Receiver
1992
Live in NYC - 1975: Red Patent Leather [Bonus Tracks]
About This Album
This disc contains tunes from one of the last shows to have featured the Johnny Thunders (guitar) and Jerry Nolan (drums) incarnation of the New York Dolls. By the spring of 1975 they had undergone several personnel changes and released a pair of concurrently underappreciated long-players. Making matters worse were the shock-rock promotional techniques incorporated by manager Malcolm McLaren, who would refine his tactics when launching the Sex Pistols the following year. Although this recording is righteously lo-fi, it reveals a band that is driven, passionate, and undeniably inebriated. Their ragged but right attack blazes through a set that is surprisingly light on originals. Although the opening "Red Patent Leather" and "On Fire" never made it onto an official studio album, the Dolls plough through them as if they were live performance standards. They give Eddie Cochran's teen anthem "Something Else" the same nonconformist assault that the Sex Pistols would deliver on their version. The mod approach given to "Daddy Rolling Stone" recalls the Who's early reworking of the Otis Blackwell composition. The unusual coupling of Clarence "Frogman" Henry's "I Ain't Got No Home" and Larry Williams' "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" reveals the band's obvious affinity for early rock and R&B sides as well as the sonic correlation between the rebellious sounds of the '50s and the revival in the mid-'70s that was duly dubbed punk rock.
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