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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:57,640 --> 00:00:59,893 Good evening to all. How exciting is this? 2 00:00:59,893 --> 00:01:03,855 Come on, you gotta give it up for the Café Carlyle, right? 3 00:01:03,855 --> 00:01:07,692 New York City... 2020? 4 00:01:07,692 --> 00:01:11,029 It's really been a pleasure to introduce this guy. 5 00:01:11,029 --> 00:01:12,739 One of the most bon vivant. 6 00:01:12,739 --> 00:01:16,409 I said it again, elegant, super intelligent, 7 00:01:16,409 --> 00:01:18,286 nicest guy in the restaurant, right? 8 00:01:18,286 --> 00:01:21,581 To Mara, the beautiful Mara, tells us what's going on. 9 00:01:21,581 --> 00:01:23,541 The note comes under the door, right? 10 00:01:23,541 --> 00:01:26,920 We don't know, Buster Poindexter, David Johansen, 11 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:29,130 Rama Lama Ding Dong! 12 00:01:29,130 --> 00:01:30,340 He's got a personality crisis. 13 00:01:30,340 --> 00:01:32,342 He's gonna bring it all to you right now, OK? 14 00:01:32,342 --> 00:01:35,303 He's also got the best pompadour in the business. 15 00:01:35,303 --> 00:01:37,305 He's here in person. Wait, he's right there. 16 00:01:37,305 --> 00:01:41,476 Ladies and gentlemen, Buster Poindexter, David Johansen! 17 00:01:53,154 --> 00:01:56,699 You're funky, funky but chic 18 00:01:56,699 --> 00:02:00,245 A funky, funky but chic 19 00:02:00,245 --> 00:02:02,872 Your funky, funky but chic 20 00:02:02,872 --> 00:02:03,748 All right. 21 00:02:03,748 --> 00:02:05,333 You funky, but, funky but 22 00:02:05,333 --> 00:02:07,293 All right, all right, all right 23 00:02:07,293 --> 00:02:11,339 Got a pair of shoes somebody gave me 24 00:02:12,966 --> 00:02:15,593 My momma thinks I look pretty fruity 25 00:02:15,593 --> 00:02:18,680 But in jeans I feel rockin' 26 00:02:20,348 --> 00:02:23,560 I don't wear nothin', not too fussy or neat 27 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:25,270 I just want somethin' baby 28 00:02:25,270 --> 00:02:27,105 To be able to walk down your street 29 00:02:27,105 --> 00:02:29,649 Hey, come on baby, let's get on down to the boutique 30 00:02:29,649 --> 00:02:32,819 Bring back somethin' that's a funky but chic 31 00:02:32,819 --> 00:02:35,905 I said funky, funky but chic 32 00:02:35,905 --> 00:02:37,115 That's right, boy. 33 00:02:37,115 --> 00:02:38,867 Funky, funky but chic 34 00:02:38,867 --> 00:02:42,620 I tell you I'll get down in any neighborhood 35 00:02:42,620 --> 00:02:46,499 My friends will take me 36 00:02:46,499 --> 00:02:48,918 The people out there they all itch and bitch 37 00:02:48,918 --> 00:02:52,755 Lord, I swear they gonna break me 38 00:02:52,755 --> 00:02:55,758 Well, I fly just to get downtown 39 00:02:55,758 --> 00:03:00,138 Where everybody's crazy 40 00:03:00,138 --> 00:03:02,599 I fly on down that street 41 00:03:02,599 --> 00:03:05,518 Them folks stop acting lazy 42 00:03:05,518 --> 00:03:06,853 And I say... 43 00:03:06,853 --> 00:03:10,315 I don't wear nothing not to fussy or neat 44 00:03:10,315 --> 00:03:11,900 I just want somethin' baby 45 00:03:11,900 --> 00:03:13,943 To be able to fly down your street 46 00:03:13,943 --> 00:03:16,613 Hey, get on baby, who at the boutique 47 00:03:16,613 --> 00:03:20,450 Bring back something that's a funky but chic, yeah 48 00:03:20,450 --> 00:03:22,243 Funky, funky but chic 49 00:03:22,243 --> 00:03:23,786 That's what I'm talking about. 50 00:03:23,786 --> 00:03:25,496 Funky, funky but chic 51 00:03:25,496 --> 00:03:27,165 Correct. 52 00:03:27,165 --> 00:03:29,083 Funky, funky but chic 53 00:03:29,083 --> 00:03:30,168 Oh, yeah! 54 00:03:30,168 --> 00:03:31,628 You funky but, funky but 55 00:03:31,628 --> 00:03:34,255 All right, all right, all right 56 00:03:52,690 --> 00:03:58,780 I got a little car, come on, let's go driving 'round 57 00:03:58,780 --> 00:04:04,285 A '56 Mercedes-Benz I had painted cocoa-brown 58 00:04:04,285 --> 00:04:05,745 It's brown. 59 00:04:05,745 --> 00:04:08,331 I don't drive nothin', not too fussy or neat 60 00:04:08,331 --> 00:04:11,876 I just want somethin' to be able to drive down your street 61 00:04:11,876 --> 00:04:13,461 Hey, beep, beep, beep, baby 62 00:04:13,461 --> 00:04:15,088 Let's get down to the boutique 63 00:04:15,088 --> 00:04:19,133 I'll bring back somethin' that's a funky but chic, yeah 64 00:04:19,133 --> 00:04:21,261 Funky, funky but chic 65 00:04:21,261 --> 00:04:22,387 Oh, chic. 66 00:04:22,387 --> 00:04:23,721 Funky, funky but 67 00:04:23,721 --> 00:04:25,515 Oh très chic 68 00:04:25,515 --> 00:04:28,643 Funky, funky but - Oh what chic, now 69 00:04:28,643 --> 00:04:29,978 You funky but, funky but 70 00:04:29,978 --> 00:04:31,813 All right, all right, all right 71 00:04:31,813 --> 00:04:33,898 All right, all right, all right, all right 72 00:04:33,898 --> 00:04:37,360 Got a pair of shoes somebody gave me 73 00:04:39,487 --> 00:04:41,739 My momma thinks I look pretty fruity 74 00:04:41,739 --> 00:04:44,617 But in jeans I feel rockin' 75 00:04:44,617 --> 00:04:45,952 Cut 'em up! 76 00:04:45,952 --> 00:04:48,997 I don't wear nothin' not too fussy or neat 77 00:04:48,997 --> 00:04:52,000 I just want somethin' to be able to walk down your street 78 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,670 Hey get out of bed baby, let's get on down to the boutique 79 00:04:55,670 --> 00:04:59,507 I'll bring back somethin' that's funky but chic 80 00:05:00,341 --> 00:05:01,467 Oh! 81 00:05:01,467 --> 00:05:03,636 Yeah! 82 00:05:03,636 --> 00:05:07,098 Yeah! 83 00:05:07,098 --> 00:05:09,142 All right, boys! 84 00:05:09,559 --> 00:05:11,269 Oh, yeah! 85 00:05:11,269 --> 00:05:13,313 All right. Oh, yeah. 86 00:05:15,898 --> 00:05:18,401 You were the lead singer of the New York Dolls. 87 00:05:18,401 --> 00:05:20,069 A lot of people credit you guys 88 00:05:20,069 --> 00:05:21,696 with really helping to start the punk movement. 89 00:05:21,696 --> 00:05:23,364 Well, yeah, but inadvertently, like, 90 00:05:23,364 --> 00:05:24,699 we didn't do it on purpose. 91 00:05:26,492 --> 00:05:28,870 We were in Newcastle and it's a place in England 92 00:05:28,870 --> 00:05:31,956 where they make this beer called Newcastle Brown Ale. 93 00:05:31,956 --> 00:05:34,584 And we were young men and we had a reputation 94 00:05:34,584 --> 00:05:36,044 of being able to hold our booze. 95 00:05:36,044 --> 00:05:38,546 So they say, "Oh, boys, you gotta try the local brew." 96 00:05:38,546 --> 00:05:41,299 And they give you these gigantic cans of 97 00:05:41,299 --> 00:05:43,551 Newcastle Brown Ale. 98 00:05:43,551 --> 00:05:46,512 And we're at like the Newcastle Polytechnic Institute 99 00:05:46,512 --> 00:05:47,805 or something for a show. 100 00:05:47,805 --> 00:05:50,141 We're drinking these things. "Have another one." 101 00:05:50,141 --> 00:05:51,434 OK, Ok, another one. 102 00:05:51,434 --> 00:05:54,062 So we drank maybe 10 of these things... and... 103 00:05:55,146 --> 00:05:56,522 Maybe, maybe 10. 104 00:05:56,522 --> 00:05:59,192 We go on stage to play and everything is going fine. 105 00:05:59,192 --> 00:06:05,490 All of a sudden, the drummer barfs about 12 gallons 106 00:06:05,490 --> 00:06:08,534 of Brown ale onto his snare drum, 107 00:06:08,534 --> 00:06:10,286 but he keeps playing. 108 00:06:11,871 --> 00:06:17,752 And so, you know, a good dollop of it hits me right in the nose 109 00:06:17,752 --> 00:06:20,254 and you know how that is, it's like a chain reaction. 110 00:06:20,254 --> 00:06:21,714 Yeah, I know how that is. 111 00:06:21,714 --> 00:06:24,217 Why would I know how that is? I don't know how that is. 112 00:06:24,217 --> 00:06:28,221 Well, I let loose and then the bass player let loose, 113 00:06:28,221 --> 00:06:29,514 the guitar player let loose, 114 00:06:29,514 --> 00:06:31,766 the audience was like... 115 00:06:31,766 --> 00:06:33,267 Everybody's throwing up 116 00:06:33,267 --> 00:06:36,479 and at the end of the song, everybody's like, "Yeah!" 117 00:06:37,980 --> 00:06:39,732 And they thought it was part of the act 118 00:06:39,732 --> 00:06:42,944 and then all the kids in England started doing this. 119 00:06:42,944 --> 00:06:45,321 It became the rigor of, uh... 120 00:06:45,863 --> 00:06:47,490 Oh, we gotta throw up like The Dolls! 121 00:06:47,490 --> 00:06:48,950 You know, that kind of thing. 122 00:06:48,950 --> 00:06:50,827 And that's... that's how the punk movement was born. 123 00:06:50,827 --> 00:06:52,662 I would say that was the... if you wanted to bring it 124 00:06:52,662 --> 00:06:56,332 down to a moment in time, that was the moment. 125 00:06:56,332 --> 00:07:01,546 126 00:07:01,546 --> 00:07:04,715 It's super sensuous, transcendental 127 00:07:04,715 --> 00:07:09,971 something not to be explained in rational terms. 128 00:07:09,971 --> 00:07:12,974 It's the Mansion of Fun show. 129 00:07:13,349 --> 00:07:16,310 I hear that melody 130 00:07:16,310 --> 00:07:18,271 On the street 131 00:07:18,271 --> 00:07:20,273 My melody 132 00:07:20,273 --> 00:07:22,650 Soft and sweet 133 00:07:22,650 --> 00:07:28,656 Your melody, would you sing that song to me 134 00:07:32,034 --> 00:07:34,495 Melodies hauntin' me 135 00:07:36,372 --> 00:07:39,792 Memories just repeat 136 00:07:39,792 --> 00:07:45,965 Your melodies even haunt me in my sleep 137 00:07:48,259 --> 00:07:52,889 I tried to show you, you just couldn't see it 138 00:07:52,889 --> 00:07:57,768 I tried to tell you, but your heart couldn't hear it 139 00:07:57,768 --> 00:07:59,479 I tried to love you, but ya 140 00:07:59,479 --> 00:08:02,982 Your heart had to slip away 141 00:08:04,901 --> 00:08:09,197 Now that melody's hauntin' me 142 00:08:10,072 --> 00:08:13,743 Melody got that beat 143 00:08:13,743 --> 00:08:20,041 The memory just repeats in my mind 144 00:08:22,835 --> 00:08:26,088 A melody, where I dance 145 00:08:26,088 --> 00:08:30,676 In the place that I find romance 146 00:08:30,676 --> 00:08:36,057 Your melody just won't give me a chance 147 00:08:39,018 --> 00:08:43,814 I tried to show you, but your heart couldn't see it 148 00:08:43,814 --> 00:08:47,985 I tried to tell you, but your heart couldn't hear it 149 00:08:47,985 --> 00:08:54,075 I tried to love you, but your heart had to slip away 150 00:08:55,117 --> 00:08:56,661 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah 151 00:08:56,661 --> 00:08:59,038 Melody 152 00:08:59,038 --> 00:09:00,790 Yeah, yeah, yeah 153 00:09:00,790 --> 00:09:02,875 Melody 154 00:09:02,875 --> 00:09:05,545 Yeah, yeah, yeah 155 00:09:12,802 --> 00:09:17,306 Well certain songs I just can't take it 156 00:09:17,306 --> 00:09:21,852 They start to play and my old heart starts achin' 157 00:09:21,852 --> 00:09:25,439 Certain songs, I just can't fake it 158 00:09:25,439 --> 00:09:29,777 They start to play and I just want to break 'em 159 00:09:29,777 --> 00:09:31,153 I just can't take it 160 00:09:31,153 --> 00:09:35,575 When I hear them play that song 161 00:09:36,867 --> 00:09:39,537 Yeah that melody 162 00:09:39,537 --> 00:09:41,163 Haunting me 163 00:09:41,163 --> 00:09:46,168 A tender rhapsody, soft and sweet 164 00:09:46,168 --> 00:09:49,964 The memory follows me 165 00:09:49,964 --> 00:09:51,882 'Til it's insanity 166 00:09:51,882 --> 00:09:53,634 Driving me 167 00:09:53,634 --> 00:09:58,097 Now my melody's on the street 168 00:09:58,097 --> 00:10:02,393 Oh, melody, soft and sweet 169 00:10:02,393 --> 00:10:06,522 Oh, melody 170 00:10:06,522 --> 00:10:09,734 Yeah, yeah, melody 171 00:10:09,734 --> 00:10:14,030 Yeah, my melody 172 00:10:14,030 --> 00:10:19,493 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah 173 00:10:27,543 --> 00:10:29,503 Where am I? 174 00:10:30,379 --> 00:10:32,340 Who am I? 175 00:10:46,145 --> 00:10:52,234 Ahhhh, ahhhh 176 00:10:52,234 --> 00:10:54,278 Well, I'm stranded in the jungle 177 00:10:54,278 --> 00:10:56,072 I'm trying to keep a date 178 00:10:56,072 --> 00:10:59,367 With my little girl, that was back in the States 179 00:10:59,367 --> 00:11:02,995 I'm stranded in the jungle, I'm afraid of it all 180 00:11:02,995 --> 00:11:05,915 Wondering how I could get a message back home 181 00:11:05,915 --> 00:11:09,210 But how was I to know that the wreckage of my plane 182 00:11:09,210 --> 00:11:10,961 Had been picked up and spotted 183 00:11:10,961 --> 00:11:12,797 By the girl on Lover's Lane 184 00:11:12,797 --> 00:11:16,759 I said, meanwhile, back in the States 185 00:11:20,179 --> 00:11:22,556 Baby, baby 186 00:11:22,556 --> 00:11:26,018 Let's make romance 187 00:11:26,018 --> 00:11:32,316 Your old-time love hasn't got a chance 188 00:11:32,316 --> 00:11:35,528 I said he's stranded in the jungle, bad as he can be 189 00:11:35,528 --> 00:11:38,572 Come on, pretty darling, just you and me 190 00:11:38,572 --> 00:11:43,119 Oh yeah, oh yeah 191 00:11:43,119 --> 00:11:46,163 Meanwhile, back in the jungle... 192 00:11:46,163 --> 00:11:50,000 Ahhhh, ahhhh 193 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:51,794 Why come to a New York Dolls show? 194 00:11:51,794 --> 00:11:53,379 A lot of kids are like whipped dogs 195 00:11:53,379 --> 00:11:55,339 and they feel like they're really terribly alienated 196 00:11:55,339 --> 00:11:57,216 And I think we give 'em a feeling that they're not 197 00:11:57,216 --> 00:11:59,051 the same people that feel these feelings 198 00:11:59,051 --> 00:12:00,636 not the only people that feel these feelings 199 00:12:00,636 --> 00:12:02,012 and that they're not alone. 200 00:12:02,012 --> 00:12:03,764 They all can come together on our show 201 00:12:03,764 --> 00:12:05,599 and see each other and meet each other. 202 00:12:05,599 --> 00:12:07,810 There's a thousand bands that are coming up 203 00:12:07,810 --> 00:12:10,771 like from the streets, from the ghetto. 204 00:12:50,144 --> 00:12:52,313 1,2,3,4! 205 00:12:52,313 --> 00:12:54,023 Trash, go pick it up 206 00:12:54,023 --> 00:12:56,025 Take them lights away 207 00:12:56,025 --> 00:12:57,902 Trash, go pick it up 208 00:12:57,902 --> 00:13:00,154 Don't take your life away 209 00:13:00,154 --> 00:13:01,781 Trash, go pick it up 210 00:13:01,781 --> 00:13:05,951 Don't try to take my knife away 211 00:13:05,951 --> 00:13:10,623 And please don't you ask me if I love you 212 00:13:11,248 --> 00:13:14,293 If you don't know what I'm doing 213 00:13:14,293 --> 00:13:15,836 What you know is 214 00:13:15,836 --> 00:13:18,172 Trash, go pick it up... 215 00:13:18,172 --> 00:13:20,299 Now, is it true that you were president 216 00:13:20,299 --> 00:13:23,135 of their fan club? -No. Not at all. 217 00:13:23,135 --> 00:13:25,262 Well, were... were you involved in their fan club? 218 00:13:25,262 --> 00:13:26,472 No. Not even slightly. 219 00:13:26,472 --> 00:13:28,015 A member? -Not even a member. 220 00:13:28,015 --> 00:13:29,391 Tempted to send off of town for four months? 221 00:13:29,391 --> 00:13:31,185 Yes, it's all true. -Yeah. 222 00:13:31,185 --> 00:13:32,311 It's all true. -It is true. 223 00:13:32,311 --> 00:13:34,104 You were in the fan club, you denied it. 224 00:13:34,104 --> 00:13:36,565 But it's true, isn't it? -I, I, I, I, I... was the fan club. 225 00:13:36,565 --> 00:13:37,983 I was the fan club. 226 00:13:37,983 --> 00:13:39,235 And what was it that drew you to The New York Dolls? 227 00:13:39,235 --> 00:13:40,653 Well, they were very violent. 228 00:13:40,653 --> 00:13:42,988 They were very witty and they were very intelligent. 229 00:13:42,988 --> 00:13:48,285 And as you know, most pop stars are not very intelligent. 230 00:13:48,285 --> 00:13:52,832 and they're not very witty and not very violent. 231 00:13:52,832 --> 00:13:53,666 Right. 232 00:13:59,380 --> 00:14:04,718 And why-ha-hy ha-ha ha-hy 233 00:14:04,718 --> 00:14:08,722 Why do you hang around 234 00:14:11,725 --> 00:14:16,730 I'm so sorry 235 00:14:16,730 --> 00:14:22,736 I-I-I-I'm so sorry 236 00:14:24,029 --> 00:14:25,906 It was a good lay, good lay 237 00:14:25,906 --> 00:14:27,700 Ah ha 238 00:14:27,700 --> 00:14:31,620 Do you remember when you first saw the Dolls? 