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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 Caf� 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 tr s 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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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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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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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.
257
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I was, I was
ridiculously obsessive.
258
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This, this was the band for me.
259
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This was the turning
point for me.
260
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Why have so few
people heard New York Dolls?
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This is
a blighted band.
262
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I'd almost say cursed
because if you listen to,
263
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if you listen to, to,
to the... the music they made,
264
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every single song is
really a hit single.
265
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And there's no reason on earth
why it shouldn't have happened.
266
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But because they were connected
267
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with drugs and absurdly
transgender issues.
268
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So here were boys who were
calling themselves "Dolls"
269
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and they looked like
prostitutes, male prostitutes,
270
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which at the time,
you have to remember,
271
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it was a long time ago
272
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and all... and all of that kind
of thing was really taboo.
273
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And if a man walked
274
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down the street wearing
women's clothes,
275
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he could be arrested
and thrown into jail.
276
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That's why they only made
two studio albums.
277
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And for a group who
did so little really
278
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and existed for such
a short amount of time,
279
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their impact has
been extraordinary.
280
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And the music, because it was
such fantastic pop music,
281
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it, it just seemed to me like
282
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the absolute answer
to everything.
283
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Which of course...
too dangerous.
284
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I just want
to be like very welcoming.
285
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'Cause the way the society is,
I mean, it, it was set up is
286
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like very strict, like...
287
00:17:19,570 --> 00:17:22,790
straight, gay...
288
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whatever, vegetarian,
289
00:17:24,350 --> 00:17:28,610
whatever you want to, you know,
anything you want to say.
290
00:17:28,810 --> 00:17:34,450
I just wanted to kind of like
bring those walls down and...
291
00:17:34,650 --> 00:17:38,080
and have a party
kind of a thing.
292
00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:57,760
Oh, man, this is great.
This is very nice.
293
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This is a classy bo�te,
the Caf� Carlyle.
294
00:18:02,490 --> 00:18:07,340
And we are starting our
semi-annual bisexual...
295
00:18:07,540 --> 00:18:09,050
What am I talking about?
296
00:18:09,250 --> 00:18:15,550
Bi-annual residency.
And the cafe called Mara,
297
00:18:15,750 --> 00:18:19,100
who runs this whole
shebang up here and asked
298
00:18:19,300 --> 00:18:20,390
if we'd like to come back.
299
00:18:20,590 --> 00:18:21,810
She said, "Yes."
300
00:18:22,010 --> 00:18:24,890
No, we love it here because,
I'll tell you why,
301
00:18:25,090 --> 00:18:26,980
you take the elevator to work.
302
00:18:27,180 --> 00:18:31,280
My whole life I've
been schlepping.
303
00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:34,400
Oh, in some ungodly conveyances.
304
00:18:37,740 --> 00:18:40,970
Then came the... the question of
what kind of a repertoire we
305
00:18:41,170 --> 00:18:44,790
would present because you have
to have a new one every year.
306
00:18:44,990 --> 00:18:48,020
And I was in no mood
for learning 20 songs.
307
00:18:48,220 --> 00:18:50,290
There's only so
many hours in a day.
308
00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:56,280
So we decided that we
would do Buster Poindexter...
309
00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:58,200
That's me...
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00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:02,910
singing the songs of
David Johansen... that's me.
311
00:19:04,820 --> 00:19:06,680
Because I know those songs.
312
00:19:09,270 --> 00:19:11,630
And so here we are, both of us.
313
00:19:11,830 --> 00:19:17,610
And... tonight, I'm gonna do
songs that I wrote or co-wrote,
314
00:19:17,810 --> 00:19:22,260
I guess from when I was a
teenager, all the way up to now.
315
00:19:22,460 --> 00:19:26,810
And the one thing I could say,
the unifying thing
316
00:19:27,010 --> 00:19:32,960
of my existence, is that there's
always been plenty of music.
317
00:19:35,310 --> 00:19:40,760
That's nice. Very nice.
318
00:19:50,730 --> 00:19:53,440
Feeling a great
sadness today
319
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I don't want to shush
it or shoo it away
320
00:19:57,770 --> 00:20:03,360
It belongs to the whole
world, the boys and girls
321
00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:07,580
It ain't just mine
322
00:20:07,780 --> 00:20:10,860
Like joy and love,
it's always there
323
00:20:11,050 --> 00:20:15,380
I don't know how I tune in,
or why that I care
324
00:20:15,580 --> 00:20:20,720
But I can't pretend it
don't feel like the end
325
00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:25,430
And everything is fine
326
00:20:25,630 --> 00:20:29,440
I feel exiled
from the divine
327
00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:33,630
Me and these sad
friends of mine
328
00:20:33,830 --> 00:20:39,380
We're just waiting down here,
drinking beer
329
00:20:39,580 --> 00:20:42,620
And losing time
330
00:20:42,820 --> 00:20:46,720
Well, I hear
plenty of music
331
00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:52,380
I see superfluous
beauty everywhere
332
00:20:52,580 --> 00:20:54,750
Why should I care
333
00:20:54,950 --> 00:20:59,860
What does it matter to me
334
00:21:02,050 --> 00:21:03,470
Yeah, yeah.
335
00:21:05,090 --> 00:21:06,470
All right, now.
336
00:21:17,690 --> 00:21:22,320
The myth of life
is a song
337
00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:24,150
Yeah!
338
00:21:24,900 --> 00:21:30,080
And nature, too,
that's the song
339
00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:32,460
All right.
340
00:21:32,660 --> 00:21:35,750
Don't you destroy the song
341
00:21:35,950 --> 00:21:40,300
'Cause when
the song is gone
342
00:21:40,500 --> 00:21:46,680
You'll be gone too
343
00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:51,000
I don't know
how it went astray
344
00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:55,250
Seem like the whole world
is an ashtray
345
00:21:55,450 --> 00:21:56,650
Floatin' around
346
00:21:56,850 --> 00:22:02,360
Some broken-down,
low-end galaxy
347
00:22:03,110 --> 00:22:06,850
I don't know what I
did to get sent here
348
00:22:07,050 --> 00:22:10,490
Must have been some
bad that I done
349
00:22:10,700 --> 00:22:12,710
There in the world gone mad
350
00:22:12,910 --> 00:22:15,100
Feeling sad
351
00:22:16,330 --> 00:22:18,480
I guess I'm sorry
352
00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:22,720
I don't need
no one to love me
353
00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:25,590
Or place theirself above me
354
00:22:25,790 --> 00:22:30,450
What does it matter,
I don't need a ladder
355
00:22:30,650 --> 00:22:33,810
What's it to me
356
00:22:34,010 --> 00:22:37,710
I hear plenty of music
357
00:22:37,910 --> 00:22:41,230
I see superfluous beauty
358
00:22:41,430 --> 00:22:42,650
Everywhere
359
00:22:42,850 --> 00:22:44,700
So why should I care
360
00:22:44,900 --> 00:22:48,490
What does it matter
361
00:22:48,690 --> 00:22:52,560
Yeah, I hear
plenty of music
362
00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:55,620
I see superfluous beauty
363
00:22:55,820 --> 00:22:57,630
Everywhere
364
00:22:57,830 --> 00:23:00,210
Why should I care
365
00:23:00,410 --> 00:23:04,960
What does it matter to me
366
00:23:05,420 --> 00:23:08,420
What's it matter to me
367
00:23:09,340 --> 00:23:12,600
Nothing matters to me
368
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:19,130
What's the matter with me
369
00:23:19,330 --> 00:23:20,110
Oh!
370
00:23:25,650 --> 00:23:28,320
Beautiful.
Beautiful.
371
00:23:41,250 --> 00:23:44,780
Poor boy
372
00:23:44,980 --> 00:23:50,970
Poor boy
373
00:23:51,170 --> 00:23:57,850
Poor boy long way from home
374
00:23:58,050 --> 00:24:04,280
When I was down
in Louisiana
375
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:09,390
Just doing as I please
376
00:24:09,580 --> 00:24:14,240
Now I'm in Texas
377
00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:20,040
I got to work or leave
378
00:24:20,790 --> 00:24:24,530
Poor boy
379
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:26,650
You
actually knew Harry Smith?
380
00:24:26,850 --> 00:24:29,340
Well, I didn't really know him,
381
00:24:29,540 --> 00:24:31,990
but I met him a couple of times.
382
00:24:32,190 --> 00:24:34,510
You went to
his place at The Chelsea?
383
00:24:35,340 --> 00:24:36,450
Yeah, probably, yeah.
384
00:24:36,650 --> 00:24:38,510
What
was his room like?
385
00:24:41,660 --> 00:24:43,840
It was kinda like, you know,
386
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:48,010
a speed den,
I think at the time.
387
00:24:48,210 --> 00:24:50,360
You know, like when I was a kid
388
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:51,910
you would go to The Chelsea
389
00:24:52,110 --> 00:24:53,720
and you'd get stuck
in there for like a week,
390
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:56,850
going to different
people's rooms and stuff.
391
00:24:57,050 --> 00:24:58,950
I was probably 18 at
the time, you know,
392
00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:05,070
so I would like to go see
people that were generally older
393
00:25:05,270 --> 00:25:07,000
and could impart
some kind of wisdom.
394
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:10,030
Was Harry
Smith one of those people?
395
00:25:10,230 --> 00:25:15,550
Well, I, you know...
396
00:25:17,590 --> 00:25:18,890
He could have been.
397
00:25:19,090 --> 00:25:21,580
- Who's this?
- Who's who?
398
00:25:21,780 --> 00:25:23,520
This guy.
399
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:26,360
- Oh, that's Harry Smith.
- Oh.
400
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:28,710
He was, you know,
like a polymath.
401
00:25:28,910 --> 00:25:31,360
This guy was into a lot
of really good shit.
402
00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:34,990
He would be into something
403
00:25:35,190 --> 00:25:38,540
and then he would be like
through with it, you know?
404
00:25:38,740 --> 00:25:40,850
When he was young,
he started out,
405
00:25:41,050 --> 00:25:43,520
he would hang with
the Lummi people.
406
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:45,330
He recorded their
traditional music
407
00:25:45,530 --> 00:25:50,300
and he made a lot of like
experimental films later on.
408
00:25:50,500 --> 00:25:54,240
He would put ads in
newspapers around the country,
409
00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:56,240
asking people if they
wanted to get rid
410
00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:59,080
of their old 78s that
were in the attic.
411
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:01,580
I mean, you know,
he was the kind of guy
412
00:26:01,780 --> 00:26:05,140
who would collect string,
you know what I mean?
413
00:26:05,810 --> 00:26:09,250
His record collection
is pivotal
414
00:26:09,450 --> 00:26:15,910
in the American music
and rock and roll
415
00:26:16,110 --> 00:26:17,930
and the folk boom in the 50s.
