THE LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH’S AIR-CONDITIONED NIGHTMARE
It seems one thousand liqht years from ground zero I was drinking warm Budweiser in this fucking dump called C.B.G.B’s with Richard Blum a.k.a. Handsome Dick Manitoba, watching the second-ever Dead Boys in NYC set. They were still wearing platforms, had long hair, no bass playe’r, and sonically reminded this scribe of the ate/ great/ ong-amente Stooges.
THE LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH’S AIR-CONDITIONED NIGHTMARE
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Mark J. Norton
It seems one thousand liqht years from ground zero I was drinking warm Budweiser in this fucking dump called C.B.G.B’s with Richard Blum a.k.a. Handsome Dick Manitoba, watching the second-ever Dead Boys in NYC set. They were still wearing platforms, had long hair, no bass playe’r, and sonically reminded this scribe of the ate/ great/ ong-amente Stooges. It was puking ’em up. The times, bands, and alas, the drugs have changed, right?
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