239 00:14:31,620 --> 00:14:35,958 Mm, yes. I had gone to see them live in '72, 240 00:14:35,958 --> 00:14:39,628 but their drummer had died three days earlier. 241 00:14:39,628 --> 00:14:43,257 And everybody was expecting the Dolls to walk on the stage. 242 00:14:43,257 --> 00:14:44,675 And of course they didn't. 243 00:14:44,675 --> 00:14:47,011 There was just suddenly an announcement that 244 00:14:47,011 --> 00:14:52,141 Billy had died and everybody just collapsed. 245 00:14:52,141 --> 00:14:56,562 And then the next encounter was television. 246 00:14:56,562 --> 00:14:58,439 They, they appeared very famously 247 00:14:58,439 --> 00:15:00,399 on The Old Grey Whistle Test 248 00:15:00,399 --> 00:15:06,113 which in those very dark days of '73 249 00:15:06,113 --> 00:15:07,406 was a fantastic vision. 250 00:15:07,406 --> 00:15:11,368 People forget how absolutely dank things were, 251 00:15:11,368 --> 00:15:15,164 how dank life was and pop art was. 252 00:15:15,164 --> 00:15:16,624 And there was no, 253 00:15:16,624 --> 00:15:23,297 there was no sense of danger within pop music at all. 254 00:15:23,297 --> 00:15:24,924 But I was obsessive. 255 00:15:24,924 --> 00:15:27,384 I was, I was ridiculously obsessive. 256 00:15:27,384 --> 00:15:28,928 This, this was the band for me. 257 00:15:28,928 --> 00:15:30,721 This was the turning point for me. 258 00:15:30,721 --> 00:15:32,932 Why have so few people heard New York Dolls? 259 00:15:32,932 --> 00:15:34,475 This is a blighted band. 260 00:15:34,475 --> 00:15:37,770 I'd almost say cursed because if you listen to, 261 00:15:37,770 --> 00:15:41,482 if you listen to, to, to the... the music they made, 262 00:15:41,482 --> 00:15:44,234 every single song is really a hit single. 263 00:15:44,234 --> 00:15:47,821 And there's no reason on earth why it shouldn't have happened. 264 00:15:47,821 --> 00:15:49,406 But because they were connected 265 00:15:49,406 --> 00:15:55,329 with drugs and absurdly transgender issues. 266 00:15:55,329 --> 00:15:58,499 So here were boys who were calling themselves "Dolls" 267 00:15:58,499 --> 00:16:04,171 and they looked like prostitutes, male prostitutes, 268 00:16:04,171 --> 00:16:06,799 which at the time, you have to remember, 269 00:16:06,799 --> 00:16:08,258 it was a long time ago 270 00:16:08,258 --> 00:16:11,929 and all... and all of that kind of thing was really taboo. 271 00:16:11,929 --> 00:16:14,390 And if a man walked 272 00:16:14,390 --> 00:16:17,184 down the street wearing women's clothes, 273 00:16:17,184 --> 00:16:19,561 he could be arrested and thrown into jail. 274 00:16:19,561 --> 00:16:23,023 That's why they only made two studio albums. 275 00:16:23,023 --> 00:16:26,068 And for a group who did so little really 276 00:16:26,068 --> 00:16:29,029 and existed for such a short amount of time, 277 00:16:29,029 --> 00:16:30,698 their impact has been extraordinary. 278 00:16:30,698 --> 00:16:36,537 And the music, because it was such fantastic pop music, 279 00:16:36,537 --> 00:16:37,663 it, it just seemed to me like 280 00:16:37,663 --> 00:16:39,957 the absolute answer to everything. 281 00:16:39,957 --> 00:16:44,003 Which of course... too dangerous. 282 00:17:06,567 --> 00:17:10,612 I just want to be like very welcoming. 283 00:17:10,612 --> 00:17:16,243 'Cause the way the society is, I mean, it, it was set up is 284 00:17:16,243 --> 00:17:19,455 like very strict, like... 285 00:17:19,455 --> 00:17:22,875 straight, gay... 286 00:17:22,875 --> 00:17:24,209 whatever, vegetarian, 287 00:17:24,209 --> 00:17:28,672 whatever you want to, you know, anything you want to say. 288 00:17:28,672 --> 00:17:34,511 I just wanted to kind of like bring those walls down and... 289 00:17:34,511 --> 00:17:38,140 and have a party kind of a thing. 290 00:17:53,405 --> 00:17:57,826 Oh, man, this is great. This is very nice. 291 00:17:57,826 --> 00:18:02,372 This is a classy boîte, the Café Carlyle. 292 00:18:02,372 --> 00:18:07,419 And we are starting our semi-annual bisexual-- 293 00:18:07,419 --> 00:18:09,129 What am I talking about? 294 00:18:09,129 --> 00:18:15,636 Bi-annual residency. And the cafe called Mara, 295 00:18:15,636 --> 00:18:19,181 who runs this whole shebang up here and asked 296 00:18:19,181 --> 00:18:20,474 if we'd like to come back. 297 00:18:20,474 --> 00:18:21,892 She said, "Yes." 298 00:18:21,892 --> 00:18:24,978 No, we love it here because, I'll tell you why, 299 00:18:24,978 --> 00:18:27,064 you take the elevator to work. 300 00:18:27,064 --> 00:18:31,360 My whole life I've been schlepping. 301 00:18:31,360 --> 00:18:34,488 Oh, in some ungodly conveyances. 302 00:18:37,741 --> 00:18:41,036 Then came the... the question of what kind of a repertoire we 303 00:18:41,036 --> 00:18:44,873 would present because you have to have a new one every year. 304 00:18:44,873 --> 00:18:48,085 And I was in no mood for learning 20 songs. 305 00:18:48,085 --> 00:18:50,379 There's only so many hours in a day. 306 00:18:51,922 --> 00:18:56,343 So we decided that we would do Buster Poindexter-- 307 00:18:56,343 --> 00:18:58,262 That's me-- 308 00:18:58,262 --> 00:19:02,975 singing the songs of David Johansen-- that's me. 309 00:19:04,685 --> 00:19:06,687 Because I know those songs. 310 00:19:09,273 --> 00:19:11,692 And so here we are, both of us. 311 00:19:11,692 --> 00:19:17,698 And... tonight, I'm gonna do songs that I wrote or co-wrote, 312 00:19:17,698 --> 00:19:22,327 I guess from when I was a teenager, all the way up to now. 313 00:19:22,327 --> 00:19:26,874 And the one thing I could say, the unifying thing 314 00:19:26,874 --> 00:19:33,046 of my existence, is that there's always been plenty of music. 315 00:19:35,174 --> 00:19:40,762 That's nice. Very nice. 316 00:19:50,731 --> 00:19:53,525 Feeling a great sadness today 317 00:19:53,525 --> 00:19:57,654 I don't want to shush it or shoo it away 318 00:19:57,654 --> 00:20:03,368 It belongs to the whole world, the boys and girls 319 00:20:04,286 --> 00:20:07,664 It ain't just mine 320 00:20:07,664 --> 00:20:10,918 Like joy and love, it's always there 321 00:20:10,918 --> 00:20:15,464 I don't know how I tune in, or why that I care 322 00:20:15,464 --> 00:20:20,802 But I can't pretend it don't feel like the end 323 00:20:20,802 --> 00:20:25,515 And everything is fine 324 00:20:25,515 --> 00:20:29,519 I feel exiled from the divine 325 00:20:29,519 --> 00:20:33,690 Me and these sad friends of mine 326 00:20:33,690 --> 00:20:39,446 We're just waiting down here, drinking beer 327 00:20:39,446 --> 00:20:42,699 And losing time 328 00:20:42,699 --> 00:20:46,787 Well, I hear plenty of music 329 00:20:46,787 --> 00:20:52,459 I see superfluous beauty everywhere 330 00:20:52,459 --> 00:20:54,836 Why should I care 331 00:20:54,836 --> 00:20:59,925 What does it matter to me 332 00:21:02,052 --> 00:21:03,470 Yeah, yeah. 333 00:21:05,097 --> 00:21:06,473 All right, now. 334 00:21:17,693 --> 00:21:22,406 The myth of life is a song 335 00:21:22,406 --> 00:21:24,157 Yeah! 336 00:21:24,908 --> 00:21:30,163 And nature, too, that's the song 337 00:21:30,163 --> 00:21:32,541 All right. 338 00:21:32,541 --> 00:21:35,836 Don't you destroy the song 339 00:21:35,836 --> 00:21:40,382 'Cause when the song is gone 340 00:21:40,382 --> 00:21:46,763 You'll be gone too 341 00:21:46,763 --> 00:21:51,059 I don't know how it went astray 342 00:21:51,059 --> 00:21:55,314 Seem like the whole world is an ashtray 343 00:21:55,314 --> 00:21:56,732 Floatin' around 344 00:21:56,732 --> 00:22:02,362 Some broken-down, low-end galaxy 345 00:22:03,113 --> 00:22:06,908 I don't know what I did to get sent here 346 00:22:06,908 --> 00:22:10,579 Must have been some bad that I done 347 00:22:10,579 --> 00:22:12,789 There in the world gone mad 348 00:22:12,789 --> 00:22:15,167 Feeling sad 349 00:22:16,209 --> 00:22:18,545 I guess I'm sorry 350 00:22:18,545 --> 00:22:22,799 I don't need no one to love me 351 00:22:22,799 --> 00:22:25,677 Or place theirself above me 352 00:22:25,677 --> 00:22:30,515 What does it matter, I don't need a ladder 353 00:22:30,515 --> 00:22:33,894 What's it to me 354 00:22:33,894 --> 00:22:37,773 I hear plenty of music 355 00:22:37,773 --> 00:22:41,318 I see superfluous beauty 356 00:22:41,318 --> 00:22:42,736 Everywhere 357 00:22:42,736 --> 00:22:44,780 So why should I care 358 00:22:44,780 --> 00:22:48,575 What does it matter 359 00:22:48,575 --> 00:22:52,621 Yeah, I hear plenty of music 360 00:22:52,621 --> 00:22:55,707 I see superfluous beauty 361 00:22:55,707 --> 00:22:57,709 Everywhere 362 00:22:57,709 --> 00:23:00,295 Why should I care 363 00:23:00,295 --> 00:23:04,966 What does it matter to me 364 00:23:05,425 --> 00:23:08,428 What's it matter to me 365 00:23:09,346 --> 00:23:12,682 Nothing matters to me 366 00:23:12,682 --> 00:23:19,189 What's the matter with me 367 00:23:19,189 --> 00:23:20,190 Oh! 368 00:23:25,654 --> 00:23:28,323 Beautiful. Beautiful. 369 00:23:41,253 --> 00:23:51,054 Poor boy 370 00:23:51,054 --> 00:23:57,936 Poor boy long way from home 371 00:23:57,936 --> 00:24:04,359 When I was down in Louisiana 372 00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:09,448 Just doing as I please 373 00:24:09,448 --> 00:24:14,327 Now I'm in Texas 374 00:24:14,327 --> 00:24:20,041 I got to work or leave 375 00:24:20,792 --> 00:24:24,588 Poor boy 376 00:24:24,588 --> 00:24:26,715 You actually knew Harry Smith? 377 00:24:26,715 --> 00:24:29,426 Well, I didn't really know him, 378 00:24:29,426 --> 00:24:32,053 but I met him a couple of times. 379 00:24:32,053 --> 00:24:34,514 You went to his place at The Chelsea? 380 00:24:35,348 --> 00:24:36,516 Yeah, probably, yeah. 381 00:24:36,516 --> 00:24:38,518 What was his room like? 382 00:24:41,521 --> 00:24:43,899 It was kinda like, you know, 383 00:24:43,899 --> 00:24:48,069 a speed den, I think at the time. 384 00:24:48,069 --> 00:24:50,447 You know, like when I was a kid 385 00:24:50,447 --> 00:24:51,990 you would go to The Chelsea 386 00:24:51,990 --> 00:24:53,783 and you'd get stuck in there for like a week, 387 00:24:53,783 --> 00:24:56,912 going to different people's rooms and stuff. 388 00:24:56,912 --> 00:24:59,039 I was probably 18 at the time, you know, 389 00:24:59,039 --> 00:25:05,128 so I would like to go see people that were generally older 390 00:25:05,128 --> 00:25:07,088 and could impart some kind of wisdom. 391 00:25:07,088 --> 00:25:10,091 Was Harry Smith one of those people? 392 00:25:10,091 --> 00:25:15,555 Well, I, you know... 393 00:25:17,599 --> 00:25:18,975 He could have been. 394 00:25:18,975 --> 00:25:21,645 Who's this? Who's who? 395 00:25:21,645 --> 00:25:23,605 This guy. 396 00:25:23,605 --> 00:25:26,441 Oh, that's Harry Smith. Oh. 397 00:25:26,441 --> 00:25:28,777 He was, you know, like a polymath. 398 00:25:28,777 --> 00:25:31,446 This guy was into a lot of really good shit. 399 00:25:31,446 --> 00:25:35,075 He would be into something 400 00:25:35,075 --> 00:25:38,620 and then he would be like through with it, you know? 401 00:25:38,620 --> 00:25:40,914 When he was young, he started out, 402 00:25:40,914 --> 00:25:43,583 he would hang with the Lummi people. 403 00:25:43,583 --> 00:25:45,418 He recorded their traditional music 404 00:25:45,418 --> 00:25:50,382 and he made a lot of like experimental films later on. 405 00:25:50,382 --> 00:25:54,302 He would put ads in newspapers around the country, 406 00:25:54,302 --> 00:25:56,304 asking people if they wanted to get rid 407 00:25:56,304 --> 00:25:59,140 of their old 78s that were in the attic. 408 00:25:59,140 --> 00:26:01,643 I mean, you know, he was the kind of guy 409 00:26:01,643 --> 00:26:05,146 who would collect string, you know what I mean? 410 00:26:05,814 --> 00:26:09,317 His record collection is pivotal 411 00:26:09,317 --> 00:26:15,991 in the American music and rock and roll 412 00:26:15,991 --> 00:26:17,993 and the folk boom in the 50s. 413 00:26:17,993 --> 00:26:21,037 Everybody who wanted to be a folk singer 414 00:26:21,037 --> 00:26:26,459 in the 1950s would learn songs from those records. 415 00:26:27,711 --> 00:26:31,131 And there was a lot of different kinds of songs. 416 00:26:37,345 --> 00:26:41,683 He picked like, you know, really strange tunes. 417 00:26:41,683 --> 00:26:43,351 You recorded a lot of songs 418 00:26:43,351 --> 00:26:46,062 from the Harry Smith record collection 419 00:26:46,062 --> 00:26:49,274 and you named your band The Harry Smiths. 420 00:26:49,274 --> 00:26:52,694 Would you say that he's someone who inspired you? 421 00:26:53,737 --> 00:26:55,196 Not at all. 422 00:26:56,865 --> 00:27:00,702 Well, you're very averse to... 423 00:27:00,702 --> 00:27:05,040 No, because he was such a grouch, this guy. 424 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:08,126 I mean, I liked a lot of the stuff he did, 425 00:27:08,126 --> 00:27:13,381 but I never thought, "Oh wow, I wish I could do that." 426 00:27:13,381 --> 00:27:22,140 Poor boy 427 00:27:22,140 --> 00:27:23,683 I grew up in Staten Island 428 00:27:23,683 --> 00:27:26,394 in a house that my grandfather built. 429 00:27:26,394 --> 00:27:29,481 We had a lot of records in the house. 430 00:27:29,481 --> 00:27:30,899 Music was on all the time. 431 00:27:30,899 --> 00:27:32,984 You know, sometimes there would play a show 432 00:27:32,984 --> 00:27:36,780 while we were having dinner or something, you know. 433 00:27:36,780 --> 00:27:39,908 What about your dad singing? 434 00:27:39,908 --> 00:27:41,660 What about it? 435 00:27:41,660 --> 00:27:42,744 Like, did you sing with 436 00:27:42,744 --> 00:27:44,287 your dad around the house? 437 00:27:44,287 --> 00:27:47,457 Uh no, not so much, but he was a very good singer. 438 00:27:47,457 --> 00:27:51,002 He used sing like light opera like Gilbert and Sullivan. 439 00:27:51,002 --> 00:27:52,504 He knew a lot of operas. 440 00:27:52,504 --> 00:27:55,757 How old were you when you had your first band? 441 00:27:57,300 --> 00:27:58,843 Thirteen or fourteen. 442 00:27:58,843 --> 00:28:04,140 We used to play at you know, like school dances 443 00:28:04,140 --> 00:28:07,227 and we used to go into the "Battle of the Bands." 444 00:28:07,227 --> 00:28:12,315 We always used to come in second because this other group 445 00:28:12,315 --> 00:28:15,235 from the ass end of Staten Island, 446 00:28:16,236 --> 00:28:18,905 used to play these songs with like The Ventures, 447 00:28:18,905 --> 00:28:22,492 like with the guitars behind their head, 448 00:28:22,492 --> 00:28:25,245 which I always saw felt like, that's really a lame gimmick. 449 00:28:25,245 --> 00:28:28,707 But... they won every time. 450 00:28:28,707 --> 00:28:30,875 I remember the first time we played 451 00:28:30,875 --> 00:28:34,212 I remember the first song, Boogaloo Down Broadway 452 00:28:34,212 --> 00:28:36,214 by the fantastic Johnny C. 453 00:28:36,214 --> 00:28:38,091 You know that song? No. 454 00:28:40,552 --> 00:28:42,804 Baby, oh baby 455 00:28:42,804 --> 00:28:44,973 Boogaloo down Broadway 456 00:28:44,973 --> 00:28:48,268 Yeah, yeah, funky Broadway 457 00:28:48,268 --> 00:28:51,980 I closed my eyes for the whole first song... 458 00:28:51,980 --> 00:28:56,192 and then I could hear them all applauding 459 00:28:56,192 --> 00:28:58,069 and I opened my eyes 460 00:28:58,069 --> 00:28:59,988 and I was like, "Oh, they like it." 461 00:28:59,988 --> 00:29:02,824 OK, here we go. 462 00:29:02,824 --> 00:29:05,785 I'm gonna just reminisce for a minute here, but... 463 00:29:08,288 --> 00:29:10,165 ...it's my birthday today. 464 00:29:13,126 --> 00:29:17,964 And I'm such a sentimental old fool. 465 00:29:17,964 --> 00:29:23,136 I was recalling how when I was like 16, 466 00:29:23,136 --> 00:29:26,389 my friends and I went to... 467 00:29:26,389 --> 00:29:30,143 and I had a very interesting group of friends, 468 00:29:30,143 --> 00:29:33,855 kind of like Maynard G. Krebs type people. 