THE dB’S
“I want to know what it is that we’re looking for/You say to me in a voice that’s both soft and sore”
I Thought You Wanted To Know (1979–81)
PROPELLER SOUND
IN the halcyon days of New York punk club CBGBs, there was a pinball machine located in the furthest corner away from the stage. In his memoir Spy In The House Of Loud: New York Songs And Stories, dB’s co-leader Chris Stamey remembers being drawn to that part of the room on the (frequent) occasions when the band on stage wasn’t quite as thrilling as legend would have you believe.
He wrote: “When a skilled player like Dee Dee Ramone nudged it just the right way, making all the lights go off at
