpredictable - as if anything could happen. I saw them in 1977 at the Starwood in Hollywood. I always liked Stiv, but you can really see the Iggy influence. Saw the Stooges in 1973 and many other times, you can see where Stiv got a lot of his attitude and moves (like the backbend) - the Dead Boys do a great cover of the Stooges' search and destroy here.

  • @m00nracer
    @m00nracer ปีที่แล้ว +6

    In a perfect world the Dead Boys would be getting the Kennedy Center Award.

  • @DanniKrash
    @DanniKrash 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I remember the first time I went to CBGbs it was Richard hell, the talking heads and the dead boys on the same bill it was an incredible night… We got a table right at the front and I remember Hillel’s dog took a shit right by our table and the concert then began it was truly punk rock in every fucking conceivable way!

  • @micmac1121
    @micmac1121 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Cheetah Chrome played around the city and made a home at a bar called, "continental". That bar rocked many for years! That whole neighborhood is now Million dollar condos!

  • @BunneRabb
    @BunneRabb 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    When the Dead Boys were still Frankenstein and rehearsing in the same building as a band I worked with, Stiv could come over and borrow a Marshall head to use a PA amp. He was always very soft spoken and polite. I was at their first gig when they opened for Pere Ubu. It was a very interesting evening.

  • @marcoamedrano
    @marcoamedrano 10 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    One of the great classic punk bands. Stiv Bators -- legendary.

  • @Punketeria1369
    @Punketeria1369 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Ill never forget the time Cheetah Chrome and his gal at the time gave me a ride from NYC to Connecticut when i was a teen. It was ridiculously fun wacky times.
    Forever one of the best bands, which changed the world.
    chEErs
    93

  • @danybuster2285
    @danybuster2285 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    En la adolescencia con mi causitasoliamos escuchar a los miticos dead boy tiempos k nunca volveran ..saludos de ayacucho_ peru.

  • @videojockeysword
    @videojockeysword 9 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Stiv was one of my BEST friends...RIP bro! I'll never forget ya.

    • @HERMANOSMONTENEGRO
      @HERMANOSMONTENEGRO 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      so you were a fucking drug heroin addict too? so cool dude, its sucks

    • @landonjackson3064
      @landonjackson3064 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@HERMANOSMONTENEGRO STFU . Did he even say anything about drugs ?

    • @peck404
      @peck404 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      him and Michael Monroe seemed close.

    • @Oi325
      @Oi325 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      How'd his relationship with Blythe Danner go?

    • @DDios-ih9de
      @DDios-ih9de 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Oi325 lol Stiv..never dated her..it was Bebe Beaull Liv.Tylers mother
      The mother in meet the Flockers is Blyth..
      That's funny

  • @dianeshirley1177
    @dianeshirley1177 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Nerds from Cleveland can be amazing. Love these boys.

  • @RiccoHavocco
    @RiccoHavocco 5 ปีที่แล้ว +156

    0:11 - 0:46 Ronald Binder - Introduction
    0:47 - 3:32 Sonic Reducer
    3:37 - 6:21 All This And More
    6:24 - 9:40 Not Anymore
    9:44 - 12:23 Revenge (I Won’t Look Back)
    12:25 - 14:55 Flame Thrower Love
    14:58 - 18:26 I Need Lunch
    18:38 - 21:06 Ain’t Nothin’ To Do
    21:15 - 23:14 What Love Is
    23:17 - 25:20 High Tension Wire
    25:21 - 28:45 Search And Destroy

    • @DevinRyanVitek
      @DevinRyanVitek 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Hey thanks for this!

    • @lajhfamille7934
      @lajhfamille7934 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Viel vielen Dank

    • @brianfergus839
      @brianfergus839 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      20:19 Stiv eating chewing gum off the stage

    • @user-ahoi-op1yv5sc7p
      @user-ahoi-op1yv5sc7p ปีที่แล้ว

      DANKE für diese phänomenale Aufnahme...und was n' Sound..😮
      Dead Boy forever 😎🖕

  • @dracoreptox4380
    @dracoreptox4380 7 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    The World needs more Bands with Style & Aggression like this.RIP Stiv.

  • @johnyarnell3346
    @johnyarnell3346 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Probably one of the best things to come outta Cleveland!!

  • @michaelwalker8144
    @michaelwalker8144 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The Dead Boys kept me alive.