469 00:29:33,855 --> 00:29:38,818 The New York Avant Garde Festival was... 470 00:29:39,694 --> 00:29:41,946 held on the ferry boat. 471 00:29:41,946 --> 00:29:45,992 So we went to see Charlotte Moormon 472 00:29:45,992 --> 00:29:48,787 play the cello topless. 473 00:29:48,787 --> 00:29:51,498 That's the kind of crowd we ran with. 474 00:29:53,166 --> 00:29:58,880 We liked a little culture with our pornography. 475 00:30:01,299 --> 00:30:04,427 So a friend of mine said, "I work for a guy over there 476 00:30:04,427 --> 00:30:09,974 and he's looking for somebody else to work there." 477 00:30:09,974 --> 00:30:11,184 It was a little store on 478 00:30:11,184 --> 00:30:13,019 St. Mark's Place called Matchless 479 00:30:13,019 --> 00:30:18,608 and it was run by a fellow named Lore Wilson. 480 00:30:18,608 --> 00:30:19,943 And it was nice. 481 00:30:19,943 --> 00:30:21,903 They had tchotchkes, you know, around the store. 482 00:30:21,903 --> 00:30:26,950 And I was sent down to the basement to work, 483 00:30:26,950 --> 00:30:33,915 which was like... very dark, dank, stonewalls... 484 00:30:33,915 --> 00:30:37,168 like it was dug out of rock... 485 00:30:37,168 --> 00:30:40,713 with moss and water dripping down. 486 00:30:40,713 --> 00:30:43,424 It was a Dickensian hell. 487 00:30:45,134 --> 00:30:49,138 And my job was to cut logos 488 00:30:49,138 --> 00:30:53,643 off of beer cans and soda cans, like Pepsi, 489 00:30:53,643 --> 00:30:59,399 and then put a fastener on it and make earrings out of them. 490 00:30:59,399 --> 00:31:04,320 It was kind of pop art jewelry. 491 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:08,157 But I noticed that along the walls there were racks 492 00:31:08,157 --> 00:31:12,161 and on the racks were these big fat lush boas. 493 00:31:12,161 --> 00:31:15,999 There was a huge sequined phallus. 494 00:31:15,999 --> 00:31:21,629 There was... all kinds of headdresses and costumes. 495 00:31:21,629 --> 00:31:24,507 And so I said, "Lore, what's the deal with this... 496 00:31:24,507 --> 00:31:28,469 cosplay stuff over here?" 497 00:31:28,469 --> 00:31:31,890 And he said, "Oh, well I'm the costume designer 498 00:31:31,890 --> 00:31:33,558 for the Ridiculous Theater 499 00:31:33,558 --> 00:31:37,854 and these are costumes for their next production." 500 00:31:37,854 --> 00:31:40,315 I think it was Whores of Babylon, 501 00:31:40,315 --> 00:31:44,193 or Conquest of the Universe, or something. 502 00:31:44,193 --> 00:31:48,239 So I said, "Oh, can I go to the rehearsal with you?" 503 00:31:48,239 --> 00:31:49,657 And he said, "Oh yes." 504 00:31:49,657 --> 00:31:53,369 And then I met the most fabulous people I think 505 00:31:53,369 --> 00:31:57,332 that I could ever have imagined at that point. 506 00:31:57,332 --> 00:32:01,127 So I said, "Lore, I'm not gonna be coming back tomorrow." 507 00:32:01,127 --> 00:32:06,132 I was like, "I'm gonna stay over here at the theater." 508 00:32:06,132 --> 00:32:11,638 And... sometimes I would do the sound and... 509 00:32:12,347 --> 00:32:13,806 sometimes I would do the lights, 510 00:32:13,806 --> 00:32:17,977 sometimes I would nod out while I was doing the sound 511 00:32:17,977 --> 00:32:20,480 and Charles Ludlam would have to like... 512 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:22,190 give me my cue like three times. 513 00:32:22,190 --> 00:32:25,276 "And then the thunder rolled." 514 00:32:26,277 --> 00:32:27,654 "The thunder rolled!" 515 00:32:27,654 --> 00:32:31,115 And then I would go. 516 00:32:31,115 --> 00:32:36,996 Sometimes I was a spear carrier and went on stage. 517 00:32:39,749 --> 00:32:41,125 It was just great. 518 00:32:41,125 --> 00:32:45,088 And one time I was sharing a dressing room table 519 00:32:45,088 --> 00:32:50,885 with Candy Darling and Black-Eyed Susan was complaining 520 00:32:50,885 --> 00:32:53,846 about her waitressing job. 521 00:32:53,846 --> 00:32:57,934 And Candy said, "I've been a lot of low things in my life, 522 00:32:57,934 --> 00:33:00,687 but I've never been no waitress." 523 00:33:05,608 --> 00:33:11,698 I went from hell to heaven, you know, it was fantastic. 524 00:33:14,867 --> 00:33:17,203 OK, baby. 525 00:33:17,829 --> 00:33:19,872 Yeah, yeah. 526 00:33:27,046 --> 00:33:28,881 Temptation to exist 527 00:33:28,881 --> 00:33:30,425 Give me another kiss 528 00:33:30,425 --> 00:33:34,178 Tell me how you love me 529 00:33:34,178 --> 00:33:36,222 A mesmerizing kiss 530 00:33:36,222 --> 00:33:37,640 That I can't resist 531 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:42,353 Say I'm the way you want me 532 00:33:42,353 --> 00:33:48,067 So I can breathe your perfume 533 00:33:49,777 --> 00:33:55,742 Dancing with you 'round the room 534 00:33:58,369 --> 00:34:02,957 Long after a masquerade 535 00:34:02,957 --> 00:34:04,751 All right, baby. 536 00:34:04,751 --> 00:34:10,590 Stripped of facade and costume 537 00:34:18,556 --> 00:34:20,308 The drag with being born 538 00:34:20,308 --> 00:34:22,477 It's really not a thorn 539 00:34:22,477 --> 00:34:26,022 Baby, it's a dagger 540 00:34:26,022 --> 00:34:28,024 Most people would deny 541 00:34:28,024 --> 00:34:29,942 Say it's a piece of pie 542 00:34:29,942 --> 00:34:34,155 To you it doesn't matter 543 00:34:34,155 --> 00:34:41,788 I hear about all the sad affairs 544 00:34:42,497 --> 00:34:47,835 Up on the heights of despair 545 00:34:51,047 --> 00:34:55,093 Someone's always perishing 546 00:34:55,093 --> 00:34:56,761 Ah... 547 00:34:58,387 --> 00:35:01,933 By the self they've assumed 548 00:35:01,933 --> 00:35:04,143 All right Ray, let's go. 549 00:35:19,992 --> 00:35:21,494 Olé! 550 00:35:21,494 --> 00:35:23,204 Yeah, baby! 551 00:35:23,996 --> 00:35:25,164 Aw yeah. 552 00:35:27,959 --> 00:35:30,002 Heh-hey! 553 00:35:33,256 --> 00:35:35,007 Temptation to exist 554 00:35:35,007 --> 00:35:36,676 Obsession to persist 555 00:35:36,676 --> 00:35:40,221 Death-defying romance 556 00:35:40,221 --> 00:35:42,223 Give me another kiss 557 00:35:42,223 --> 00:35:44,100 Show me what I miss 558 00:35:44,100 --> 00:35:48,604 Baby, since our last dance 559 00:35:48,604 --> 00:35:54,360 So I can get back in tune 560 00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:55,862 All right. 561 00:35:55,862 --> 00:36:01,701 Dancing with you 'round the room 562 00:36:04,704 --> 00:36:09,250 Long after the masquerade 563 00:36:09,250 --> 00:36:10,710 All right, baby. 564 00:36:12,211 --> 00:36:16,174 With no facade, no costume 565 00:36:38,613 --> 00:36:40,239 Here we go, boys. 566 00:37:00,635 --> 00:37:02,178 Ray Grappone, everybody, 567 00:37:02,178 --> 00:37:05,765 Ray Grappone on whistling and drums. 568 00:37:05,765 --> 00:37:08,142 Ray, I would whistle with you anywhere. 569 00:37:08,142 --> 00:37:10,228 Well, thank you, boss man. 570 00:37:10,228 --> 00:37:11,771 You know, Ray and I have been practicing 571 00:37:11,771 --> 00:37:15,274 in the shower and it's coming together really well. 572 00:37:15,274 --> 00:37:19,195 Oh, Thomas! Did he say that? 573 00:37:19,195 --> 00:37:21,948 Thomas everybody. -Thank you. 574 00:37:23,157 --> 00:37:25,159 You are a living legend. 575 00:37:25,159 --> 00:37:29,330 Oh, oh, oh... God bless you. 576 00:37:29,330 --> 00:37:31,415 If you need anything here at the Café Carlyle, 577 00:37:31,415 --> 00:37:35,628 ladies and gentlemen, just slip Thomas a "C" note 578 00:37:35,628 --> 00:37:37,296 and he'll take care of it. 579 00:37:38,589 --> 00:37:42,176 I love you, thank you. Same to you. 580 00:37:44,011 --> 00:37:46,264 What a class joint. 581 00:37:46,264 --> 00:37:48,474 Oh, this is great. 582 00:37:48,474 --> 00:37:52,436 I'm used to playing the 2:00 AM show in the Boom Boom Room. 583 00:37:52,436 --> 00:37:54,480 You know what I'm saying? 584 00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:57,149 Boys, we're in top form tonight. 585 00:37:57,149 --> 00:37:59,151 Have you noticed? 586 00:38:01,445 --> 00:38:05,449 This is The Boys in the Band Band. 587 00:38:05,449 --> 00:38:10,746 Well, have you heard of a fellow named Morrissey? 588 00:38:10,746 --> 00:38:13,165 If you haven't, I'll clue you in. 589 00:38:13,165 --> 00:38:17,712 He was the teenage president 590 00:38:17,712 --> 00:38:23,009 of the New York Dolls fan club in England. 591 00:38:24,593 --> 00:38:25,970 He's kind of a Gloomy Gertie. 592 00:38:25,970 --> 00:38:31,225 But he loved him some Dolls, you know what I'm saying? 593 00:38:31,225 --> 00:38:32,893 And still does. 594 00:38:35,479 --> 00:38:39,984 So... he called me and he said, 595 00:38:39,984 --> 00:38:45,614 "I understand you're a pretty big Maria Callas fan." 596 00:38:45,614 --> 00:38:48,284 And I said, "Yes, I happen to be 597 00:38:48,284 --> 00:38:50,536 known for that in certain circles." 598 00:38:52,496 --> 00:38:56,500 And he said, "Well, you know that film she made 599 00:38:56,500 --> 00:38:59,211 where she did a fantastic concert 600 00:38:59,211 --> 00:39:01,505 at the Royal Festival Hall?" 601 00:39:01,505 --> 00:39:04,383 I said, "Yes, by heart." 602 00:39:04,967 --> 00:39:06,510 He said, "How would you like to play the 603 00:39:06,510 --> 00:39:08,346 Royal Festival Hall?" 604 00:39:08,346 --> 00:39:09,513 I said, "Yes, I would." 605 00:39:09,513 --> 00:39:10,765 He said, "Well, all you have to do 606 00:39:10,765 --> 00:39:12,224 is get the Dolls back together." 607 00:39:13,684 --> 00:39:18,356 And I thought, Royal Festival Hall, Maria Callas. 608 00:39:21,942 --> 00:39:26,864 I combed every opium den in Chinatown 609 00:39:28,366 --> 00:39:30,951 and I pulled that band together. 610 00:39:31,869 --> 00:39:33,704 We were fantastic. 611 00:39:33,704 --> 00:39:35,956 It was a big success. 612 00:39:36,624 --> 00:39:39,919 They added a second show. 613 00:39:40,669 --> 00:39:43,464 Then... it was the beginning of the summer 614 00:39:43,464 --> 00:39:45,424 and all these festivals in Europe were 615 00:39:45,424 --> 00:39:49,512 starting where they play in the fields. 616 00:39:49,512 --> 00:39:52,098 I didn't know about these things. 617 00:39:55,393 --> 00:39:56,936 They called, "Would you play?" 618 00:39:56,936 --> 00:39:59,271 And I said, "Well, of course we would." 619 00:39:59,271 --> 00:40:01,315 We were up and running. 620 00:40:01,315 --> 00:40:03,275 We went all over the place. 621 00:40:03,275 --> 00:40:05,152 Then we went all over the world. 622 00:40:05,152 --> 00:40:08,280 Then we went all over the world three times. 623 00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:09,990 And I was like, "OK, you know, 624 00:40:09,990 --> 00:40:11,367 I've really seen enough of this world. 625 00:40:11,367 --> 00:40:13,411 I want to go home, thank you." 626 00:40:13,411 --> 00:40:15,162 I came home, my liver was like... 627 00:40:18,999 --> 00:40:22,503 So, I'm just saying this because like 628 00:40:22,503 --> 00:40:25,840 if you haven't seen me around, that's why. 629 00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:28,843 One, two, three, four... 630 00:40:30,594 --> 00:40:32,972 Oh! That was some segue. 631 00:40:35,433 --> 00:40:37,435 My baby 632 00:40:37,435 --> 00:40:41,147 I don't talk nasty about her 633 00:40:41,939 --> 00:40:46,026 You ain't even got no class 634 00:40:46,026 --> 00:40:49,989 I'm gonna kick your ass 635 00:40:49,989 --> 00:40:51,782 All 'cause my baby 636 00:40:51,782 --> 00:40:54,410 Oh, wait a minute, I fucked it up. 637 00:40:54,410 --> 00:40:57,496 I fucked it up. I fucked it up. 638 00:40:58,622 --> 00:41:01,167 It's all my fault. 639 00:41:03,502 --> 00:41:04,837 I was thinking of another song, 640 00:41:04,837 --> 00:41:07,131 I was thinking of a Jimmy Rogers song. 641 00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:38,120 Who's so fly up in the sky 642 00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:41,123 Faster than any boy could ever describe 643 00:41:41,123 --> 00:41:43,667 Who's got that love so deep 644 00:41:43,667 --> 00:41:46,795 With everything alive, I said 645 00:41:46,795 --> 00:41:49,423 Jet boys fly, jet boys gone 646 00:41:49,423 --> 00:41:51,926 Jet boys stole my baby 647 00:41:51,926 --> 00:41:55,054 Flying around New York City so high 648 00:41:55,054 --> 00:42:00,518 Like he was my baby 649 00:42:05,898 --> 00:42:08,943 This is the kind of place where no one cares 650 00:42:08,943 --> 00:42:11,195 What you're living for 651 00:42:11,195 --> 00:42:14,156 And Jet Boy's so preoccupied 652 00:42:14,156 --> 00:42:16,534 He don't care about before 653 00:42:16,534 --> 00:42:17,660 And that's why 654 00:42:17,660 --> 00:42:19,787 Jet boys fly, jet boys gone 655 00:42:19,787 --> 00:42:22,790 Jet boy stole my baby 656 00:42:22,790 --> 00:42:25,626 Flying around New York City so high 657 00:42:25,626 --> 00:42:31,423 Like he was my baby 658 00:42:31,715 --> 00:42:37,763 My baby 659 00:42:48,649 --> 00:42:50,317 Yes. -Very nice. 660 00:42:50,317 --> 00:42:51,193 Fantastic. 661 00:42:51,193 --> 00:42:53,028 I've never seen anything like it. 662 00:42:53,028 --> 00:42:54,780 Yes, you've never seen. 663 00:42:55,823 --> 00:42:58,659 Happy memories looking back? What is that? 664 00:42:58,659 --> 00:43:00,536 What feelings are you feeling? 665 00:43:00,536 --> 00:43:02,830 I feel invincible. 666 00:43:02,830 --> 00:43:04,081 Yes. 667 00:43:04,081 --> 00:43:05,624 Didn't you once get arrested 668 00:43:05,624 --> 00:43:06,917 for impersonating a woman? 669 00:43:06,917 --> 00:43:10,963 Well, it was in Memphis, as I recall, right? 670 00:43:10,963 --> 00:43:12,840 But you weren't impersonating a woman. 671 00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:14,174 I wasn't, I was kind of dressed 672 00:43:14,174 --> 00:43:15,551 like Liza Minnelli at the time. 673 00:43:15,551 --> 00:43:17,094 He invited everybody on the stage 674 00:43:17,094 --> 00:43:19,471 and he got arrested for that in Memphis, Tennessee. 675 00:43:19,471 --> 00:43:21,432 But they, they pegged it on dressing like Liza Minnelli? 676 00:43:21,432 --> 00:43:25,227 Yeah, I had to go to jail dressed like Liza Minnelli 677 00:43:25,227 --> 00:43:28,564 and Memphis jail is not Mayberry. 678 00:43:28,564 --> 00:43:30,232 It's a real jail. 679 00:43:30,232 --> 00:43:33,152 No if you went to like the thrift store or something, 680 00:43:33,152 --> 00:43:35,613 you would most likely have to buy women's clothes 681 00:43:35,613 --> 00:43:37,906 to look like a rockstar, you know? 682 00:43:37,906 --> 00:43:39,825 It's interesting that you guys, 683 00:43:39,825 --> 00:43:41,952 that you thought that you had to wear women's clothes. 684 00:43:41,952 --> 00:43:43,370 Well, we didn't have to 685 00:43:43,370 --> 00:43:45,581 but there was nothing else available. 686 00:43:45,581 --> 00:43:48,917 You know, if Granny Takes a Trip, 687 00:43:48,917 --> 00:43:50,794 had opened an outlet, 688 00:43:50,794 --> 00:43:55,174 then we could have wore men's woman's clothes. 689 00:43:55,174 --> 00:43:58,469 But we used to kind of improvise, you know. 690 00:44:03,057 --> 00:44:04,767 Come on, boys! 691 00:44:04,767 --> 00:44:06,352 Were there places where, 692 00:44:06,352 --> 00:44:07,895 or times where it felt a little more risky or dangerous? 693 00:44:07,895 --> 00:44:09,188 Well... 694 00:44:09,188 --> 00:44:11,106 Or you might get beat up? 695 00:44:11,106 --> 00:44:12,941 Yeah, I mean, the first time we played outta town 696 00:44:12,941 --> 00:44:17,112 we played at some like club in Long Island. 697 00:44:17,112 --> 00:44:19,323 It was called like The Shark or something, 698 00:44:19,323 --> 00:44:21,116 I don't remember what it was called. 699 00:44:21,116 --> 00:44:25,412 It was just like a big room, like a warehouse kind of room. 700 00:44:25,412 --> 00:44:27,289 And when we pulled up, there was all these 701 00:44:27,289 --> 00:44:30,584 like muscle cars and stuff, pack of cigarettes 702 00:44:30,584 --> 00:44:35,798 stuck in the shirt that was rolled up kind of a thing. 