416
00:26:18,130 --> 00:26:20,950
Everybody who wanted
to be a folk singer
417
00:26:21,150 --> 00:26:26,450
in the 1950s would learn
songs from those records.
418
00:26:27,710 --> 00:26:31,130
And there was a lot of
different kinds of songs.
419
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:41,600
He picked like, you
know, really strange tunes.
420
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:43,270
You
recorded a lot of songs
421
00:26:43,470 --> 00:26:46,000
from the Harry Smith
record collection
422
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:49,190
and you named your
band The Harry Smiths.
423
00:26:49,390 --> 00:26:52,690
Would you say that he's
someone who inspired you?
424
00:26:53,730 --> 00:26:55,190
Not at all.
425
00:26:56,860 --> 00:27:00,640
Well, you're very averse to...
426
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:04,960
No, because he was such
a grouch, this guy.
427
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:08,040
I mean, I liked a lot
of the stuff he did,
428
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:13,320
but I never thought, "Oh wow,
I wish I could do that."
429
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:17,660
Poor boy
430
00:27:17,860 --> 00:27:22,060
Poor boy
431
00:27:22,260 --> 00:27:23,620
I grew up
in Staten Island
432
00:27:23,820 --> 00:27:26,310
in a house that my
grandfather built.
433
00:27:26,510 --> 00:27:29,420
We had a lot of
records in the house.
434
00:27:29,620 --> 00:27:30,840
Music was on all the time.
435
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:32,920
You know, sometimes
there would play a show
436
00:27:33,120 --> 00:27:36,700
while we were having dinner
or something, you know.
437
00:27:36,900 --> 00:27:39,820
What
about your dad singing?
438
00:27:40,020 --> 00:27:41,580
What about it?
439
00:27:41,780 --> 00:27:42,660
Like,
did you sing with
440
00:27:42,860 --> 00:27:44,200
your dad around the house?
441
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:47,390
Uh no, not so much,
but he was a very good singer.
442
00:27:47,590 --> 00:27:50,940
He used sing like light opera
like Gilbert and Sullivan.
443
00:27:51,140 --> 00:27:52,440
He knew a lot of operas.
444
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,750
How old were you
when you had your first band?
445
00:27:57,300 --> 00:27:58,760
Thirteen or fourteen.
446
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:04,080
We used to play at you know,
like school dances
447
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:07,140
and we used to go into
the "Battle of the Bands."
448
00:28:07,340 --> 00:28:12,230
We always used to come in
second because this other group
449
00:28:12,430 --> 00:28:15,230
from the ass end
of Staten Island,
450
00:28:16,230 --> 00:28:18,840
used to play these songs
with like The Ventures,
451
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:22,430
like with the guitars
behind their head,
452
00:28:22,630 --> 00:28:25,180
which I always saw felt like,
that's really a lame gimmick.
453
00:28:25,380 --> 00:28:28,620
But... they won every time.
454
00:28:28,820 --> 00:28:30,790
I remember the first
time we played
455
00:28:30,990 --> 00:28:34,150
I remember the first song,
Boogaloo Down Broadway
456
00:28:34,350 --> 00:28:36,130
by the fantastic Johnny C.
457
00:28:36,330 --> 00:28:38,030
- You know that song?
- No.
458
00:28:40,670 --> 00:28:42,720
Baby, oh baby
459
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:44,890
Boogaloo down Broadway
460
00:28:45,090 --> 00:28:48,210
Yeah, yeah, funky Broadway
461
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:51,900
I closed my eyes for
the whole first song...
462
00:28:52,100 --> 00:28:56,130
and then I could hear
them all applauding
463
00:28:56,330 --> 00:28:58,010
and I opened my eyes
464
00:28:58,210 --> 00:28:59,930
and I was like,
"Oh, they like it."
465
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,740
OK, here we go.
466
00:29:02,940 --> 00:29:05,780
I'm gonna just reminisce
for a minute here, but...
467
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:10,080
...it's my birthday today.
468
00:29:13,260 --> 00:29:17,900
And I'm such a
sentimental old fool.
469
00:29:18,100 --> 00:29:23,070
I was recalling how
when I was like 16,
470
00:29:23,270 --> 00:29:26,310
my friends and I went to...
471
00:29:26,510 --> 00:29:30,060
and I had a very interesting
group of friends,
472
00:29:30,260 --> 00:29:33,790
kind of like Maynard G. Krebs
type people.
473
00:29:33,990 --> 00:29:38,810
The New York Avant
Garde Festival was...
474
00:29:39,690 --> 00:29:41,880
held on the ferry boat.
475
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:45,930
So we went to see
Charlotte Moormon
476
00:29:46,130 --> 00:29:48,720
play the cello topless.
477
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,490
That's the kind of
crowd we ran with.
478
00:29:53,300 --> 00:29:58,800
We liked a little culture
with our pornography.
479
00:30:01,420 --> 00:30:04,340
So a friend of mine said,
"I work for a guy over there
480
00:30:04,540 --> 00:30:09,890
and he's looking for
somebody else to work there."
481
00:30:10,090 --> 00:30:11,120
It was a little store on
482
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:12,940
St. Mark's Place
called Matchless
483
00:30:13,140 --> 00:30:18,520
and it was run by a
fellow named Lore Wilson.
484
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:19,880
And it was nice.
485
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:21,840
They had tchotchkes,
you know, around the store.
486
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:26,890
And I was sent down to
the basement to work,
487
00:30:27,090 --> 00:30:33,830
which was like...
very dark, dank, stonewalls...
488
00:30:34,030 --> 00:30:37,080
like it was dug out of rock...
489
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,650
with moss and water
dripping down.
490
00:30:40,850 --> 00:30:43,420
It was a Dickensian hell.
491
00:30:45,130 --> 00:30:49,050
And my job was to cut logos
492
00:30:49,250 --> 00:30:53,580
off of beer cans and
soda cans, like Pepsi,
493
00:30:53,780 --> 00:30:59,340
and then put a fastener on it
and make earrings out of them.
494
00:30:59,540 --> 00:31:04,240
It was kind of pop art jewelry.
495
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:08,070
But I noticed that along
the walls there were racks
496
00:31:08,270 --> 00:31:12,080
and on the racks were
these big fat lush boas.
497
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:15,940
There was a huge
sequined phallus.
498
00:31:16,140 --> 00:31:21,550
There was... all kinds of
headdresses and costumes.
499
00:31:21,750 --> 00:31:24,420
And so I said, "Lore, what's the
deal with this...
500
00:31:24,620 --> 00:31:28,390
cosplay stuff over here?"
501
00:31:28,590 --> 00:31:31,810
And he said, "Oh, well
I'm the costume designer
502
00:31:32,010 --> 00:31:33,470
for the Ridiculous Theater
503
00:31:33,670 --> 00:31:37,770
and these are costumes
for their next production."
504
00:31:37,970 --> 00:31:40,250
I think it was
Whores of Babylon,
505
00:31:40,450 --> 00:31:44,130
or Conquest of the Universe,
or something.
506
00:31:44,330 --> 00:31:48,160
So I said, "Oh, can I go
to the rehearsal with you?"
507
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:49,590
And he said, "Oh yes."
508
00:31:49,790 --> 00:31:53,290
And then I met the most
fabulous people I think
509
00:31:53,490 --> 00:31:57,270
that I could ever have
imagined at that point.
510
00:31:57,470 --> 00:32:01,040
So I said, "Lore, I'm not
gonna be coming back tomorrow."
511
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:06,070
I was like, "I'm gonna stay
over here at the theater."
512
00:32:06,270 --> 00:32:11,630
And... sometimes I
would do the sound and...
513
00:32:12,340 --> 00:32:13,720
sometimes I
would do the lights,
514
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:17,910
sometimes I would nod out
while I was doing the sound
515
00:32:18,110 --> 00:32:20,420
and Charles Ludlam
would have to like...
516
00:32:20,620 --> 00:32:22,110
give me my cue
like three times.
517
00:32:22,310 --> 00:32:25,190
"And then the thunder rolled."
518
00:32:26,390 --> 00:32:27,590
"The thunder rolled!"
519
00:32:27,790 --> 00:32:31,030
And then I would go.
520
00:32:31,230 --> 00:32:36,990
Sometimes I was a spear
carrier and went on stage.
521
00:32:39,740 --> 00:32:41,060
It was just great.
522
00:32:41,260 --> 00:32:45,000
And one time I was sharing
a dressing room table
523
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:50,800
with Candy Darling and
Black-Eyed Susan was complaining
524
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,760
about her waitressing job.
525
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:57,870
And Candy said, "I've been a
lot of low things in my life,
526
00:32:58,070 --> 00:33:00,680
but I've never
been no waitress."
527
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:11,690
I went from hell to heaven,
you know, it was fantastic.
528
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,200
OK, baby.
529
00:33:17,820 --> 00:33:19,870
Yeah, yeah.
530
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:28,800
Temptation to exist
531
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:30,360
Give me another kiss
532
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:34,090
Tell me how you love me
533
00:33:34,290 --> 00:33:36,140
A mesmerizing kiss
534
00:33:36,340 --> 00:33:37,560
That I can't resist
535
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:42,290
Say I'm the way you want me
536
00:33:42,490 --> 00:33:48,060
So I can breathe
your perfume
537
00:33:49,770 --> 00:33:55,740
Dancing with you
'round the room
538
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:02,870
Long after a masquerade
539
00:34:03,070 --> 00:34:04,690
All right, baby.
540
00:34:04,890 --> 00:34:10,590
Stripped of
facade and costume
541
00:34:18,550 --> 00:34:20,250
The drag with being born
542
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:22,390
It's really not a thorn
543
00:34:22,590 --> 00:34:25,940
Baby, it's a dagger
544
00:34:26,140 --> 00:34:27,960
Most people would deny
545
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:29,880
Say it's a piece of pie
546
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:34,070
To you it doesn't matter
547
00:34:34,270 --> 00:34:41,780
I hear about all
the sad affairs
548
00:34:42,490 --> 00:34:47,830
Up on the heights
of despair
549
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:55,010
Someone's always perishing
550
00:34:55,210 --> 00:34:56,760
Ah...
551
00:34:58,380 --> 00:35:01,850
By the self they've assumed
552
00:35:02,050 --> 00:35:04,080
All right Ray, let's go.
553
00:35:19,990 --> 00:35:21,430
Oh!
554
00:35:21,630 --> 00:35:23,200
Yeah, baby!
555
00:35:23,990 --> 00:35:25,080
Aw yeah.
556
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:30,000
Heh-hey!
557
00:35:33,250 --> 00:35:34,920
Temptation to exist
558
00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:36,590
Obsession to persist
559
00:35:36,790 --> 00:35:40,140
Death-defying romance
560
00:35:40,340 --> 00:35:42,140
Give me another kiss
561
00:35:42,340 --> 00:35:44,020
Show me what I miss
562
00:35:44,220 --> 00:35:48,520
Baby, since our last dance
563
00:35:48,720 --> 00:35:54,280
So I can get back in tune
564
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:55,780
All right.
