 In 1980, he played guitar for Nico at New York's Squat Theatre as well as Max's Kansas City.He appeared on several recordings during the 1980s, most notably his own "Cheetah Chrome and the Ghetto Dogs" (Get Hip), Jeff Dahl's "I Kill Me" (Sympathy for the Record Industry), and Todd Tamanend Clark's "Into the Vision" (TMI).He also rejoined Dead Boys for the ill-fated reunions of the late 1980s.