703 00:44:35,798 --> 00:44:40,886 And I was like, "Oh man, people still doing this?" 704 00:44:42,137 --> 00:44:46,100 And we started to play and all the guys moved 705 00:44:46,100 --> 00:44:49,812 towards the back and the girls moved towards the front. 706 00:44:49,812 --> 00:44:51,939 Somethin' happened. I don't even remember what, 707 00:44:51,939 --> 00:44:56,318 but the guys started beating the hell out of each other 708 00:44:56,318 --> 00:44:59,822 and then they opened up the doors on either side 709 00:44:59,822 --> 00:45:02,032 and pushed everybody out. Why? 710 00:45:02,032 --> 00:45:05,577 Because of the sound? The look? 711 00:45:05,577 --> 00:45:06,954 What was so bad? 712 00:45:06,954 --> 00:45:11,208 It kind of caused a lot of sexual tension, I think, 713 00:45:11,208 --> 00:45:15,546 between guys and girls. 714 00:45:17,965 --> 00:45:20,426 It was a mess. 715 00:45:26,348 --> 00:45:28,892 The thing about the Dolls, the original Dolls, was that 716 00:45:28,892 --> 00:45:32,980 we all had very kind of similar ideas about 717 00:45:32,980 --> 00:45:36,191 what it takes to be a great rockstar. 718 00:45:36,191 --> 00:45:40,529 People who are really campy, but you know, 719 00:45:40,529 --> 00:45:46,201 it's an old expression, but it's like the lie 720 00:45:46,201 --> 00:45:49,329 that tells the truth, you know? 721 00:45:49,329 --> 00:45:55,043 And it just kind of gets to the point. 722 00:45:59,673 --> 00:46:01,967 Baby, up all night 723 00:46:01,967 --> 00:46:04,970 Baby, New York City 724 00:46:04,970 --> 00:46:10,642 Baby, so so high 725 00:46:10,642 --> 00:46:11,810 Don't you know that 726 00:46:11,810 --> 00:46:19,526 Like he was my baby 727 00:46:19,526 --> 00:46:24,448 I remember during this period when we were having this 728 00:46:24,448 --> 00:46:29,912 reunion thing, the Dolls, we got a call from 729 00:46:29,912 --> 00:46:32,748 one of our myriad record companies. 730 00:46:33,999 --> 00:46:35,959 Every time we do a record, we get dumped. 731 00:46:35,959 --> 00:46:41,924 So, they said, "Would you like to go to the island 732 00:46:41,924 --> 00:46:47,054 of Kauai, Hawaii and make a record 733 00:46:47,054 --> 00:46:48,889 at the home of Todd Rundgren?" 734 00:46:48,889 --> 00:46:52,976 I said, "Yes... now? Like now? January now." 735 00:46:52,976 --> 00:46:55,020 "Yes." 736 00:46:55,020 --> 00:46:57,523 Showed up a few days early. 737 00:46:58,482 --> 00:47:01,235 Todd was kind of pissed, but fuck him. 738 00:47:06,031 --> 00:47:07,991 You know what I'm saying? 739 00:47:07,991 --> 00:47:09,827 Who does he think he is? 740 00:47:11,370 --> 00:47:12,871 So he said, "OK, what do you... 741 00:47:12,871 --> 00:47:14,164 play me what you got. What do you got?" 742 00:47:14,164 --> 00:47:16,875 I said, "We don't have nothing, man. 743 00:47:19,127 --> 00:47:21,255 We'll get right to it though." 744 00:47:21,255 --> 00:47:23,590 So, it was great. 745 00:47:23,590 --> 00:47:25,217 It was verdant. 746 00:47:25,217 --> 00:47:27,052 It was lush. 747 00:47:27,052 --> 00:47:30,264 I don't know if you saw it in Architectural Digest, 748 00:47:30,264 --> 00:47:33,934 but Todd's house, 749 00:47:33,934 --> 00:47:39,606 it looks like a Cambodian drug lord's pagoda. 750 00:47:40,774 --> 00:47:42,442 It's beautiful. 751 00:47:42,442 --> 00:47:45,320 I was like, "Man, a gentleman of my stature 752 00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:47,656 belongs right here." 753 00:47:47,656 --> 00:47:48,907 You know what I'm saying? 754 00:47:48,907 --> 00:47:51,827 We went back to the Bay of Honah Lee. 755 00:47:51,827 --> 00:47:54,746 You know who lives there, don't you? 756 00:47:54,746 --> 00:47:57,708 Puff. 757 00:47:58,250 --> 00:47:59,960 Oh, yeah. 758 00:47:59,960 --> 00:48:03,046 We hung with Puff a little bit there, baby. 759 00:48:03,046 --> 00:48:04,756 It was cool. 760 00:48:06,341 --> 00:48:08,051 Normally it rained every day. 761 00:48:08,051 --> 00:48:10,220 But intermittently, at intervals. 762 00:48:10,220 --> 00:48:14,308 Usually, it stopped raining when it was time for us 763 00:48:14,308 --> 00:48:16,602 to go in the studio and make some noise 764 00:48:16,602 --> 00:48:21,106 with the pots and pans, but it was it was still beautiful. 765 00:48:22,357 --> 00:48:24,943 Anyway, we wrote this song there. 766 00:48:25,569 --> 00:48:29,489 It's a good one. It's gonna be really good. 767 00:48:37,539 --> 00:48:43,253 Hate how the myth of separation 768 00:48:43,253 --> 00:48:47,215 Really cast a spell on me 769 00:48:47,215 --> 00:48:50,052 Never missing one occasion 770 00:48:50,052 --> 00:48:55,432 Of the infinite varieties of agony 771 00:48:55,432 --> 00:49:00,062 We pass on down our borrowed anguish 772 00:49:00,062 --> 00:49:04,274 Our blasted joys, our jubilant despair 773 00:49:04,274 --> 00:49:08,654 Leave us crying out here to languish 774 00:49:08,654 --> 00:49:13,116 Poor outcast, it's too much to bear 775 00:49:13,116 --> 00:49:16,995 Making rain 776 00:49:16,995 --> 00:49:19,539 Yeah, making rain 777 00:49:19,539 --> 00:49:22,084 It's always raining here 778 00:49:22,084 --> 00:49:26,421 Sometimes I need a little shove, yeah 779 00:49:26,421 --> 00:49:31,051 Remind me of my providence 780 00:49:31,051 --> 00:49:35,138 Learn to bear the beams of love, yeah 781 00:49:35,138 --> 00:49:39,351 Mending my conflict with circumstance 782 00:49:39,351 --> 00:49:41,979 Just making rain 783 00:49:41,979 --> 00:49:43,855 Yeah! 784 00:49:43,855 --> 00:49:46,066 Yeah, making rain 785 00:49:46,066 --> 00:49:48,360 It's always raining here 786 00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:51,029 The heart's in pain 787 00:49:52,864 --> 00:49:54,449 Crying in the rain 788 00:49:54,449 --> 00:49:57,619 Here comes that rain again 789 00:49:57,619 --> 00:50:02,958 Exacerbations, excruciations 790 00:50:02,958 --> 00:50:06,211 That's the tears of things 791 00:50:10,757 --> 00:50:12,217 Yeah, baby. 792 00:50:29,359 --> 00:50:34,114 Exacerbations, excruciations 793 00:50:34,114 --> 00:50:38,910 Well, that's the tears of things 794 00:50:38,910 --> 00:50:40,912 Very nice. 795 00:50:44,416 --> 00:50:48,462 Waiting in a subway station 796 00:50:48,462 --> 00:50:52,466 In some godforsaken neighborhood 797 00:50:52,466 --> 00:50:56,428 It's as if my blood was dreaming 798 00:50:56,428 --> 00:51:00,432 And resolved itself into melody 799 00:51:00,432 --> 00:51:04,436 Yeah, making rain 800 00:51:04,436 --> 00:51:06,480 Here comes the rain 801 00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:09,149 It's always raining here 802 00:51:09,149 --> 00:51:12,319 Our hearts in pain 803 00:51:12,319 --> 00:51:17,199 Yeah, findin' the rain 804 00:51:17,199 --> 00:51:21,119 Oh, the rain 805 00:51:21,119 --> 00:51:23,163 Yeah, the rain 806 00:51:23,163 --> 00:51:25,874 It's always raining here 807 00:51:25,874 --> 00:51:29,252 Oh, the rain 808 00:51:29,252 --> 00:51:30,629 Yay... 809 00:51:30,629 --> 00:51:35,634 Yeah, it's always raining here 810 00:51:40,138 --> 00:51:42,390 -Yeah, baby. 811 00:51:42,390 --> 00:51:44,309 Yup. 812 00:51:44,309 --> 00:51:47,104 Keith Cotton, everybody, on the piano. 813 00:51:52,567 --> 00:51:56,530 You know, when I was 18, I started hanging around at 814 00:51:56,530 --> 00:51:59,366 this place, Max's Kansas City. 815 00:51:59,366 --> 00:52:02,369 It was kind of like this place. 816 00:52:02,369 --> 00:52:04,204 Great people. 817 00:52:04,204 --> 00:52:05,956 My kind of people, you know what I'm saying? 818 00:52:05,956 --> 00:52:09,126 Like, it was probably the greatest boîte of all time 819 00:52:09,126 --> 00:52:12,129 after Café Carlyle. 820 00:52:12,129 --> 00:52:15,799 But still up there in the top two. 821 00:52:16,883 --> 00:52:20,470 It was a lot like this actually. It was a lot like this. 822 00:52:20,470 --> 00:52:24,015 Some of the greatest queens you'd ever wanna meet. 823 00:52:24,015 --> 00:52:26,017 Oh, my god. 824 00:52:27,352 --> 00:52:29,062 I remember one night... 825 00:52:30,730 --> 00:52:32,649 I believe it was... 826 00:52:32,649 --> 00:52:36,319 Penny, you'll correct me if I'm wrong. 827 00:52:36,319 --> 00:52:40,615 Because Penny Arcade was there as well this evening. 828 00:52:40,615 --> 00:52:45,328 - It was Ingrid Superstar? 829 00:52:45,328 --> 00:52:51,293 It was you, Bill Vehr and Ingrid Superstar and me. 830 00:52:51,293 --> 00:52:54,754 OK, Penny and I, my friend Bill Vehr 831 00:52:54,754 --> 00:53:02,345 from the Ridiculous Theater. The author of Turds in Hell. 832 00:53:04,389 --> 00:53:07,392 He was my best friend at the time. 833 00:53:07,392 --> 00:53:09,352 We were biffing. 834 00:53:09,352 --> 00:53:10,937 And Ingrid Superstar. 835 00:53:12,480 --> 00:53:15,692 And Ingrid said, 836 00:53:15,692 --> 00:53:17,402 "You're on a trip. You're on a trip. 837 00:53:17,402 --> 00:53:22,407 You're on... everybody here is on a trip except for me." 838 00:53:22,407 --> 00:53:27,913 And Bill very calmly said, "But, Ingrid Superstar, 839 00:53:28,705 --> 00:53:30,874 you took eight Tuinals." 840 00:53:30,874 --> 00:53:34,920 She said, "Yeah, but I'm not on a trip." 841 00:53:36,796 --> 00:53:39,549 Anyway, I found that amusing, you know. 842 00:53:39,549 --> 00:53:44,346 So much so, that I recall that after all these years. 843 00:53:45,597 --> 00:53:51,311 Something about certain turns of phrase in language 844 00:53:51,311 --> 00:53:53,813 that are peculiar to each of us. 845 00:53:53,813 --> 00:53:56,942 Written for you, Tina Louise. 846 00:53:58,860 --> 00:54:04,282 - What's my real name, Duchess? I don't know. 847 00:54:04,282 --> 00:54:06,409 You really like to destroy people, don't you? 848 00:54:06,409 --> 00:54:10,956 Everybody you would meet would be alive, 849 00:54:10,956 --> 00:54:14,960 freewheelin' and so much stuff going on. 850 00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:19,714 So that after you've come six times, six times, 851 00:54:19,714 --> 00:54:24,386 you're gonna find out that you're Superman, you see. 852 00:54:24,386 --> 00:54:26,429 There's something wrong with this. 853 00:54:26,429 --> 00:54:28,974 Charles Ludlum came to the show one night 854 00:54:28,974 --> 00:54:31,559 and he just said, "I'm having a personality crisis." 855 00:54:31,559 --> 00:54:34,729 And I thought, "That's really good." 856 00:54:34,729 --> 00:54:35,981 And I kind of remembered it, you know. 857 00:54:35,981 --> 00:54:38,108 Here, let me pull through the bottom. 858 00:54:38,108 --> 00:54:40,986 I remember when I moved into my first apartment, 859 00:54:40,986 --> 00:54:46,116 which was a seventh-floor walkup on the Hells Angels block. 860 00:54:46,116 --> 00:54:52,497 I turned on the radiator and it just like started hissing steam 861 00:54:52,497 --> 00:54:55,667 I really didn't know what to do about it. 862 00:54:55,667 --> 00:54:59,838 And so, I knocked on, I guess it was my neighbor's door, 863 00:54:59,838 --> 00:55:03,508 or two doors down and this guy came in. 864 00:55:03,508 --> 00:55:07,470 He was like a college professor, but kind of like, you know, 865 00:55:07,470 --> 00:55:10,265 a hip college professor kind of guy. 866 00:55:10,265 --> 00:55:15,061 He was very nice and very political. 867 00:55:15,061 --> 00:55:19,733 He told me that I should check out his group, 868 00:55:19,733 --> 00:55:24,195 which happened to be the Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers. 869 00:55:24,195 --> 00:55:25,488 I said, "OK." 870 00:55:25,488 --> 00:55:27,198 And he kind of like would encourage me 871 00:55:27,198 --> 00:55:28,700 because apparently, 872 00:55:28,700 --> 00:55:34,039 I had the stuff to rally the street if something went down, 873 00:55:34,789 --> 00:55:37,667 so I used to stay on the corner, 874 00:55:37,667 --> 00:55:39,419 like go climb up a lamppost and say, 875 00:55:39,419 --> 00:55:41,671 "We're not gonna let these cops, 876 00:55:41,671 --> 00:55:43,340 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah." 877 00:55:43,340 --> 00:55:45,550 And everybody'd be like, "No, no." 878 00:55:45,550 --> 00:55:48,845 And then there'd be like some kind of a... 879 00:55:51,431 --> 00:55:53,975 skirmish or whatever. 880 00:55:53,975 --> 00:55:58,146 And my mother said to me about them, she said, 881 00:55:58,146 --> 00:56:01,232 "You know what you are? You're a commie dupe." 882 00:56:03,485 --> 00:56:06,404 I had to think like, "Yeah, maybe." 883 00:56:06,404 --> 00:56:07,781 Maybe I was. 884 00:56:07,781 --> 00:56:11,451 There were so many characters on St. Mark's Place in, 885 00:56:11,451 --> 00:56:13,870 you know, '69,'70. 886 00:56:13,870 --> 00:56:18,458 I used to really like Abbie Hoffman a lot when I was a kid. 887 00:56:18,458 --> 00:56:20,085 Did you meet him first? 888 00:56:20,085 --> 00:56:23,505 Yeah, I used to see him all the time. 889 00:56:23,505 --> 00:56:25,090 He was very personable. 890 00:56:25,090 --> 00:56:27,801 We planted a tree in the middle of St. Mark's Place. 891 00:56:27,801 --> 00:56:29,135 He was the instigator of that. 892 00:56:29,135 --> 00:56:32,389 The ruse of it was that we need more trees 893 00:56:32,389 --> 00:56:33,973 on St. Mark's Place. 894 00:56:33,973 --> 00:56:35,683 He said, "Where're we gonna get a tree?" 895 00:56:35,683 --> 00:56:39,562 I said, "They got trees all over Staten Island." 896 00:56:39,562 --> 00:56:40,897 He got a van, came to Staten Island, 897 00:56:40,897 --> 00:56:42,982 dug up a tree like in the Greenbelt 898 00:56:42,982 --> 00:56:45,068 or something where there's a million trees. 899 00:56:45,068 --> 00:56:47,153 And did you put it in like a bucket 900 00:56:47,153 --> 00:56:48,363 or did you-- 901 00:56:48,363 --> 00:56:50,532 No, I think they just put a mound of dirt around it, 902 00:56:50,532 --> 00:56:52,283 as I recall. 903 00:56:52,283 --> 00:56:53,618 They didn't expect it to stay. 904 00:56:53,618 --> 00:56:55,662 It was in the middle of the street. 905 00:56:55,662 --> 00:56:59,582 Like they just wanted to like do something. 906 00:56:59,582 --> 00:57:01,084 We went to Lincoln Center. 907 00:57:01,084 --> 00:57:03,795 It might have been the opening of Lincoln Center. 908 00:57:03,795 --> 00:57:07,048 You know, those like industrial boxes of Tide 909 00:57:07,048 --> 00:57:10,468 like they have at a laundromat so you can buy 910 00:57:10,468 --> 00:57:11,761 like a cupful or whatever? 911 00:57:11,761 --> 00:57:15,306 They dumped one of those in the fountain. 912 00:57:15,306 --> 00:57:18,768 And it just like started, it was like a comedy movie. 913 00:57:18,768 --> 00:57:22,814 It just like started foaming up and all these people 914 00:57:22,814 --> 00:57:25,316 who were like, you know... 915 00:57:26,443 --> 00:57:28,194 uh... 916 00:57:28,194 --> 00:57:31,990 society contributors to Lincoln Center, right? 917 00:57:31,990 --> 00:57:33,658 They were all done up to the nines 918 00:57:33,658 --> 00:57:36,995 and they were all like slipping in the foam. 919 00:57:36,995 --> 00:57:39,998 And it was great. It was so beautiful. 920 00:57:39,998 --> 00:57:43,668 There was a lot of liberation movements 921 00:57:43,668 --> 00:57:45,545 in the East Village in those days. 922 00:57:45,545 --> 00:57:47,797 They were all kind of interesting, so... 923 00:57:47,797 --> 00:57:50,842 But the Yippies were the most ridiculous, you know, 924 00:57:50,842 --> 00:57:53,887 so that appealed to me 925 00:57:53,887 --> 00:57:57,348 and Charles Ludlam was ridiculous 926 00:57:57,348 --> 00:57:59,642 and that appealed to me. 927 00:57:59,642 --> 00:58:04,772 Ridiculousness is something that I've always kind of, 928 00:58:04,772 --> 00:58:07,734 especially, if it's really intelligent ridiculousness 929 00:58:07,734 --> 00:58:13,615 it's kind of appealing to me. 930 00:58:40,099 --> 00:58:43,144 We've really expanded all definitions 931 00:58:43,144 --> 00:58:46,564 and all mediums to where that you have to forget 932 00:58:46,564 --> 00:58:50,151 those definitions that you learned in school. 