565
00:35:55,980 --> 00:36:01,700
Dancing with you
'round the room
566
00:36:04,700 --> 00:36:09,170
Long after the masquerade
567
00:36:09,370 --> 00:36:10,710
All right, baby.
568
00:36:12,210 --> 00:36:16,170
With no facade, no costume
569
00:36:38,610 --> 00:36:40,230
Here we go, boys.
570
00:37:00,630 --> 00:37:02,120
Ray Grappone, everybody,
571
00:37:02,310 --> 00:37:05,680
Ray Grappone on
whistling and drums.
572
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:08,060
Ray, I would whistle
with you anywhere.
573
00:37:08,260 --> 00:37:10,170
Well, thank you, boss man.
574
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:11,690
You know, Ray and I
have been practicing
575
00:37:11,890 --> 00:37:15,210
in the shower and it's
coming together really well.
576
00:37:15,410 --> 00:37:19,110
- Oh, Thomas!
- Did he say that?
577
00:37:19,310 --> 00:37:21,940
- Thomas everybody.
- Thank you.
578
00:37:23,150 --> 00:37:25,100
You are a living legend.
579
00:37:25,300 --> 00:37:29,250
Oh, oh, oh...
God bless you.
580
00:37:29,450 --> 00:37:31,330
If you need anything here
at the Caf� Carlyle,
581
00:37:31,530 --> 00:37:35,540
ladies and gentlemen,
just slip Thomas a "C" note
582
00:37:35,740 --> 00:37:37,290
and he'll take care of it.
583
00:37:38,580 --> 00:37:42,090
- I love you, thank you.
- Same to you.
584
00:37:44,150 --> 00:37:46,180
What a class joint.
585
00:37:46,380 --> 00:37:48,410
Oh, this is great.
586
00:37:48,610 --> 00:37:52,370
I'm used to playing the 2:00 AM
show in the Boom Boom Room.
587
00:37:52,570 --> 00:37:54,400
You know what I'm saying?
588
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,090
Boys, we're in top form tonight.
589
00:37:57,290 --> 00:37:59,150
Have you noticed?
590
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:05,370
This is The Boys
in the Band Band.
591
00:38:05,570 --> 00:38:10,660
Well, have you heard of
a fellow named Morrissey?
592
00:38:10,860 --> 00:38:13,100
If you haven't,
I'll clue you in.
593
00:38:13,300 --> 00:38:17,630
He was the teenage president
594
00:38:17,830 --> 00:38:23,000
of the New York Dolls
fan club in England.
595
00:38:24,590 --> 00:38:25,890
He's kind of a Gloomy Gertie.
596
00:38:26,090 --> 00:38:31,160
But he loved him some Dolls,
you know what I'm saying?
597
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:32,890
And still does.
598
00:38:35,470 --> 00:38:39,920
So... he called me and he said,
599
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:45,530
"I understand you're a
pretty big Maria Callas fan."
600
00:38:45,730 --> 00:38:48,220
And I said, "Yes, I happen to be
601
00:38:48,420 --> 00:38:50,530
known for
that in certain circles."
602
00:38:52,490 --> 00:38:56,420
And he said, "Well, you know
that film she made
603
00:38:56,620 --> 00:38:59,150
where she did
a fantastic concert
604
00:38:59,350 --> 00:39:01,420
at the Royal Festival Hall?"
605
00:39:01,620 --> 00:39:04,380
I said, "Yes, by heart."
606
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:06,430
He said, "How would
you like to play the
607
00:39:06,630 --> 00:39:08,280
Royal Festival Hall?"
608
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:09,430
I said, "Yes, I would."
609
00:39:09,630 --> 00:39:10,680
He said, "Well,
all you have to do
610
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:12,160
is get the Dolls back together."
611
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:18,350
And I thought, Royal Festival
Hall, Maria Callas.
612
00:39:21,940 --> 00:39:26,860
I combed every opium
den in Chinatown
613
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:30,950
and I pulled that band together.
614
00:39:31,860 --> 00:39:33,620
We were fantastic.
615
00:39:33,820 --> 00:39:35,950
It was a big success.
616
00:39:36,620 --> 00:39:39,910
They added a second show.
617
00:39:40,660 --> 00:39:43,380
Then... it was the
beginning of the summer
618
00:39:43,580 --> 00:39:45,360
and all these festivals
in Europe were
619
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:49,430
starting where they
play in the fields.
620
00:39:49,630 --> 00:39:52,090
I didn't know
about these things.
621
00:39:55,390 --> 00:39:56,870
They called, "Would you play?"
622
00:39:57,070 --> 00:39:59,210
And I said,
"Well, of course we would."
623
00:39:59,410 --> 00:40:01,250
We were up and running.
624
00:40:01,450 --> 00:40:03,190
We went all over the place.
625
00:40:03,390 --> 00:40:05,090
Then we went all over the world.
626
00:40:05,290 --> 00:40:08,200
Then we went all over
the world three times.
627
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:09,910
And I was like, "OK, you know,
628
00:40:10,110 --> 00:40:11,280
I've really seen
enough of this world.
629
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:13,330
I want to go home, thank you."
630
00:40:13,530 --> 00:40:15,100
I came home, my liver
was like...
631
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:22,420
So, I'm just saying
this because like
632
00:40:22,620 --> 00:40:25,760
if you haven't seen
me around, that's why.
633
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:28,760
One, two, three, four...
634
00:40:30,710 --> 00:40:32,970
Oh! That was some segue.
635
00:40:35,430 --> 00:40:37,350
My baby
636
00:40:37,550 --> 00:40:41,140
I don't talk
nasty about her
637
00:40:41,930 --> 00:40:45,960
You ain't even got no class
638
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:49,900
I'm gonna kick your ass
639
00:40:50,110 --> 00:40:51,700
All 'cause my baby
640
00:40:51,900 --> 00:40:54,350
Oh, wait a minute,
I fucked it up.
641
00:40:54,550 --> 00:40:57,490
I fucked it up.
I fucked it up.
642
00:40:58,620 --> 00:41:01,160
It's all my fault.
643
00:41:03,500 --> 00:41:04,750
I was thinking of another song,
644
00:41:04,950 --> 00:41:07,130
I was thinking of a
Jimmy Rogers song.
645
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:38,060
Who's so fly up in the sky
646
00:41:38,260 --> 00:41:41,040
Faster than any boy
could ever describe
647
00:41:41,240 --> 00:41:43,600
Who's got that love so deep
648
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:46,710
With everything alive,
I said
649
00:41:46,910 --> 00:41:49,340
Jet boys fly, jet boys gone
650
00:41:49,540 --> 00:41:51,860
Jet boys stole my baby
651
00:41:52,060 --> 00:41:54,970
Flying around
New York City so high
652
00:41:55,170 --> 00:42:00,510
Like he was my baby
653
00:42:05,890 --> 00:42:08,860
This is the kind of
place where no one cares
654
00:42:09,060 --> 00:42:11,110
What you're living for
655
00:42:11,310 --> 00:42:14,070
And Jet Boy's
so preoccupied
656
00:42:14,270 --> 00:42:16,450
He don't care about before
657
00:42:16,650 --> 00:42:17,580
And that's why
658
00:42:17,780 --> 00:42:19,700
Jet boys fly, jet boys gone
659
00:42:19,900 --> 00:42:22,730
Jet boy stole my baby
660
00:42:22,930 --> 00:42:25,540
Flying around New
York City so high
661
00:42:25,740 --> 00:42:31,420
Like he was my baby
662
00:42:31,710 --> 00:42:37,760
My baby
663
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:50,230
- Yes.
- Very nice.
664
00:42:50,430 --> 00:42:51,110
Fantastic.
665
00:42:51,310 --> 00:42:52,970
I've never seen
anything like it.
666
00:42:53,170 --> 00:42:54,780
Yes, you've never seen.
667
00:42:55,820 --> 00:42:58,580
Happy memories looking back?
What is that?
668
00:42:58,780 --> 00:43:00,450
What feelings are you feeling?
669
00:43:00,650 --> 00:43:02,750
I feel invincible.
670
00:43:02,950 --> 00:43:04,020
Yes.
671
00:43:04,220 --> 00:43:05,560
Didn't you
once get arrested
672
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:06,850
for impersonating a woman?
673
00:43:07,050 --> 00:43:10,880
Well, it was in Memphis,
as I recall, right?
674
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:12,780
But you weren't
impersonating a woman.
675
00:43:12,980 --> 00:43:14,110
I wasn't, I was kind of dressed
676
00:43:14,310 --> 00:43:15,490
like Liza Minnelli at the time.
677
00:43:15,690 --> 00:43:17,030
He invited everybody
on the stage
678
00:43:17,230 --> 00:43:19,410
and he got arrested for
that in Memphis, Tennessee.
679
00:43:19,610 --> 00:43:21,350
But they, they pegged it on
dressing like Liza Minnelli?
680
00:43:21,550 --> 00:43:25,160
Yeah, I had to go to jail
dressed like Liza Minnelli
681
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:28,500
and Memphis jail
is not Mayberry.
682
00:43:28,700 --> 00:43:30,170
It's a real jail.
683
00:43:30,370 --> 00:43:33,090
No if you went to like
the thrift store or something,
684
00:43:33,290 --> 00:43:35,530
you would most likely have
to buy women's clothes
685
00:43:35,730 --> 00:43:37,840
to look like a
rockstar, you know?
686
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:39,740
It's
interesting that you guys,
687
00:43:39,940 --> 00:43:41,870
that you thought that you
had to wear women's clothes.
688
00:43:42,070 --> 00:43:43,290
Well, we didn't have to
689
00:43:43,490 --> 00:43:45,520
but there was nothing
else available.
690
00:43:45,720 --> 00:43:48,830
You know, if
Granny Takes a Trip,
691
00:43:49,030 --> 00:43:50,710
had opened an outlet,
692
00:43:50,910 --> 00:43:55,090
then we could have wore
men's woman's clothes.
693
00:43:55,290 --> 00:43:58,410
But we used to kind of
improvise, you know.
694
00:44:03,050 --> 00:44:04,680
Come on, boys!
695
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:06,290
Were
there places where,
696
00:44:06,490 --> 00:44:07,810
or times where it felt a
little more risky or dangerous?
697
00:44:08,010 --> 00:44:09,100
Well...
698
00:44:09,300 --> 00:44:11,020
Or you
might get beat up?
699
00:44:11,220 --> 00:44:12,860
Yeah, I mean, the first
time we played outta town
700
00:44:13,060 --> 00:44:17,030
we played at some like
club in Long Island.
701
00:44:17,230 --> 00:44:19,260
It was called like
The Shark or something,
702
00:44:19,460 --> 00:44:21,030
I don't remember
what it was called.
