Dead Boys Don't Take Things Off The Shelf

INDIANAPOLIS—Back in 78, when I went up to New York to do my watershed feature on the Dead Boys (see Feb. '79 CREEM; group broke up soon after the story was published), their lead guitarist, the indefatigable Cheetah Chrome, accidentally revealed his “real” name to me, somewhere amid a monologue as nighttime-frantic as the hurtling Manhattan cab ride we were aboard at the time.