AIN'T IT FUN

Created on 12/03/2002
Latest update on 19/10/2023

Artist: Rocket From The Tombs
Author: Peter Laughner/Gene O'Connor
Label: Smog Veil/Glitterhouse
Year: 1975

Band from Cleveland, Ohio with the short-lived Peter Laughner ("Ain't it fun when you know that you're going to die young") and Cheetah Chrome (real name: Gene O'Connor; coauthor), both future Dead Boys (yeah, right). David Thomas (later with Pere Ubu) was another member. Officially out in 2002 on cd The Day The Earth Met The Rocket From The Tombs, praised as 'the best record never released'.

Covers:

1978:

Dead Boys

1993:

Guns N' Roses [on The Spaghetti Incident]

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