David Johansen
Lead Vocals, Harmonica Sylvain Sylvain
Guitar, Vocals Sami Yaffa
Bass Steve Conte
Guitar Brian Delaney
Drums PAST DOLLS :
Johnny Thunders
Lead Guitar, Vocals
From 1971 - 1975Arthur Kane
Bass Guitar
From 1971 - 2004Jerry Nolan
Drums
From 1973 - 1975Billy Murcia
Drums
From 1971 - 1972Rick Rivets
Guitar
1971
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Morrissey recently exclaimed this with a fervor that somehow made his chronologically impossible claims seem plausible. Watching footage of the 'Dolls onstage two years ago at the behest of one of their biggest fans (who was curating the prestigious Meltdown Festival in London) one realized just how vast - and heretofore unsung - their influence truly was. Everyone knows the famous logo: chrome lipstick, scrawling that name across an unseen mirror, but it's more than the great brand. It's not about the androgyny either. Skinny boys were wearing make up long before them. Little Richard. Elvis. It's not even about the music, as the Dolls themselves were always quick to credit 50's R&B numbers or early 60's girl group productions as their own influences. Really, what makes the Dolls so eternal is the attitude - it got into rock's water supply and never left. Kiss, Aerosmith, The Ramones, Blondie, The Sex Pistols, The Damned, Motley Crue, Guns N' Roses, Hanoi Rocks, The Strokes, The Libertines and just about any gang of strutting rockers who are convinced that their band could take your band and possibly your whole town in a pretty for pretty, ugly for ugly throwdown. The Dolls, and their disciples win, not just with brawn but with what guitarist Sylvain Sylvain calls "plenty of intellect and plenty of sex."
"You know how England is," David Johansen quips in his Staten Island drawl, thick as South Ferry sludge, "We made a big noise over there, and we were having so much fun, we decided to keep going." "The phone didn't stop ringing," Sylvain adds, "The kids wanted this. Kids of all ages." An album's worth of brand new New York Dolls compositions, as unlikely as it may have seemed in 2003, was a foregone conclusion after wildly successful festival and live dates that spanned the past two years. They were a reunion when they re-started. Now, with replacement members feeling comfortable stepping into the stack heels of departed legends like Johnny Thunders, Jerry Nolan, and most recently Arthur "Killer" Kane, they're a gang once more. "It won't be very long that we'll be together longer than the original band was," Johansen laughs.
And so we have official studio release ..., ONE DAY IT WILL PLEASE US TO REMEMBER EVEN THIS, where the New York Dolls' hallmarks: perfectly mean riffs, deceptively sweet choruses and miles of that infamous attitude meet the 21st Century. What's the same? "I think it's still an up kind of thing," Johansen says describing that quality that makes the Dolls, whatever, whomever and whenever, unmistakably "the Dolls." "It's got a non-defeatist philosophy and attitude. It says 'We can do anything."
- Marc Spitz
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MY Darling Dolls, I wish you a fantastically mad wicked gorgeous Fourth of July. May your midnight sky be filled with neon colors that burst then fall covering you in glamtastic prisms. Dance until you grind it into glittery diamond dust,grab a handful,blow it into the wind and make a wish. May all your dreams come true!!!
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SUCH AN EPIC SHOUT! YOUR SHOW IN WILLIAMSBURG GUYS! AND SUCH A GOOD CHAT AT THE BAR AFTER SAMMI! ALL THE BEST MAN, KIITOS hope to cya in other bar, Jorge.
'If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same.' from poem 'If' by Rudyard kipling
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