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Good evening to all.
How exciting is this?
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Come on, you gotta give it
up for the Café Carlyle, right?
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New York City...
2020?
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It's really been a pleasure
to introduce this guy.
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One of the most bon vivant.
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I said it again, elegant,
super intelligent,
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nicest guy in the
restaurant, right?
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To Mara, the beautiful Mara,
tells us what's going on.
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The note comes under
the door, right?
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We don't know, Buster
Poindexter, David Johansen,
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Rama Lama Ding Dong!
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He's got a personality crisis.
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He's gonna bring it
all to you right now, OK?
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He's also got the best pompadour
in the business.
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He's here in person.
Wait, he's right there.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
Buster Poindexter,
David Johansen!
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You're funky,
funky but chic
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A funky, funky but chic
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Your funky, funky but chic
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All right.
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You funky, but, funky but
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All right, all right, all
right
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Got a pair of shoes
somebody gave me
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My momma thinks I
look pretty fruity
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But in jeans I feel rockin'
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I don't wear nothin',
not too fussy or neat
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I just want somethin' baby
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To be able to walk
down your street
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Hey, come on baby, let's
get on down to the boutique
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Bring back somethin'
that's a funky but chic
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I said funky,
funky but chic
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That's right, boy.
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Funky, funky but chic
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I tell you I'll get
down in any neighborhood
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My friends will take me
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The people out there
they all itch and bitch
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Lord, I swear they
gonna break me
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Well, I fly just
to get downtown
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Where everybody's crazy
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I fly on down that street
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Them folks stop acting lazy
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And I say...
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I don't wear nothing
not to fussy or neat
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I just want somethin' baby
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To be able to fly
down your street
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Hey, get on baby,
who at the boutique
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Bring back something that's
a funky but chic, yeah
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Funky, funky but chic
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That's what I'm talking about.
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Funky, funky but chic
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Correct.
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Funky, funky but chic
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Oh, yeah!
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You funky but, funky but
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All right, all right,
all right
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I got a little car, come on,
let's go driving 'round
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A '56 Mercedes-Benz
I had painted cocoa-brown
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It's brown.
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I don't drive nothin',
not too fussy or neat
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I just want somethin'
to be able to drive
down your street
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Hey, beep, beep, beep, baby
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Let's get down
to the boutique
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I'll bring back somethin'
that's a funky but chic, yeah
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Funky, funky but chic
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Oh, chic.
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Funky, funky but
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Oh très chic
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Funky, funky but
- Oh what chic, now
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You funky but, funky but
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All right, all right,
all right
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All right, all right,
all right, all right
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Got a pair of shoes
somebody gave me
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My momma thinks I
look pretty fruity
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But in jeans I feel rockin'
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Cut 'em up!
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I don't wear nothin'
not too fussy or neat
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I just want somethin'
to be able to walk
down your street
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Hey get out of bed baby,
let's get on down to
the boutique
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I'll bring back somethin'
that's funky but chic
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Oh!
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Yeah!
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Yeah!
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All right, boys!
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Oh, yeah!
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All right.
Oh, yeah.
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You were the
lead singer of
the New York Dolls.
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A lot of people credit you guys
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with really helping to
start the punk movement.
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Well, yeah, but
inadvertently, like,
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we didn't do it on purpose.
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We were in Newcastle and
it's a place in England
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where they make this beer
called Newcastle Brown Ale.
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And we were young men
and we had a reputation
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of being able to hold our booze.
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So they say, "Oh, boys, you
gotta try the local brew."
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And they give you
these gigantic cans of
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Newcastle Brown Ale.
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And we're at like the
Newcastle Polytechnic Institute
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or something for a show.
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We're drinking these things.
"Have another one."
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OK, Ok, another one.
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So we drank maybe 10
of these things... and...
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Maybe, maybe 10.
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We go on stage to play and
everything is going fine.
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All of a sudden, the drummer
barfs about 12 gallons
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of Brown ale onto
his snare drum,
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but he keeps playing.
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And so, you know, a good
dollop of it hits me right
in the nose
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and you know how that is,
it's like a chain reaction.
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Yeah, I know how that is.
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Why would I know how that is?
I don't know how that is.
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Well, I let loose and then the
bass player let loose,
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the guitar player let loose,
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the audience was like...
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Everybody's throwing up
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and at the end of the song,
everybody's like, "Yeah!"
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And they thought it
was part of the act
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and then all the kids in
England started doing this.
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It became the rigor of, uh...
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Oh, we gotta throw
up like The Dolls!
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You know, that kind of thing.
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And that's... that's how the
punk movement was born.
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I would say that was the...
if you wanted to bring it
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down to a moment in time,
that was the moment.
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It's super sensuous, transcendental
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something not to be
explained in rational terms.