  • @paulsnider9208
    @paulsnider9208 8 ปีที่แล้ว +309

    Cheetah Chrome is one of the most underrated rock n roll guitarists of all time.

    • @isolationdisorder
      @isolationdisorder 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Totally true.

    • @PAULLONDEN
      @PAULLONDEN 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      *Paul Snider*____
      He's no match though for the most "most underrated rock'n roll guitarist of all time" : James Williamson.....

    • @FBlackRules
      @FBlackRules 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Dead Boys in Cleveland tonight. Now That's Class, Detroit Ave. R and R HOF 4NOV2017 West Coast Oct.

    • @punkmeathead3792
      @punkmeathead3792 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      PaulLonden would u say Ron Asheton is underrated? Honestly I think he’s revered as one of the greatest of all time but not everyone knows his name. But Williamson was and is filthy. All those Raw Power songs were from riffs Williamson came up with. He directly inspired Johnny Ramone for his loud extremely aggressive in your face playing. He didn’t play around he just brought it. He is such a timid and anxious guy. He probably got all of his anger and frustration out jamming.

    • @dankmansalley417
      @dankmansalley417 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Stan lee as well

  • @rik112
    @rik112 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    this is so good. What energy and power.

  • @jeffkaufman9875
    @jeffkaufman9875 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Like a time machine trip back to ‘77… It’s weird and somehow fitting to think that fear of Son of Sam was the lurking, pervasive backdrop to that dark, hot summer in NYC…

  • @TODDTAMANENDCLARK
    @TODDTAMANENDCLARK 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    In the early 1970s, I was friends with both CHEETAH CHROME and STIV BATORS before they even knew each other. CHEETAH CHROME played guitar on three songs on my INTO THE VISION album in 1984.

  • @TheChannelofaDisappointedMan
    @TheChannelofaDisappointedMan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Absolutely phenomenal, from first note to last.

    • @hubblebublumbubwub5215
      @hubblebublumbubwub5215 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Even before the first note there's a phenomenal introduction

  • @tedcantu1
    @tedcantu1 10 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    Stiv had a great face for a front man. He may have been skinny and wirey but he was frightening too. He was scrappy and had bizarre moves. You couldn't take your eyes off of him. He was there to entertain.

    • @rogerbelger2014
      @rogerbelger2014 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      the dude was gross . some sick shit. i dont think it was just for shock value. the music is great , i especially liked Lords of the New Church, but dont care to watch stiv..

    • @TheGrandmasterMan
      @TheGrandmasterMan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He makes the start of Sonic Reducer

    • @Oi325
      @Oi325 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Apparently he was dating Gwyneth Paltrows mom.

    • @DDios-ih9de
      @DDios-ih9de 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He was a little Weasle

    • @DDios-ih9de
      @DDios-ih9de 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@rogerbelger2014 ditto a Weasel or ferret come to life

  • @RolandWieffering1
    @RolandWieffering1 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    '77 Oh boy, that was a year...So much awsome music came crawling out of the gutter.
    And all straight forward Rock 'n Roll. Great...

  • @demonicsweaters
    @demonicsweaters ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Now THAT is the very definition of stage presence!

  • @ezandycle
    @ezandycle 10 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I was one of a handful who saw the band in Cleveland before their move to NYC. We thought they were the best of the Rocket From The Tombs spinoffs. This video was the closest to the way I remember them. We miss you Stiv.

  • @billygonzales7675
    @billygonzales7675 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I can see why thrashers OVERKILL love these guys ,they are amazing

  • @hellboy8141
    @hellboy8141 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Punk rock has opened up new boundaries for me. he showed me what I want from this life. I came to the conclusion that I should be an ordinary citizen, go to work, have children, a wife. It will limit my freedom.

  • @4tuneagent
    @4tuneagent 4 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    One of the great things about the Dead Boys is they had a very solid, excellent drummer in Johnny Blitz.. He is intense!.

    • @impalaman9707
      @impalaman9707 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Damn right, he's intense--he's hitting everything that isn't nailed down! He's pure chaos!

    • @matthewjames206
      @matthewjames206 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Agreed. A band is only as good as its drummer.

    • @impalaman9707
      @impalaman9707 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@matthewjames206 And if The Damned, The Sex Pistols, and the Heartbreakers are any indication--a drummer with blonde, spiky hair doesn't hurt, either!

    • @jdcpps
      @jdcpps 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hell yes, Blitz kicked ass.

