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damn...just read this. RIP DJ

RIP

Rest in peace, David Johansen

I just saw this. No more Dolls.
I met him several times. A real gent.

Sad news. Saw him with the Dolls a couple of times. Great shows. I played their first album to death back in the day and love it still.

Rip

No more Dolls to play with. Thank you for the music.

RIP Mr Johansen, I missed you in 2004 when you toured with Hubert Sumlin. One of the biggest regrets of my life, if not the biggest.

I saw one of those shows with Hubert Sumlin. It was the only time I saw David Johansen and he was mesmerizing. RIP.

RIP David.

the best, GREAT guy, too--incredible musical taste and style. LOVE YOU, DAVID!

Personality Crisis! Loved the Dolls.

RIP

This sucks so hard. RIP.

Saw him and the NYD with Syl Sylvain around 2006. Great show and performer. He rubbed some people the wrong way with his Buster Poindexter schtick in the 80s, but at least the Dolls' legacy is fairly intact.

His harpoon solo on Ella McDaniel's "Pills" is really something.
Let's crank up the music, light a candle, and say a prayer and let's send this beautiful doll on his way.


At Hanzomon Hotel Tokyo in 1975.

I consider myself a fan of music. I first heard David’s Heart of Gold in 1982 and loved it. Bought the Here Comes the Night album and adored it. Still do. But for some inexplicable reason, that was the end of my David Johansen fandom. And, never having followed him after that first album, I actually never realised/knew he was a member of the New York Dolls, a band I never got into!

RIP David, and, from me, thanks so much for THAT album wonderful album.

Rod

as a New Yorker, a little bit of our R & R history took another big hit yesterday.....RIP David...a NYC legend!

I think his solo live album Live It Up is fantastic too. It's from 1982, not the best times for rock 'n roll, but he nailed it on this one. Rip David

Scorsese's documentary:

Personality Crisis 2020

New York Dolls were an embodiment of rock ‘n’ roll as dangerous art. I don’t embrace the ethos without reservation, but understand why many people are drawn to that.

I saw the post-Thunders/Nolan reincarnation of the Dolls at the World Rock Festival Eastland, a touring event that visited five cities in Japan in Summer 1975, featuring Jeff Beck as the headliner. I enjoyed their short festive set at the outdoor auditorium in Kyoto in daylight. On Frankenstein, the monster strode around on stage and interacted with Johansen.

Late in the afternoon, a shock announcement was made and hit the crowd hard — Jeff Beck pulled out due to a sudden illness. Every one of us was dishearten, our spirit gone down. What’s worse, the heavens opened towards the evening, rain showering over us. Some among the audience started to leave the site, looking distressed.

Felix Pappalardi with Joe Yamanaka (of Flower Travellin’ Band fame) finished their set and all of the schedule was over, except for Jeff Beck who would not show. Then — New York Dolls came back onto the stage and started to play again. We indulged in the fast and furious rock ‘n’ roll they unleashed one after another, soaked wet in the downpour.
Can’t recall how long they played. Half an hour? Three quarter of an hour? I don’t remember. One thing that sticks to my mind is that Johansen told the audience more than once, “The most beautiful city in the world!”
That was the night David Johansen and Co. saved the day. All fifty years ago. And that was the first and last time I saw them.

Thank you Mr. Johansen — rest in peace.

Met David a couple of times in passing at Max Kansas City, where the Dolls played a bunch of times,he was always friendly and very cool no bigheaded rock star...May he Rest in Peace and thanks for the music.....

"No dope smoking no beer sold after 12 o'clock"