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“A huge handicap to Peter was his father’s influence,” she says. It’s an essential companion piece to the box set, revealing in words Peter’s internal conflicts apparent in the music and exploring their potential roots. When Mauceri contacted her about using a couple of songs she co-wrote with Peter on the box set, he expressed interest in publishing her book. I thought about the Peter story as bridge between my early life and my life in New York City.” I was originally going to write about it as first part of my New York story. But I said, I have to write the Peter story. “I ended up not getting it publishing it’s sitting in a drawer. “I wrote a book about my childhood, kind of a veiled memoir about my childhood, which was really traumatic,” she recalls. The new book is a revised version of a book she wrote several years ago, with a limited number of copies printed. Those of us who knew him yearn to have heard the music he might have made. She brings to life in vivid, poetic prose someone who’s often been wrongly reduced to a one-dimensional caricature and reclaims Peter as someone whose musical influences were far wider and deeper than has generally been portrayed, who likely would have gone on to greatness had he not died so young. Now Smog Veil has released another project with equal potential to reclaim the real Peter in all his dimensions: Adele’s short, lyrical book Peter and the Wolves, in which she explores her relationship with him and how he helped set her course. Much of what made Peter so compelling and such a musical genius was lost - until last year’s release of the comprehensive Peter Laughner box set on Smog Veil Records, a project of ex-Clevelander Frank Mauceri. He’s been celebrated as an early punk rocker.
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In the process, his self-abuse has been glamorized, as has his status as an acolyte of dark-side musical raconteur Lou Reed and wild-man rock writer Lester Bangs. In the ensuring 43 years, Peter has become a legend as the founder of influential bands Rocket from the Tombs and Pere Ubu. Adele learned of his death that evening while she attended a show at NYC punk mecca CBGB. She told me she’d gone to wake him up and found him dead.
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(In failing health, Peter had moved back in with his parents in Bay Village). It was her first step in what has turned out to be a long, varied career, a step encouraged by legendary Cleveland musician Peter Laughner who served as her musical mentor for a brief put intense period starting in the fall of the previous year.īy the time she’d checked in, I’d gotten an early morning phone call from Peter’s mother. On June 22, 1977, aspiring Cleveland musician Adele Bertei checked into New York City’s seedy Chelsea Hotel, where generations of artists, musicians and writers had stayed, including Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Janis Joplin and, famously, Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols, who killed his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, there.