Moe's and Amoeba Records present a spoken word event featuring Cheetah Chrome, Bob Pfiefer and Mike Hudson, Tuesday, February 22nd

Cheetah Chrome is a founding father of punk rock. Though he initially gained fames as the guitarist of Cleveland's notorious Dead Boys, he helped lay the groundwork for subversive alternative music in the mid-'70s with the ferociously experimental band Rocket from the Tombs (RFTT). Since that time he's followed his solo muse, accompanied a range of other artists, reunited with his old mates in RFTT,and formed a new band, Batusis, with fellow rock revolutionary Sylvain Sylvain. He's Also been honored as an extraordinary player who helped invent the pummeling sound of punk guitar.

In association with Chicago's Smog Veil Records, Power City Press presents Bob Pfeifer's University of Strangers. Pfeifer is best-known for his pioneering indie band Human Switchboard. In his first novel he blends fact and fiction, a real-life murder trial and a shadowy cadre of truth-seekers. Includes a drop card to download new songs by the Tabby Chinos.

Mike Hudson was founder and lead singer of legendary Cleveland punk band the Pagans. In a prose style reminiscent of Hunter Thompson and William Burroughs, Hudson paints a stark insider's portrait of a life lived outside society's boundaries. In Diary of a Punk: Life and Death in the Pagans, Hudson, co-author of last year's highly successful Niagara Falls Confidential, has turned out a classic rock and roll memoir that dishes the inside dope on the groundbreaking American punk rock movement and many of its top stars.

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