On this week's show, we played the original Dead Boys recording of Sonic Reducer, a perennial favorite cover tune for all true rock bands. A cursory YouTube search quickly reveals at least 600 results, including:
The Vibrators
Overkill
Pearl Jam
Guns N Roses
The Valentines
'Sonic Reducer' was originally written by Rocket From The Tombs (RFTT), a visionary proto-(punk/alt/avant) band which quickly exploded into the spin-off bands Dead Boys and Pere Ubu. Subsequently, the song first appeared on the Dead Boys debut album, Young Loud And Snotty. The two bands followed strikingly different paths...
In 2003, RFTT reformed with most of its original members. They recorded an album of RFTT classics (Rocket Redux), which included, of course, Sonic Reducer.
Cheetah Chrome was the guitarist for RFTT, Dead Boys, and now The Batusis. Let him teach you how to make your own cover version:
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