    • @Formula-602
      @Formula-602 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@matthewjames206 true!..What happens if the drummer doesn’t show?The gig is CANCELED!

  • @benimartin878
    @benimartin878 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    My favorite group of all the times

  • @AndyCook-fv8yk
    @AndyCook-fv8yk หลายเดือนก่อน

    What a great band and great video. Thank you for sharing brought back memories of over playing young loud and snotty

  • @jamess5415
    @jamess5415 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    There can never be another CBGBs. The mens room alone was well worth the trip down the stairs in between bands on stage rocking it out.

  • @garynelson9345
    @garynelson9345 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Never really cared for this but can''t deny the energy and emotion and sometimes that's all you need, punk still has and deserves a place in influencing the good rock n roll/metal music today...that can be found if you look hard enough

    • @hawkrolla
      @hawkrolla 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for the Headache.

  • @tacomadc
    @tacomadc 9 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Man their drummer's good isn't he? Poor Stiv, he should still be making records.

    • @Formula-602
      @Formula-602 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cymbals way too high..wasted energy…

    • @manray7189
      @manray7189 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Formula-602 🤓

  • @talkshow4377
    @talkshow4377 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Thank you for this classic concert of Dead Boys, they were a great band I really enjoy their songs. Johnny Blitz is also a kick ass drummer. It's a shame they didn't record more music back in the day.

  • @mc2mc277
    @mc2mc277 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I was a FM radio DJ when this came out…worked “Sonic Reducer” like mad!

  • @rockinbluzcats9543
    @rockinbluzcats9543 8 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Stiv's backward lean at 7:40-7:53 is bloody amazing to see again... Thanks 4 posting this f'ing great live show, blueheadflame

    • @lovebone89
      @lovebone89 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not surprising that the Lords of the New Church broke up in 89 after Stiv hurt his back.

  • @crooked-halo
    @crooked-halo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    WOW! Amazing performance, one of the best live music videos I've ever seen! Even though audience participation hadn't quite evolved in line with the energy of the stage & music, this is still one of the greatest live concerts of this time period to exist on video! Enjoy it! And appreciate it's importance...I hope you can. Dead Boys. WOW.

  • @oxrjbizzle1984y
    @oxrjbizzle1984y 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    such an amazing fucking band, this sound quality is surprisingly good for it's time, young loud and snotty is clearly one of the very best 1st wave punk rock albums, every bit as good as ramones and nevermind the bollocks etc....

    • @chicago_rocker23
      @chicago_rocker23 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'd classify this as 2nd wave. The first wave took place a decade before

    • @chaosaintme9067
      @chaosaintme9067 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@chicago_rocker23 Man who gives a fuck what you think? The consensus is that this era was in fact the first wave of punk, a decade before there was not punk, the closest thing ypu got were garage rock bands, even the so called "proto punk" bands only came out between like 69 and 73, not a decade before like you said, So jsut quit being a condescending wannabe know-it-all prick. The guy was right about what he said

  • @cmacdhon
    @cmacdhon 10 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Never got into them back in the day. Wish I did. It sounds pretty good to me now.

    • @2000toddowen
      @2000toddowen 10 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Maybe it's for the best that we didn't get into them back in the day.
      We'd be very different people if we had. We also might be very, very dead.

    • @LarsRyeJeppesen
      @LarsRyeJeppesen 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      2000toddowen lol so true.

  • @samfarrow348
    @samfarrow348 7 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Traditional punk is the real sound of punk rock!!! 😈🤘

  • @lazaroanstilenhuit1828
    @lazaroanstilenhuit1828 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    No conocia a ésta genial Banda (Dead boys) y creo qUe ahora son mis favoritos de acá de Fin del mUndo.... Chile Lázaro

  • @ice_fox
    @ice_fox ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Glad this recording exists. Wish their Frankenstein shows were recorded, when they played Bride of Frankenstein on a projector, then ripped through the screen to blow up the place.

  • @sheppytim
    @sheppytim 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Oh yeah, I saw Stiv perform live with his other band Lords of the New Church. People say I became a different person after that show.

