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andrewm
Saw this yesterday on Facebook. Isn't it great? In fact I think I'll watch it again. The new Johnny Thunders doc., Looking for Johnny, is purported to have unseen Dolls footage so I'm guessing it comes from this new clip. Love the close-up on Arthur on bass (it's actually Arthur on bass not Peter Jordan subbing!): he kind of takes a breath and shakes his hair every ten seconds or so-adorable.
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TeddyB1018
Thanks so much HB. This is absolutely fantastic. I'm going to try and rip it and get a copy to David Jo. I'm pretty sure he doesn't have this, and he didn't cooperate with the Danny Garcia movie. Arthur is indeed there, which suggests an earlier time frame than the trip to Florida. Arthur didn't make that one at all. They did do some warmup gigs before and between the Little Hippodrome stand.
Edit: Just sent a link. My daughter's staying with them in New York this weekend.
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andrewm
Saw this yesterday on Facebook. Isn't it great? In fact I think I'll watch it again. The new Johnny Thunders doc., Looking for Johnny, is purported to have unseen Dolls footage so I'm guessing it comes from this new clip. Love the close-up on Arthur on bass (it's actually Arthur on bass not Peter Jordan subbing!): he kind of takes a breath and shakes his hair every ten seconds or so-adorable.
Andrew, that breathing Arthur did was the whole key to his style, if you want to call it that. He would always sort of take a breath and then catch up. It's interesting that the reunion sounded more Dolls-esque on the couple of gigs he did before giving way to Sami Yaffa, and he was doing that breathing thing.
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andrewm
Really? That's cool. Don't suppose you can drop any hints as to who that was? I'm just curious as to who would be that big a Dolls fan.
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andrewm
Really? That's cool. Don't suppose you can drop any hints as to who that was? I'm just curious as to who would be that big a Dolls fan.
well i can name a few when it comes to the dolls - it's amazing how long their shadow is in terms of influence - but this guy, while it would be wrong to reveal, is a dolls/bowie FREAK - a collector of every bit of info/material on them
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andrewm
Really? That's cool. Don't suppose you can drop any hints as to who that was? I'm just curious as to who would be that big a Dolls fan.
Perhaps a member of another N.Y. band who followed in the Dolls' footsteps but became much, much bigger?
Thought about Duff, but he seems more specifically Johnny Thunders or Bowie. Also, I was joking because Axl insulted Bowie from stage before while Bowie was at the show so I don't expect him to keep up to date on all of Bowie's videos lol. I've got no clue who HB could be talking about.Quote
andrewm
Axl is definitely not that cool. Now, Duff I could see….
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WorriedAboutYou
Sounds terrible, you can see and hear why even Kiss objected to being compared with the NY Dolls. Just awful.
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andrewm
Yeah, I figured you were kidding, didn't know about the Bowie insult, not surprised, though.
Teddy, I was standing behind Mick Jones (dressed impeccably in a pinstriped suit) in the beer line-up at one of the Mott reunion shows in London in '09 and wanted so much to just say, "hey Mick, thanks for the great music". Then someone approached him and started glad-handing pretty loudly and he looked, understandably, kinda irritated. So, I thought the best thing I could do was leave him in peace. My buddy was sitting right beside him during the show, though, said he was very into it. Sorry for the digression, back to the Dolls….