Okay, I got a lot off my chest regarding the celluloid shitstain of a movie called CBGB and its piss poor treatment of some of punk’s legendary pioneers. Well thanks to Dead Boys drummer, the amazing Johnny Blitz, we have some incredible raw footage of Cleveland’s finest pulverizing the audience at CBGB in 1977.

Stiv, Cheetah, Johnny, Jimmy and Jeff were among the handful of musicians who really brought something genuinely epic (sonic-wise) to the stage down on the Bowery. They not only had the attitude, they had the chops that put them into the same sphere as The Stooges, The MC5 and The Clash. For a fistful of years, these cats were a force as formidable as rock has ever seen.