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About Me

During the first half of the 1970s, The New York Dolls established a hard-earned reputation as the last word in rock'n'roll hedonism. Combining the attitude of the Rolling Stones, Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent with the romanticism of 1960s girl groups like the Shangri-Las and Crystals, The Dolls formulated the unlikely template for punk rock. Trash! recounts the full drug-fuelled story of the band, from their origins amidst the street gangs of New York's outer boroughs, through to their contemporary re-birth and the recent death of bassist Arthur Kane.
More than any other band, the New York Dolls laid the foundations of punk rock. By taking the flamboyant sass of Jagger and Richards to outrageous extremes and combining it with raw, dirty, rock 'n' roll; the Dolls set the agenda for the 1970s. Inspired by the original rebel spirit of rock 'n' roll and fuelled by almost every known controlled substance, the gender bending quintet cut a swathe across America, Europe and Japan, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake. Five years later, the rest of the world was still trying to catch up. Having influenced several generations of bands such as the Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Cramps, Twisted Sister, Hanoi Rocks, Jane's Addiction and Marilyn Manson, the surviving Dolls made a triumphant return in 2004. Featuring first-hand reminiscences, interviews with band members, classic tour anecdotes and archive material "Trash!" is the most comprehensive account of the New York Dolls incredible history ever compiled. In addition to detailing the band's wild five-year ride to oblivion, individual band members' post-Dolls careers are fully documented and explored. Similarly, the chaotic and creative maelstrom of the mid-seventies New York scene is evocatively recounted and the band's influences and diverse personalities are fully examined.
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My Interests

Punk Rock, Glam Rock, Garage Rock, New York, Underground counterculture, fashion, hedonism, sex and L-U-V!

Music:

New York Dolls, Heartbreakers, Iggy Pop, MC5, Ramones, Blondie, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Jayne County, Suicide, T. Rex, The Cramps, the Shangri-Las, the Ronettes, The Sonics, ? & The Mysterions, Arthur Lee & Love, Hollywood Brats, Slade, The Dictators, Bay City Rollers, Sparks, Pink Fairies, Hawkwind, Dr Feelgood, Patti Smith, Television, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, The Damned, Dead Boys, Morrissey, The Smiths, Jesus & Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Hanoi Rocks, Twisted Sister, Corpse Grinders, Buster Poindexter, The Contes, The Hives, The Libertines, Babyshambles, Dirty Pretty Things, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Alice Cooper

Movies:

New York Doll, Is Dee Dee Home?, Born To Lose, Rock'n'Roll High School, The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle, D.O.A., Repo Man, Performance, Scorpio Rising, Gringo, Basquiat, Flesh, Heat, Pink Flamingos, Freaks, Velvet Goldmine, Jubilee, Rude Boy, Liquid Sky, Hedwig & The Angry Inch, Beach Blanket Bingo, I Was A Teenage Werewolf

Television:

Lookin' fine on television...

Books:

Click here to go to Amazon USA and order TRASH! THE COMPLETE NEW YORK DOLLS

Click here to go to Amazon UK and order TRASH! THE COMPLETE NEW YORK DOLLS

Click here to go to Amazon FRANCE and order TRASH! THE COMPLETE NEW YORK DOLLS

Click here to check out the PLEXUS website for more great books

Heroes:

Arthur Kane, David Johansen, Johnny Thunders, Sylvain Sylvain, Jerry Nolan, Billy Murcia, Rick Rivets

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My Blog

Record Collector Review

Record Collector November 2006 p122 Trash! The Complete New York Dolls * * * * Kris Needs and Dick Porter Plexus £14.99 Excommunicated then canonised... Nina Antonia's Dolls biograp...
Posted by TRASH on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 02:05:00 PST

DOLLS US TOUR DATES

NEW YORK DOLLS- w/ supersuckers & chesterfield kings(LITTLE STEVEN'S UNDERGROUND GARAGE TOUR)6-Nov San Diego, CA -Belly Up7-Nov Los Angeles, CA- Avalon8-Nov San Francisco, CA -The Independent10-No...
Posted by TRASH on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 09:13:00 PST

DOLLS EUROPEAN TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED!

NEW YORK DOLLS IN EUROPE28-Sep London, UK - TV Jonathan Ross Show1-Oct Stockholm, SW - Berns3-Oct Ghent, BE - Handelbeurs4-Oct Amsterdam, NL - Melkweg6-Oct Strassbourg, FR - La Laterie8-Oct Bochum, DE...
Posted by TRASH on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 01:12:00 PST

The Trash! Outtakes .6 - Richard Hell on Johnny

'Apart from his family and four or five life long friends, probably the people who'll miss Johnny most are those he exploited. The ones who were made to feel important because he spent time with them ...
Posted by TRASH on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 01:39:00 PST

The Trash! Outtakes .5 - Final encounters with Johnny Thunders

Kris: At that time I was living in New York and was reading the same East Village shopping trips as Johnny over ten years earlier. I was in a worse state than he was, nodding out for half the set. One...
Posted by TRASH on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 02:20:00 PST

Jayne County: Mugged by Gene Simmons

From the Punk Globe Blog - 11 Aug 2006 GENE SIMMONS/A& E Gene Simmons has a new reality show on the A&E network, and in the very first episode,he has shaken up the world of punk rock. I...
Posted by TRASH on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:32:00 PST

The Trash! Outtakes .4 - Johnny Thunders interview excerpt, 1979

Friday the thirteenth - day after the Lyceum. Johnny Thunders had to do one of the things he hates most - press interviews. Luckily, I could now class him as something of a mate after seeing him about...
Posted by TRASH on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 01:52:00 PST

The Trash! Outtakes .3 - Mott and the Dolls

Mott the Hoople had come along five years earlier and rapidly built a name for the wildest rock 'n' roll show in the UK. This was at a time when music was either post-psychedelically tame, tasteful or...
Posted by TRASH on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 01:02:00 PST

Mojo review of Trash!

Mojo September 2006 p125 Trash! The Complete New York Dolls * * * * Kris Needs and Dick Porter Plexus £14.99 They were good/bad but not evil. Perfect companion to Nina Antonias earlier ...
Posted by TRASH on Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:49:00 PST

The Trash! Outtakes .2 - Suicide: Sonic Visonaries

'When you listen to Suicide you can feel what our New York was like,' said singer Alan Vega in '86 to Next Big Thing fanzine. 'That stuff couldn't have...
Posted by TRASH on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:35:00 PST