Punk Rock by BoyerA

CBGB and Max’s Kansas City were the two primary clubs where the New York City punk scene developed. What did CBGB stand for?

She lived with Robert Mapplethorpe, dated Blue Öyster Cult’s Alan Lanier and Television’s Tom Verlaine, co-wrote a play with Sam Shepard, and married a member of the MC5. Who is she?

Speaking of Television, what former member, who was credited with inspiring the Sex Pistols’ look and attitude, performed songs such as “Love Comes In Spurts” and “Blank Generation” with his own band?

The Dead Kennedys’ first album, Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables, contains timeless classics such as “California Über Alles” and “Holiday In Cambodia”. Born Eric Boucher, what is the lead singer’s stage name?

One member of this Los Angeles-based band has a Ph.D. from Cornell, and has written or co-written several books, including “Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science and [band name] in a World Without God”. Another left the band temporarily to concentrate on running Epitaph Records. The band’s 16th album, True North, peaked at #19 on the Billboard 200 in 2013. Name the band.

Although this person has apparently not had a sex change operation, he now identifies as a woman. He often appeared in drag while fronting the Back Street Boys at Max’s Kansas City. Give his stage name as a male, chosen in part because of his admiration for Iggy Pop and, presumably, the MC5.

Name the Ramones’ first single to chart. Appropriately titled, it peaked at #81 in the U.S. and #22 in the U.K. in 1977.

Howard Trafford and Peter McNeish met at the Bolton Institute of Technology, and formed a band, using stage names. After Trafford quit, the band was signed to United Artists. The BBC refused to play their first single on that label, which was about a teenage boy who couldn’t stop masturbating. What was the band’s name?

They were the first U.K. punk rock band to release a single (“New Rose”), first to have a hit record and first to tour the U.S. Members included Captain Sensible and Rat Scabies. Who were they?

Who played drums for Siouxsie And The Banshees at their first public concert in 1976? He also claimed to have invented the pogo dance, perhaps in an effort to see over the heads of fellow attendees of a concert by a band he would later join.

Name three of the four members of the “classic” (1976-1982) lineup of The Clash.

Elvis Costello was banned from Saturday Night Live for over a decade for playing the “wrong” song on December 17, 1977. Name either the song he and The Attractions were supposed to play (and did in fact play for a few seconds) or the one that they did play against Lorne Michaels’ wishes.