  • @paulbeahm3891
    @paulbeahm3891 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Love punk, never really looked into this band before but gotta say...
    Love the singers facial expressions

  • @mr.t6142
    @mr.t6142 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    We should all be so lucky to have such an awesome bearded hype man!♡
    The first chords to sonic reducer listen close, same intro as Open letter to NYC by Beastie Boys, so classic, both great bands too!!♡

  • @liamphillips7315
    @liamphillips7315 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Killer introduction! Thank God this stuff is captured, it's like irrefutable proof that music was once real af 🤘

  • @WilsonEatsASMR
    @WilsonEatsASMR 9 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    I love the guitar player's face. He looks possessed the whole time!

    • @DiegoMartinPintos
      @DiegoMartinPintos 9 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Cheetah Chrome

    • @dutchmountainsnake5379
      @dutchmountainsnake5379 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Todd S Earning him the nickname ''The Mongoloid''.

    • @klmullins65
      @klmullins65 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Who knew Ron Weasely could play so good??

    • @andrewburgess633
      @andrewburgess633 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      hes an American treasure

    • @freddyferrillo9704
      @freddyferrillo9704 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is gold! I would trade this for anything produced after the year 2000!

  • @seattlebeard
    @seattlebeard 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Damn. This is exactly what it was like in 77. Nice to see it all over again. :o)

  • @lisazinn866
    @lisazinn866 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The day the music died was not when Valens, Holly and the Big Bopper died. Nor was it the day Lennon was shot. Likewise with Cobain. The day the music died was when STIV left this mortal coil. RIP STIV.

  • @Nick992
    @Nick992 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think that what defines this music is the ability to feel the world with all of it's ups and downs and the ability to recreate it.

  • @raymondlang
    @raymondlang 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Stiv was great too in LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH, in the 80s.
    What an honour it was to be support band to them on 3 gigs back then here in England, around the time of release of their first album.

    • @KurtSlotkowski-hj8jd
      @KurtSlotkowski-hj8jd 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I liked him better when he was solo with his own band from back in 1979 and 1980. Aside from Dead Boys, of course.

    • @swangonzalez4797
      @swangonzalez4797 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I remember his voice in Lords. Thanks for clarifying

  • @baby69ization
    @baby69ization 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    Apparently the jacket Stiv is wearing at the start of the show was given to him by Mr Johnny Thunders !....(RIP)

    • @PBRStreetgang66
      @PBRStreetgang66 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      it is the tits

    • @DavidBrown-wy5gb
      @DavidBrown-wy5gb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks,was wondering about it.Great jacket to open with.

    • @69zenos1
      @69zenos1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I thought I recognized the puke stains....

    • @AlmostReady504
      @AlmostReady504 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Did Johnny give it to him or did he steal it?

    • @luvittodeath7031
      @luvittodeath7031 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@AlmostReady504 probably gave, I’m pretty sure they were friends from what I’ve heard.

  • @maryannlissau724
    @maryannlissau724 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Saw these guys back in the day at the ShowPlace in Dover NJ. Stiv hung upside down from the rafters and puked! Needless to say it was FN AWESOME!

  • @curtislovecraft2389
    @curtislovecraft2389 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Play like your pissed off at the way things are ..they did ..and that's why me and many others remember them .. authentic doesn't even come close to the sheer energy that unit had

  • @jamesprouty7792
    @jamesprouty7792 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Shared my rum and coke with Stiv back in 86 or 87. He liked it and asked me to fetch him one from the bar all while singing. Great show 😀

    • @kbar3612
      @kbar3612 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Jimmy from Temecula?

    • @jamesprouty7792
      @jamesprouty7792 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kbar3612 yes, who is this?

  • @toms6888
    @toms6888 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Stiv is the best frontman of all-time. Gone WAY too early and had so much more to give... I really miss him

  • @EndGameEnt
    @EndGameEnt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    We need bands like these today!

    • @hjillumi880
      @hjillumi880 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      minus beards

    • @RocknJazzer
      @RocknJazzer ปีที่แล้ว

      There are plenty of old school 70s/80s style punk bands in most every town, playing the local dive bars to a small turnout, dont really need any more

  • @NM-jn6cp
    @NM-jn6cp 7 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    My mother & Stiv sent love letters to each other back in the day

    • @69zenos1
      @69zenos1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      did he snot on her snatch before he ate it?

    • @davedodd2580
      @davedodd2580 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Liar

  • @dadedowuh
    @dadedowuh ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Those were the days!

