Rocket from the Tombs (or RFTT) is an American rock band originally active from mid-1974 to mid-1975 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. The band featured... 10 KB (1,074 words) - 14:58, 28 February 2024 |
 | Cheetah Chrome (category Rocket from the Tombs members) fame as a guitarist for Rocket from the Tombs and the punk rock band Dead Boys. Chrome joined protopunk band Rocket from the Tombs in September 1974, having... 11 KB (1,383 words) - 03:53, 16 October 2023 |
and backing vocalist Elaina. The band took their name from the then-defunct 1970s underground punk band Rocket from the Tombs. This lineup lasted roughly... 25 KB (2,319 words) - 18:58, 13 April 2024 |
 | Dead Boys (redirect from The Dead Boys) and drummer Johnny Blitz in 1975, with the later two having splintered from the band Rocket From The Tombs. The original Dead Boys released two studio... 20 KB (1,948 words) - 02:54, 7 February 2024 |
 | Pere Ubu (redirect from Datapanik in the Year Zero (EP)) underground music. Rocket from the Tombs was a Cleveland-based group that eventually fragmented: some members formed the Dead Boys, and others The Saucers, while... 65 KB (7,321 words) - 23:57, 12 April 2024 |
List of proto-punk bands (category Short description is different from Wikidata) of Music Criticism. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0822350101. "Rocket from the Tombs - Biography & History - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 28 March... 15 KB (898 words) - 19:05, 26 February 2024 |
Ain't It Fun (Dead Boys song) (redirect from Ain't It Fun (The Dead Boys song)) (known as Cheetah Chrome) and performed by their protopunk band Rocket from the Tombs. The song was first released by O'Connor's later group Dead Boys on... 6 KB (530 words) - 18:23, 18 November 2023 |
30 Seconds Over Tokyo (song) (category Short description is different from Wikidata) during their stint as members of Rocket from the Tombs in 1974. Released on Thomas' independent Hearthan Records in 1975, the song received very little airplay... 13 KB (1,473 words) - 15:03, 17 August 2023 |
 | David Thomas (musician) (category Rocket from the Tombs members) based in the UK. He was one of the founding members of the short-lived proto-punkers Rocket from the Tombs (1974–1975), in which he played under the moniker... 13 KB (1,269 words) - 06:21, 9 April 2024 |
Peter Laughner (category Rocket from the Tombs members) Backstreet, Peter & The Wolves, The Blue Drivers and Friction. However, his most enduring contributions were to Rocket From The Tombs and the early work of... 9 KB (729 words) - 06:21, 9 April 2024 |
Sonic Reducer (category Articles needing additional references from October 2014) Chrome and David Thomas during their tenure in Rocket from the Tombs, which made its recorded debut on the Dead Boys 1977 album Young, Loud and Snotty with... 3 KB (220 words) - 00:58, 10 December 2023 |
Johnny Blitz (category Rocket from the Tombs members) drummer from Cleveland, Ohio, best known as being a member of the bands Dead Boys and Rocket From The Tombs. With the Dead Boys he helped pioneer the punk... 6 KB (733 words) - 19:06, 21 December 2023 |
 | Richard Lloyd (guitarist) (category Rocket from the Tombs members) acted as producer, recording engineer and band member on the Rocket from the Tombs album Rocket Redux, released on Smog Veil Records. He has also produced... 17 KB (2,169 words) - 06:21, 9 April 2024 |
Frank Black), Thom Yorke, Dinosaur Jr., The National, Mercury Rev, Chris Collingwood, and Rocket from the Tombs front man David Thomas, whose other band... 4 KB (422 words) - 10:39, 6 February 2024 |
 | Miriam Linna (category The Cramps members) that emerged from the Cleveland, Ohio punk rock scene, including the Dead Boys and Pere Ubu. When the re-formed Rocket from the Tombs performed in Hoboken... 8 KB (694 words) - 01:28, 4 April 2024 |
