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The Outpost Cafe / The way they should have sounded ...
« on: July 12, 2023, 10:16:23 AM »
... before Todd Rundgren was unleashed on them (and vice versa!). The original 1972 New York Dolls demos (lovingly remastered) that got them a recording contract:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DFBM2uI-z0&list=OLAK5uy_mCXD2DzrFUAfJwgqWJin0Km3EOPNZOE7M&index=3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5rH8B7IVf8&list=OLAK5uy_mCXD2DzrFUAfJwgqWJin0Km3EOPNZOE7M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpyZ8amAWD4&list=OLAK5uy_mCXD2DzrFUAfJwgqWJin0Km3EOPNZOE7M&index=4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DFBM2uI-z0&list=OLAK5uy_mCXD2DzrFUAfJwgqWJin0Km3EOPNZOE7M&index=2
I love Todd Rundgren, but setting him up with the Dolls was bound to fail. They should have picked Eddie Kramer, Jack Douglas, Bob Ezrin or Glyn Johns to produce them, someone of that ilk.
Shows just how late 60ies/early 70ies stones'y they were, very 'Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!'.
Mark, why didn't the Nasty Habits ever cover the Dolls? Too obvious, too East Coast or too cult?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DFBM2uI-z0&list=OLAK5uy_mCXD2DzrFUAfJwgqWJin0Km3EOPNZOE7M&index=3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5rH8B7IVf8&list=OLAK5uy_mCXD2DzrFUAfJwgqWJin0Km3EOPNZOE7M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpyZ8amAWD4&list=OLAK5uy_mCXD2DzrFUAfJwgqWJin0Km3EOPNZOE7M&index=4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DFBM2uI-z0&list=OLAK5uy_mCXD2DzrFUAfJwgqWJin0Km3EOPNZOE7M&index=2
I love Todd Rundgren, but setting him up with the Dolls was bound to fail. They should have picked Eddie Kramer, Jack Douglas, Bob Ezrin or Glyn Johns to produce them, someone of that ilk.
Shows just how late 60ies/early 70ies stones'y they were, very 'Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!'.
Mark, why didn't the Nasty Habits ever cover the Dolls? Too obvious, too East Coast or too cult?