Dead, Loud and Snotty

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In 1978, when I was clinging, like a rabid monkey, to the last days of teenagerhood, I went to a club in Connecticut to see the Dead Boys, whose first album, Young, Loud and Snotty, was a favorite. Early in the show, the leopardskin spandex tights worn by the lead singer, Stiv Bators, split open, and he spent the remainder of the set with his scrotum on display. It was quite a performance, and it became one of the touchstones of my punk yout...