Ted Tocks Covers - Year 9 - Day 17

Human Being

Remembering David Johansen and the New York Dolls!

“In fact I’m talking about the human race
You’re trying to cover up the big disgrace”

#newyorkdolls #davidjohansen #johnnythunders #Sylvain#Sylvain #arthurkane #jerrynolan #billymurcia #muddywaters #williedixon #sonnyboywilliamson #BillDoggett #morrissey #gunsnroses

https://tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2026/02/28/human-being-gleeful-sleaziness-and-reckless-sound-musicislife-tedtockscovers-newyorkdolls-davidjohansen/

48 years ago today
Johnny Thunders and Walter Lure of the Heartbreakers at the Bataclan (a place that became a sad focus decades later), Paris, December 8, 1977

#punk #punks #punkrock #johnnythunders #walterlure #heartbreakers #history #punkrockhistory #otd

#NowPlaying #FalsettoFriday

Junkie #falsetto? I say unequivocally this is a thing (plus, there's medical research: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0892199724004478).

Examples include #KeithRichards in the #RollingStones' "Coming Down Again", or #DaveKusworth's work with #NikkiSudden in #TheJacobites . . . or better still, those solo acoustic turns by #JohnnyThunders. For a while Johnny's voice got so jaundiced and gossamer-thin, you'd think his vocal folds had been replaced by corn husks! But it's what he left us, utterly affective, part and parcel to his essential beauty. Miss him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nTuNu-JOq4&list=RD6nTuNu-JOq4&start_radio=1

JOHNNY THUNDERS
Que Sera, Sera
1985 UK pressing

Been a while for this one.

Not a GREAT album, but not a bad one either. It’s nowhere on the level of his old band New York Dolls, but it’s worth re-visiting.

Thunders used a reggae band (The Black Cats) for this, which is odd, because there’s not really a reggae vibe to be found until the last song on the first side, “Cool Operator”.

There’s some classic sounding Thunders here, though, particularly on “A Little Bit Of Whore”, and there’s some backing vocals on the album closer “Endless Party” by Stiv Bators of The Dead Boys.

#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #punk #glam #reggae #johnnythunders #1980s #80s #80sMusic

#SoAlone - #JohnnyThunders Solo-Debüt von 1978 über Real Records. Die Londoner Sessions vereinten Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy) sowie Steve Jones und Paul Cook (Sex Pistols). Zwei Singles: "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory" und "Dead or Alive". Produzent Steve Lillywhite beschrieb Thunders' charakteristischen "Opium-meets-Amphetamine"-Gitarrenstil. Ein einflussreicher Punk-Rock-Meilenstein.

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https://www.instagram.com/p/DOdvPy9jIqO/?igsh=cXFqdXI4Ymc0bjhh

#noosphaeremusikkalender2025

Johnny Thunder's All-Stars at the Speakeasy, London, with Steve Jones and Paul Cook, February 1978

#punk #punks #punkrock #punklegends #oldschoolpunk #johnnythunders #paulcook #stevejones #punkrockhistory