703
00:44:21,230 --> 00:44:25,330
It was just like a big room,
like a warehouse kind of room.
704
00:44:25,530 --> 00:44:27,210
And when we pulled up,
there was all these
705
00:44:27,410 --> 00:44:30,500
like muscle cars and
stuff, pack of cigarettes
706
00:44:30,700 --> 00:44:35,710
stuck in the shirt that was
rolled up kind of a thing.
707
00:44:35,910 --> 00:44:40,800
And I was like, "Oh man,
people still doing this?"
708
00:44:42,270 --> 00:44:46,020
And we started to play
and all the guys moved
709
00:44:46,220 --> 00:44:49,750
towards the back and the
girls moved towards the front.
710
00:44:49,950 --> 00:44:51,850
Somethin' happened.
I don't even remember what,
711
00:44:52,060 --> 00:44:56,230
but the guys started beating
the hell out of each other
712
00:44:56,430 --> 00:44:59,740
and then they opened up
the doors on either side
713
00:44:59,940 --> 00:45:01,970
- and pushed everybody out.
- Why?
714
00:45:02,170 --> 00:45:05,510
Because of the sound?
The look?
715
00:45:05,710 --> 00:45:06,870
What was so bad?
716
00:45:07,070 --> 00:45:11,150
It kind of caused a
lot of sexual tension, I think,
717
00:45:11,340 --> 00:45:15,540
between guys and girls.
718
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:20,420
It was a mess.
719
00:45:26,340 --> 00:45:28,810
The thing about the Dolls,
the original Dolls, was that
720
00:45:29,010 --> 00:45:32,900
we all had very kind
of similar ideas about
721
00:45:33,100 --> 00:45:36,110
what it takes to be
a great rockstar.
722
00:45:36,310 --> 00:45:40,450
People who are really
campy, but you know,
723
00:45:40,650 --> 00:45:46,140
it's an old expression,
but it's like the lie
724
00:45:46,340 --> 00:45:49,250
that tells the truth, you know?
725
00:45:49,450 --> 00:45:54,980
And it just kind of
gets to the point.
726
00:45:59,670 --> 00:46:01,880
Baby, up all night
727
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:04,910
Baby, New York City
728
00:46:05,110 --> 00:46:07,700
Baby, so so high
729
00:46:07,900 --> 00:46:10,560
Baby, so so high
730
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:11,730
Don't you know that
731
00:46:11,930 --> 00:46:14,060
Like he was my baby
732
00:46:14,260 --> 00:46:16,900
Like he was my baby
733
00:46:17,100 --> 00:46:19,440
Like he was my baby
734
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:24,390
I remember during this period
when we were having this
735
00:46:24,580 --> 00:46:29,850
reunion thing, the Dolls,
we got a call from
736
00:46:30,050 --> 00:46:32,690
one of our myriad
record companies.
737
00:46:34,140 --> 00:46:35,880
Every time we do a record,
we get dumped.
738
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:41,840
So, they said, "Would you
like to go to the island
739
00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:46,970
of Kauai, Hawaii
and make a record
740
00:46:47,170 --> 00:46:48,830
at the home of Todd Rundgren?"
741
00:46:49,030 --> 00:46:52,890
I said, "Yes... now?
Like now? January now."
742
00:46:53,090 --> 00:46:54,960
"Yes."
743
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:57,520
Showed up a few days early.
744
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:01,170
Todd was kind of pissed,
but fuck him.
745
00:47:06,030 --> 00:47:07,910
You know what I'm saying?
746
00:47:08,110 --> 00:47:09,820
Who does he think he is?
747
00:47:11,370 --> 00:47:12,810
So he said,
"OK, what do you...
748
00:47:13,010 --> 00:47:14,100
play me what you got.
What do you got?"
749
00:47:14,300 --> 00:47:16,870
I said,
"We don't have nothing, man.
750
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:21,190
We'll get right to it though."
751
00:47:21,390 --> 00:47:23,530
So, it was great.
752
00:47:23,730 --> 00:47:25,150
It was verdant.
753
00:47:25,350 --> 00:47:26,970
It was lush.
754
00:47:27,170 --> 00:47:30,200
I don't know if you saw it
in Architectural Digest,
755
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:33,850
but Todd's house,
756
00:47:34,050 --> 00:47:39,540
it looks like a Cambodian
drug lord's pagoda.
757
00:47:40,910 --> 00:47:42,380
It's beautiful.
758
00:47:42,580 --> 00:47:45,260
I was like,
"Man, a gentleman of my stature
759
00:47:45,460 --> 00:47:47,590
belongs right here."
760
00:47:47,790 --> 00:47:48,820
You know what I'm saying?
761
00:47:49,020 --> 00:47:51,760
We went back to the
Bay of Honah Lee.
762
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:54,680
You know who lives there,
don't you?
763
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:57,700
Puff.
764
00:47:58,250 --> 00:47:59,900
Oh, yeah.
765
00:48:00,100 --> 00:48:02,980
We hung with Puff a
little bit there, baby.
766
00:48:03,180 --> 00:48:04,750
It was cool.
767
00:48:06,340 --> 00:48:07,970
Normally it rained every day.
768
00:48:08,170 --> 00:48:10,160
But intermittently,
at intervals.
769
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:14,250
Usually, it stopped raining
when it was time for us
770
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:16,520
to go in the studio
and make some noise
771
00:48:16,720 --> 00:48:21,040
with the pots and pans, but
it was it was still beautiful.
772
00:48:22,490 --> 00:48:24,940
Anyway, we wrote
this song there.
773
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:29,480
It's a good one.
It's gonna be really good.
774
00:48:37,530 --> 00:48:43,170
Hate how the myth
of separation
775
00:48:43,370 --> 00:48:47,130
Really cast a spell on me
776
00:48:47,330 --> 00:48:49,990
Never missing one occasion
777
00:48:50,190 --> 00:48:55,350
Of the infinite
varieties of agony
778
00:48:55,550 --> 00:49:00,000
We pass on down our
borrowed anguish
779
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:04,190
Our blasted joys,
our jubilant despair
780
00:49:04,390 --> 00:49:08,590
Leave us crying out
here to languish
781
00:49:08,790 --> 00:49:13,030
Poor outcast,
it's too much to bear
782
00:49:13,230 --> 00:49:16,910
Making rain
783
00:49:17,110 --> 00:49:19,480
Yeah, making rain
784
00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:22,020
It's always raining here
785
00:49:22,220 --> 00:49:26,340
Sometimes I need a
little shove, yeah
786
00:49:26,540 --> 00:49:30,970
Remind me of my providence
787
00:49:31,170 --> 00:49:35,050
Learn to bear the
beams of love, yeah
788
00:49:35,250 --> 00:49:39,290
Mending my conflict
with circumstance
789
00:49:39,490 --> 00:49:41,890
Just making rain
790
00:49:42,100 --> 00:49:43,770
Yeah!
791
00:49:43,970 --> 00:49:46,000
Yeah, making rain
792
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:48,280
It's always raining here
793
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:51,020
The heart's in pain
794
00:49:52,860 --> 00:49:54,370
Crying in the rain
795
00:49:54,570 --> 00:49:57,540
Here comes that rain again
796
00:49:57,740 --> 00:50:02,870
Exacerbations,
excruciations
797
00:50:03,070 --> 00:50:06,210
That's the tears of things
798
00:50:10,890 --> 00:50:12,210
Yeah, baby.
799
00:50:29,350 --> 00:50:34,030
Exacerbations,
excruciations
800
00:50:34,230 --> 00:50:38,830
Well, that's the
tears of things
801
00:50:39,030 --> 00:50:40,910
Very nice.
802
00:50:44,410 --> 00:50:48,380
Waiting in a subway station
803
00:50:48,580 --> 00:50:52,380
In some godforsaken
neighborhood
804
00:50:52,580 --> 00:50:56,340
It's as if my
blood was dreaming
805
00:50:56,540 --> 00:51:00,350
And resolved
itself into melody
806
00:51:00,550 --> 00:51:04,350
Yeah, making rain
807
00:51:04,550 --> 00:51:06,420
Here comes the rain
808
00:51:06,620 --> 00:51:09,070
It's always raining here
809
00:51:09,270 --> 00:51:12,230
Our hearts in pain
810
00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:17,110
Yeah, findin' the rain
811
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:21,040
Oh, the rain
812
00:51:21,240 --> 00:51:23,100
Yeah, the rain
813
00:51:23,300 --> 00:51:25,790
It's always raining here
814
00:51:25,990 --> 00:51:29,170
Oh, the rain
815
00:51:29,370 --> 00:51:30,570
Yay...
816
00:51:30,770 --> 00:51:35,630
Yeah, it's always
raining here
817
00:51:40,250 --> 00:51:42,330
Yeah, baby.
818
00:51:42,530 --> 00:51:44,230
Yup.
819
00:51:44,430 --> 00:51:47,020
Keith Cotton,
everybody, on the piano.
820
00:51:52,560 --> 00:51:56,450
You know, when I was 18,
I started hanging around at
821
00:51:56,650 --> 00:51:59,300
this place, Max's Kansas City.
822
00:51:59,500 --> 00:52:02,280
It was kind of like this place.
823
00:52:02,490 --> 00:52:04,140
Great people.
824
00:52:04,340 --> 00:52:05,890
My kind of people,
you know what I'm saying?
825
00:52:06,090 --> 00:52:09,060
Like, it was probably the
greatest bo�te of all time
826
00:52:09,260 --> 00:52:12,040
after Caf� Carlyle.
827
00:52:12,250 --> 00:52:15,790
But still up there
in the top two.
828
00:52:16,880 --> 00:52:20,390
It was a lot like this actually.
It was a lot like this.
829
00:52:20,590 --> 00:52:23,950
Some of the greatest queens
you'd ever wanna meet.
830
00:52:24,150 --> 00:52:26,010
Oh, my god.
831
00:52:27,350 --> 00:52:29,060
I remember one night...
832
00:52:30,730 --> 00:52:32,570
I believe it was...
833
00:52:32,770 --> 00:52:36,260
Penny, you'll correct
me if I'm wrong.
834
00:52:36,460 --> 00:52:40,530
Because Penny Arcade was
there as well this evening.
835
00:52:40,730 --> 00:52:45,240
It was Ingrid Superstar?
836
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:51,230
It was you, Bill Vehr and
Ingrid Superstar and me.
837
00:52:51,430 --> 00:52:54,670
OK, Penny and I,
my friend Bill Vehr
838
00:52:54,870 --> 00:53:02,340
from the Ridiculous Theater.
The author of Turds in Hell.
839
00:53:04,380 --> 00:53:07,310
He was my best
friend at the time.
840
00:53:07,510 --> 00:53:09,270
We were biffing.
841
00:53:09,470 --> 00:53:10,930
And Ingrid Superstar.
