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Hard Stuff 47: We were aced out of the gig by another local band that featured an 11-year-old drummer.at ace out (v.) under ace, v.
Hard Stuff 47: We were aced out of the gig by another local band that featured an 11-year-old drummer. Hard Stuff 57: Our big gig was turning out to be an ass-busting, anticlimactic farce.at ass-busting, adj.
Hard Stuff 248: My British road crew requested a wall of Marshall amps [...] I think the wall of amps was considered gauche by the punkerati.at -ati, sfx
Hard Stuff 278: [W]hen we hit the stage, I was blown away by the response.at blow (someone) away, v.
Hard Stuff 167: He was fresh out of Terre Haute federal prison on a stolen car beef.at beef, n.2
Hard Stuff 18: A few bucks in the hands of a nine-year-old was a fortune, and made me a big man out on the street.at big man (n.) under big, adj.
Hard Stuff 72: Understandably pissed off, people hanging out on the street started pitching a bitch.at pitch a/the bitch (v.) under bitch, n.1
Hard Stuff 162: [W]e had a blowout party at my apartment for Tim Shafe’s birthday. The drugs and booze flowed and flowed.at blow-out, n.1
Hard Stuff 37: [H]e didn’t blow me off as being too weird.at blow off, v.1
Hard Stuff 229: [T]hese bands [...] had the look or moves of the MC5, but the MC5 could have eaten them for breakfast.at have someone for breakfast (v.) under breakfast, n.
Hard Stuff 3: Police reinforcements arrived and started bum-rushing everyone off of Belle Isle.at bumrush, v.
Hard Stuff 129: The dope was sold in three-penny caps, which were small capsules of ‘mixed-jive’ dope: heroin cut with quinine to improve the rush.at cap, n.4
Hard Stuff 170: [S]ince we knew Tony and his partner Joe so well and trusted them, it would be cool to do this deal at my new apartment.at cool, adj.
Hard Stuff 31: I wasn’t interested in any of that old cornball stuff [i.e. musical standards]; I wanted to play rock & roll.at cornball, adj.
Hard Stuff 120: With his back to us, he began speaking on the phone in French. Fred and I stood there with our dicks in our hands.at have one’s dick in one’s hand (v.) under dick, n.1
Hard Stuff 52: [A] gang of guys would jump out and just throw down on you with fists and feet flying.at throw down, v.
Hard Stuff 126: Normally this would have generated a strong-arm response, but I was so happy with our performance that I dropped it.at drop, v.1
Hard Stuff 41: [T]he whole thing fizzled out before it started.at fizzle (out), v.
Hard Stuff 145: Eve couldn’t pay the rent [...] We began floating to various friends’ places.at float, v.1
Hard Stuff 128: Which isn’t to say there was no funky behavior going on. My drug use remained a problem.at funky, adj.2
Hard Stuff 33: [M]y relationship with Herschel [i.e. the narrator’s stepfather] couldn’t have been worse. I loathed him, and he didn’t get me at all.at get, v.
Hard Stuff 114: [N]ow with so much at stake, we weren’t grooving on what we were hearing.at groove on (v.) under groove, v.
Hard Stuff 80: John had the ability to articulate feelings that I only knew on a gut level.at gut, adj.
Hard Stuff 37: Bob had radical ideas about life and God, art, science, history, and culture. He was the first person I’d met that had a handle on this stuf.at get a handle (v.) under handle, n.
Hard Stuff 92: That night, the excitement in the Grande was through the roof. It was all happening for the MC5.at happening, adj.
Hard Stuff 59: I had underappreciated his skills on the drums. He was a rock-steady backbeat hitter with great timing, feel, and energy.at hitter, n.
Hard Stuff 241: I started calling everybody I knew in town to set up meetings. I worked the Detroit homeboy network.at homeboy, n.
Hard Stuff 129: The dope was sold in three-penny caps, which were small capsules of ‘mixed-jive’ dope: heroin cut with quinine to improve the rush.at mixed-jive, n.
Hard Stuff 191: We were both [in prison] because of major league bad behavior.at major-league, adj.
Hard Stuff 45: Gerry and the Pacemakers and Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas were lightweight.at lightweight, adj.
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