It feels good when it stops, la historia de Cheetah Chrome y la de todos en verdad:
"Cheetah Chrome, the lead guitarist for the Dead Boys who died Sept. 13 at age 71, lived in Nashville for several years.
He'd come in 1996 at the suggestion of Joe McGrath, who'd played with him in a post-Dead Boys band called the Broken Angels. “I knew next to nothing about the place," Chrome wrote later in his 2010 memoir “A Dead Boy's Tale” (Voyageur Press), "other than we'd driven through on the way to somewhere else years before and it didn't look like much." He'd planned to stay two weeks to record demos.
He ended up staying.
Around the same time, Nashville's own Tommy Womack wrote a song called "Whatever Happened to Cheetah Chrome?" — a song about the Dead Boys that ended up on Womack's 1998 solo debut “Positively Na Na.” After learning that Chrome was in town, Womack got to play the song for him at a soundcheck.
By late 1997, Chrome had moved into a rented house at 228 Haywood Lane in southeast Nashville. Among other things he'd been dealing with: a lawsuit settlement against the Limelight in New York. By the time he paid his lawyer and repaid the City of New York for his hospitalization and surgery after being assaulted by one of the club’s bouncers, he had just enough left to get dental implants.
In early 1999, a Detroit promoter called and asked what it would take to get Chrome to do a show at a club called Lili's in Hamtramck. Chrome named what he described as "ridiculous figures and demands." The promoter said yes.
They recorded the May 15, 1999, show for a possible live record, but a mic on Chrome's guitar amp got knocked over mid-set, forcing him to fly back to Detroit and overdub his guitar parts. To preserve the feel, he got drunk and played straight through the bass, drum, and rhythm guitar tracks, leaving in the mistakes. "Even I didn't know which parts were recorded live or overdubbed," he wrote. “Alive in Detroit” came out on DUI Records in 2000 — his first full-length solo release.
The gigs kept coming, but not well. A trip to Atlanta late in the summer of 2000, Chrome wrote, was bad enough that "the only good thing about it was that nobody was killed or injured." Then his drummer and guitarist left — pregnant wives, responsibilities.
Chrome compared rock and roll to "hitting yourself in the head with a hammer — it feels good when you stop." Though he still played some, he took a full-time job at a tile company. He lived at the house on Haywood Lane until 2001."
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