Castle Us / Ryko
1993
Live In NYC - 1975
About This Album
This concert disc features one of the last live shows by the New York Dolls lineup with Jerry Nolan (drums) and Johnny Thunders (guitar). Less than a month later both would begin a 30-plus year sabbatical. The Dolls were fixtures in the Big Apple's burgeoning punk scene as evidenced by the May 2, 1975 show at the Little Hippodrome located there. Yet, the band's brash and boozy attack perfectly animates a repertoire of precious little from their own back catalog. The opening "Red Patent Leather" and "On Fire" never made it onto a Dolls studio platter, yet the combo charge through them with a notable swagger of familiarity. Commencing the lengthy list of covers is Eddie Cochran's angst and hormone-driven anthem "Something Else" -- which recalls the similar non-conformist assault that the Sex Pistols delivered on the Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1976). Otis Blackwell's "Daddy Rollin' Stone" is clearly a derivative of the Who's early reworking and the unusual coupling of Clarence "Frogman" Henry's "I Ain't Got No Home" and Larry Williams' "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" reveal the Dolls' unquestionable affinity for early rock and R&B.
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