I've read the positive comments on the Dolls from several of you whose opinions I truly respect, so I'm going to figure I was just very unlucky( kinda the story of my life).
Back in 72-73 I bankrolled a show at the Toledo Sports Arena with the Dolls as the headliner. Steve Miller, who was lukewarm on the popularity scale at the time and Shawn Philips (remember him) were both available at the same price to headline, but the promoter leaned on me to go with the Dolls because they were selling out everywhere. Against my better judgement , we went with the Dolls and a good local Detroit group named Mutzi as the warm up.
Ticket sales were not enough to break even. Mutzi was great, but the Dolls came on and emptied the place faster than a freakin' fire alarm
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They were absolutely terrible. They sucked so bad ,even I left early, before I had to hurt someone.
So many people rave about them......I dunno, must have caught a real bad night, but they were so bad I couldn't even imagine them being good.
And this was when I was young and open minded
....... years before I grew up and turned into an old sourpuss
Rick