  • @chrisbryant58
    @chrisbryant58 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I remember the 1st time i heard this. It was in a compilation my friend made me turning me onto punk rock. Ive been a punk ever since. 🖤

  • @GEEKMADE
    @GEEKMADE 10 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    crazy, insane band! thanks for CBGB

  • @massapower
    @massapower 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Double bass Drums for Punk... Intreesting 😜🤟

    • @Formula-602
      @Formula-602 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes..but..did he use them both?

  • @newportboys135
    @newportboys135 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Punk never turned anyone away. Ever.

  • @jocksilver7
    @jocksilver7 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    A band cursed, A fiery gem of a revolution to Nowhere. As we can miraculously hereby witness , the stage was their sanctuary. But you can't really put your arms around a memory. Flabbergasting stage delivery. The Pistols looked and sounded humourous like the cockneys they were - The Dead Boys just sounded ...dangerous and dangerously off rails.

    • @TheReverb1
      @TheReverb1 ปีที่แล้ว

      Looks like a Sex Pistols copycats but without not so good songs

    • @jocksilver7
      @jocksilver7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TheReverb1 What if it were the other way around?

    • @TheReverb1
      @TheReverb1 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jocksilver7 I do not think so due to Sex Pistols started previously

    • @jocksilver7
      @jocksilver7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TheReverb1 No they didn't. Check your facts.

  • @tristanhenry7457
    @tristanhenry7457 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Bout time this has a million views. Rock N Roll at it's finest this has to be one of the greatest performances in music history.

    • @Okkvltify
      @Okkvltify ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't understand why people always think that great art needs millions of views. If it gets millions of views, then it's lowest common denominator and not great art. Punk is f*** off and everybody's fave.

  • @amandamaluk7668
    @amandamaluk7668 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    LOVE THE JACKET HE HAS ON FOR AT ABOUT 2MIN . OH STIV I JUST LOVE YOU!!

    • @michaelvolgare4454
      @michaelvolgare4454 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Amanda Maluk the jacket Stiv had on(for 2 mins)was the same one Johnny Thunders wore on the lp Too Much Too Soon by the Dolls. John traded it to Stiv for a pair of cowboy boots. Johnny was famous for trading clothes.

  • @CountDracul13
    @CountDracul13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Man do I wish I could travel back to this world in 1977.

  • @jawarholol4651
    @jawarholol4651 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow, what a historic punk rock show! Wish I'd been old enough to see it!

  • @kevinw8688
    @kevinw8688 9 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I think this band is the most under-rated punk band ever. You hear about them in the rise of this movement, but never as much as you hear about many other bands. Their music has way more dynamics than the typical punk band of the day. No wonder Crystal put money into this band. They really could have gone far.

    • @sabinefreitag3962
      @sabinefreitag3962 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hi Kevin
      you are right. I saw the dead boys November 1977 in London at the roundhouse. They were ' special guests' while the Damned were the main act. But after the Dead Boys rocked the stage, the Damned Show was kind of boring in my opinion.
      1 or 2 weeks later the Ramones rocked the roundhouse too, but I got no more money for a second London trip, sad but true.
      Bernhard from Germany

    • @glenndhorallmyxlvntx9294
      @glenndhorallmyxlvntx9294 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes indeed too bad they were so f’d up LOL.

    • @michaelreardon3958
      @michaelreardon3958 ปีที่แล้ว

      Its Kristal, not Chrystal.

    • @Scorpius7-l5h
      @Scorpius7-l5h 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      They were way to drugged out & wild to have taken it very far. If they woulda had money they'd all be dead.

  • @TheNuzzman
    @TheNuzzman 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    saw Richie Stotts of the Plasmatics play there he blew the roof off that place,then when I went to the men's room Richie walked in and I told him the show was amazing he said thanks,cool dude

    • @alexandervoog9396
      @alexandervoog9396 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Stotts and the Plasmatics....EPIC MOST CLASSIC PUNK. Ihad a chunk of radio smack my face after Wendy blew the charge...kept it for 30 years....lost it in a flood a few years back. PLASMAMTICS AND WENDY O. FUCKING WILLIAMS FOREVER.

    • @alexandervoog9396
      @alexandervoog9396 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wendy, Jean Beauvior, Richie Stotts, and a Camaro she blew up in my face as well, front row center. Chainsawing flowerpots, tv's , and who can remember anything else...... a mastrabatory GENIUS. She killed herself not 20 miles from my home.....if only we knew.....

  • @ericnozay
    @ericnozay 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent, powerfull, I miss this period so much !