933 00:58:50,151 --> 00:58:52,153 But you got to forget that, folks. 934 00:58:52,153 --> 00:58:54,739 So, you got to forget the definition of art, 935 00:58:54,739 --> 00:58:58,076 the definition of music, the definition of video art now. 936 00:58:58,076 --> 00:59:03,206 All these things are being expanded every single day. 937 00:59:03,206 --> 00:59:07,669 Music does not aim at sound itself, 938 00:59:07,669 --> 00:59:11,047 but is in a complex conception. 939 00:59:11,047 --> 00:59:13,299 First, forget about sounds. 940 00:59:13,299 --> 00:59:15,260 Sounds must be free. 941 00:59:20,890 --> 00:59:23,685 The goal of today's Mansion of Fun show 942 00:59:23,685 --> 00:59:28,273 is to live with godlike composure 943 00:59:28,273 --> 00:59:34,654 on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard 944 00:59:34,654 --> 00:59:37,657 without being torn to pieces. 945 01:01:34,691 --> 01:01:37,610 Hey, Leroy! 946 01:01:37,610 --> 01:01:39,862 What? Your mama. 947 01:01:39,862 --> 01:01:41,322 She's calling you, man. 948 01:01:41,322 --> 01:01:43,157 949 01:01:54,127 --> 01:01:58,589 You know, when I was a kid, I lived on East Sixth Street. 950 01:02:01,134 --> 01:02:02,760 Before that, I lived on Third Street 951 01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:04,262 on the Hells Angels block. 952 01:02:04,262 --> 01:02:07,724 Not my cup of tea. 953 01:02:07,724 --> 01:02:08,933 I mean, it was all right. 954 01:02:08,933 --> 01:02:13,187 But... one day there was a knock at the door, 955 01:02:13,187 --> 01:02:16,149 which was in the kitchen, 956 01:02:16,149 --> 01:02:20,069 which is also where the bathtub was located. 957 01:02:20,069 --> 01:02:26,325 I opened the door and there stood this big viking 958 01:02:26,325 --> 01:02:33,875 who was wearing a tutu and paratrooper boots 959 01:02:34,208 --> 01:02:38,004 and some like ripped yellow tights. 960 01:02:38,004 --> 01:02:40,590 Next to him was this little Colombian guy. 961 01:02:40,590 --> 01:02:44,677 He was kind of like cleaning his nails with a stiletto. 962 01:02:44,677 --> 01:02:48,806 But still I thought, "I gotta watch out for this big guy." 963 01:02:48,806 --> 01:02:51,976 Turned out though it was the little guy 964 01:02:51,976 --> 01:02:53,352 I had to watch out for. 965 01:02:53,352 --> 01:02:57,982 Anyway, it was Arthur Kane and Billy Murcia. 966 01:02:57,982 --> 01:03:01,611 -And... Thank you. 967 01:03:01,611 --> 01:03:06,365 Arthur said to me, "I understand you're a singer." 968 01:03:07,825 --> 01:03:09,160 I didn't really expect that voice, 969 01:03:09,160 --> 01:03:15,625 you know, to come out of this Cossack. 970 01:03:16,793 --> 01:03:20,213 I said, "Yeah, I like to sing." 971 01:03:20,213 --> 01:03:23,132 He said, "Well, we're trying to start a band 972 01:03:23,132 --> 01:03:25,301 and we need a singer." 973 01:03:25,301 --> 01:03:27,178 And I said, "OK, I'm in." 974 01:03:27,178 --> 01:03:30,264 I mean, you know, I made snap decisions in those days. 975 01:03:30,264 --> 01:03:33,100 You know, like later on in life you start thinking, 976 01:03:33,100 --> 01:03:35,853 "Well, what's this gonna be like in six months?" 977 01:03:36,604 --> 01:03:37,814 You know? 978 01:03:37,814 --> 01:03:39,357 This is like, at that point like, 979 01:03:39,357 --> 01:03:43,194 "What's this going to be like" let me do the arithmetics. 980 01:03:43,194 --> 01:03:45,196 Fifty years later, you're still like, 981 01:03:45,196 --> 01:03:47,698 "Oh my God, what was that?" 982 01:03:50,451 --> 01:03:52,537 So we went over to 10th Street 983 01:03:52,537 --> 01:03:57,208 where Johnny Thunders had a very nice apartment. 984 01:03:57,208 --> 01:04:02,129 The bathtub was in the bathroom, you know what I'm saying? 985 01:04:02,129 --> 01:04:04,549 Couple other rooms. 986 01:04:04,549 --> 01:04:06,968 I think his mother was paying his rent. 987 01:04:06,968 --> 01:04:10,388 I mean, I'm not sure, OK? 988 01:04:10,388 --> 01:04:13,432 -So don't quote me on that. 989 01:04:14,308 --> 01:04:16,018 New York Dolls guitarist Johnny Thunders 990 01:04:16,018 --> 01:04:17,812 was found dead on the floor of a guest house 991 01:04:17,812 --> 01:04:20,106 in the French Quarter of New Orleans on Tuesday afternoon. 992 01:04:20,106 --> 01:04:21,607 The cause of death hasn't yet been determined. 993 01:04:21,607 --> 01:04:24,235 But Thunders, whose given name was John Genzale, 994 01:04:24,235 --> 01:04:25,570 had a longtime drug habit. 995 01:04:25,570 --> 01:04:29,407 Our will is hard 996 01:04:29,407 --> 01:04:33,035 Man, it's so hard 997 01:04:33,035 --> 01:04:36,330 And it's a lonely planet joy 998 01:04:36,330 --> 01:04:40,293 When you bring a song from your other boy 999 01:04:40,293 --> 01:04:44,714 That's when I'm a lonely planet boy 1000 01:04:44,714 --> 01:04:47,884 And I'm tryin' 1001 01:04:47,884 --> 01:04:51,762 For your love 1002 01:04:51,762 --> 01:04:57,226 Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah 1003 01:04:57,226 --> 01:04:59,312 You pick me up 1004 01:04:59,312 --> 01:05:03,858 You're out drivin' in your car 1005 01:05:03,858 --> 01:05:07,153 I tell you where I'm going 1006 01:05:07,153 --> 01:05:08,988 You're always telling me 1007 01:05:08,988 --> 01:05:11,282 It's too far 1008 01:05:11,282 --> 01:05:15,786 But how could you be drivin' 1009 01:05:15,786 --> 01:05:18,289 Down by my home 1010 01:05:18,289 --> 01:05:20,124 When you know 1011 01:05:20,124 --> 01:05:22,960 I ain't got one 1012 01:05:22,960 --> 01:05:24,420 And 1013 01:05:24,420 --> 01:05:29,175 I'm so all alone 1014 01:05:29,175 --> 01:05:32,136 Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah 1015 01:05:32,136 --> 01:05:33,304 All right. 1016 01:05:33,304 --> 01:05:36,265 Well, it's a lonely planet joy 1017 01:05:36,265 --> 01:05:40,478 When you bring the song from your other boys 1018 01:05:40,478 --> 01:05:48,486 That's when I'm a lonely planet boy and I'm tryin' 1019 01:05:48,819 --> 01:05:51,364 Yeah, cryin' 1020 01:05:51,364 --> 01:05:54,867 Baby for your love 1021 01:05:54,867 --> 01:05:59,163 Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah 1022 01:06:08,089 --> 01:06:09,966 Oh, yeah! 1023 01:06:32,071 --> 01:06:36,617 Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah 1024 01:06:36,617 --> 01:06:39,537 Can't you hear me callin' 1025 01:06:39,537 --> 01:06:44,542 When I'm a thousand miles away 1026 01:06:44,542 --> 01:06:46,293 I don't wanna stay 1027 01:06:46,293 --> 01:06:50,756 I'm thinking of words I gotta say 1028 01:06:50,756 --> 01:06:55,094 'Cause I wanna be there with you 1029 01:06:55,094 --> 01:06:58,472 I know what to bring you 1030 01:06:58,472 --> 01:06:59,849 I remember 1031 01:06:59,849 --> 01:07:02,101 From the days 1032 01:07:02,101 --> 01:07:05,354 I got over 1033 01:07:05,354 --> 01:07:08,315 Everything 1034 01:07:08,315 --> 01:07:12,611 Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah 1035 01:07:12,611 --> 01:07:16,365 Well, it's a lonely planet joy 1036 01:07:16,365 --> 01:07:20,286 When you bring a song from your other boys 1037 01:07:20,286 --> 01:07:24,081 That's when I'm a lonely planet boy 1038 01:07:24,081 --> 01:07:27,877 And I'm tryin' 1039 01:07:27,877 --> 01:07:30,296 Yeah, I'm cryin' 1040 01:07:30,296 --> 01:07:34,383 Oh, can't you see that I'm dyin' 1041 01:07:34,383 --> 01:07:38,137 Baby, for your love 1042 01:07:38,137 --> 01:07:42,558 Whoa, whoa whoa, yeah 1043 01:07:42,558 --> 01:07:45,644 Whoa, whoa, yeah 1044 01:07:45,644 --> 01:07:50,107 Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah 1045 01:08:04,955 --> 01:08:09,794 Let me tell you about the time I met Mara, all right? 1046 01:08:09,794 --> 01:08:14,173 My life was going along kind of like Groundhog Day. 1047 01:08:14,173 --> 01:08:16,717 I didn't really see much reason to continue 1048 01:08:16,717 --> 01:08:20,304 and then I met Mara and oh my God, you know? 1049 01:08:21,931 --> 01:08:23,307 I don't believe it. 1050 01:08:23,307 --> 01:08:26,977 I don't believe it. 1051 01:08:26,977 --> 01:08:28,813 I love you, Mara. 1052 01:08:28,813 --> 01:08:30,689 I love you. 1053 01:08:30,689 --> 01:08:34,819 Always will. 1054 01:08:38,114 --> 01:08:39,782 It was a scandal. 1055 01:08:39,782 --> 01:08:40,407 Oh my God. 1056 01:08:40,407 --> 01:08:43,160 But... so worth it. 1057 01:08:47,373 --> 01:08:49,375 So anyway, I wrote this... 1058 01:08:49,375 --> 01:08:52,878 I wrote this lyric... 1059 01:08:52,878 --> 01:08:54,171 for my love. 1060 01:09:01,137 --> 01:09:03,472 Been cravin' more life 1061 01:09:03,472 --> 01:09:05,683 And more love 1062 01:09:05,683 --> 01:09:07,601 That lives in the soul 1063 01:09:07,601 --> 01:09:09,645 Of my heart 1064 01:09:09,645 --> 01:09:11,981 I don't wanna be 1065 01:09:11,981 --> 01:09:13,566 No artist 1066 01:09:13,566 --> 01:09:15,985 I'm a dancin', singin' 1067 01:09:15,985 --> 01:09:18,237 A work of art 1068 01:09:18,237 --> 01:09:19,738 Yeah, you lit my heart 1069 01:09:19,738 --> 01:09:25,870 With fiery aggression and you showed me 1070 01:09:26,287 --> 01:09:28,455 This feeling of love 1071 01:09:28,455 --> 01:09:32,376 Of sex and affection that ya owed me 1072 01:09:34,962 --> 01:09:37,715 Danger 1073 01:09:37,715 --> 01:09:43,012 And I ain't scared 1074 01:09:43,012 --> 01:09:45,639 In danger 1075 01:09:45,639 --> 01:09:50,269 I found the splendor there 1076 01:09:50,269 --> 01:09:54,940 I was dancin' on a flamin' pit 1077 01:09:54,940 --> 01:09:56,108 Dancing 1078 01:09:56,108 --> 01:09:58,485 We are creating it 1079 01:09:58,485 --> 01:10:00,196 We're dancing 1080 01:10:00,196 --> 01:10:02,156 Right on the lip 1081 01:10:02,156 --> 01:10:05,743 Of a volcano 1082 01:10:12,166 --> 01:10:16,462 Nature with its true voice cries out undissembled 1083 01:10:16,462 --> 01:10:19,423 Be as I am 1084 01:10:19,423 --> 01:10:25,930 Revealing its wildest most generous incarnation 1085 01:10:28,057 --> 01:10:30,726 In danger 1086 01:10:30,726 --> 01:10:35,648 Devil may care 1087 01:10:35,648 --> 01:10:38,317 Danger 1088 01:10:38,317 --> 01:10:43,113 The fire's everywhere 1089 01:10:43,113 --> 01:10:44,782 'Cause we're dancing 1090 01:10:44,782 --> 01:10:46,742 Atop a flamin' pit 1091 01:10:46,742 --> 01:10:48,494 We're dancing 1092 01:10:48,494 --> 01:10:50,621 We are creating it 1093 01:10:50,621 --> 01:10:52,748 We're dancing 1094 01:10:52,748 --> 01:10:54,541 Right on the lip 1095 01:10:54,541 --> 01:10:58,754 Of a volcano 1096 01:10:58,754 --> 01:11:01,674 Oh yeah. All right. 1097 01:11:02,841 --> 01:11:07,137 Yeah, man. All right, man. 1098 01:11:09,473 --> 01:11:11,308 Oh, yeah! 1099 01:11:18,732 --> 01:11:22,194 Oh! 1100 01:11:27,783 --> 01:11:31,578 In the center of action of my psyche's need for love 1101 01:11:31,578 --> 01:11:35,291 I want liberation and joy 1102 01:11:35,291 --> 01:11:38,377 In a paroxysm of intoxication 1103 01:11:38,377 --> 01:11:43,257 Inspiration ain't no way to be coy 1104 01:11:43,257 --> 01:11:45,634 In danger 1105 01:11:45,634 --> 01:11:48,929 A blazing glare 1106 01:11:48,929 --> 01:11:51,098 Oh, yes! 1107 01:11:51,098 --> 01:11:53,642 In danger 1108 01:11:53,642 --> 01:11:58,230 I found the splendor there 1109 01:11:58,230 --> 01:11:59,398 Oh, yeah 1110 01:11:59,398 --> 01:12:02,651 Dancin' atop flamin' pit 1111 01:12:02,651 --> 01:12:05,863 Dancin', we're creating it 1112 01:12:05,863 --> 01:12:10,075 We're dancin' right on the lip 1113 01:12:10,075 --> 01:12:14,246 Of a volcano 1114 01:12:14,246 --> 01:12:17,624 Volcano 1115 01:12:17,624 --> 01:12:23,380 A volcano 1116 01:12:25,674 --> 01:12:29,428 Thrown in the dance with the mystics 1117 01:12:29,428 --> 01:12:33,891 It's burnin' us up with his music 1118 01:12:33,891 --> 01:12:37,644 It's sensualistic 1119 01:12:37,644 --> 01:12:41,774 It's ritual 1120 01:12:41,774 --> 01:12:45,444 It's polytheistic 1121 01:12:48,447 --> 01:12:51,450 -Ye-heh-heh. 1122 01:13:00,751 --> 01:13:02,044 Whoa. 1123 01:13:12,846 --> 01:13:17,810 Oh, smokestack lightning 1124 01:13:17,810 --> 01:13:21,563 Shinin' just like gold 1125 01:13:21,563 --> 01:13:27,444 Oh, don't you hear me cryin' 1126 01:13:28,278 --> 01:13:39,957 A-whoo-hoo 1127 01:13:39,957 --> 01:13:43,794 Oh, stop your tryin' 1128 01:13:43,794 --> 01:13:47,089 Let a poor boy ride 1129 01:13:47,089 --> 01:13:53,720 Oh, don't you hear me cryin' 1130 01:13:53,720 --> 01:14:04,898 A-whoo-hoo 1131 01:14:04,898 --> 01:14:09,945 A lot of these are from when I sang with Hubert. 1132 01:14:09,945 --> 01:14:12,072 A lot of Howlin' Wolf 1133 01:14:12,072 --> 01:14:16,827 Wang-Dang-Doodle and things of that nature. 1134 01:14:16,827 --> 01:14:23,041 Oh, here's Blind Willie McTell and his wife. 1135 01:14:23,041 --> 01:14:25,919 Apparently he shot his wife. He only winged her. 1136 01:14:25,919 --> 01:14:29,631 But from what they say, it may be apocryphal, 1137 01:14:29,631 --> 01:14:33,051 but they say that he stood in the middle of the room 1138 01:14:33,051 --> 01:14:38,974 and just, like, swung around rapid firing... 1139 01:14:38,974 --> 01:14:41,435 like a ballet dancer. 1140 01:14:41,435 --> 01:14:42,728 What's this one? 1141 01:14:42,728 --> 01:14:44,396 I don't know. 1142 01:14:44,396 --> 01:14:46,732 This is... 1143 01:14:46,732 --> 01:14:50,819 It says it's Buster's big book, so... 1144 01:14:50,819 --> 01:14:52,738 let's see. 1145 01:14:52,738 --> 01:14:55,032 Explain to me your lyric book. 1146 01:14:55,032 --> 01:14:56,575 It's not just lyrics in there. 1147 01:14:56,575 --> 01:14:58,535 There's something else in there. 1148 01:14:58,535 --> 01:15:01,497 What's in that book that I used for the show? 1149 01:15:01,497 --> 01:15:02,789 Uh-huh. 1150 01:15:02,789 --> 01:15:05,709 There's a lot of, like, devotional art in there. 1151 01:15:05,709 --> 01:15:09,838 There's millions of Hindu gods, you know. 1152 01:15:09,838 --> 01:15:11,673 You ever go to, like, Central Park 1153 01:15:11,673 --> 01:15:14,051 and there'll be a lot of, like, Cuban guys and Puerto-Ricans 1154 01:15:14,051 --> 01:15:18,764 and they're all playing congas and things like that. 1155 01:15:18,764 --> 01:15:20,641 Do they still have that there? 1156 01:15:20,641 --> 01:15:22,017 Yeah. 1157 01:15:22,017 --> 01:15:26,939 You know those guys that are into, like, the Orishas? 1158 01:15:26,939 --> 01:15:30,234 So, like, say you and me are playing. 1159 01:15:30,234 --> 01:15:33,320 'Cause you know, the rumbas all have, you know, like... 1160 01:15:33,320 --> 01:15:38,617 saints that each beat is dedicated to or whatever. 1161 01:15:38,617 --> 01:15:40,160 So they kind of just, like, 1162 01:15:40,160 --> 01:15:42,663 beam it up and then it comes back down to you. 1163 01:15:42,663 --> 01:15:45,666 It's not like we're playing, like, at each other. 1164 01:15:45,666 --> 01:15:47,543 So when you'll turn a page, 1165 01:15:47,543 --> 01:15:49,169 there'll be a different image there 1166 01:15:49,169 --> 01:15:52,089 that's associated somehow with that song. 1167 01:15:52,089 --> 01:15:53,757 It could be associated with that song. 1168 01:15:53,757 --> 01:15:57,177 It's just something that reminds me of what I'm there for, 1169 01:15:57,177 --> 01:15:58,387 you know. 1170 01:15:58,387 --> 01:16:00,264 Because it makes it a lot more fun for me, you know. 1171 01:16:00,264 --> 01:16:03,058 Music to me is, you know, they say playing music, you know. 1172 01:16:03,058 --> 01:16:05,644 They don't say like working music. 1173 01:16:05,644 --> 01:16:07,229 You're supposed to be playing. 1174 01:16:07,229 --> 01:16:08,730 So... 1175 01:16:08,730 --> 01:16:13,569 If I don't do it as some kind of a devotional thing, 1176 01:16:13,569 --> 01:16:16,071 it's gonna become a grind for me. 1177 01:16:29,209 --> 01:16:32,337 You're in the Mansion Of Fun 1178 01:16:32,337 --> 01:16:34,881 with Sri Rama, 1179 01:16:34,881 --> 01:16:37,551 Poindexter, Johansen. 1180 01:16:37,551 --> 01:16:38,927 Where... 1181 01:16:38,927 --> 01:16:40,887 aestheticism 1182 01:16:40,887 --> 01:16:43,515 and eroticism... 