842
00:53:12,480 --> 00:53:15,610
And Ingrid said,
843
00:53:15,810 --> 00:53:17,340
"You're on a trip.
You're on a trip.
844
00:53:17,540 --> 00:53:22,320
You're on... everybody here
is on a trip except for me."
845
00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:27,910
And Bill very calmly said,
"But, Ingrid Superstar,
846
00:53:28,700 --> 00:53:30,810
you took eight Tuinals."
847
00:53:31,010 --> 00:53:34,920
She said, "Yeah, but
I'm not on a trip."
848
00:53:36,790 --> 00:53:39,470
Anyway, I found that
amusing, you know.
849
00:53:39,670 --> 00:53:44,260
So much so, that I recall
that after all these years.
850
00:53:45,730 --> 00:53:51,230
Something about certain
turns of phrase in language
851
00:53:51,430 --> 00:53:53,750
that are peculiar to each of us.
852
00:53:53,950 --> 00:53:56,940
Written
for you, Tina Louise.
853
00:53:58,860 --> 00:54:04,220
- What's my real name, Duchess?
- I don't know.
854
00:54:04,420 --> 00:54:06,350
You really like to
destroy people, don't you?
855
00:54:06,550 --> 00:54:10,890
Everybody you
would meet would be alive,
856
00:54:11,090 --> 00:54:14,900
freewheelin' and so
much stuff going on.
857
00:54:15,100 --> 00:54:19,650
So that after you've
come six times, six times,
858
00:54:19,850 --> 00:54:24,300
you're gonna find out
that you're Superman, you see.
859
00:54:24,500 --> 00:54:26,350
There's something
wrong with this.
860
00:54:26,550 --> 00:54:28,910
Charles Ludlum came
to the show one night
861
00:54:29,110 --> 00:54:31,500
and he just said, "I'm
having a personality crisis."
862
00:54:31,700 --> 00:54:34,650
And I thought,
"That's really good."
863
00:54:34,850 --> 00:54:35,920
And I kind of
remembered it, you know.
864
00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:38,050
Here, let me
pull through the bottom.
865
00:54:38,240 --> 00:54:40,900
I remember when I moved
into my first apartment,
866
00:54:41,100 --> 00:54:46,030
which was a seventh-floor walkup
on the Hells Angels block.
867
00:54:46,230 --> 00:54:52,410
I turned on the radiator
and it just like started hissing steam
868
00:54:52,610 --> 00:54:55,600
I really didn't
know what to do about it.
869
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:59,780
And so, I knocked on, I guess
it was my neighbor's door,
870
00:54:59,970 --> 00:55:03,450
or two doors down
and this guy came in.
871
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:07,410
He was like a college professor,
but kind of like, you know,
872
00:55:07,610 --> 00:55:10,200
a hip college
professor kind of guy.
873
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:15,000
He was very nice
and very political.
874
00:55:15,200 --> 00:55:19,670
He told me that I should
check out his group,
875
00:55:19,870 --> 00:55:24,130
which happened to be the Up
Against the Wall Motherfuckers.
876
00:55:24,330 --> 00:55:25,400
I said, "OK."
877
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:27,110
And he kind of like would
encourage me
878
00:55:27,310 --> 00:55:28,620
because apparently,
879
00:55:28,820 --> 00:55:34,030
I had the stuff to rally the
street if something went down,
880
00:55:34,780 --> 00:55:37,580
so I used to stay on the corner,
881
00:55:37,780 --> 00:55:39,340
like go climb up a
lamppost and say,
882
00:55:39,540 --> 00:55:41,610
"We're not gonna let these cops,
883
00:55:41,810 --> 00:55:43,260
blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah."
884
00:55:43,460 --> 00:55:45,470
And everybody'd
be like, "No, no."
885
00:55:45,670 --> 00:55:48,840
And then there'd be
like some kind of a...
886
00:55:51,430 --> 00:55:53,890
skirmish or whatever.
887
00:55:54,090 --> 00:55:58,060
And my mother said to
me about them, she said,
888
00:55:58,260 --> 00:56:01,230
"You know what you are?
You're a commie dupe."
889
00:56:03,480 --> 00:56:06,340
I had to
think like, "Yeah, maybe."
890
00:56:06,540 --> 00:56:07,700
Maybe I was.
891
00:56:07,900 --> 00:56:11,390
There were so many characters
on St. Mark's Place in,
892
00:56:11,590 --> 00:56:13,790
you know, '69,'70.
893
00:56:13,990 --> 00:56:18,370
I used to really like Abbie
Hoffman a lot when I was a kid.
894
00:56:18,570 --> 00:56:20,000
Did
you meet him first?
895
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:23,440
Yeah, I used to see
him all the time.
896
00:56:23,640 --> 00:56:25,030
He was very personable.
897
00:56:25,230 --> 00:56:27,740
We planted a tree in the
middle of St. Mark's Place.
898
00:56:27,940 --> 00:56:29,050
He was the instigator of that.
899
00:56:29,250 --> 00:56:32,300
The ruse of it was
that we need more trees
900
00:56:32,510 --> 00:56:33,910
on St. Mark's Place.
901
00:56:34,110 --> 00:56:35,620
He said, "Where're
we gonna get a tree?"
902
00:56:35,820 --> 00:56:39,480
I said, "They got trees
all over Staten Island."
903
00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:40,810
He got a van, came
to Staten Island,
904
00:56:41,010 --> 00:56:42,900
dug up a tree like
in the Greenbelt
905
00:56:43,100 --> 00:56:44,980
or something where
there's a million trees.
906
00:56:45,180 --> 00:56:47,070
And did you
put it in like a bucket
907
00:56:47,270 --> 00:56:48,300
or did you...
908
00:56:48,500 --> 00:56:50,450
No, I think they just
put a mound of dirt around it,
909
00:56:50,650 --> 00:56:52,220
as I recall.
910
00:56:52,420 --> 00:56:53,530
They didn't expect it to stay.
911
00:56:53,730 --> 00:56:55,600
It was in the middle
of the street.
912
00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:59,520
Like they just wanted
to like do something.
913
00:56:59,720 --> 00:57:01,020
We went to Lincoln Center.
914
00:57:01,220 --> 00:57:03,730
It might have been the
opening of Lincoln Center.
915
00:57:03,930 --> 00:57:06,960
You know, those like
industrial boxes of Tide
916
00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:10,410
like they have at a
laundromat so you can buy
917
00:57:10,610 --> 00:57:11,700
like a cupful or whatever?
918
00:57:11,900 --> 00:57:15,220
They dumped one of
those in the fountain.
919
00:57:15,420 --> 00:57:18,710
And it just like started,
it was like a comedy movie.
920
00:57:18,910 --> 00:57:22,730
It just like started foaming
up and all these people
921
00:57:22,930 --> 00:57:25,310
who were like, you know...
922
00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:28,110
uh...
923
00:57:28,310 --> 00:57:31,910
society contributors
to Lincoln Center, right?
924
00:57:32,110 --> 00:57:33,600
They were all done
up to the nines
925
00:57:33,790 --> 00:57:36,910
and they were all like
slipping in the foam.
926
00:57:37,110 --> 00:57:39,910
And it was great.
It was so beautiful.
927
00:57:40,110 --> 00:57:43,580
There was a lot of
liberation movements
928
00:57:43,780 --> 00:57:45,480
in the East Village
in those days.
929
00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:47,710
They were all kind
of interesting, so...
930
00:57:47,910 --> 00:57:50,760
But the Yippies were the
most ridiculous, you know,
931
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:53,820
so that appealed to me
932
00:57:54,020 --> 00:57:57,260
and Charles Ludlam
was ridiculous
933
00:57:57,460 --> 00:57:59,560
and that appealed to me.
934
00:57:59,760 --> 00:58:04,710
Ridiculousness is something
that I've always kind of,
935
00:58:04,910 --> 00:58:07,650
especially, if it's really
intelligent ridiculousness
936
00:58:07,850 --> 00:58:13,550
it's kind of appealing to me.
937
00:58:40,090 --> 00:58:43,060
We've really expanded
all definitions
938
00:58:43,260 --> 00:58:46,500
and all mediums to where
that you have to forget
939
00:58:46,700 --> 00:58:50,090
those definitions that you
learned in school.
940
00:58:50,290 --> 00:58:52,090
But you got
to forget that, folks.
941
00:58:52,290 --> 00:58:54,680
So, you got to forget
the definition of art,
942
00:58:54,880 --> 00:58:58,010
the definition of music, the
definition of video art now.
943
00:58:58,210 --> 00:59:03,120
All these things are being
expanded every single day.
944
00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:07,610
Music does not aim
at sound itself,
945
00:59:07,810 --> 00:59:10,980
but is in a complex conception.
946
00:59:11,180 --> 00:59:13,240
First, forget about sounds.
947
00:59:13,440 --> 00:59:15,260
Sounds must be free.
948
00:59:21,010 --> 00:59:23,600
The goal of today's
Mansion of Fun show
949
00:59:23,800 --> 00:59:28,210
is to live with
godlike composure
950
00:59:28,410 --> 00:59:34,570
on the full rush of energy,
like Dionysus riding the leopard
951
00:59:34,770 --> 00:59:37,650
without being torn to pieces.
952
01:01:34,810 --> 01:01:37,530
Hey, Leroy!
953
01:01:37,730 --> 01:01:39,800
- What?
- Your mama.
954
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:41,260
She's calling you, man.
955
01:01:54,120 --> 01:01:58,580
You know, when I was a kid,
I lived on East Sixth Street.
956
01:02:01,130 --> 01:02:02,680
Before that, I lived
on Third Street
957
01:02:02,880 --> 01:02:04,200
on the Hells Angels block.
958
01:02:04,400 --> 01:02:07,660
Not my cup of tea.
959
01:02:07,860 --> 01:02:08,870
I mean, it was all right.
960
01:02:09,070 --> 01:02:13,120
But... one day there was
a knock at the door,
961
01:02:13,320 --> 01:02:16,090
which was in the kitchen,
962
01:02:16,290 --> 01:02:19,990
which is also where the
bathtub was located.
963
01:02:20,190 --> 01:02:26,260
I opened the door and
there stood this big viking
964
01:02:26,460 --> 01:02:33,870
who was wearing a tutu
and paratrooper boots
965
01:02:34,200 --> 01:02:37,920
and some like ripped
yellow tights.
966
01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:40,510
Next to him was this
little Colombian guy.
967
01:02:40,710 --> 01:02:44,590
He was kind of like cleaning
his nails with a stiletto.
968
01:02:44,790 --> 01:02:48,720
But still I thought, "I gotta
watch out for this big guy."
969
01:02:48,920 --> 01:02:51,910
Turned out though it
was the little guy
970
01:02:52,110 --> 01:02:53,290
I had to watch out for.
