Brookline Booksmith 

There are a half-dozen riffs without which punk rock doesn't happen, and one of 'em belongs to Cheetah Chrome on Rocket from the Tombs' immortal "Ain't It Fun." Later, he'd go on to pen one of punk's iconic anthems: Dead Boys' "Sonic Reducer." Now living clean, the hard-living Chrome will read from his drug-fueled memoir -- which makes Motley Crue's "The Dirt" read like Dr. Seuss -- alongside two fellow Cleveland punk vets: The Pagans' Mike Hudson (now a newsman in Niagra Falls) and Human Switchboard's Bob Pfeiffer, who went on to run Hollywood Records. Boston Phoenix editor Carly Carioli moderates.

Cheetah Chrome's A Dead Boy’s Tale, Mike Hudson's Diary of a Punk and Bob Pfeifer's University of Strangers discussions