April 25th, 2025, 8:00PM

Dead Boys with Burn Kit and The six660s

@ Wild Heaven Garden Club

The Garden Club at Wild Heaven West End

Has plentiful free parking and $7.50 beers from Wild Heaven. The Garden Club and Wild Heaven West End are cash free venues.

The legendary Dead Boys are back!

Formed in Cleveland in 1976, the Dead Boys were one of the first American acts to combine the proto-punk fervor of bands like the Stooges and the New York Dolls with a new level of intense energy. The 1977 debut LP, Young, Loud and Snotty was a landmark album in the birth of hardcore punk and produced one of the first great punk anthems, "Sonic Reducer."

After one more album, the band split in 1979. They reunited for a few gigs in the 1980s, but following the death of lead vocalist Stiv Bators in 1990, the band members went their separate ways except for two brief reunions in 2004 and 2005.

The return of the Dead Boys began with guitarist Cheetah Chrome.

"I've had my solo band for the last ten years, and Dead Boys songs have always been included in my shows and over time the right mix of people came together to pull off and at times enhance the Dead Boys sound. A solid band that can interpret and deliver the performance and sound needed to maintain the authenticity of the Dead Boys. I've been singing the Dead Boys songs myself for 20 years because I couldn't find another singer I trusted enough to hand it to," Chrome says.

"The first gig with Jake, it was like, 'You got it, man!' I think Stiv would be very proud of our choice."

With a curren line-up consisting of 

Mark Thorn - Lead vox

Cheetah Chrome - Guitars / vox

Lez Warner - Bass

Monk Burris - Guitar

Alec Ortiz - Drums

Burn Kit

From Boston, MA

https://burnkit.bandcamp.com/

The six660s

Whatever passed you by in ‘77 is all new again.
Men of a certain age who were there for the first go round…the six660s.
The six660s play the songs you were too afraid to like in high school and then some… Stooges, Pistols, Damned, Ramones and yes, Motörhead.
Atlanta guitarists and longtime friends Ted and Evil Jim reprise their roles that once made Wednesdays at midnight so magical.
Bringing in Steve Mac on bass and lead vocals to add a new twist on old friendships.
But perhaps it is Atlanta punk legend Mark Stopper on the drum kit who is the crowning jewel in this punk rock crown of thorns.
It’s one thing to play a couple-bunch-of punk rock covers and a whole other thing to play those covers like you stole them.
And that’s what the lovelies in the six660s do.