oh we made jwz’s blog
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/11/not-just-merely-dead-boys-but-really-most-sincerely-dead-boys/
apparently the singer’s last show was at his DNA Lounge
Chrome and Cleopatra issued a statement that that guy was fired because he sucked anyway. Chrome assured fans it would not be an “AI record.”
The plan was apparently for Hout to record a guide vocal that would then be reskinned with the “fakeass robot A.I. Stiv Bators voice.”
there’s something extra disrespectful about a punk band lying about firing the guy they were planning on exploiting to train a horrid tool their record label insisted would make them more money
You can’t really accuse the Dead Boys of bad taste and expect it to mean anything. What a dumb idea though
Go ahead and drop the bomb, you don’t love anyone