971
01:02:53,490 --> 01:02:57,920
Anyway, it was Arthur Kane
and Billy Murcia.
972
01:02:58,120 --> 01:03:01,530
And... Thank you.
973
01:03:01,730 --> 01:03:06,360
Arthur said to me, "I
understand you're a singer."
974
01:03:07,820 --> 01:03:09,080
I didn't really
expect that voice,
975
01:03:09,280 --> 01:03:15,620
you know, to come
out of this Cossack.
976
01:03:16,790 --> 01:03:20,150
I said, "Yeah, I like to sing."
977
01:03:20,350 --> 01:03:23,050
He said, "Well, we're
trying to start a band
978
01:03:23,250 --> 01:03:25,240
and we need a singer."
979
01:03:25,440 --> 01:03:27,090
And I said, "OK, I'm in."
980
01:03:27,290 --> 01:03:30,180
I mean, you know, I made
snap decisions in those days.
981
01:03:30,380 --> 01:03:33,020
You know, like later on in
life you start thinking,
982
01:03:33,220 --> 01:03:35,850
"Well, what's this gonna
be like in six months?"
983
01:03:36,600 --> 01:03:37,730
You know?
984
01:03:37,930 --> 01:03:39,290
This is like,
at that point like,
985
01:03:39,490 --> 01:03:43,130
"What's this going to be like"
let me do the arithmetics.
986
01:03:43,330 --> 01:03:45,130
Fifty years later,
you're still like,
987
01:03:45,330 --> 01:03:47,690
"Oh my God, what was that?"
988
01:03:50,450 --> 01:03:52,470
So we went over to 10th Street
989
01:03:52,670 --> 01:03:57,120
where Johnny Thunders had
a very nice apartment.
990
01:03:57,320 --> 01:04:02,070
The bathtub was in the bathroom,
you know what I'm saying?
991
01:04:02,270 --> 01:04:04,460
Couple other rooms.
992
01:04:04,670 --> 01:04:06,910
I think his mother
was paying his rent.
993
01:04:07,100 --> 01:04:10,330
I mean, I'm not sure, OK?
994
01:04:10,520 --> 01:04:13,430
So don't quote me on that.
995
01:04:14,300 --> 01:04:15,960
New York Dolls
guitarist Johnny Thunders
996
01:04:16,160 --> 01:04:17,730
was found dead on the
floor of a guest house
997
01:04:17,930 --> 01:04:20,020
in the French Quarter of New
Orleans on Tuesday afternoon.
998
01:04:20,220 --> 01:04:21,540
The cause of death hasn't
yet been determined.
999
01:04:21,740 --> 01:04:24,150
But Thunders, whose given
name was John Genzale,
1000
01:04:24,350 --> 01:04:25,490
had a longtime drug habit.
1001
01:04:25,690 --> 01:04:29,320
Our will is hard
1002
01:04:29,520 --> 01:04:32,950
Man, it's so hard
1003
01:04:33,150 --> 01:04:36,250
And it's a lonely
planet joy
1004
01:04:36,450 --> 01:04:40,230
When you bring a song
from your other boy
1005
01:04:40,430 --> 01:04:44,630
That's when I'm a
lonely planet boy
1006
01:04:44,830 --> 01:04:47,800
And I'm tryin'
1007
01:04:48,000 --> 01:04:51,680
For your love
1008
01:04:51,880 --> 01:04:57,140
Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah
1009
01:04:57,340 --> 01:04:59,250
You pick me up
1010
01:04:59,450 --> 01:05:03,770
You're out drivin'
in your car
1011
01:05:03,970 --> 01:05:07,090
I tell you where I'm going
1012
01:05:07,290 --> 01:05:08,900
You're always telling me
1013
01:05:09,100 --> 01:05:11,200
It's too far
1014
01:05:11,400 --> 01:05:15,720
But how could
you be drivin'
1015
01:05:15,920 --> 01:05:18,210
Down by my home
1016
01:05:18,410 --> 01:05:20,060
When you know
1017
01:05:20,260 --> 01:05:22,880
I ain't got one
1018
01:05:23,080 --> 01:05:24,360
And
1019
01:05:24,560 --> 01:05:29,090
I'm so all alone
1020
01:05:29,290 --> 01:05:32,050
Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah
1021
01:05:32,250 --> 01:05:33,240
All right.
1022
01:05:33,440 --> 01:05:36,180
Well, it's a
lonely planet joy
1023
01:05:36,380 --> 01:05:40,420
When you bring the song
from your other boys
1024
01:05:40,610 --> 01:05:48,480
That's when I'm a lonely
planet boy and I'm tryin'
1025
01:05:48,810 --> 01:05:51,280
Yeah, cryin'
1026
01:05:51,480 --> 01:05:54,780
Baby for your love
1027
01:05:54,980 --> 01:05:59,160
Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah
1028
01:06:08,080 --> 01:06:09,960
Oh, yeah!
1029
01:06:32,070 --> 01:06:36,530
Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah
1030
01:06:36,730 --> 01:06:39,470
Can't you hear me callin'
1031
01:06:39,670 --> 01:06:44,460
When I'm a thousand
miles away
1032
01:06:44,660 --> 01:06:46,210
I don't wanna stay
1033
01:06:46,410 --> 01:06:50,670
I'm thinking of
words I gotta say
1034
01:06:50,870 --> 01:06:55,030
'Cause I wanna be
there with you
1035
01:06:55,230 --> 01:06:58,390
I know what to bring you
1036
01:06:58,590 --> 01:06:59,760
I remember
1037
01:06:59,970 --> 01:07:02,020
From the days
1038
01:07:02,220 --> 01:07:05,270
I got over
1039
01:07:05,470 --> 01:07:08,230
Everything
1040
01:07:08,430 --> 01:07:12,550
Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah
1041
01:07:12,750 --> 01:07:16,280
Well, it's a
lonely planet joy
1042
01:07:16,480 --> 01:07:20,220
When you bring a song
from your other boys
1043
01:07:20,420 --> 01:07:24,000
That's when I'm a
lonely planet boy
1044
01:07:24,200 --> 01:07:27,810
And I'm tryin'
1045
01:07:28,010 --> 01:07:30,210
Yeah, I'm cryin'
1046
01:07:30,410 --> 01:07:34,300
Oh, can't you see
that I'm dyin'
1047
01:07:34,500 --> 01:07:38,050
Baby, for your love
1048
01:07:38,250 --> 01:07:42,500
Whoa, whoa whoa, yeah
1049
01:07:42,690 --> 01:07:45,560
Whoa, whoa, yeah
1050
01:07:45,760 --> 01:07:50,100
Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah
1051
01:08:04,950 --> 01:08:09,730
Let me tell you about
the time I met Mara, all right?
1052
01:08:09,930 --> 01:08:14,110
My life was going along
kind of like Groundhog Day.
1053
01:08:14,310 --> 01:08:16,650
I didn't really see
much reason to continue
1054
01:08:16,850 --> 01:08:20,220
and then I met Mara and
oh my God, you know?
1055
01:08:22,070 --> 01:08:23,220
I don't believe it.
1056
01:08:23,420 --> 01:08:26,910
I don't believe it.
1057
01:08:27,110 --> 01:08:28,750
I love you, Mara.
1058
01:08:28,950 --> 01:08:30,610
I love you.
1059
01:08:30,810 --> 01:08:34,810
Always will.
1060
01:08:38,110 --> 01:08:39,700
It was a scandal.
1061
01:08:39,900 --> 01:08:40,340
Oh my God.
1062
01:08:40,540 --> 01:08:43,080
But... so worth it.
1063
01:08:47,370 --> 01:08:49,310
So anyway, I wrote this...
1064
01:08:49,510 --> 01:08:52,820
I wrote this lyric...
1065
01:08:53,020 --> 01:08:54,110
for my love.
1066
01:09:01,130 --> 01:09:03,390
Been cravin' more life
1067
01:09:03,590 --> 01:09:05,600
And more love
1068
01:09:05,800 --> 01:09:07,520
That lives in the soul
1069
01:09:07,720 --> 01:09:09,580
Of my heart
1070
01:09:09,780 --> 01:09:11,900
I don't wanna be
1071
01:09:12,100 --> 01:09:13,480
No artist
1072
01:09:13,680 --> 01:09:15,900
I'm a dancin', singin'
1073
01:09:16,100 --> 01:09:18,150
A work of art
1074
01:09:18,350 --> 01:09:19,680
Yeah, you lit my heart
1075
01:09:19,880 --> 01:09:25,870
With fiery aggression
and you showed me
1076
01:09:26,280 --> 01:09:28,370
This feeling of love
1077
01:09:28,570 --> 01:09:32,370
Of sex and affection
that ya owed me
1078
01:09:34,960 --> 01:09:37,630
Danger
1079
01:09:37,830 --> 01:09:42,930
And I ain't scared
1080
01:09:43,130 --> 01:09:45,560
In danger
1081
01:09:45,760 --> 01:09:50,210
I found the splendor there
1082
01:09:50,410 --> 01:09:54,880
I was dancin' on
a flamin' pit
1083
01:09:55,080 --> 01:09:56,020
Dancing
1084
01:09:56,220 --> 01:09:58,400
We are creating it
1085
01:09:58,600 --> 01:10:00,130
We're dancing
1086
01:10:00,330 --> 01:10:02,070
Right on the lip
1087
01:10:02,270 --> 01:10:05,740
Of a volcano
1088
01:10:12,160 --> 01:10:16,380
Nature with its true voice
cries out undissembled
1089
01:10:16,580 --> 01:10:19,360
Be as I am
1090
01:10:19,560 --> 01:10:25,930
Revealing its wildest
most generous incarnation
1091
01:10:28,050 --> 01:10:30,640
In danger
1092
01:10:30,840 --> 01:10:35,560
Devil may care
1093
01:10:35,760 --> 01:10:38,230
Danger
1094
01:10:38,430 --> 01:10:43,030
The fire's everywhere
1095
01:10:43,230 --> 01:10:44,700
'Cause we're dancing
1096
01:10:44,900 --> 01:10:46,660
Atop a flamin' pit
1097
01:10:46,860 --> 01:10:48,410
We're dancing
1098
01:10:48,610 --> 01:10:50,540
We are creating it
1099
01:10:50,740 --> 01:10:52,690
We're dancing
1100
01:10:52,880 --> 01:10:54,460
Right on the lip
1101
01:10:54,660 --> 01:10:58,670
Of a volcano
1102
01:10:58,870 --> 01:11:01,590
Oh yeah.
All right.
1103
01:11:02,960 --> 01:11:07,130
Yeah, man.
All right, man.
1104
01:11:09,470 --> 01:11:11,300
Oh, yeah!
1105
01:11:18,730 --> 01:11:22,190
Oh!
