Re: The New York Dolls Were Great!
Posted by:
bassplayer617
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Date: June 9, 2008 00:47
Back in 1973, I realized this, but amongst my friends it was a tough sell. The rock fans here in WV were into "guitar hero" bands (Zeppelin, Skynyrd etc). Of course, so was I, but I looked beyond our narrow cultural confines and wanted to know what was happening in the outside world. Sad to say, I could only find out about the Dolls through rock mags like Circus, which I regularly read.
I bought their first LP, and I was hooked. I was just 16, and a burgeoning musician, so that sound, while primitive, was a throwback, in a fashion, to the older rock I was first exposed to. It was an overall SOUND, like the old Elvis Presley band, and was distinctive. Rock n roll as it was meant to be.