List of 1970s punk rock musicians (redirect from The first wave of punk music) and the Last Days of Earth Rocket from the Tombs The Ruts The Radiators from Space The Runaways The Saints Scars The Screamers Sex Pistols Sham 69 The Shapes... 8 KB (694 words) - 07:53, 30 March 2024 |
List of music released posthumously (category Articles with dead external links from March 2020) a Ride (1994), and The Day the Earth Met the Rocket from the Tombs (2002) by Rocket from the Tombs. Also appears in Pere Ubu's The Shape of Things (2000)... 135 KB (19,295 words) - 14:53, 23 April 2024 |
 | Neil Larsen (keyboardist) (Cleveland) Peter Laughner (musician, Rocket from the Tombs) (Bay Village) Griffin Layne (recording artist, singer-songwriter)... 103 KB (9,908 words) - 21:12, 14 April 2024 |
 | Sylvain Sylvain (category Egyptian emigrants to the United States) Austin, Texas, Sylvain and Cheetah Chrome of The Dead Boys and Rocket from the Tombs debuted their new band, The Batusis. Their EP is on Smog Veil Records... 14 KB (1,268 words) - 13:24, 23 April 2024 |
List of garage rock bands (category Short description is different from Wikidata) Ramones Rocket From The Tombs Sagittarius SRC The Stooges Thor's Hammer Some of these bands overlap with punk, garage punk, punk blues, the mod revival... 31 KB (2,997 words) - 22:58, 22 March 2024 |
Ain't It Fun (category Short description is different from Wikidata) may refer to: "Ain't It Fun" (The Dead Boys song), a 1978 song, also recorded by Guns N' Roses, Rocket from the Tombs, and others "Ain't It Fun" (Paramore... 288 bytes (69 words) - 19:31, 26 July 2016 |
Timeline of punk rock (category Articles needing additional references from June 2017) formed Blondie The Dictators Patti Smith Group Pure Hell Rocket from the Tombs Ramones The Stranglers Talking Heads Radio Birdman The 101'ers Albums New... 123 KB (11,023 words) - 20:23, 13 April 2024 |
RFTT (category Short description is different from Wikidata) RFTT may refer to: Rocket from the Tombs, an American rock band Reach for the Top, a Canadian high school quiz competition This disambiguation page lists... 165 bytes (53 words) - 20:10, 15 May 2018 |
Electric Eels (band) (redirect from The Electric Eels) also led to early meetings with Peter Laughner of Rocket from the Tombs at the local record store. The Electric Eels featured unconventional instrumentation... 10 KB (1,139 words) - 21:35, 12 November 2023 |
 | Suicide (band) (category Articles needing additional references from April 2020) Nick Cave, D.A.F., Erasure, the music of Giant Haystacks, The KLF, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, OMD, Rocket from the Tombs, Cassandra Complex (and covered... 36 KB (4,008 words) - 08:43, 30 March 2024 |
 | Electric Eels, Devo and Rocket from the Tombs, who in 1975 split into Pere Ubu and The Dead Boys. Malcolm McLaren, then manager of the New York Dolls, spotted... 32 KB (4,584 words) - 01:50, 25 March 2024 |
Mirrors (Ohio band) (category Musical groups from Cleveland) Murrmann described them as "not as bent as the Electric Eels...nor as throttling as Rocket from the Tombs." The band's founder, Jaime Klimek, who sang and... 6 KB (580 words) - 21:26, 12 November 2023 |
Cheetah Chrome (Eugene Richard O'Connor), punk rock guitarist for Rocket from the Tombs and The Dead Boys Charles Chesnutt, author Howie Chizek, radio personality... 31 KB (3,361 words) - 20:37, 12 April 2024 |
New wave music (category Short description is different from Wikidata) DeVille and Blondie), as well as the proto-punk scene in Ohio, which included Devo, the Electric Eels, Rocket from the Tombs, and Pere Ubu. Some important... 60 KB (6,514 words) - 19:10, 20 April 2024 |
Richard" – 5:56 Pressler-Morgan: "You're Gonna Watch Me" – 1:40 Rocket from the Tombs: "Amphetamine" – 5:32 Mirrors: "She Smiled Wild" – 3:57 Electric... 8 KB (1,071 words) - 08:19, 28 September 2021 |