DEAD MEN WALKING...Captain Sensible returns to CBGB

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DEAD MEN WALKING

(CAPTAIN SENSIBLE RETURNS TO CBGB WITH SLIM JIM PHANTOM, MIKE PETERS & KIRK BRANDON)

Live @ CBGB; September 23, 2005

This show was Captain Sensible's first gig at CBGB since he played there with The Damned in April 1977, shows at which the Dead Boys opened up for them. A line-up of The Damned that didn't include Captain Sensible played a gig at CBGBs in 1993. On the night of this Dead Men Walking gig, the opening band featured Billy Ficca, of Television, on drums. This is unusual or ironic in that, on The Damned's first US tour in the 1977, the band was supposed to open up for Television at a West Coast show but didn't as Television refused to let them play. According to original Damned guitarist Brian James, The Damned went to the gig anyway and stood there intimidating Television by wearing t-shirts that said, "Television are cunts." The Damned went on to record a song called "Idiot Box" about them. I didn't ask Ficca and Sensible to pose for a photo together in front of the club.


Sensible & Slim Jim Phantom	Brandon, Peters & Sensible

Below: Sensible lectures the crowd. This may have been the speech in which he insisted (as he's prone to doing) that there's no God and also said something or other about homosexuality although I can't remember the specifics.