1183 01:16:43,515 --> 01:16:47,436 are two sides of the same coin. 1184 01:16:47,436 --> 01:16:53,066 And unwillingness to see this exacts a terrible price 1185 01:16:53,066 --> 01:16:55,027 in prudery, misery 1186 01:16:55,027 --> 01:16:58,822 and warped lives. 1187 01:16:58,822 --> 01:17:00,240 I'm just a bad boy 1188 01:17:00,240 --> 01:17:03,368 La la la la la la la la la la la la 1189 01:17:03,368 --> 01:17:08,206 La la la la la la la la la la la 1190 01:17:08,206 --> 01:17:14,713 All dressed up in fancy clothes 1191 01:17:14,713 --> 01:17:18,800 I'm taking the trouble 1192 01:17:18,800 --> 01:17:22,846 To blow my bubble 1193 01:17:22,846 --> 01:17:25,474 Away 1194 01:17:29,978 --> 01:17:31,730 Bad boy 1195 01:17:31,730 --> 01:17:34,399 La la la la la la la la la la la la 1196 01:17:34,399 --> 01:17:40,030 La la la la la la la la la la la 1197 01:17:40,030 --> 01:17:45,869 Life is just a bowl of cherries 1198 01:17:45,869 --> 01:17:49,790 I'm taking the trouble 1199 01:17:49,790 --> 01:17:55,253 To turn my night into day 1200 01:17:58,840 --> 01:18:01,677 You, were in the vanguard of punk, new wave, 1201 01:18:01,677 --> 01:18:02,969 with the New York Dolls. 1202 01:18:02,969 --> 01:18:04,846 Legendary group. 1203 01:18:04,846 --> 01:18:07,432 Now, what made you completely abandon 1204 01:18:07,432 --> 01:18:10,769 that kind of rock and roll that you were doing? 1205 01:18:10,769 --> 01:18:13,230 I understand in Cleveland you just decided 1206 01:18:13,230 --> 01:18:15,440 that you had enough of it. 1207 01:18:15,440 --> 01:18:17,609 Well, I'll tell you. 1208 01:18:19,236 --> 01:18:21,279 Contrary to popular belief, you know, 1209 01:18:21,279 --> 01:18:22,906 because the Dolls were such, like, 1210 01:18:22,906 --> 01:18:27,786 a shock kind of troop battalion that... 1211 01:18:27,786 --> 01:18:29,162 I think a lot of people didn't realize that 1212 01:18:29,162 --> 01:18:31,540 the Dolls music was... 1213 01:18:33,041 --> 01:18:34,376 built like basically, you know, 1214 01:18:34,376 --> 01:18:36,837 the roots of the thing was really rhythm and blues. 1215 01:18:36,837 --> 01:18:38,714 And it was, like, a classic rock and roll band. 1216 01:18:38,714 --> 01:18:40,090 What makes a classic rock and roll band? 1217 01:18:40,090 --> 01:18:42,759 Big Fat Mamas Are Back In Style. 1218 01:18:42,759 --> 01:18:44,970 And... uh Lavender Coffin? 1219 01:18:44,970 --> 01:18:47,806 Lavender... All I want is a lavender coffin 1220 01:18:47,806 --> 01:18:51,184 and what I call pre-haze cold rock and roll. 1221 01:18:51,184 --> 01:18:55,355 How did Buster Poindexter become? 1222 01:18:55,355 --> 01:18:58,775 Well, basically, after the Dolls, you know 1223 01:18:58,775 --> 01:19:01,361 I did the David Johansen show for many years. 1224 01:19:01,361 --> 01:19:05,073 I was on the road for like 250 nights a year. 1225 01:19:05,073 --> 01:19:06,450 And I had a lot of fun. 1226 01:19:06,450 --> 01:19:08,201 But after a while, you know, you want to come back home 1227 01:19:08,201 --> 01:19:10,078 you want to kind of establish relationships 1228 01:19:10,078 --> 01:19:11,329 and things like that. 1229 01:19:11,329 --> 01:19:13,123 So I came up with this brilliant idea 1230 01:19:13,123 --> 01:19:14,875 to come up with an act that could only play in New York. 1231 01:19:14,875 --> 01:19:18,837 There was a club in my neighborhood called Tramps 1232 01:19:18,837 --> 01:19:21,965 and I thought I was gonna do four Mondays there 1233 01:19:21,965 --> 01:19:23,383 because, it was a Blues bar 1234 01:19:23,383 --> 01:19:26,011 but they didn't have acts on Mondays. 1235 01:19:26,011 --> 01:19:28,180 And so I thought I'd do, well, since there's nobody there 1236 01:19:28,180 --> 01:19:30,098 on Monday, I'd try this little cabaret thing 1237 01:19:30,098 --> 01:19:33,685 with, like, three guys as a backup band. 1238 01:19:33,685 --> 01:19:35,145 And I started doing it and 1239 01:19:35,145 --> 01:19:38,440 it caught on and all of a sudden I was making my nut, 1240 01:19:38,440 --> 01:19:39,357 so to speak. 1241 01:19:39,357 --> 01:19:41,109 And I wasn't going on the road. 1242 01:19:41,109 --> 01:19:44,613 I wanted to do a show that would entertain my peers, 1243 01:19:44,613 --> 01:19:45,864 so to speak. 1244 01:19:45,864 --> 01:19:47,616 Now your peers, you're what, 36 now, about? 1245 01:19:47,616 --> 01:19:48,784 I'm 37. 1246 01:19:48,784 --> 01:19:49,951 Thirty-seven now. -For a few more minutes. 1247 01:19:49,951 --> 01:19:51,453 Really inching up there. 1248 01:19:51,453 --> 01:19:54,039 "Inching up there," to where? -Well, I don't know. 1249 01:19:54,039 --> 01:19:55,499 To the end. -The next thing you'll be 40. 1250 01:19:55,499 --> 01:19:57,667 This is the big one. Right. 1251 01:20:00,962 --> 01:20:04,216 OK, there's two Yiddish hipsters. 1252 01:20:04,216 --> 01:20:05,842 It's a short joke. 1253 01:20:05,842 --> 01:20:11,223 Two Yiddish hipsters sitting on a park bench 1254 01:20:11,223 --> 01:20:13,809 and one of them says 1255 01:20:13,809 --> 01:20:15,435 "Oy." 1256 01:20:15,435 --> 01:20:19,064 And the other one says, "I'm hip." 1257 01:20:19,064 --> 01:20:20,190 OK? 1258 01:20:20,190 --> 01:20:23,068 Do you ever write down, not jokes, 1259 01:20:23,068 --> 01:20:25,821 but, like, banter and things you wanna say? 1260 01:20:25,821 --> 01:20:27,030 Banter? 1261 01:20:27,030 --> 01:20:30,700 Like things you wanna say between songs that aren't jokes? 1262 01:20:30,700 --> 01:20:32,077 You mean that aren't funny? 1263 01:20:32,077 --> 01:20:34,371 Yeah. -No. 1264 01:20:34,704 --> 01:20:36,081 No. 1265 01:20:36,081 --> 01:20:41,169 I mean, you know, if I'm playing in, like, a big place, 1266 01:20:41,169 --> 01:20:44,005 I'm not, like, telling jokes because... 1267 01:20:44,005 --> 01:20:48,927 The David Johansen band went on this whole tour 1268 01:20:48,927 --> 01:20:53,098 with Pat Benatar and you know, she's great. 1269 01:20:53,098 --> 01:20:55,851 She can really belt out a tune. 1270 01:20:55,851 --> 01:20:57,727 But... 1271 01:20:57,727 --> 01:20:59,145 they would kinda look at me 1272 01:20:59,145 --> 01:21:02,649 like I was a bug a lot of the times in those... 1273 01:21:02,649 --> 01:21:05,902 hockey rinks, you know? 1274 01:21:05,902 --> 01:21:08,822 Like you were a little guy 1275 01:21:08,822 --> 01:21:10,907 or like you were a freak or... 1276 01:21:10,907 --> 01:21:13,535 Like a bug. 1277 01:21:13,535 --> 01:21:16,621 And what kind of songs can Buster sing 1278 01:21:16,621 --> 01:21:18,707 that you can't sing? 1279 01:21:19,541 --> 01:21:20,876 Uh... 1280 01:21:23,837 --> 01:21:26,715 Everything. I mean, you know, 1281 01:21:26,715 --> 01:21:33,305 I can sing, you know, a lot of kinds of songs, but... 1282 01:21:33,305 --> 01:21:35,348 I think I already went through this with you. 1283 01:21:35,348 --> 01:21:40,103 Like, Buster is just like, I can do anything I want. 1284 01:21:40,103 --> 01:21:41,646 People aren't... 1285 01:21:43,315 --> 01:21:45,025 expecting something else. 1286 01:21:45,025 --> 01:21:49,738 They come because it's unexpected, 1287 01:21:49,738 --> 01:21:52,198 what I'm gonna do, you know? 1288 01:21:52,198 --> 01:21:56,953 And they kind of trust that it's gonna be good 1289 01:21:56,953 --> 01:21:59,789 and it's always good. What can I say? 1290 01:22:01,458 --> 01:22:04,961 I woke up late one day 1291 01:22:04,961 --> 01:22:08,298 And turned on my TV 1292 01:22:08,298 --> 01:22:12,469 They said they'd take it all 1293 01:22:12,469 --> 01:22:15,013 When I was asleep 1294 01:22:15,013 --> 01:22:16,640 Well they were bringing down doors 1295 01:22:16,640 --> 01:22:19,476 They were purging and burning 1296 01:22:19,476 --> 01:22:22,145 People just like me 1297 01:22:22,145 --> 01:22:26,232 Well I fixed a drink, I switched around the channel 1298 01:22:26,232 --> 01:22:29,361 But that was all I could see 1299 01:22:29,361 --> 01:22:31,196 Well it's such a boring feeling 1300 01:22:31,196 --> 01:22:33,823 When you find that you're fallin' to a 1301 01:22:33,823 --> 01:22:36,534 Totalitarian state 1302 01:22:36,534 --> 01:22:38,828 Well, I know what's left 1303 01:22:38,828 --> 01:22:40,455 It don't seem right 1304 01:22:40,455 --> 01:22:43,667 You just don't feel so great 1305 01:22:43,667 --> 01:22:45,377 Well it seems we're all camping 1306 01:22:45,377 --> 01:22:48,046 And the Mexicans was laughing 1307 01:22:48,046 --> 01:22:50,674 Down at the detention center 1308 01:22:50,674 --> 01:22:54,970 They didn't seem to care that they were there 1309 01:22:54,970 --> 01:22:58,223 I couldn't find one dissenter 1310 01:22:58,223 --> 01:23:00,225 I didn't feel communal 1311 01:23:00,225 --> 01:23:02,268 I was incommunicado 1312 01:23:02,268 --> 01:23:05,939 I couldn't see it getting any better 1313 01:23:05,939 --> 01:23:07,899 I couldn't call no one 1314 01:23:07,899 --> 01:23:09,609 I wish I had a gun 1315 01:23:09,609 --> 01:23:12,612 I couldn't even send a letter 1316 01:23:12,612 --> 01:23:14,239 It's such a boring feeling 1317 01:23:14,239 --> 01:23:16,533 When you find that you're falling 1318 01:23:16,533 --> 01:23:19,911 To a totalitarian state 1319 01:23:19,911 --> 01:23:21,997 I know what's left 1320 01:23:21,997 --> 01:23:23,498 It don't seem right 1321 01:23:23,498 --> 01:23:27,252 You just don't feel so great 1322 01:23:27,252 --> 01:23:28,712 When they came to get me 1323 01:23:28,712 --> 01:23:31,548 I'd hope they would forgive me 1324 01:23:31,548 --> 01:23:33,842 I tried playing dead 1325 01:23:33,842 --> 01:23:38,096 I finished my drink, assessed the situation 1326 01:23:38,096 --> 01:23:40,765 Put the covers up over my head 1327 01:23:40,765 --> 01:23:42,726 I quit 1328 01:24:44,245 --> 01:24:46,372 Well, me and my friends 1329 01:24:46,372 --> 01:24:51,252 All hang out in a non-litigious crowd 1330 01:24:51,252 --> 01:24:55,507 We're sensitive to other people's needs 1331 01:24:55,507 --> 01:24:58,676 And on this we are proud 1332 01:24:58,676 --> 01:25:02,388 But this situation really bites 1333 01:25:02,388 --> 01:25:06,017 I mean, for crying out loud 1334 01:25:06,017 --> 01:25:08,103 I don't know what to do 1335 01:25:08,103 --> 01:25:10,021 I feel like a fool 1336 01:25:10,021 --> 01:25:13,441 This time I'm gonna sue 1337 01:25:13,441 --> 01:25:15,193 It's such a boring feeling 1338 01:25:15,193 --> 01:25:17,320 When you find that you're fallin' to a 1339 01:25:17,320 --> 01:25:20,490 Totalitarian state 1340 01:25:20,490 --> 01:25:22,325 You know what's left 1341 01:25:22,325 --> 01:25:24,035 It don't seem right 1342 01:25:24,035 --> 01:25:27,497 It just don't seem so great 1343 01:25:27,497 --> 01:25:29,374 Oh! 1344 01:25:29,374 --> 01:25:32,669 Whoa. Whoa. 1345 01:25:34,546 --> 01:25:36,673 Hey, hey. 1346 01:25:37,382 --> 01:25:39,300 Hey, hey. 1347 01:25:40,468 --> 01:25:44,848 Totalitarian State... Baby! 1348 01:25:44,848 --> 01:25:48,268 It sounds like you've never really been bitter 1349 01:25:48,268 --> 01:25:49,644 about the fact that 1350 01:25:49,644 --> 01:25:52,647 the Dolls never garnered these huge wages, 1351 01:25:52,647 --> 01:25:54,274 whereas you could look at bands like 1352 01:25:54,274 --> 01:25:55,483 Kiss and Aerosmith 1353 01:25:55,483 --> 01:25:56,818 and they made a pretty good dime off 1354 01:25:56,818 --> 01:25:58,403 Yeah. essentially a 1355 01:25:58,403 --> 01:25:59,904 watered-down version of what you were doing. 1356 01:25:59,904 --> 01:26:03,867 Yeah, no. We, we were a band's band, you know? 1357 01:26:03,867 --> 01:26:04,701 In a lot of ways. 1358 01:26:04,701 --> 01:26:06,202 And we influenced a lot of bands 1359 01:26:06,202 --> 01:26:08,997 and a lot of kids were influenced by us 1360 01:26:08,997 --> 01:26:10,123 who started bands, you know. 1361 01:26:10,123 --> 01:26:13,126 Take the Ramones. 1362 01:26:13,126 --> 01:26:14,544 The Ramones saw us and they, 1363 01:26:14,544 --> 01:26:16,254 they looked at each other and said, 1364 01:26:16,254 --> 01:26:17,922 "Hey, if these guys can do that, we can do that." 1365 01:26:17,922 --> 01:26:21,301 And to have influence like that on people, 1366 01:26:21,301 --> 01:26:24,512 I think, is really good, you know. 1367 01:26:24,512 --> 01:26:26,931 To give people the... 1368 01:26:26,931 --> 01:26:27,682 the idea like, 1369 01:26:27,682 --> 01:26:29,601 "Hey, I could do that." 1370 01:26:33,146 --> 01:26:36,774 Wow, listen to how sweet that is. 1371 01:26:38,526 --> 01:26:42,739 Didn't I make you feel 1372 01:26:42,739 --> 01:26:48,036 Like you were the only man -Whoo! 1373 01:26:49,787 --> 01:26:51,748 That's probably Aretha playing piano. 1374 01:26:51,748 --> 01:26:53,458 Didn't I give you everything -You know that? 1375 01:26:53,458 --> 01:26:55,126 That a woman possibly can 1376 01:26:55,126 --> 01:26:57,629 Is this her sister? -Yeah. 1377 01:26:57,629 --> 01:27:01,424 But with all the love I give ya 1378 01:27:01,424 --> 01:27:02,800 It's never enough 1379 01:27:02,800 --> 01:27:05,511 But I'm gonna show ya, baby 1380 01:27:05,511 --> 01:27:08,598 That a woman can be tough 1381 01:27:08,598 --> 01:27:11,434 Is there any music you just don't like? 1382 01:27:11,434 --> 01:27:15,396 Most, most stuff on the radio. [laughs] 1383 01:27:15,396 --> 01:27:16,773 I don't even know what I don't like, 1384 01:27:16,773 --> 01:27:19,108 because I just don't hear it. 1385 01:27:19,108 --> 01:27:20,443 You know? It doesn't, 1386 01:27:20,443 --> 01:27:22,654 if I like something it stops in the middle of my head 1387 01:27:22,654 --> 01:27:24,155 and it just rattles around 1388 01:27:24,155 --> 01:27:28,159 and if I don't like it it just kind of goes through me and 1389 01:27:28,159 --> 01:27:29,160 I don't grab it. 1390 01:27:29,160 --> 01:27:31,621 You know, my show is not like 1391 01:27:31,621 --> 01:27:33,331 something that... 1392 01:27:35,416 --> 01:27:40,255 your average kid would understand. 1393 01:27:40,255 --> 01:27:43,091 Why not? 1394 01:27:43,091 --> 01:27:44,259 Why not? 1395 01:27:44,259 --> 01:27:47,220 Because it's, it's out of the ordinary, 1396 01:27:47,220 --> 01:27:50,306 you know, it's kind of like... 1397 01:27:51,641 --> 01:27:55,103 it's got, it's like peculiar to my taste, you know. 1398 01:28:01,526 --> 01:28:06,114 That Marilyn Horne version, she gets right to the meat. 1399 01:28:14,289 --> 01:28:15,832 Did the folks play that stuff? 1400 01:28:15,832 --> 01:28:17,625 How'd you get turned on to-- -Oh, you know, my old man, 1401 01:28:17,625 --> 01:28:20,169 he was an opera singer. 1402 01:28:21,754 --> 01:28:23,715 And it's like, all that we heard 1403 01:28:23,715 --> 01:28:25,883 had been classical music when I was a kid, 1404 01:28:25,883 --> 01:28:27,677 Oh. -which used to drive me crazy. 1405 01:28:27,677 --> 01:28:29,512 Mm-hmm. -My old man would be like 1406 01:28:29,512 --> 01:28:30,930 wearing his army clothes, paint in the house 1407 01:28:30,930 --> 01:28:32,807 and the Texaco Opera on the Grundig 1408 01:28:32,807 --> 01:28:35,226 would be in the window, blaring out. 1409 01:28:35,226 --> 01:28:36,602 And my friends would come by, 1410 01:28:36,602 --> 01:28:39,105 on Saturday and I'd be like holding the ladder 1411 01:28:39,105 --> 01:28:40,565 and I'd be like... 1412 01:28:43,693 --> 01:28:45,570 My old man would be up there like 1413 01:28:48,656 --> 01:28:50,533 And now... 1414 01:28:50,533 --> 01:28:54,495 and now it's all over your radio show. 1415 01:28:56,748 --> 01:28:58,666 This next song, I wrote it to 1416 01:28:58,666 --> 01:29:01,377 a Lightnin' Hopkins song. 1417 01:29:02,086 --> 01:29:03,379 Texas Blues. 