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Stiv Bators film streaming for free on TUBI

STIV, a 2019 documentary about Stiv Bators, is streaming for free (with commercials) on the TUBI service in case you needed something a bit different to consume on the TV this winter.

Be warned, this is not a flattering portrait of the man and seems to be a project his late wife signed off on many years after he died. It does represent a portion of the truth but it really could have used interviews with guys like Cheetah Chrome and Brian James to fill out more about who he was. His accidental death after getting hit by a taxi in Paris is treated as an inevitable event by his peers and that is perhaps the most chilling part about this film.

There are plenty of references to the Mahoning Valley in this (the particular anecdote about Stiv living in Columbiana County before he moved to Cleveland was rather amusing) so it should satisfy curiousities about his early time as a budding rock star here.

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