| New York Dolls - Glasgow Garage, June 29th
By all rights, I really shouldn’t be here. The New York Dolls without Johnny Thunders (or Arthur ‘Killer’ Kane or Jerry Nolan for that matter - all three are deceased) should be as big a turn-off to the purist in me as the likes of Queen without Freddie Mercury. It’s an act of musical heresy akin to the Rolling Stones without Keith Richards. And I’ve already satisfied my curiousity as to the worth of this line-up once, when I caught the 21st century New York Dolls at Leeds festival a few years ago, playing to a depressingly uninterested outdoor crowd in the afternoon mere weeks after Arthur Kane's death. Hearing the Dolls stellar 70's songbook (the holy text of rock and roll from an alternate universe where sleaze rock reigns supreme) live was great fun, sure, but all far too polite and neutered to ever convince that this was really the Dolls.
Yet something tells me I shouldn't miss this, and so I force myself to get dressed despite the heavy toll taken by last...
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When I woke up, mom and dad are rolling on the couch.
Rolling numbers, rock and rolling, got my Kiss records out.
Last edited by Woolies; 2nd July 2008 at 11:16am.
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