1106
01:11:27,780 --> 01:11:31,490
In the center of action of
my psyche's need for love
1107
01:11:31,690 --> 01:11:35,210
I want liberation and joy
1108
01:11:35,410 --> 01:11:38,310
In a paroxysm
of intoxication
1109
01:11:38,510 --> 01:11:43,170
Inspiration ain't
no way to be coy
1110
01:11:43,370 --> 01:11:45,570
In danger
1111
01:11:45,770 --> 01:11:48,850
A blazing glare
1112
01:11:49,050 --> 01:11:51,010
Oh, yes!
1113
01:11:51,210 --> 01:11:53,560
In danger
1114
01:11:53,760 --> 01:11:58,170
I found the splendor there
1115
01:11:58,370 --> 01:11:59,340
Oh, yeah
1116
01:11:59,530 --> 01:12:02,570
Dancin' atop flamin' pit
1117
01:12:02,770 --> 01:12:05,800
Dancin', we're creating it
1118
01:12:06,000 --> 01:12:09,990
We're dancin'
right on the lip
1119
01:12:10,190 --> 01:12:14,180
Of a volcano
1120
01:12:14,380 --> 01:12:17,540
Volcano
1121
01:12:17,740 --> 01:12:23,380
A volcano
1122
01:12:25,670 --> 01:12:29,340
Thrown in the dance
with the mystics
1123
01:12:29,540 --> 01:12:33,810
It's burnin' us
up with his music
1124
01:12:34,010 --> 01:12:37,560
It's sensualistic
1125
01:12:37,760 --> 01:12:41,690
It's ritual
1126
01:12:41,890 --> 01:12:45,440
It's polytheistic
1127
01:12:48,440 --> 01:12:51,450
Ye-heh-heh.
1128
01:13:00,750 --> 01:13:01,960
Whoa.
1129
01:13:12,840 --> 01:13:17,730
Oh, smokestack lightning
1130
01:13:17,930 --> 01:13:21,480
Shinin' just like gold
1131
01:13:21,680 --> 01:13:27,440
Oh, don't you
hear me cryin'
1132
01:13:28,270 --> 01:13:31,450
A-whoo-hoo
1133
01:13:31,650 --> 01:13:35,290
A-whoo-hoo
1134
01:13:35,490 --> 01:13:39,870
A-whoo-hoo
1135
01:13:40,070 --> 01:13:43,710
Oh, stop your tryin'
1136
01:13:43,910 --> 01:13:47,010
Let a poor boy ride
1137
01:13:47,210 --> 01:13:53,640
Oh, don't you
hear me cryin'
1138
01:13:53,840 --> 01:13:57,180
A-whoo-hoo
1139
01:13:57,380 --> 01:14:00,810
A-whoo-hoo
1140
01:14:01,010 --> 01:14:04,810
A-whoo-hoo
1141
01:14:05,010 --> 01:14:09,860
A lot of these are from
when I sang with Hubert.
1142
01:14:10,060 --> 01:14:11,990
A lot of Howlin' Wolf
1143
01:14:12,190 --> 01:14:16,760
Wang-Dang-Doodle and
things of that nature.
1144
01:14:16,960 --> 01:14:22,980
Oh, here's Blind Willie McTell
and his wife.
1145
01:14:23,180 --> 01:14:25,840
Apparently he shot his wife.
He only winged her.
1146
01:14:26,040 --> 01:14:29,550
But from what they say,
it may be apocryphal,
1147
01:14:29,750 --> 01:14:32,990
but they say that he stood
in the middle of the room
1148
01:14:33,190 --> 01:14:38,890
and just, like, swung
around rapid firing...
1149
01:14:39,090 --> 01:14:41,350
like a ballet dancer.
1150
01:14:41,550 --> 01:14:42,640
What's this one?
1151
01:14:42,840 --> 01:14:44,310
I don't know.
1152
01:14:44,510 --> 01:14:46,650
This is...
1153
01:14:46,850 --> 01:14:50,740
It says it's Buster's
big book, so...
1154
01:14:50,940 --> 01:14:52,650
let's see.
1155
01:14:52,850 --> 01:14:54,950
Explain to
me your lyric book.
1156
01:14:55,150 --> 01:14:56,490
It's not just lyrics in there.
1157
01:14:56,690 --> 01:14:58,470
There's something else in there.
1158
01:14:58,670 --> 01:15:01,430
What's in that book that
I used for the show?
1159
01:15:01,630 --> 01:15:02,710
Uh-huh.
1160
01:15:02,910 --> 01:15:05,630
There's a lot of, like,
devotional art in there.
1161
01:15:05,830 --> 01:15:09,750
There's millions of
Hindu gods, you know.
1162
01:15:09,950 --> 01:15:11,610
You ever go to, like,
Central Park
1163
01:15:11,810 --> 01:15:13,990
and there'll be a lot of, like,
Cuban guys and Puerto-Ricans
1164
01:15:14,190 --> 01:15:18,700
and they're all playing
congas and things like that.
1165
01:15:18,900 --> 01:15:20,580
Do they still have that there?
1166
01:15:20,780 --> 01:15:21,950
Yeah.
1167
01:15:22,150 --> 01:15:26,850
You know those guys that
are into, like, the Orishas?
1168
01:15:27,060 --> 01:15:30,170
So, like, say you
and me are playing.
1169
01:15:30,370 --> 01:15:33,240
'Cause you know, the rumbas
all have, you know, like...
1170
01:15:33,440 --> 01:15:38,550
saints that each beat is
dedicated to or whatever.
1171
01:15:38,750 --> 01:15:40,080
So they kind of just, like,
1172
01:15:40,280 --> 01:15:42,600
beam it up and then it
comes back down to you.
1173
01:15:42,800 --> 01:15:45,600
It's not like we're playing,
like, at each other.
1174
01:15:45,800 --> 01:15:47,480
So when
you'll turn a page,
1175
01:15:47,680 --> 01:15:49,090
there'll be a
different image there
1176
01:15:49,290 --> 01:15:52,000
that's associated
somehow with that song.
1177
01:15:52,210 --> 01:15:53,670
It could be associated
with that song.
1178
01:15:53,870 --> 01:15:57,110
It's just something that reminds
me of what I'm there for,
1179
01:15:57,310 --> 01:15:58,300
you know.
1180
01:15:58,500 --> 01:16:00,180
Because it makes it a lot
more fun for me, you know.
1181
01:16:00,380 --> 01:16:02,970
Music to me is, you know, they
say playing music, you know.
1182
01:16:03,170 --> 01:16:05,560
They don't say
like working music.
1183
01:16:05,760 --> 01:16:07,150
You're supposed to be playing.
1184
01:16:07,350 --> 01:16:08,670
So...
1185
01:16:08,870 --> 01:16:13,480
If I don't do it as some
kind of a devotional thing,
1186
01:16:13,690 --> 01:16:15,990
it's gonna become
a grind for me.
1187
01:16:29,200 --> 01:16:32,250
You're in the Mansion Of Fun
1188
01:16:32,450 --> 01:16:34,800
with Sri Rama,
1189
01:16:35,000 --> 01:16:37,470
Poindexter, Johansen.
1190
01:16:37,670 --> 01:16:38,860
Where...
1191
01:16:39,060 --> 01:16:40,800
aestheticism
1192
01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:43,450
and eroticism...
1193
01:16:43,650 --> 01:16:47,370
are two sides of the same coin.
1194
01:16:47,570 --> 01:16:52,980
And unwillingness to see
this exacts a terrible price
1195
01:16:53,180 --> 01:16:54,960
in prudery, misery
1196
01:16:55,160 --> 01:16:58,740
and warped lives.
1197
01:16:58,940 --> 01:17:00,180
I'm just a bad boy
1198
01:17:00,380 --> 01:17:03,280
La la la la la la
la la la la la la
1199
01:17:03,480 --> 01:17:08,120
La la la la la la
la la la la la
1200
01:17:08,320 --> 01:17:14,630
All dressed up
in fancy clothes
1201
01:17:14,830 --> 01:17:18,720
I'm taking the trouble
1202
01:17:18,920 --> 01:17:22,760
To blow my bubble
1203
01:17:22,960 --> 01:17:25,470
Away
1204
01:17:29,970 --> 01:17:31,670
Bad boy
1205
01:17:31,870 --> 01:17:34,320
La la la la la la
la la la la la la
1206
01:17:34,520 --> 01:17:39,950
La la la la la la
la la la la la
1207
01:17:40,150 --> 01:17:45,790
Life is just
a bowl of cherries
1208
01:17:45,990 --> 01:17:49,710
I'm taking the trouble
1209
01:17:49,910 --> 01:17:55,250
To turn my night into day
1210
01:17:58,840 --> 01:18:01,590
You, were in the vanguard
of punk, new wave,
1211
01:18:01,790 --> 01:18:02,890
with the New York Dolls.
1212
01:18:03,090 --> 01:18:04,780
Legendary group.
1213
01:18:04,980 --> 01:18:07,370
Now, what made you
completely abandon
1214
01:18:07,570 --> 01:18:10,690
that kind of rock and
roll that you were doing?
1215
01:18:10,890 --> 01:18:13,150
I understand in Cleveland
you just decided
1216
01:18:13,350 --> 01:18:15,380
that you had enough of it.
1217
01:18:15,580 --> 01:18:17,600
Well, I'll tell you.
1218
01:18:19,230 --> 01:18:21,200
Contrary to popular
belief, you know,
1219
01:18:21,400 --> 01:18:22,840
because the Dolls
were such, like,
1220
01:18:23,040 --> 01:18:27,720
a shock kind of
troop battalion that...
1221
01:18:27,920 --> 01:18:29,080
I think a lot of people
didn't realize that
1222
01:18:29,280 --> 01:18:31,540
the Dolls music was...
1223
01:18:33,040 --> 01:18:34,290
built like basically, you know,
1224
01:18:34,490 --> 01:18:36,770
the roots of the thing was
really rhythm and blues.
1225
01:18:36,970 --> 01:18:38,650
And it was, like, a
classic rock and roll band.
1226
01:18:38,850 --> 01:18:40,030
What makes a classic
rock and roll band?
1227
01:18:40,230 --> 01:18:42,700
Big Fat Mamas
Are Back In Style.
1228
01:18:42,900 --> 01:18:44,910
And... uh Lavender Coffin?
1229
01:18:45,110 --> 01:18:47,740
Lavender... All I want is a
lavender coffin
1230
01:18:47,940 --> 01:18:51,100
and what I call pre-haze cold
rock and roll.
1231
01:18:51,300 --> 01:18:55,270
How did Buster
Poindexter become?
1232
01:18:55,470 --> 01:18:58,710
Well, basically, after
the Dolls, you know
1233
01:18:58,910 --> 01:19:01,280
I did the David Johansen
show for many years.
1234
01:19:01,480 --> 01:19:05,010
I was on the road for
like 250 nights a year.
1235
01:19:05,210 --> 01:19:06,370
And I had a lot of fun.
