The other day, you may remember, I posted the vintage photograph above by one Charles Steiner of a gaggle of punks holding court at the bar of former Bowery haunt Great Gildersleeves circa 1983, and asked if anyone could name the players involved.
As I mentioned, the gent in the "I GOT SHIT FOR BRAINS" shirt is inarguably the great Cheetah Chrome of the Dead Boys, and I postulated that the dude on the far left is tough-guy character actor Clancy Brown (although I could be mistaken). A reader named G, meanwhile, recently wrote in with more. G writes...
I believe red-bandana guy is the late Bobby Snots, singer from the Whorelords.
Blue-bandana guy, I don't know, but the girls look familiar.
I'd head the name Whorelords before, most recently as read about in the exhaustively detailed Misfits biography, "This Music Leaves Stains" (if you're a fan of Messrs. Danzig, Only, Doyle, Steele et al., it's a total must-read), but I'd never heard them before. A quick Google search turned up the video below, seemingly tailored to inducing vertigo and/or nausea (hit "play" to find out what I mean).
The guy at the mic does indeed resemble red-bandana guy. See what you think.
You may wanna reach out to Mike Mindless (of the Skulls). A couple years ago he was always on the Johnny Thunders forum, but then he went to Facebook. He seems to know a little bit of everything about the NYC Punk scene.
Posted by: Jerry Mathers | July 13, 2014 at 10:52 PM
Yup--that's him!
I could have sworn that the Whorelords were on the NY Thrash tape (on ROIR), but the internet says otherwise. It has The Fiends, though, who were also fronted by Mr. Snots.
He was a Jersey punk who ended up in prison, I think.
Posted by: G | July 14, 2014 at 06:25 PM
While the matter seems to be put to bed, I can tell you red bandanna guy is indeed Bobby Snotz...Yes: With a "z"...If you look closely at the left sleeve of his black leather jacket you can see S-N-O-T-Z in red letters...He did do time...The Internet consensus indicates he was beaten to death in 1992...An aspiring rock star buddy of mine, also deceased, ran around with him for a spell...I spent my first night as an adult in NYC with the both of them and they showed me an EPIC good time...As luck would have it I had an annual physical a few days after returning to my home base...My physician gave me quite the lecture when my lab work came back...Those were different times...RTN/XXX/OOO
Posted by: Robert Nash | December 01, 2018 at 06:15 PM