Leírás
Glam Rock, Hard Rock, Glam Punk, Punk Rock,
Limited edition 2CD kiadvány, 2012.
A 2011-es Bowery koncert felvételei!
Two CD live album from the NY rock legends recorded in 2011. The Dolls created Punk Rock before there was a term for it. Mixing the Stones, the Stooges and Bowie, they created a new form of Hard Rock, drug fuelled and shambolic, and influenced a generation of musicians.
Glam rock icons the New York Dolls built their fame on two near-perfect ’70s albums before disintegrating into several decades of solo projects and an ever-growing legacy. The Dolls released more new original material since their 2004 reunion than they did even in their salad days, with three studio albums and several live recordings in the five years that led up to „Live from the Bowery”. It’s no wonder, then, that the set list for this date is heavier on the band’s post-reunion material and runs through only a few obligatory renditions of the classics.
Over three decades after their creation, original trash rockers like show-opener „Looking for a Kiss,” „Who Are the Mystery Girls?,” and „Personality Crisis” are untouchable classics, and the band (the two surviving founding members David Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain joined by a host of backing players) is in great form, slightly less sloppy and dangerous than its earliest days, but raw and rocking all the same. The newer songs are neither embarrassing nor incredibly out of touch, a rare feat for any band reuniting years after its glory days.
Songs like „Funky But Chic” and „I’m So Fabulous” don’t have the same bite or swagger of the early songs, but are rugged fun with a somewhat updated big-city grit to them. The maudlin ballad „Kids Like You” is perhaps the most mature and interesting of the Dolls’ new songs, with Johansen reflecting on the younger generation with wistful nostalgia in a husky Tom Waits-ian croon. – Fred Thomas
Felvételek:
DISC 1.:
1.Looking for a Kiss
2.I’m So Fabulous
3.’Cause I Sez So
4.Talk to Me Baby
5.Private World
6.Streetcake
7.Kids Like You
8.Who Are the Mystery Girls?
9.Fool for You, Baby
10.Pills / Hey Bo Diddley
11.Dance Like a Monkey
12.Funky But Chic
13.Jet Boy
14.Personality Crisis
DISC 2.:
1.Looking for a Kiss
2.I’m So Fabulous
3.’Cause I Sez So
4.Talk to Me Baby
5.Private World
6.Streetcake
7.Kids Like You
8.Who Are the Mystery Girls?
9.Fool for You, Baby
10.Pills / Hey Bo Diddley
11.Dance Like a Monkey
12.Funky But Chic
13.Jet Boy
14.Personality Crisis
(Barcode: 0805778261413)
