There’s no sell-by date on it!! Exactly!! There is just too much pressure on die-hard music fans to know EVERYthing at the right time!! Why so much pressure? And why so much pressure to know every inch of a catalogue?!? I don’t know EVERY Dylan song! Am I crazy not to know every Elvis Costello song? Am I a lesser person? No! I’m just as God made me! (Nice guitar, BTW! And are those Rickenbacker shoes as well?)
I’m loving your pieces so much, Dan. You completely got me in the last paragraph, and I cried. So well said! You and I are all-but the same age, and you described the 80s perfectly. 👏👏👏
Another wonderful piece, brother! I, too, discovered the Dolls during a lonely, young person period and had them resonate in a similar manner, (nine years after you, haha.) It took awhile for them to marinate with me because I was coming at them from a Stooges/MC5/Velvet Underground perspective. But when I bought the "Rock and Roll" compilation, I began taking them in more of an Exile on Main Street perspective, and I couldn't get enough. Human Being, Bad Girl, and Pills still rock me right ✊️
Outstanding piece per usual, and thank you for articulating the problem of "hipster shaming." Especially in an era where remixed Al Bowlly songs have hit it big with Gen Z-ers on Tik Tok, the idea of deriding someone for "being late" to a certain artist is preposterous. Great music avails itself at the right time and place.
Loved loved loved the piece and loved loved loved the Dolls. And loved even more that my best friend who departed us many years ago produced their second album. And wrote that line for the Shangs ( the Shangri-Las) that you quoted. ❤️❤️
Yes, really. And still friends with his daughters and their mother. And David Johansen did not come to the Memorial but as Shadow had told me years before he died, they were all too stoned at the time to notice each other.
And if you read his obit that was published in the NYTimes and written by their best ever obit writer Margalit Fox, you’ll see my name… proof! I’m not making this up😂
Perfect description of existing in the raygunomics era at that age... in a gap year, then known as a "what is your lazy-ass problem, good-for-nothing loser?" year. You clean up nice Dan! A rare white-boy (sort of) Stacy Adams fan. I once got schooled by some older black dudes then that my Sergio Valente with shoulder pads was not hip but SA's with a suit with pleated slacks was!
Great piece. I appreciate your views of being 'late to the party' for an album or band - that it doesn't matter - but my favorite part is the pic of you with that awesome guitar!
I'll never forget learning about a band called Temple of the Dog. It's summer, back home from college, I think it's 1993, maybe 1992, whatever. I'm working at Chili's, waiting for food to come from the kitchen. I'm talking to some dude about Pearl Jam. He tells me there is a hybrid band of Pearl Jam and Soundgarden. Wait, what? Pearl Jam broke up? No! Like two years ago, they made an album and nobody knew who they were and now it's become popular. How do you get this album? Certainly not in my suburban city. You had to go to a far exotic place like Berkeley to find it. Oh wait! Somebody has one of those fancy machines where you can take a CD and record it onto a tape cassette! Yessssss, LFG!
Bo Diddly, Bo Diddly, where you been?
There’s no sell-by date on it!! Exactly!! There is just too much pressure on die-hard music fans to know EVERYthing at the right time!! Why so much pressure? And why so much pressure to know every inch of a catalogue?!? I don’t know EVERY Dylan song! Am I crazy not to know every Elvis Costello song? Am I a lesser person? No! I’m just as God made me! (Nice guitar, BTW! And are those Rickenbacker shoes as well?)
The shoes are Stacy-Adams… and the Rickenbacker belonged to a pal who was nice enough to let me pose with it!
Those could've only been Rickenbacker shoes, Britta, if they were 12-string!🎸
Twelve string shoes!! Calling the patent office now!!
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The older I get the more I appreciate the Dolls and Lonely Planet Boy has been on heavy rotation as of late.
I didn’t discover them until my 20s and sometimes great art doesn’t find you until you’re ready.
I’m glad that I’m not bound by cool.
Loved this, Dan. 💥
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I’m loving your pieces so much, Dan. You completely got me in the last paragraph, and I cried. So well said! You and I are all-but the same age, and you described the 80s perfectly. 👏👏👏
❤️❤️❤️
Another wonderful piece, brother! I, too, discovered the Dolls during a lonely, young person period and had them resonate in a similar manner, (nine years after you, haha.) It took awhile for them to marinate with me because I was coming at them from a Stooges/MC5/Velvet Underground perspective. But when I bought the "Rock and Roll" compilation, I began taking them in more of an Exile on Main Street perspective, and I couldn't get enough. Human Being, Bad Girl, and Pills still rock me right ✊️
I filled in once as the “Keith” with a friend’s Stones cover band in college - and I made them learn “Pills” for the gig! 😝
Is that YOU with the 2-tone shoes and the Rickenbacker?🙈🙊🐵 DUDE!
Yep, me at 18 - my shoes, my friend Scott’s Rickenbacker!
Outstanding piece per usual, and thank you for articulating the problem of "hipster shaming." Especially in an era where remixed Al Bowlly songs have hit it big with Gen Z-ers on Tik Tok, the idea of deriding someone for "being late" to a certain artist is preposterous. Great music avails itself at the right time and place.
What would the gatekeepers think if they knew I found out about the New York Dolls because of Buster Poindexter?
As long as it wasn’t from Buster’s cameo in Mick Jagger’s “Let’s Work” video! 😝
Lol. Not quite that bad, but it was close.
"The thing is, with the possible exception of Bo Diddley, no one was ever born cool." Great line!
Loved loved loved the piece and loved loved loved the Dolls. And loved even more that my best friend who departed us many years ago produced their second album. And wrote that line for the Shangs ( the Shangri-Las) that you quoted. ❤️❤️
You were pals with Shadow Morton?!? Wow!
Yes, really. And still friends with his daughters and their mother. And David Johansen did not come to the Memorial but as Shadow had told me years before he died, they were all too stoned at the time to notice each other.
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And if you read his obit that was published in the NYTimes and written by their best ever obit writer Margalit Fox, you’ll see my name… proof! I’m not making this up😂
Perfect description of existing in the raygunomics era at that age... in a gap year, then known as a "what is your lazy-ass problem, good-for-nothing loser?" year. You clean up nice Dan! A rare white-boy (sort of) Stacy Adams fan. I once got schooled by some older black dudes then that my Sergio Valente with shoulder pads was not hip but SA's with a suit with pleated slacks was!
Oh yeah, I spent a LOT of time and money at the Stacey-Adams store in the Loop!
Great piece. I appreciate your views of being 'late to the party' for an album or band - that it doesn't matter - but my favorite part is the pic of you with that awesome guitar!
I'll never forget learning about a band called Temple of the Dog. It's summer, back home from college, I think it's 1993, maybe 1992, whatever. I'm working at Chili's, waiting for food to come from the kitchen. I'm talking to some dude about Pearl Jam. He tells me there is a hybrid band of Pearl Jam and Soundgarden. Wait, what? Pearl Jam broke up? No! Like two years ago, they made an album and nobody knew who they were and now it's become popular. How do you get this album? Certainly not in my suburban city. You had to go to a far exotic place like Berkeley to find it. Oh wait! Somebody has one of those fancy machines where you can take a CD and record it onto a tape cassette! Yessssss, LFG!