1418 01:29:03,379 --> 01:29:05,465 I gave the lyrics to Brian, 1419 01:29:05,465 --> 01:29:06,924 see what he wanted to do with it. 1420 01:29:06,924 --> 01:29:09,385 And he came up with this really great song 1421 01:29:09,385 --> 01:29:11,804 and we're gonna sing it for you now. 1422 01:29:11,804 --> 01:29:14,724 So the only one who sounds like Lightnin' Hopkins 1423 01:29:14,724 --> 01:29:17,060 in this version is me. 1424 01:29:20,438 --> 01:29:22,440 I give you that Eddie Murphy smile, like... 1425 01:29:52,970 --> 01:29:59,018 I keep watching and wondering 1426 01:29:59,018 --> 01:30:05,149 Why a little bird flies up to the sky 1427 01:30:06,484 --> 01:30:12,865 Only God knows, maybe he don't 1428 01:30:12,865 --> 01:30:19,122 You know that holy talk has been a lie 1429 01:30:20,123 --> 01:30:26,421 I keep praying it's the truth 1430 01:30:26,421 --> 01:30:32,468 And I ain't got no death to die 1431 01:30:33,719 --> 01:30:38,433 I ain't got no death to die 1432 01:30:46,899 --> 01:30:53,281 Yeah, I keep hollering and prayin' 1433 01:30:53,990 --> 01:31:00,163 I don't have to be such a hurtful bum 1434 01:31:00,788 --> 01:31:06,586 How could I sometimes be so good 1435 01:31:06,586 --> 01:31:12,675 And turn around and be so wrong to some 1436 01:31:14,177 --> 01:31:20,349 Ah, what's the use of all this praying 1437 01:31:21,100 --> 01:31:28,149 When I don't know the spirit from 1438 01:31:28,149 --> 01:31:34,363 The spirit from who this prayer have come 1439 01:31:48,461 --> 01:31:51,506 That old eternal spirit 1440 01:31:51,506 --> 01:31:55,051 Always whispering in my ear 1441 01:31:55,051 --> 01:31:57,762 Radiance of the infinite 1442 01:31:57,762 --> 01:32:01,724 Seems to be everywhere 1443 01:32:02,850 --> 01:32:07,063 But my weary eyes can't see 1444 01:32:08,231 --> 01:32:14,362 And I'm afraid my old ears cannot hear 1445 01:32:16,322 --> 01:32:22,411 Afraid my old ears cannot hear 1446 01:32:33,214 --> 01:32:39,428 You've been a consolation of my life 1447 01:32:41,556 --> 01:32:47,270 And you will be of my death 1448 01:32:48,020 --> 01:32:54,110 And I pray that you'll have mercy 1449 01:32:54,694 --> 01:33:00,449 Moment of my last breath 1450 01:33:01,909 --> 01:33:07,999 I know these words of weariness 1451 01:33:07,999 --> 01:33:15,256 Just don't make me wander from death to death 1452 01:33:15,256 --> 01:33:21,470 Don't make me wander from death to death 1453 01:33:52,835 --> 01:33:53,753 Beautiful. 1454 01:33:59,425 --> 01:34:03,387 Now, our next guest is truly a unique rock star. 1455 01:34:03,387 --> 01:34:08,142 I mean he's what you call a free spirit, a knockout singer, 1456 01:34:08,142 --> 01:34:11,145 starting a heat wave right here at the Waldorf-Astoria 1457 01:34:11,145 --> 01:34:14,815 singing Hot Hot Hot, Buster Poindexter! 1458 01:34:14,815 --> 01:34:16,817 One, two, three! 1459 01:34:16,817 --> 01:34:20,821 - Ole-Ole-Ole-Ole 1460 01:34:20,821 --> 01:34:26,077 Ole-Ole-Ole-Ole 1461 01:34:26,077 --> 01:34:31,666 That was like, the bane of my existence, that song, you know. 1462 01:34:33,042 --> 01:34:34,752 I don't know how I feel about it now. 1463 01:34:34,752 --> 01:34:36,712 I haven't heard it lately. 1464 01:34:36,712 --> 01:34:38,005 Would you hear it like 1465 01:34:38,005 --> 01:34:39,256 all over the place like-- 1466 01:34:39,256 --> 01:34:40,925 Oh, God, that's ubiquitous, that song. 1467 01:34:40,925 --> 01:34:44,512 It was like, forget about it. 1468 01:34:44,512 --> 01:34:46,013 It's like, you know, 1469 01:34:46,013 --> 01:34:52,478 they play it at weddings, bar mitzvahs. It's like... 1470 01:34:52,478 --> 01:34:53,604 Six Flags. 1471 01:34:53,604 --> 01:34:54,814 Six Flags! [laughs] 1472 01:34:54,814 --> 01:35:00,319 Hot hot hot 1473 01:35:00,319 --> 01:35:02,988 They used to have a show on VH1 called One Hit Wonders. 1474 01:35:02,988 --> 01:35:07,535 And I was on it twice because I sang, 1475 01:35:07,535 --> 01:35:13,791 you know, like that Animals medley thing as David Johansen. 1476 01:35:13,791 --> 01:35:16,127 And then I sang Hot Hot Hot as Buster, 1477 01:35:16,127 --> 01:35:20,381 so I was a one hit wonder twice. 1478 01:35:20,381 --> 01:35:23,801 Did you have like a vision for 1479 01:35:23,801 --> 01:35:25,845 what your life would be like at this point? 1480 01:35:25,845 --> 01:35:29,014 You can make plans and they're fun to do, 1481 01:35:29,014 --> 01:35:33,352 but they're rarely... 1482 01:35:33,352 --> 01:35:35,771 What you want to do by the time you get there. 1483 01:35:35,771 --> 01:35:38,441 I think I used to be like... 1484 01:35:39,650 --> 01:35:41,193 five year increments. 1485 01:35:41,193 --> 01:35:43,779 Where I'll be in five years or whatever, when I was a kid. 1486 01:35:43,779 --> 01:35:45,114 Yeah. 1487 01:35:45,114 --> 01:35:46,574 Somebody said that some guy 1488 01:35:46,574 --> 01:35:48,743 who was a record producer, 1489 01:35:48,743 --> 01:35:51,120 he was a... he was a millionaire. 1490 01:35:51,120 --> 01:35:53,038 And I thought, "Wow, a millionaire." 1491 01:35:53,038 --> 01:35:54,331 He was 23, you know? 1492 01:35:54,331 --> 01:35:56,625 And I was like, "Wow, a millionaire at 23. 1493 01:35:56,625 --> 01:35:57,960 That'd be great." 1494 01:35:57,960 --> 01:36:01,255 But I didn't... 1495 01:36:01,255 --> 01:36:04,633 I came to realize, well, that's not really so good. 1496 01:36:04,633 --> 01:36:07,887 Because the guy, turned out, 1497 01:36:07,887 --> 01:36:08,971 he was a murderer. 1498 01:36:10,514 --> 01:36:13,601 Do I want to do like this? Yeah. 1499 01:36:13,601 --> 01:36:14,810 Yeah. I like this. 1500 01:36:14,810 --> 01:36:16,270 Get the oil off your chest. 1501 01:36:16,270 --> 01:36:17,730 Just because I'm not like responding, 1502 01:36:17,730 --> 01:36:19,857 doesn't mean I'm not in ecstasy. 1503 01:36:19,857 --> 01:36:23,652 I know that. We're married. 1504 01:36:23,652 --> 01:36:24,945 Here you go. 1505 01:36:24,945 --> 01:36:26,530 So what were you saying Mommy 1506 01:36:26,530 --> 01:36:28,866 about what we wanna make sure we get in this? 1507 01:36:28,866 --> 01:36:32,036 You spend a lot of time putting on a show, 1508 01:36:32,036 --> 01:36:35,539 while you're keeping hidden not just your interior life, 1509 01:36:35,539 --> 01:36:38,751 but a lot of other aspects of your life, right? 1510 01:36:38,751 --> 01:36:40,085 And-- -Yeah. 1511 01:36:40,085 --> 01:36:41,462 You guys see the pants? 1512 01:36:41,462 --> 01:36:44,006 I can see the, the pants are yellow. 1513 01:36:44,006 --> 01:36:45,341 That's good. But I can't 1514 01:36:45,341 --> 01:36:47,134 see like the whole style of the pants. 1515 01:36:47,134 --> 01:36:48,427 That's OK. 1516 01:36:48,427 --> 01:36:49,970 You wanna see what you look like? 1517 01:36:49,970 --> 01:36:51,972 I wanna see what you're gonna shoot. 1518 01:36:51,972 --> 01:36:53,849 It's best to leave an incomplete-- 1519 01:36:53,849 --> 01:36:56,185 Yeah. -picture of yourself. 1520 01:36:56,185 --> 01:36:57,645 Can we have the, uh, 1521 01:36:57,645 --> 01:37:00,314 like can we have the coquettes showing on the book? 1522 01:37:00,314 --> 01:37:01,732 I was gonna have David 1523 01:37:01,732 --> 01:37:03,150 look at that book, actually. 1524 01:37:03,150 --> 01:37:04,985 Oh! 1525 01:37:04,985 --> 01:37:08,489 I mean let's face it. We've been very happy together. 1526 01:37:08,489 --> 01:37:12,326 We're very happy and Leah is very happy. 1527 01:37:12,326 --> 01:37:14,286 That's like really good because... 1528 01:37:14,286 --> 01:37:18,791 occasionally we have to deal with like, you know, 1529 01:37:18,791 --> 01:37:20,668 I don't wanna use the word crisis. 1530 01:37:20,668 --> 01:37:22,044 But you know, whatever. 1531 01:37:22,044 --> 01:37:23,546 Something that's-- We've had some crises. 1532 01:37:23,546 --> 01:37:24,880 Yeah. 1533 01:37:26,632 --> 01:37:31,428 As we get older, we accumulate ghosts. 1534 01:37:31,428 --> 01:37:33,722 'Cause, you know, there's a lot more dead people 1535 01:37:33,722 --> 01:37:37,184 than there are the living. 1536 01:37:37,184 --> 01:37:41,397 I've lived through like, Vietnam War, 1537 01:37:42,064 --> 01:37:44,441 the AIDS epidemic... 1538 01:37:44,441 --> 01:37:46,694 and so many things, you know? 1539 01:37:46,694 --> 01:37:48,279 And had people who I love 1540 01:37:48,279 --> 01:37:52,950 that have died from COVID very recently, you know. 1541 01:37:52,950 --> 01:37:55,119 Put your sweet lips 1542 01:37:55,119 --> 01:37:59,164 A little closer to mine 1543 01:37:59,164 --> 01:38:01,959 You know, there's Hal Wilner, for example. 1544 01:38:01,959 --> 01:38:03,794 Given that you lost someone 1545 01:38:03,794 --> 01:38:05,254 in your band at 21, 1546 01:38:05,254 --> 01:38:09,174 was an early death something that you yourself feared... 1547 01:38:09,174 --> 01:38:11,385 when this-- -No. 1548 01:38:12,011 --> 01:38:15,431 No. I never learned my lesson. 1549 01:38:18,934 --> 01:38:21,103 You know, after I was in the original Dolls, 1550 01:38:21,103 --> 01:38:27,568 the ones that there was a lot of you know, catastrophic stuff. 1551 01:38:27,568 --> 01:38:32,907 I had a band called David Johansen Band I made for... 1552 01:38:33,991 --> 01:38:36,577 We got in a van and went back and forth, 1553 01:38:36,577 --> 01:38:40,122 across this country about, I don't know, nine times, 1554 01:38:40,122 --> 01:38:44,585 opening for heavy mental acts at hockey rinks. 1555 01:38:44,585 --> 01:38:46,128 Oh my God. 1556 01:38:46,128 --> 01:38:49,089 When I think of that... 1557 01:38:49,089 --> 01:38:51,800 It killed me. It actually killed me. 1558 01:38:53,510 --> 01:38:57,848 These guys, they called magazines, books. 1559 01:38:59,099 --> 01:39:00,684 OK. 1560 01:39:01,352 --> 01:39:03,562 So, what are you readin' there, pal? 1561 01:39:03,562 --> 01:39:04,980 Viva. 1562 01:39:05,981 --> 01:39:08,150 My book. 1563 01:39:08,150 --> 01:39:10,819 I said, that's not a book. That's a Viva Magazine. 1564 01:39:10,819 --> 01:39:13,656 You know what I'm saying? 1565 01:39:13,656 --> 01:39:17,952 Thank God they had, they'd come out with Walkmans by then, 1566 01:39:17,952 --> 01:39:20,120 you know. 1567 01:39:20,120 --> 01:39:23,499 And of course gin, you know, which they always had. 1568 01:39:23,499 --> 01:39:25,793 A one, two, three, four... 1569 01:39:49,358 --> 01:39:54,321 You call that love in French, but it's just Frenchette 1570 01:39:54,321 --> 01:40:00,869 I've been to France, so let's just dance 1571 01:40:00,869 --> 01:40:06,291 I get all the love I need in a luncheonette 1572 01:40:06,291 --> 01:40:12,715 In just one glance, so let's just dance 1573 01:40:13,424 --> 01:40:19,430 I can't get the kind of love that I want 1574 01:40:19,430 --> 01:40:21,056 And I need 1575 01:40:21,056 --> 01:40:24,727 So let's just dance 1576 01:40:25,894 --> 01:40:30,482 You come on like it's all natural darling 1577 01:40:30,482 --> 01:40:32,109 But you know 1578 01:40:32,109 --> 01:40:36,321 Oh it's really only naturalette 1579 01:40:36,321 --> 01:40:40,367 It's just like all of your leathers darling 1580 01:40:40,367 --> 01:40:41,827 They don't scare me 1581 01:40:41,827 --> 01:40:48,125 I know what's really only leatherette 1582 01:40:48,125 --> 01:40:52,171 I could take it down and wash it down 1583 01:40:52,171 --> 01:40:58,260 I scrub you on down in any old launderette 1584 01:41:00,596 --> 01:41:05,476 I can't get the kind of love, that I want 1585 01:41:05,476 --> 01:41:11,774 Let's just dance and I 'll forget 1586 01:41:12,816 --> 01:41:17,279 I want you to come in my kitchen 1587 01:41:17,279 --> 01:41:19,323 Not my kitchenette 1588 01:41:19,323 --> 01:41:23,410 I want you to come in my dining room 1589 01:41:23,410 --> 01:41:25,245 Not my dinette 1590 01:41:25,245 --> 01:41:27,790 I can't get the kind of love 1591 01:41:27,790 --> 01:41:32,002 So let's just dance and I'll forget 1592 01:41:32,002 --> 01:41:38,175 I can't the kind of love that I want and I need 1593 01:41:38,175 --> 01:41:41,845 So let's just dance 1594 01:41:41,845 --> 01:41:47,518 I can't the kind of love that I want and I need 1595 01:41:47,518 --> 01:41:49,311 So let's just dance 1596 01:41:49,311 --> 01:41:53,649 Come on, boys! So let's just dance! 1597 01:42:16,213 --> 01:42:21,135 Oh woah-wo-wo-wo-wo 1598 01:42:21,135 --> 01:42:22,386 Come on, every one join. 1599 01:42:22,386 --> 01:42:24,888 Oh woah-wo-wo-wo-wo 1600 01:42:27,641 --> 01:42:32,437 Remember how we marveled darling, we was marveling 1601 01:42:32,437 --> 01:42:37,234 We were marveling at The Marvelettes 1602 01:42:37,234 --> 01:42:41,238 Yeah we fell in love with Veronica 1603 01:42:41,238 --> 01:42:46,326 And every last one of The Ronettes 1604 01:42:47,786 --> 01:42:51,165 It sure got hot when Levis Stubbs 1605 01:42:51,165 --> 01:42:52,708 He got burned boy 1606 01:42:52,708 --> 01:42:57,754 Messing around with Bernadette 1607 01:42:57,754 --> 01:43:01,717 You call that love in French, but it's just Frenchette 1608 01:43:01,717 --> 01:43:07,014 I've been to France, so let's just dance 1609 01:43:07,014 --> 01:43:11,310 I get all the love I need in a luncheonette 1610 01:43:11,310 --> 01:43:16,315 In just one glance, so let's just dance 1611 01:43:16,315 --> 01:43:18,859 Let's just dance 1612 01:43:19,776 --> 01:43:22,070 Let's just dance now 1613 01:43:23,322 --> 01:43:25,574 Let's dance 1614 01:43:25,574 --> 01:43:28,035 Let's just dance 1615 01:43:28,035 --> 01:43:32,080 Going to take a little roll with you, honey 1616 01:43:32,080 --> 01:43:34,249 Let's just dance 1617 01:43:35,334 --> 01:43:37,794 A little stroll with you, honey 1618 01:43:37,794 --> 01:43:40,422 Yeah, let's just dance 1619 01:43:41,715 --> 01:43:43,383 Just dance 1620 01:43:43,383 --> 01:43:47,471 My doctor said to take it easy, baby 1621 01:43:47,471 --> 01:43:49,514 So let's just dance 1622 01:43:49,514 --> 01:43:53,560 My doctor said to take it easy, baby 1623 01:43:53,560 --> 01:43:56,188 Let's dance 1624 01:43:56,188 --> 01:43:58,440 Come on, let's just dance 1625 01:43:58,774 --> 01:43:59,733 Yeah, baby 1626 01:43:59,733 --> 01:44:01,902 Let's just dance 1627 01:44:01,902 --> 01:44:03,070 All right. 1628 01:44:03,070 --> 01:44:04,488 Let's just dance 1629 01:44:04,488 --> 01:44:08,408 Come on, let's just dance 1630 01:44:10,494 --> 01:44:15,332 I can't get the kind of love that I want 1631 01:44:15,332 --> 01:44:16,583 And I need 1632 01:44:16,583 --> 01:44:18,961 So, let's 1633 01:44:18,961 --> 01:44:23,173 Just 1634 01:44:23,173 --> 01:44:30,097 Dance 1635 01:44:51,785 --> 01:44:54,496 Oh, hi... 1636 01:44:59,251 --> 01:45:01,586 You know, when I was a... a kid, 1637 01:45:01,586 --> 01:45:03,672 I was probably like, not a kid. 1638 01:45:03,672 --> 01:45:07,426 I was probably like almost 30-years-old or something. 1639 01:45:07,426 --> 01:45:09,720 Maybe I acted like a kid. 1640 01:45:09,720 --> 01:45:12,347 I... went to... 1641 01:45:12,347 --> 01:45:14,725 see Milos Forman 1642 01:45:14,725 --> 01:45:18,186 to audition for a... 1643 01:45:19,187 --> 01:45:21,356 a part of one of the two, 1644 01:45:21,356 --> 01:45:24,276 like lead guys in Hair. 1645 01:45:24,276 --> 01:45:25,944 In the movie Hair. 1646 01:45:25,944 --> 01:45:28,655 You know, I figured, an actor, what is that? 1647 01:45:28,655 --> 01:45:32,451 So, I think I have all the prerequisites, 1648 01:45:32,451 --> 01:45:34,536 completely irresponsible, 1649 01:45:35,454 --> 01:45:37,164 drunk a lot. 1650 01:45:37,706 --> 01:45:39,249 Hey, I can go on and on. 1651 01:45:39,249 --> 01:45:41,752 But... I fit the bill. 1652 01:45:41,752 --> 01:45:43,837 So I went to see Milos and... 1653 01:45:45,464 --> 01:45:46,798 I didn't even do the audition. 1654 01:45:46,798 --> 01:45:50,385 I mean, we got along like a house on fire. 1655 01:45:50,385 --> 01:45:54,598 I mean, "Oh God, David. David, I love you." 1656 01:45:54,598 --> 01:45:55,932 And we were drinking schnapps 1657 01:45:55,932 --> 01:45:59,394 and we were smacking each other on of back 1658 01:45:59,394 --> 01:46:03,190 and we were having a gay old time, OK? 1659 01:46:03,190 --> 01:46:05,317 Oh my God, it was so great. 1660 01:46:05,317 --> 01:46:07,527 So then he calls Twyla Tharp and he says, 1661 01:46:07,527 --> 01:46:09,404 "I got, I got the guy. 1662 01:46:09,404 --> 01:46:12,366 This is the guy. I'm gonna send him over. 1663 01:46:12,366 --> 01:46:14,451 You see if he can dance." 