Dead Boys

死男孩乐队是最早将暴力、极端怀疑论、朋克摇滚的丑陋带上极端新高度的乐队之一。死男孩乐队1976年成立于美国的克利夫兰。  
他们的音乐并无非常特殊之处，从朋克越并不严格的标准来看也是松散而无力的，用重金属做愚蠢的装饰，Sonic Reducer 是乐队最出色的一首歌。  
音乐充满了生猛的力量，在主流朋克的恶习和他们自产自销的虚无主义里堕落。但让死男孩声名狼藉的并不是他们的音乐，而是来自主唱巴特尔斯彻骨的污秽。  
 
出了两张专辑后，乐队于1978年解散。主唱组了一支叫新教堂的主（Lords Of The New Church）的乐队，其他乐手下落不明。1990年，主唱巴特尔斯在巴黎遭公共汽车车祸而死。
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 Yorks mid-70s CBGBs scene, all of its bandmembers originally hailed from Cleveland, OH. The groups roots lay in the early-70s Cleveland cult band Rocket from the Tombs, which included future Dead Boys Cheetah Chrome (aka Gene OConnor) on guitar, and Johnny Blitz (aka John Madansky) on drums, along with future Pere Ubu members David Thomas and Peter Laughner. The groups sound was a bit too comparable to art rock for Chrome and Blitzs tastes (whose influences included the Stooges, Alice Cooper, and the New York Dolls), 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 Citys 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 CBGBs, as the whole former Frankenstein band (sans Magnum), made the trek to New York. Not only did the group land a spot at CBGBs, they enlisted the clubs owner (Hilly Kristal) as their manager, and signed a recording contract with Sire shortly thereafter.
Changing their name to the Dead Boys (from a line in their song Down in Flames), the band caused an immediate splash in their newly adopted hometown, due to Bators Iggy Pop-esque, audience-bating antics, and the groups vicious three-chord punk rock. The Dead Boys classic debut, Young Loud & Snotty, was issued in 1977 and produced by rock singer Genya Ravan, with future-renowned producer Bob Clearmountain providing bass. But by the time the Dead Boys launched a supporting tour (including opening slots for their hero Iggy Pop in the U.S. and the Damned over in England), Magnum had signed on once more as the groups bassist. Despite receiving a fair amount of coverage in the rock music press, punk was still misunderstood by most rock fans in the U.S., which resulted in the album not performing up to expectations sales-wise (despite spawning one of punks great anthems, Sonic Reducer).
The Dead Boys set their sights on their sophomore effort, which was originally to be produced by Lou Reed (with a working title of Down to Kill). But at the insistence of their record company (who was trying to convince the band to soften up their sound a bit to produce a breakthrough hit), the group enlisted former Cream producer (and bassist for early-70s Cream disciples Mountain) Felix Pappalardi. The match didnt prove to be a fitting one, as the former hippie didnt understand the sonic onslaught of these young punks, resulting in an album that failed to expand on the promise of their debut (its been rumored that the group unsuccessfully attempted to convince ex-Stooges guitarist James Williamson to take over the production chores from Pappalardi, in a last ditch effort to save the album). With a new title of We Have Come for Your Children, the album spawned another punk classic in Aint It Fun, but the disc sold even fewer copies than its predecessor. To add insult to injury, the group was forced off tour for a long period of time, as Blitz was almost killed in a New York City street fight/mugging (a Blitz Benefit concert was held at CBGBs to raise money for the drummers medical bills, featuring appearances by John Belushi and Divine, as well as members of Blondie, the Ramones, and former Alice Cooper guitarist Glen Buxton).
With their record company pressuring the group to change their sound and their look completely, the Dead Boys split up in 1979. But just a few months later, the band was forced to reunite for the recording of a live album at CBGBs (due to contractual obligations). To get revenge at Sire, Bators purposely sang off-mic, resulting in an (expected) unusable recording (when the album was reissued for the Bomp label several years later, Bators re-recorded his vocals in the studio). Despite splitting up once more shortly afterwards, the Dead Boys would reunite for the odd show here and there throughout the 80s. Bators tried his hand at acting in such films as Polyester and Tapeheads, in addition to pursuing a solo career (1980s new wave Disconnected), before joining forces with ex-members of Sham 69 in the group the Wanderers (who issued a lone album, 1981s Only Lovers Left Alive), and ex-Damned guitarist Brian James in the goth-punk outfit Lords of the New Church (releasing several albums between 82 and 88). Having relocated to Paris, France, Bators then attempted to assemble a punk supergroup, of sorts, which was to have included Johnny Thunders and Dee Dee Ramone, which fizzled out before any recording could get under way. On June 4, 1990, Bators died from injuries sustained after being hit by a car in Paris.
After Bators death, countless Dead Boys compilations, live sets, and rarities collections were issued, including such titles as Twistin on the Devils Fork: Live at CBGBs, Magnificent Chaos, Down in Flames, All This & More, and Liver Than Youll Ever Be, in addition to releases by the pre- Dead Boys outfits Rocket from the Tombs (The Day the Earth Met the Rocket from the Tombs) and Frankenstein (Eve of the Dead Boys: October 1975). Despite only issuing a pair of studio recordings during their brief but colorful career, the Dead Boys influence on subsequent rock bands continues to be felt to this day, as such acclaimed groups as Guns N Roses and Pearl Jam covered their songs in the 90s and 2000s.