The singer for
Suicide; an intermittently successful solo artist and
renaissance man. His Project of Living Artists provided a venue for the unwashed and unwanted (
Blondie, the
New York Dolls, et mucho al) before
CBGB's became a brand name. He had, back in the day, the stage presence of your favorite psychotic corner drug dealer channeling the spirit of
Dean Martin; the
cigarette dangled, the song floated (and stung), and you wondered who spiked Dino's scotch-and-water.