If you were looking for the embodiment of New York rock and roll, you'd be hard pressed to do better than Andy Shernoff. The Queens-bred songwriter - who has penned material for New York legends like doo-wop kingpin Dion and girl group great Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las - spent his childhood attending elementary school with Johnny Thunders, collaborated with the Ramones, stood at the of forefront of the CBGB revolution, and served as the creative force behind the city's revered garage punk pioneers the Dictators.
Every year, for the past 18 years, punk rock fans from throughout the country have made a pilgrimage to New Orleans. They arrive on the doorstep of the St. Peter Guest House in the French Quarter, asking if Room 37 is available for the night, or if they could just have a look inside. The small unassuming suite is where legendary New York Dolls guitarist Johnny Thunders injected one last blast of heroin before drawing his final breath at the age of 38.
Approximately 40 years ago, Sylvain Sylvain scanned the New York City block that housed his fledgling clothing shop. Across the street from his storefront was the New York Dolls Hospital, a longtime toy repair shop. Something about the store's name piqued his interest. I was inspired," the guitarist remembers. "I turned around to my friends Johnny Thunders and Billy Mucia and said, 'Man, wouldn't that be a great name for a band?' They said 'What, the New York Dolls Hospital?' and I said 'No, no! Just the New York Dolls, man.'
Thirty-two years have passed since the simmering ooze of the Bowery spawned a studio-fresh New York Dolls record. Through the transition, Camel-charred howler David Johansen and axe-grinder Syl Sylvain would emerge the sole pulse-bearers of a lineup that created two outstanding rock masterpieces. The reinvigorated 2006 model of the Dolls have guitarist Steve Conte (ex-Company of Wolves), bassist Sami Yaffa (Hanoi Rocks) and Brian Delaney replacing the fallen: Johnny Thunders, Arthur "Killer" Kane and Jerry Nolan, respectively.
Like Johnny Thunders, but more on a musical level, Canadian indie rock collective have made an art of excess.
Undefeatable! Achieving density somewhere between Budgie and Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers, the She Wolves are in a pretty good place if you desire equal portions of catchy tunes and heavy rock.
from San Francisco crank the kind of trashy, swaggering garage glam that Johnny Thunders invented, adding a bit of psychedelia into the guitar breaks, and a spot of power pop into the handclapped choruses.
Just did a little quick (and totally guess-timated) math, and I believe I've seen something like 2,000 rock shows in my life. So far. On Friday, inside Toronto's gorgeous Molson Ampitheatre, Pearl Jam offered up a concert that crashed straight into my personal top 10. It was poignant, transcendent, a holy experience. And it was stuffed full of surprises. The first of them came early. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists were scheduled to open the show, but showed up minus their singer and namesake. Leo, it seems, had passport troubles at the border - "As in, he forgot to bring his," said Eddie Vedder, as he took the stage to announce that pearl Jam would in effect open up for themselves, with a little help from the leader-less Pharmacists. Vedder then sat down with an acoustic guitar and crushed u...
If you like good times swathed in grimy swagger and leather-jacketed insouciance, why hold the cheese? No mere ground chuck, this is prime rib cut from the moldering carcasses of Thin Lizzy, the Dictators and Dead Boys, then flash-fried in Johnny Thunders' greasy entrails.
... City (Cuneo's band at the time) to play a Johnny Thunders memorial concert in 1991, shortly after T...
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