  • @punker-gamer-trucker-guy
    @punker-gamer-trucker-guy 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    God fucking dammit there will never be another band like the dead boys.
    Thank you for this, from a kid that wasn't even a sperm yet when these guys rocked the world.

  • @richardtknees
    @richardtknees 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Had the 8 track and the attitude to go with it.
    Dead Boys rock!

  • @ianwhitehead691
    @ianwhitehead691 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Stiv was also the lead singer for The Lord's Of The New Church, A great British/American group.
    R.I.P Stiv Bators 🎸🎤🧷

  • @yuckyool
    @yuckyool 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Saw them a couple of times . .. Always a great show. Bought their record(s) too back in the day.

  • @nosferaturr
    @nosferaturr ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow. Thats really Punky ! Thanks.

  • @LarsRyeJeppesen
    @LarsRyeJeppesen 8 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    Man I would have loved to experience CBGB's... sadly I'm too young (46) ... lots of history written there.. I envy the people who had the chance

    • @hamstergirl4444
      @hamstergirl4444 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +rob bennett And it was my idea of one great fucking night out - I loved CBGB's ;)

    • @hamstergirl4444
      @hamstergirl4444 8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      +Lars Rye Jeppesen I'm glad I did - it broke my heart when I read that it had finally closed down :( Places like that should be declared historical landmarks...was heartbroken when Max's Kansas City closed it's doors, too....

    • @nelsonx5326
      @nelsonx5326 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +rob bennett Yeah, and wasn't it great?

    • @nelsonx5326
      @nelsonx5326 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +hamstergirl4444 I went there about a month ago, it's called the Electric something or other now. I paid $10 to see some live music downstairs. I heard 3 songs by a Greatful Dead type band, then the whole place filled up with college age kids and switched over to rave mode and I got kicked out.

    • @hamstergirl4444
      @hamstergirl4444 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      NELSON X
      Oh dear....I'm going to pretend I didn't read any of that - I think it's made me break out in hives...Grateful Dead and rave mode at CBGB's? * sigh*...that just sucks, lol. I love the Dead - my old man played with Weir, and they've been a part of my life for decades...but I was a punk before I was a Deadhead, and I miss my old haunts. Max's Kansas City was my favorite club - I wonder what's there now? That's another part of getting old that I hate - all those kick ass clubs, just gone. CBGB's should have been made a city landmark or something, lol, just like the Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco should have too.

  • @Samos12
    @Samos12 5 ปีที่แล้ว +125

    Dude knows how to introduce a band...

  • @CarnivoreDMD
    @CarnivoreDMD ปีที่แล้ว

    I was at CBGB 1984 for the Replacements. Fun times & my kids will NEVER know the freedoms & safety of living back then.

  • @demonsbootlegs3004
    @demonsbootlegs3004 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    5:19 The Heroin of the music

    • @DR-xt9ux
      @DR-xt9ux 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      5:22

  • @lupodelupis3672
    @lupodelupis3672 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Sonic Reducer always blows me away: they were nasty Boys.

  • @tonyprusak6721
    @tonyprusak6721 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The Dead Boys, hailing from Cleveland, OH, stand as an unparalleled force in the annals of music history, securing their place as the greatest and most influential band of their time. Their legendary performance at the iconic CBGB in New York City serves as a testament to their explosive energy and raw talent that left an indelible mark on the punk rock scene.
    As they took the stage at CBGB, The Dead Boys unleashed a sonic onslaught that transcended conventional boundaries. Their music, characterized by a visceral intensity and rebellious spirit, became a defining sound of the punk movement. The intensity of their performance at CBGB encapsulated the essence of an era marked by defiance and a rejection of societal norms.
    Tragically, the untimely passing of frontman Stiv Bators left an irreplaceable void in the music world. Bators, with his charismatic stage presence and distinctive vocals, became the face of The Dead Boys and an emblematic figure in punk culture. His legacy endures, as his influence continues to resonate through the rebellious spirit of countless artists who followed in his footsteps.
    In commemorating The Dead Boys, we not only celebrate a band that reshaped the musical landscape but also pay homage to the enduring impact of Stiv Bators and his comrades. Their contributions remain etched in the fabric of punk rock, immortalizing The Dead Boys as pioneers who ignited a musical revolution that reverberates to this day.

  • @NathanSmith-xf7rk
    @NathanSmith-xf7rk ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Loved the movie about this venue