1664 01:46:14,451 --> 01:46:16,203 In order to get this part, 1665 01:46:16,203 --> 01:46:21,500 the... one of the major parts that you had to pass. 1666 01:46:21,500 --> 01:46:23,668 Milos, Twyla... 1667 01:46:23,668 --> 01:46:25,670 and Galt MacDermot, 1668 01:46:25,670 --> 01:46:27,923 who wrote the music. 1669 01:46:27,923 --> 01:46:31,051 So I went over to Twyla Tharp's. 1670 01:46:31,051 --> 01:46:32,386 I was... 1671 01:46:32,386 --> 01:46:35,722 dancing... like Nijinsky. 1672 01:46:35,722 --> 01:46:37,391 I mean, I was like... 1673 01:46:37,891 --> 01:46:39,768 like a gazelle. 1674 01:46:39,768 --> 01:46:41,144 Back and forth 1675 01:46:41,144 --> 01:46:45,023 with the whole troop back and forth, like throwing flowers. 1676 01:46:45,023 --> 01:46:48,693 I mean imaginary flowers, but still. 1677 01:46:48,693 --> 01:46:50,028 Twyla calls up Milos, 1678 01:46:50,028 --> 01:46:52,280 "He's, he's great. He's a natural. He's great." 1679 01:46:54,074 --> 01:46:57,452 I'm thinking, you know, "Hollywood, here I come." 1680 01:46:57,452 --> 01:47:00,580 I'm like picking out real estate, 1681 01:47:00,580 --> 01:47:02,249 you know what I'm saying? 1682 01:47:03,542 --> 01:47:06,044 Next day I go to see Galt McDermott. 1683 01:47:06,044 --> 01:47:10,090 It's up on one of those Broadway rehearsal rooms, 1684 01:47:10,090 --> 01:47:13,552 you know, at the piano and everybody's standing around. 1685 01:47:13,552 --> 01:47:15,804 He's got the piano and I come in 1686 01:47:15,804 --> 01:47:20,267 and I decide to sing the song Hair. 1687 01:47:20,267 --> 01:47:21,935 I figured, you know, 1688 01:47:23,019 --> 01:47:24,479 I hadn't really prepared. 1689 01:47:24,479 --> 01:47:28,900 You know and... but Galt McDermott stood up. 1690 01:47:28,900 --> 01:47:32,112 He shut the... the... the lid of the keyboard 1691 01:47:32,112 --> 01:47:35,657 and he said, "This guy can't sing!" 1692 01:47:37,200 --> 01:47:40,620 I was like, "Wait a minute, wait a minute. 1693 01:47:40,620 --> 01:47:42,539 I don't, I don't act. 1694 01:47:42,539 --> 01:47:43,999 I don't dance, but I'm a singer. 1695 01:47:43,999 --> 01:47:48,003 You know, I, that's what I do. I'm a singer." 1696 01:47:48,003 --> 01:47:50,464 I didn't get the part anyway. 1697 01:47:50,464 --> 01:47:52,674 My dreams were crushed. 1698 01:47:52,674 --> 01:47:56,052 But I only had those dreams for three days. 1699 01:47:56,052 --> 01:48:00,182 So it wasn't like a lifetime. 1700 01:48:03,685 --> 01:48:05,687 You know, years later... 1701 01:48:05,687 --> 01:48:07,147 I saw... 1702 01:48:07,147 --> 01:48:09,941 Galt McDermott at an awards ceremony. 1703 01:48:09,941 --> 01:48:13,361 We were both getting a medal for something and... 1704 01:48:14,571 --> 01:48:16,698 he was in his dotage. 1705 01:48:16,698 --> 01:48:20,911 And... we shook hands and the whole thing. 1706 01:48:20,911 --> 01:48:24,039 He didn't remember me from, from that day. 1707 01:48:24,039 --> 01:48:27,083 But, I didn't remind him I didn't mention it. 1708 01:48:27,083 --> 01:48:29,419 You know, I didn't mention it. 1709 01:48:31,421 --> 01:48:33,215 I'm not that kind of guy. 1710 01:48:47,646 --> 01:48:49,105 This is nice. 1711 01:49:10,043 --> 01:49:13,171 It's a maimed happiness 1712 01:49:13,171 --> 01:49:16,925 I keep trying to acquiesce 1713 01:49:16,925 --> 01:49:21,137 It's like a tempestuous child 1714 01:49:21,137 --> 01:49:25,809 You play with and humor to keep 1715 01:49:25,809 --> 01:49:29,104 Quiet as you possibly can 1716 01:49:29,104 --> 01:49:34,192 'Til finally it goes to sleep 1717 01:49:34,192 --> 01:49:38,655 Life takes a lot of finesse 1718 01:49:38,655 --> 01:49:41,449 It's a maimed happiness 1719 01:49:49,749 --> 01:49:55,046 I keep myself to every way 1720 01:49:55,046 --> 01:49:59,009 Both refined and uncouth 1721 01:49:59,009 --> 01:50:03,013 Then maybe once in a while 1722 01:50:03,013 --> 01:50:08,727 I can be with the truth 1723 01:50:08,727 --> 01:50:10,020 Don't know 1724 01:50:10,020 --> 01:50:14,774 If there's that much to be said 1725 01:50:14,774 --> 01:50:18,778 I thought this world and all the time 1726 01:50:18,778 --> 01:50:24,492 That we spend 1727 01:50:25,493 --> 01:50:27,662 Still I think 1728 01:50:27,662 --> 01:50:31,082 I want to live 1729 01:50:31,082 --> 01:50:37,672 This crazy life over again 1730 01:50:41,009 --> 01:50:44,346 Yeah, I've been to the doctor 1731 01:50:44,346 --> 01:50:48,224 He said there ain't much he can do 1732 01:50:48,224 --> 01:50:52,646 Said you got the human condition 1733 01:50:52,646 --> 01:50:57,233 Boy, I feel sorry for you 1734 01:50:57,233 --> 01:51:00,904 There's a sorrowful joy 1735 01:51:00,904 --> 01:51:04,949 I know it since I was a boy 1736 01:51:04,949 --> 01:51:09,788 Joyful sorrow, I guess 1737 01:51:09,788 --> 01:51:14,209 It's a maimed happiness 1738 01:51:40,610 --> 01:51:42,404 Beautiful! 1739 01:51:44,989 --> 01:51:46,908 You guys have been great. 1740 01:51:46,908 --> 01:51:50,245 Thank you. Thank you. 1741 01:51:52,580 --> 01:51:58,211 My friends. 1742 01:52:01,256 --> 01:52:02,966 Maimed Happiness. 1743 01:52:02,966 --> 01:52:05,927 I feel like that could be your thesis for the show. 1744 01:52:05,927 --> 01:52:09,431 Yeah. Mara, what's that... 1745 01:52:09,431 --> 01:52:11,141 Those two brothers, they were writers, 1746 01:52:11,141 --> 01:52:12,684 but one was a philosopher. 1747 01:52:12,684 --> 01:52:14,811 Henry James and William James? 1748 01:52:14,811 --> 01:52:16,146 Who wrote that book? 1749 01:52:16,146 --> 01:52:17,856 Well, Henry James was the novelist. 1750 01:52:17,856 --> 01:52:19,941 Right. So it was William James was the philosopher. 1751 01:52:19,941 --> 01:52:21,901 Right. Yeah. 1752 01:52:21,901 --> 01:52:25,405 I was reading that William James 1753 01:52:25,405 --> 01:52:29,701 Variety of Spiritual Experiences, 1754 01:52:29,701 --> 01:52:31,327 I guess it's called. 1755 01:52:31,327 --> 01:52:35,165 At one point he used the expression "maimed happiness." 1756 01:52:35,165 --> 01:52:40,295 "It's kind of like a maimed happiness," whatever he said. 1757 01:52:40,295 --> 01:52:44,299 And it just stuck in my mind, you know. 1758 01:52:44,299 --> 01:52:48,845 It's just, existence is... 1759 01:52:51,931 --> 01:52:53,308 maimed happiness. 1760 01:52:53,308 --> 01:52:54,934 Happy birthday, man. 1761 01:52:54,934 --> 01:52:56,978 Freddy. -A lot more energy tonight. 1762 01:52:56,978 --> 01:52:59,814 Yeah, I slept like 10 hours last night. 1763 01:52:59,814 --> 01:53:03,318 You are not today who you were when you were 17. 1764 01:53:03,818 --> 01:53:05,278 So... 1765 01:53:06,321 --> 01:53:10,575 you were this innocent... -Hmm... 1766 01:53:10,575 --> 01:53:11,951 Listen, sorry. 1767 01:53:11,951 --> 01:53:14,120 You were spinning around 1768 01:53:14,120 --> 01:53:17,081 on the parking meter in front of Gem Spa. 1769 01:53:17,081 --> 01:53:19,501 I was spinning around on the other parking meter. 1770 01:53:19,501 --> 01:53:22,253 It's the Mansion of Fun show 1771 01:53:22,253 --> 01:53:26,007 where we do our thing and we don't worry about the outcome, 1772 01:53:26,007 --> 01:53:30,178 because we recognize sorrow as of the essence. 1773 01:53:30,178 --> 01:53:33,473 Because when there's time, there's sorrow 1774 01:53:33,473 --> 01:53:36,226 and we can't rid the world of sorrow, 1775 01:53:36,226 --> 01:53:42,023 but we can choose to live in joy. 1776 01:53:42,899 --> 01:53:45,944 Look how beautiful. 1777 01:53:45,944 --> 01:53:47,904 Hi, baby. 1778 01:53:47,904 --> 01:53:49,280 Long time no see. 1779 01:53:49,280 --> 01:53:51,032 Like when was the first time 1780 01:53:51,032 --> 01:53:52,325 you felt like your sadness 1781 01:53:52,325 --> 01:53:55,119 kind of connected you to the world? 1782 01:53:55,119 --> 01:53:56,746 Oh. 1783 01:53:58,665 --> 01:54:00,708 Yeah, in 3D. 1784 01:54:01,626 --> 01:54:03,044 Oh, man. 1785 01:54:03,962 --> 01:54:06,381 Then the ostrich comes out. 1786 01:54:06,381 --> 01:54:08,383 People think I'm so young, right? 1787 01:54:08,383 --> 01:54:10,051 And I'm sure people say that to you, "You're so young." 1788 01:54:10,051 --> 01:54:14,013 'Cause it took us so long to grow up. 1789 01:54:14,013 --> 01:54:16,766 Like we hit every crack. 1790 01:54:16,766 --> 01:54:18,017 We had to be... 1791 01:54:18,017 --> 01:54:21,312 we fulfilled the premise of becoming. 1792 01:54:21,312 --> 01:54:23,147 That's right. -We fulfilled it. 1793 01:54:23,147 --> 01:54:26,150 What's the rush? -What's the rush? 1794 01:54:26,150 --> 01:54:29,612 There's a lot of different things that 1795 01:54:29,612 --> 01:54:32,365 you can hear or see, 1796 01:54:32,365 --> 01:54:38,746 you know, people overcoming obstacles. 1797 01:54:39,914 --> 01:54:41,291 Surviving. 1798 01:54:52,927 --> 01:54:54,762 Come on! 1799 01:54:55,763 --> 01:54:57,932 Wow! 1800 01:54:59,809 --> 01:55:01,728 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah 1801 01:55:01,728 --> 01:55:02,854 Yeah baby no 1802 01:55:02,854 --> 01:55:04,272 Go baby yeah 1803 01:55:04,272 --> 01:55:06,274 Yeah, no, yeah, yeah 1804 01:55:06,274 --> 01:55:08,067 Wow 1805 01:55:09,819 --> 01:55:11,946 Wah-hah! 1806 01:55:13,406 --> 01:55:16,075 We can't take it this week 1807 01:55:16,075 --> 01:55:19,120 And her friends don't want another speech 1808 01:55:19,120 --> 01:55:21,873 Hoping for a better day to hear 1809 01:55:21,873 --> 01:55:24,125 What she's got to say 1810 01:55:24,125 --> 01:55:27,503 All about that personality crisis 1811 01:55:27,503 --> 01:55:30,632 You got it while it was hot 1812 01:55:30,632 --> 01:55:36,220 But frustration, heartache that's what you got 1813 01:55:36,220 --> 01:55:40,975 I gotta say about the personality 1814 01:55:40,975 --> 01:55:42,226 Yeah 1815 01:55:42,226 --> 01:55:44,812 Yeah, yeah, yeah 1816 01:55:49,567 --> 01:55:51,402 Now you're trying to be something 1817 01:55:51,402 --> 01:55:53,071 Now you gotta do something 1818 01:55:53,071 --> 01:55:55,698 Wanna be someone who cow wow wows 1819 01:55:55,698 --> 01:55:58,034 But you thinking about the time you did 1820 01:55:58,034 --> 01:56:01,371 They took every ounce 1821 01:56:01,371 --> 01:56:04,082 Well it's sure gonna be a shame 1822 01:56:04,082 --> 01:56:06,793 When you start to scream and shout 1823 01:56:06,793 --> 01:56:08,294 Wow 1824 01:56:08,294 --> 01:56:10,421 You contradict all the time 1825 01:56:10,421 --> 01:56:12,799 You were butterflying about 1826 01:56:12,799 --> 01:56:14,092 Butterfly 1827 01:56:14,092 --> 01:56:16,302 But that personality crisis 1828 01:56:16,302 --> 01:56:18,763 You got it while it was hot 1829 01:56:18,763 --> 01:56:21,349 It's always hard to know when frustration 1830 01:56:21,349 --> 01:56:24,727 Heartache that's what you got 1831 01:56:24,727 --> 01:56:29,023 It's just a song about personality 1832 01:56:29,023 --> 01:56:30,733 We are 1833 01:56:53,339 --> 01:56:55,550 And you're a prima ballerina 1834 01:56:55,550 --> 01:57:00,096 On a spring afternoon 1835 01:57:00,096 --> 01:57:04,434 Turn into a wolfman howlin' at the moon 1836 01:57:04,434 --> 01:57:06,144 Yahoooooooo 1837 01:57:06,144 --> 01:57:08,021 With a personality crisis 1838 01:57:08,021 --> 01:57:10,940 You got it while you was hot 1839 01:57:10,940 --> 01:57:12,191 It's always hot. 1840 01:57:12,191 --> 01:57:15,486 Frustration, heartache that's what you got 1841 01:57:15,486 --> 01:57:21,534 Oh, I'm talking about your personality 1842 01:57:28,541 --> 01:57:30,418 Now with all the crossin' fingers 1843 01:57:30,418 --> 01:57:32,045 Mother Nature said 1844 01:57:32,045 --> 01:57:33,588 Your mirror's getting jammed up 1845 01:57:33,588 --> 01:57:35,214 With all your friends 1846 01:57:35,214 --> 01:57:36,591 Personality 1847 01:57:36,591 --> 01:57:38,885 It was just starting to blend 1848 01:57:38,885 --> 01:57:40,595 It ain't like one. 1849 01:57:40,595 --> 01:57:42,430 With the personality 1850 01:57:42,430 --> 01:57:46,893 When your mind's going to bend 1851 01:57:46,893 --> 01:57:48,436 Personality 1852 01:57:48,436 --> 01:57:50,938 Glad you know a friend, of a friend of a friend 1853 01:57:50,938 --> 01:57:52,482 Friend of a friend 1854 01:57:52,482 --> 01:57:53,816 Personality 1855 01:57:53,816 --> 01:57:56,569 One that has celebrities ever mend 1856 01:57:56,569 --> 01:57:58,613 Lookin' fine on television 1857 01:57:58,613 --> 01:58:00,198 Personality crisis 1858 01:58:00,198 --> 01:58:03,993 Yeah, you got it while it was hot 1859 01:58:03,993 --> 01:58:06,079 It's frustration, heartache 1860 01:58:06,079 --> 01:58:08,122 It's what you've got 1861 01:58:08,122 --> 01:58:09,624 All right. 1862 01:58:09,624 --> 01:58:12,585 Personality crisis 1863 01:58:12,585 --> 01:58:15,630 Please don't cry 1864 01:58:15,630 --> 01:58:17,507 A personality crisis 1865 01:58:17,507 --> 01:58:20,343 Please don't stop 1866 01:58:20,343 --> 01:58:23,554 Because you walk with personality 1867 01:58:23,554 --> 01:58:26,933 You talk with personality 1868 01:58:26,933 --> 01:58:28,976 Yeah. 1869 01:58:28,976 --> 01:58:30,978 Yeah, baby. 1870 01:58:30,978 --> 01:58:33,314 That's what I'm talking about. 1871 01:58:33,314 --> 01:58:35,108 Personality. 1872 01:58:35,108 --> 01:58:36,984 Yeah. 1873 01:58:53,668 --> 01:58:59,924 You know, Plastic Bertrand goes around saying he... 1874 01:58:59,924 --> 01:59:01,134 invented punk rock, 1875 01:59:01,134 --> 01:59:03,886 but I think that one was really good. 1876 01:59:07,765 --> 01:59:10,101 You know what I always say? 1877 01:59:10,101 --> 01:59:14,188 Nothing recedes like success. 1878 01:59:19,402 --> 01:59:21,070 Am I... 1879 02:00:00,526 --> 02:00:02,195 You think I'm a whore 1880 02:00:02,195 --> 02:00:07,700 But I got a heart of gold 1881 02:00:07,700 --> 02:00:09,410 You're lockin' your doors 1882 02:00:09,410 --> 02:00:15,291 You're leavin' me out in the cold 1883 02:00:15,291 --> 02:00:19,545 Well I've been bought and baby 1884 02:00:19,545 --> 02:00:22,882 I've been sold and I 1885 02:00:22,882 --> 02:00:29,096 I need protection from the cold 1886 02:00:31,349 --> 02:00:38,397 You may think that my humanity 1887 02:00:38,397 --> 02:00:44,445 Has been the cause of all this insanity 1888 02:00:46,030 --> 02:00:53,037 This whole damn world's got so much uncertainty 1889 02:00:53,037 --> 02:00:59,293 I sure wish you'd see something in me 1890 02:01:01,212 --> 02:01:02,713 You think I'm a whore 1891 02:01:02,713 --> 02:01:08,386 But I got a heart of gold 1892 02:01:08,386 --> 02:01:09,845 You're lockin' your doors 1893 02:01:09,845 --> 02:01:15,643 You're leavin' me out in the cold 1894 02:01:15,643 --> 02:01:19,814 Yeah, I've been bought, baby 1895 02:01:19,814 --> 02:01:22,984 I've been sold and I 1896 02:01:22,984 --> 02:01:29,198 I need protection from the cold 1897 02:03:02,208 --> 02:03:03,626 Happy birthday, boss. 1898 02:03:09,507 --> 02:03:11,217 And many more. 1899 02:03:16,639 --> 02:03:17,973 Oh, baby. 1900 02:03:48,712 --> 02:03:54,927 You may think that my humanity 1901 02:03:55,636 --> 02:04:01,308 Was the cause of all this insanity 1902 02:04:01,308 --> 02:04:02,768 Hm-hmm. 1903 02:04:02,768 --> 02:04:09,692 This whole damn world's got so much uncertainty 1904 02:04:09,692 --> 02:04:15,948 I sure wish you'd see something in me 1905 02:04:17,700 --> 02:04:19,577 You think I'm a whore 1906 02:04:19,577 --> 02:04:24,748 But I got a heart of gold 1907 02:04:24,748 --> 02:04:26,542 You're lockin' your doors 1908 02:04:26,542 --> 02:04:31,172 You're leavin' me out in the cold 1909 02:04:32,465 --> 02:04:35,801 I've been bought and baby 1910 02:04:35,801 --> 02:04:39,138 Yeah, I've been sold and I 1911 02:04:39,138 --> 02:04:44,143 I need protection from the cold 1912 02:04:44,143 --> 02:04:46,562 Yeah, man. 1913 02:04:46,562 --> 02:04:51,901 I need protection from the cold 1914 02:04:51,901 --> 02:04:54,570 All right, baby. 1915 02:04:54,570 --> 02:04:57,490 I need protection 1916 02:04:57,490 --> 02:05:04,705 From the cold 151130

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