Cult heroes: Rocket from the Tombs, the most self-destructive group ever to smash a six-string

Their existence was brief, fraught and virtually ignored, but these proto-punks were phenomenally exciting – and left an indelible legacyThey were together for a matter of months, never recorded an album and played to only a few hundred people. Why then were Rocket from the Tombs hailed as “the original legendary underground rock band”? That’s what the critic Lester Bangs called the American proto-punks, who were perhaps the most self-destructive group ever to smash a six-string on stage