Sept. 21, 2022

S6E251 - Bonus Mixtape Episode with Cheetah Chrome

S6E251 - Bonus Mixtape Episode with Cheetah Chrome

For this BONUS 'Mixtape Episode', we invited guitarist Cheetah Chrome (Dead Boys, Rocket From the Tombs) to curate a mixtape and dug into his selections. From growing up in Cleveland listening to rock-and-roll radio like CKLW out of Detroit to his mom...

For this BONUS 'Mixtape Episode', we invited guitarist Cheetah Chrome (Dead Boys, Rocket From the Tombs) to curate a mixtape and dug into his selections. From growing up in Cleveland listening to rock-and-roll radio like CKLW out of Detroit to his mom unwittingly turning him on to The Stooges, it was a super-fun conversation with a true punk rock legend!
Cheetah's mixtape:
1. Jumpin Jack Flash - The Rolling Stones
2. I Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles
3. 96 Tears - ? & The Mysterians
4. Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
5. Good Morning Little School Girl - Ten Years After
6. Long Way To Go / Halo Of Flies - Alice Cooper
7. 1969 - The Stooges
8. Bad Girl - New York Dolls
9. Heroin - The Velvet Underground
10. Search and Destroy - Iggy & The Stooges
11. Hey Boys - The Dictators
12. Time - Tom waits
13. Anthem - The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

*Other songs featured in this episode: Sonic Reducer, Down In Flames, Ain't It Fun - Dead Boys; Blitzkrieg Bop - Ramones (It's Alive); I'm Going Home - Ten Years After (Live at Woodstock); B.B On Mars - Alice Cooper; Down In Flames - Rocket From the Tombs; Did You See Her Eyes? - The Illusion; Stay With Me - The Dictators

**episode artwork: Cori Elba (On PlanetWeird)

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Eugene Richard O'Connor - better known by his stage name Cheetah Chrome - is an American musician who achieved fame as a guitarist for Rocket from the Tombs, Dead Boys and The Batusis (w/Sylvain Sylvain).