After Bators injured his back, Lords of The New Church guitarist Brian James secretly put out an ad for a new singer. When Stiv found the ad, conflicting sources say that either Stiv or James wrote it verbatim on a t-shirt and wore it onstage for a gig. For the encore, Stiv fired the entire band.
 
Stiv talking about when he actually died for a minute after a routine performative self-strangulation went awry (don’t you hate it when that happens?). If he hadn’t pissed himself, alerting bandmates and crew members that something had gone wrong, he might not have lived.

As Bators (who will be portrayed in the CBGB movie by this guy) is carried into the backstage area after a Lords of The New Church show, he is a complete physical wreck, barely able to stand. He’s revived by a security guard and his girlfriend, who he openly adores. An incredibly sweet guy by most accounts (as you can see in this interview with Brooke Shields, or this heart-wrenching eulogy from Iggy Pop), Bators was also clearly a romantic, professing his love in the most naked and emphatic way.