Recall Records UK
2006
Eve Of Destruction
About This Album
Even though Johnny Thunders died in 1991, he's managed to maintain the sort of busy release schedule that Tupac Shakur might envy, though like Tupac, Thunders' posthumous recording career is primarily devoted to recycling various scraps of tape the musician imprudently left behind. Too Much Junkie Business is a two-disc set that recycles live material from three different Johnny Thunders live shows, all of which have been released before on various albums. Disc one is devoted to a 1987 show in Los Angeles (previously released as Panic on Sunset Strip; a video of this show is also available) which reunited Thunders with his former New York Dolls bandmates Arthur Kane on bass and Jerry Nolan on drums. While the set in question sounds a lot more like the Heartbreakers than the Dolls thanks to the song list, having a simpatico rhythm section for a change certainly makes a difference, and Thunders sounds relatively focused and confident here, with the sloppiness purposeful rather than a product of his take-it-or-leave-it attitude towards his craft. Disc two starts out with a ten-song set recorded in Detroit near the end of 1980, with Thunders fronting a pared-down version of the Heartbreakers; Thunders sounds dismissive of his audience, and while there are many worse live tapes of the man floating around, there are also plenty of better ones.
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