peter laughner

if you heard wilco's being there and wondered what that line "take the gtr player for a ride" was all about, you need to get hip to peter laughner, talented early '70s cleveland muso 'n' creem magazine scribe who founded the band that begot both the dead boys and pere ubu, and drank 'n' drugged himself to an early grave, before his considerable potential could be realized. his story's been told numerous times, most chillingly in ex-bandmate allen ravenstine's short story "music lessons" (anthologized in the penguin / da capo book of rock and roll writing. read it and weep.