Amoeba Music

By Bob Fagan

During his short life, Peter Laughner was instrumental in the birth of the mid-70s new music scene in Cleveland, OH. Laughner was an occasional reviewer for Creem magazine and a drug-and booze-abusing buddy of fellow Creem writer Lester Bangs. Ironically, Laughner may have first come to the attention of music fans outside the Cleveland area via his obituary in Punk magazine, written by Bangs. Bangs struggles to make sense of Laughner’s life (not to mention his own), and vacillates wildly between his sorrow at Laughner’s demise and his anger at Laughner’s near-suicidal capacity for drugs and self-destruction. That appetite for drugs and alcohol would, for better or worse,... Read More

City Of Origin:

Huntingdon, England

Genre:

Rock, Psychedelic

Birthdate:

11/13/1949