Synthetic nostalgia: Punk band Dead Boys plans album with AI Stiv Bators, current vocalist quits in disgust
Synthetic nostalgia: Punk band Dead Boys plans album with AI Stiv Bators, current vocalist quits in disgust
The Dead Boys were a legendary Cleveland, Ohio, punk band who formed in 1976. Vocalist Stiv Bators died in 1990, but the rest of the band has reunited several times since. The current version forme…
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
100% in character for both Cheetah Chrome and especially Cleopatra tho
just the worst fucking Chrome fork
Go ahead and drop the bomb, you don’t love anyone
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
You can't really accuse the Dead Boys of bad taste and expect it to mean anything. What a dumb idea though