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It's the Mansion of Fun show.
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I hear that melody
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On the street
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My melody
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Soft and sweet
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Your melody, would you
sing that song to me
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Melodies hauntin' me
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Memories just repeat
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Your melodies even
haunt me in my sleep
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I tried to show you,
you just couldn't see it
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I tried to tell you, but your
heart couldn't hear it
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I tried to love you, but ya
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Your heart had to slip away
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Now that melody's
hauntin' me
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Melody got that beat
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The memory just
repeats in my mind
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A melody, where I dance
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In the place
that I find romance
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Your melody just won't
give me a chance
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I tried to show you, but
your heart couldn't see it
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I tried to tell you, but
your heart couldn't hear it
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I tried to love you, but
your heart had to slip away
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah
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Melody
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Yeah, yeah, yeah
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Melody
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Yeah, yeah, yeah
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Well certain songs
I just can't take it
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They start to play and
my old heart starts achin'
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Certain songs,
I just can't fake it
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They start to play and
I just want to break 'em
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I just can't take it
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When I hear them
play that song
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Yeah that melody
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Haunting me
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A tender rhapsody,
soft and sweet
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The memory follows me
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'Til it's insanity
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Driving me
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Now my melody's
on the street
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Oh, melody,
soft and sweet
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Oh, melody
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Yeah, yeah, melody
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Yeah, my melody
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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Where am I?
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Who am I?
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Ahhhh, ahhhh
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Well, I'm stranded
in the jungle
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I'm trying to keep a date
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With my little girl,
that was back in the States
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I'm stranded in the jungle,
I'm afraid of it all
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Wondering how I could
get a message back home
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But how was I to know that
the wreckage of my plane
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Had been picked up
and spotted
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By the girl
on Lover's Lane
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I said, meanwhile,
back in the States
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Baby, baby
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Let's make romance
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Your old-time love
hasn't got a chance
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I said he's stranded in the
jungle, bad as he can be
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Come on, pretty darling,
just you and me
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Oh yeah, oh yeah
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Meanwhile, back in the jungle...
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Ahhhh, ahhhh
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Why come
to a New York Dolls show?
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A lot of kids are
like whipped dogs
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and they feel like they're
really terribly alienated
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And I think we give 'em a
feeling that they're not
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the same people that
feel these feelings
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not the only people
that feel these feelings
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and that they're not alone.
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They all can come
together on our show
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and see each other
and meet each other.
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There's a thousand
bands that are coming up
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like from the streets,
from the ghetto.
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1,2,3,4!
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Trash, go pick it up
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Take them lights away
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Trash, go pick it up
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Don't take your life away
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Trash, go pick it up
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Don't try to take
my knife away
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And please don't you
ask me if I love you
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If you don't know
what I'm doing
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What you know is
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Trash, go pick it up...
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Now, is it
true that you were president
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of their fan club?
-No. Not at all.
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Well, were... were you
involved in their fan club?
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No. Not even slightly.
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A member?
-Not even a member.
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Tempted to send off
of town for four months?
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Yes, it's all true.
-Yeah.
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It's all true.
-It is true.
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You were in the fan club,
you denied it.
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But it's true, isn't it?
-I, I, I, I, I...
was the fan club.
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I was the fan club.
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And what was it that drew
you to The New York Dolls?
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Well, they were very violent.
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They were very witty and
they were very intelligent.
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And as you know, most pop
stars are not very intelligent.
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and they're not very witty
and not very violent.
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Right.
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And why-ha-hy ha-ha ha-hy
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Why do you hang around
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I'm so sorry
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I-I-I-I'm so sorry
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It was a good lay, good lay
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Ah ha
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Do you remember
when you first saw the Dolls?
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Mm, yes. I had gone to
see them live in '72,
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but their drummer had
died three days earlier.
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And everybody was expecting
the Dolls to walk on the stage.
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And of course they didn't.
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There was just suddenly an
announcement that
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Billy had died
and everybody just collapsed.
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And then the next
encounter was television.
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They, they appeared
very famously
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on The Old Grey Whistle Test
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which in those very
dark days of '73
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was a fantastic vision.
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People forget how
absolutely dank things were,
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how dank life was
and pop art was.
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And there was no,
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there was no sense of danger
within pop music at all.
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But I was obsessive.
255
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I was, I was
ridiculously obsessive.
256
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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
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This is
a blighted band.
260
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I'd almost say cursed
because if you listen to,
261
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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
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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
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So here were boys who were
calling themselves "Dolls"
267
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and they looked like
prostitutes, male prostitutes,
268
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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
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And if a man walked
272
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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
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And for a group who
did so little really
276
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and existed for such
a short amount of time,
277
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their impact has
been extraordinary.
278
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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
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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
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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
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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
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