"We take like a Little Rascals approach to show business - 'We're bored! What are we gonna do? Well, let's start a show!' And that's basically how the Dolls came about." Watch Johansen describe the kids who followed them down the street » when rock 'n' roll was put together by the industry," Sylvain recalled.
The original band, made up of Johansen, Sylvain Sylvain, Johnny Thunders, Arthur Kane and Jerry Nolan, were known for ferocious live performances that blended elements of the Rolling Stones, Velvet Underground, glam and girl groups - down to the occasional wearing of drag. The band "created punk rock before there was a term for it," writes 's Stephen Thomas Erlewine. That kind of timing is a familiar subject to the Dolls, which formed amid the grit and grind of early '70s New York but broke up before they could take advantage of the success of followers such as the Ramones, Blondie, the Sex Pistols and Talking Heads. "Todd has this house with one wall open to the elements, and I said, 'What happens when it rains, Todd?' and he said, 'It never rains here.' Well, the next day, all our gear got soaked, so we had to move to another house." "It rained just enough to disrupt our recording plans," added guitarist Steve Conte. "It rained every day," said guitarist and singer David Johansen in Atlanta's Center Stage theater Friday, where the band was scheduled to play later that day. The producer, who has a setup on the island of Kauai, assured the band that the weather would be beautiful. It's true, it will remind us that we are, after all, not God.In January, the New York Dolls arrived in Hawaii to record their new album, "'Cause I Sez So" (Atco), with producer Todd Rundgren. And your father's name will shine again like a beacon in the galaxy. Then, having reached the heights, this all-but-divine race perished in a single night, and nothing was preserved above ground.Īlta, about a million years from now the human race will have crawled up to where the Krell stood in their great moment of triumph and tragedy. Ethically and technologically they were a million years ahead of humankind, for in unlocking the mysteries of nature they had conquered even their baser selves, and when in the course of eons they had abolished sickness and insanity, crime and all injustice, they turned, still in high benevolence, upwards towards space. In times long past, this planet was the home of a mighty, noble race of beings who called themselves the Krell. United Planets Cruiser C57D, now more than a year out from Earth Base on a special mission to the planetary system of the great main-sequence star Altair. And so, at last, mankind began the conquest and colonization of deep space. Almost at once there followed the discovery of hyperdrive through which the speed of light was first obtained and later greatly surpassed. By 2200 A.D., they had reached the other planets of our solar system. In the final decade of the 21st Century, men and women in rocket ships landed on the moon.
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