Blank Generation

RICHARD HELL & THE VOIDOIDS Made Their Live Debut This Day In 1976 At The Legendary CBGB Club In New YORK

Posted on by JL

18 November 2024

RICHARD HELL (born Richard Lester Meyers 75 years ago in Kentucky), before forming his own group the VOIDOIDS, played from 1972 on with Neon Boys, Tom Verlaine‘s Television
and Johnny Thunders ‘Heartbreakers.

Hell and his band played their debut gig at the legendary CBGB
club in New York City on 18 November 1978, this day 54 years ago.

A year later they launched their punk classic LP Blank Generation.
Their 2nd and final album Destiny Street came out in 1982. Hell went
on to record and perform for years as a solo artist, but without
notable success.

BLANK GENERATION


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Hell Story

THE RACONTEURS Cover RICHARD HELL & THE VOIDOIDS – Here’s BLANK GENERATION

Posted on by JL

29 June 2020

Last May JACK WHITE, the hardest working bluesman on this planet, and THE RACONTEURS released a 7-track live EP titled ‘LIVE AT THE ELECTRIC LADY‘
in New York City and a documentary film featuring the recording of the EP and
an interview with the band.

One of the tracks is a hectic cover of 1977 punk classic BLANK GENERATION
by the infamous NYC outlaw RICHARD HELL (once a member of Tom Verlaine‘s
Television) and his band THE VOIDOIDS with a special guest appearance of
original guitarist Ivan Julian.

The Raconteurs‘ version is a scorching wall-of-sound explosion.
Not bad, not bad at all. Here’s Jack White going meshuga…

Original version…

RICHARD HELL: Biography