Hiawatha Bailey was the only Black and Native American member of the White Panther Party. He was on the front lines and rubbed shoulders with the Stooges, MC5, and John Lennon.
Dave Alexander was a founding member of the Stooges, a man ahead of his time. Fired from the band, he died from alcoholism at age 27. Here is Dave's story.
No discussion of Cleveland's punk scene would be complete without a chapter on Peter Laughner, who helped start half a dozen bands, including Rocket from the Tombs and Pere Ubu. And yet, Laughner, who died at age 24, has not received that chapter, really, until now. A new 5-disc box set retrospective by Smog Veil Records has been released, an event that sent PKM's Todd McGovern in search of the Peter Laughner chapter, using the voices of many who knew Peter well, including Cheetah Chrome, Miriam Linna, Robert Kidney, Anton Fier, David Thomas, and others.
Dan Corrigan was the in-house photographer for Minneapolis nightclub First Avenue and took iconic photos of Prince, The Replacements, Hüsker Dü, Soul Asylum