STIV - No Compromise, No Regrets

Though maybe less well known than other frontmen like Johnny Rotten or Joe Strummer, The Dead Boys' Stiv Bators was a trailblazing, massively influential punk icon. Or, to borrow the words of the Dead Boys' debut: he was young, loud, and snotty. The Cleveland-bred group had a short but unforgettable run in the late 1970s that came to personify the energetic and frequently lewd on-stage antics of punk shows at the time (cutting himself, pretending to hang himself on stage, etc.). Bators passed away in 1990 — he was hit by a car in Paris, didn't go to a doctor, went home, and died from a blood clot the next day — but his influence remains huge to this day. Learn more about Bators' remarkable life with the Pittsburgh premiere of the documentary STIV - No Compromise, No Regrets. Musician/Bators collaborator Frank Secish and journalist Theresa Kereakes will be on hand at the Regent Square Theater screening.