NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD BOYS
Night of the Living Dead Boys is a 1981 live album by The Dead Boys. It was recorded in March 1979 at CBGB. Since Stiv Bators purposely did not sing into the microphone at this show, the vocals were overdubbed later, causing mixed opinions on this album. The first CD edition had extensive liner notes detailing Bators’ trick of singing off-mike, and claims he re-recorded the entire album in one take, from memory, while drunk and in the booth with two groupies – in other words, typical Stiv. (More from Wikipedia)
Bomp! Records also released several additional Dead Boys albums following the break-up of the band, beginning with Night of the Living Dead Boys in 1981. The vocals had to be overdubbed, since Stiv Bators had deliberately ruined the original recording by singing off-mike, in order to get back at their record label. Even so, this is the best live punk rock album I have ever heard.
(February 2011)