1236
01:19:06,570 --> 01:19:08,140
But after a while, you know,
you want to come back home
1237
01:19:08,340 --> 01:19:09,990
you want to kind of
establish relationships
1238
01:19:10,190 --> 01:19:11,250
and things like that.
1239
01:19:11,450 --> 01:19:13,060
So I came up with
this brilliant idea
1240
01:19:13,260 --> 01:19:14,810
to come up with an act that
could only play in New York.
1241
01:19:15,010 --> 01:19:18,770
There was a club in my
neighborhood called Tramps
1242
01:19:18,970 --> 01:19:21,900
and I thought I was gonna
do four Mondays there
1243
01:19:22,100 --> 01:19:23,320
because, it was a Blues bar
1244
01:19:23,520 --> 01:19:25,950
but they didn't have
acts on Mondays.
1245
01:19:26,150 --> 01:19:28,120
And so I thought I'd do, well,
since there's nobody there
1246
01:19:28,320 --> 01:19:30,040
on Monday, I'd try this
little cabaret thing
1247
01:19:30,240 --> 01:19:33,600
with, like, three
guys as a backup band.
1248
01:19:33,800 --> 01:19:35,060
And I started doing it and
1249
01:19:35,260 --> 01:19:38,380
it caught on and all of a
sudden I was making my nut,
1250
01:19:38,580 --> 01:19:39,290
so to speak.
1251
01:19:39,490 --> 01:19:41,030
And I wasn't going on the road.
1252
01:19:41,230 --> 01:19:44,550
I wanted to do a show that
would entertain my peers,
1253
01:19:44,750 --> 01:19:45,780
so to speak.
1254
01:19:45,980 --> 01:19:47,550
Now your peers, you're
what, 36 now, about?
1255
01:19:47,750 --> 01:19:48,700
I'm 37.
1256
01:19:48,900 --> 01:19:49,870
- Thirty-seven now.
- For a few more minutes.
1257
01:19:50,070 --> 01:19:51,370
Really inching up there.
1258
01:19:51,570 --> 01:19:53,950
- "Inching up there," to where?
- Well, I don't know.
1259
01:19:54,160 --> 01:19:55,440
- To the end.
- The next thing you'll be 40.
1260
01:19:55,640 --> 01:19:57,660
- This is the big one.
- Right.
1261
01:20:00,960 --> 01:20:04,130
OK, there's two
Yiddish hipsters.
1262
01:20:04,330 --> 01:20:05,780
It's a short joke.
1263
01:20:05,980 --> 01:20:11,160
Two Yiddish hipsters
sitting on a park bench
1264
01:20:11,360 --> 01:20:13,720
and one of them says
1265
01:20:13,930 --> 01:20:15,350
"Oy."
1266
01:20:15,550 --> 01:20:19,000
And the other one says,
"I'm hip."
1267
01:20:19,200 --> 01:20:20,130
OK?
1268
01:20:20,330 --> 01:20:23,010
Do you ever
write down, not jokes,
1269
01:20:23,200 --> 01:20:25,760
but, like, banter and
things you wanna say?
1270
01:20:25,960 --> 01:20:26,950
Banter?
1271
01:20:27,150 --> 01:20:30,640
Like things you wanna say
between songs that aren't jokes?
1272
01:20:30,840 --> 01:20:31,990
You mean that aren't funny?
1273
01:20:32,190 --> 01:20:34,370
- Yeah.
- No.
1274
01:20:34,700 --> 01:20:36,000
No.
1275
01:20:36,200 --> 01:20:41,090
I mean, you know, if I'm
playing in, like, a big place,
1276
01:20:41,290 --> 01:20:43,940
I'm not, like,
telling jokes because...
1277
01:20:44,140 --> 01:20:48,840
The David Johansen band
went on this whole tour
1278
01:20:49,040 --> 01:20:53,040
with Pat Benatar
and you know, she's great.
1279
01:20:53,230 --> 01:20:55,770
She can really belt out a tune.
1280
01:20:55,970 --> 01:20:57,660
But...
1281
01:20:57,860 --> 01:20:59,080
they would kinda look at me
1282
01:20:59,280 --> 01:21:02,590
like I was a bug a lot of the
times in those...
1283
01:21:02,790 --> 01:21:05,840
hockey rinks, you know?
1284
01:21:06,040 --> 01:21:08,740
Like you
were a little guy
1285
01:21:08,940 --> 01:21:10,820
or like you were a freak or...
1286
01:21:11,020 --> 01:21:13,470
Like a bug.
1287
01:21:13,670 --> 01:21:16,560
And what kind of
songs can Buster sing
1288
01:21:16,760 --> 01:21:18,700
that you can't sing?
1289
01:21:19,540 --> 01:21:20,870
Uh...
1290
01:21:23,830 --> 01:21:26,630
Everything.
I mean, you know,
1291
01:21:26,830 --> 01:21:33,240
I can sing, you know,
a lot of kinds of songs, but...
1292
01:21:33,440 --> 01:21:35,260
I think I already went
through this with you.
1293
01:21:35,460 --> 01:21:40,020
Like, Buster is just like,
I can do anything I want.
1294
01:21:40,220 --> 01:21:41,640
People aren't...
1295
01:21:43,310 --> 01:21:44,940
expecting something else.
1296
01:21:45,140 --> 01:21:49,680
They come because
it's unexpected,
1297
01:21:49,870 --> 01:21:52,110
what I'm gonna do, you know?
1298
01:21:52,310 --> 01:21:56,870
And they kind of trust
that it's gonna be good
1299
01:21:57,070 --> 01:21:59,710
and it's always good.
What can I say?
1300
01:22:01,570 --> 01:22:04,880
I woke up late one day
1301
01:22:05,080 --> 01:22:08,210
And turned on my TV
1302
01:22:08,410 --> 01:22:12,380
They said they'd
take it all
1303
01:22:12,590 --> 01:22:14,950
When I was asleep
1304
01:22:15,150 --> 01:22:16,560
Well they were
bringing down doors
1305
01:22:16,760 --> 01:22:19,390
They were purging
and burning
1306
01:22:19,590 --> 01:22:22,080
People just like me
1307
01:22:22,280 --> 01:22:26,150
Well I fixed a drink,
I switched around the channel
1308
01:22:26,350 --> 01:22:29,280
But that was
all I could see
1309
01:22:29,480 --> 01:22:31,130
Well it's such
a boring feeling
1310
01:22:31,330 --> 01:22:33,740
When you find that
you're fallin' to a
1311
01:22:33,940 --> 01:22:36,470
Totalitarian state
1312
01:22:36,670 --> 01:22:38,740
Well, I know what's left
1313
01:22:38,940 --> 01:22:40,370
It don't seem right
1314
01:22:40,570 --> 01:22:43,600
You just don't
feel so great
1315
01:22:43,800 --> 01:22:45,310
Well it seems
we're all camping
1316
01:22:45,510 --> 01:22:47,960
And the Mexicans
was laughing
1317
01:22:48,160 --> 01:22:50,610
Down at the
detention center
1318
01:22:50,810 --> 01:22:54,890
They didn't seem to care
that they were there
1319
01:22:55,090 --> 01:22:58,140
I couldn't find
one dissenter
1320
01:22:58,340 --> 01:23:00,140
I didn't feel communal
1321
01:23:00,340 --> 01:23:02,180
I was incommunicado
1322
01:23:02,380 --> 01:23:05,860
I couldn't see it
getting any better
1323
01:23:06,060 --> 01:23:07,820
I couldn't call no one
1324
01:23:08,020 --> 01:23:09,530
I wish I had a gun
1325
01:23:09,730 --> 01:23:12,530
I couldn't even
send a letter
1326
01:23:12,730 --> 01:23:14,180
It's such a boring feeling
1327
01:23:14,380 --> 01:23:16,470
When you find that
you're falling
1328
01:23:16,670 --> 01:23:19,830
To a totalitarian state
1329
01:23:20,030 --> 01:23:21,910
I know what's left
1330
01:23:22,110 --> 01:23:23,410
It don't seem right
1331
01:23:23,610 --> 01:23:27,190
You just don't
feel so great
1332
01:23:27,390 --> 01:23:28,650
When they came to get me
1333
01:23:28,850 --> 01:23:31,460
I'd hope they would
forgive me
1334
01:23:31,660 --> 01:23:33,760
I tried playing dead
1335
01:23:33,960 --> 01:23:38,010
I finished my drink,
assessed the situation
1336
01:23:38,210 --> 01:23:40,680
Put the covers
up over my head
1337
01:23:40,880 --> 01:23:42,660
I quit
1338
01:24:44,240 --> 01:24:46,290
Well, me and my friends
1339
01:24:46,490 --> 01:24:51,170
All hang out in a
non-litigious crowd
1340
01:24:51,370 --> 01:24:55,440
We're sensitive to
other people's needs
1341
01:24:55,640 --> 01:24:58,590
And on this we are proud
1342
01:24:58,790 --> 01:25:02,300
But this situation
really bites
1343
01:25:02,500 --> 01:25:05,950
I mean, for crying out loud
1344
01:25:06,150 --> 01:25:08,020
I don't know what to do
1345
01:25:08,220 --> 01:25:09,960
I feel like a fool
1346
01:25:10,160 --> 01:25:13,360
This time I'm gonna sue
1347
01:25:13,560 --> 01:25:15,130
It's such a boring feeling
1348
01:25:15,330 --> 01:25:17,240
When you find that
you're fallin' to a
1349
01:25:17,440 --> 01:25:20,410
Totalitarian state
1350
01:25:20,610 --> 01:25:22,240
You know what's left
1351
01:25:22,440 --> 01:25:23,950
It don't seem right
1352
01:25:24,150 --> 01:25:27,410
It just don't seem so great
1353
01:25:27,610 --> 01:25:29,310
Oh!
1354
01:25:29,510 --> 01:25:32,660
Whoa.
Whoa.
1355
01:25:34,540 --> 01:25:36,670
Hey, hey.
1356
01:25:37,380 --> 01:25:39,300
Hey, hey.
1357
01:25:40,460 --> 01:25:44,790
Totalitarian State...
Baby!
1358
01:25:44,980 --> 01:25:48,210
It sounds like
you've never really been bitter
1359
01:25:48,400 --> 01:25:49,560
about the fact that
1360
01:25:49,760 --> 01:25:52,560
the Dolls never garnered
these huge wages,
1361
01:25:52,760 --> 01:25:54,190
whereas you could
look at bands like
1362
01:25:54,390 --> 01:25:55,420
Kiss and Aerosmith
1363
01:25:55,620 --> 01:25:56,730
and they made a
pretty good dime off
1364
01:25:56,930 --> 01:25:58,340
- Yeah.
- essentially a
1365
01:25:58,540 --> 01:25:59,820
watered-down version
of what you were doing.
1366
01:26:00,020 --> 01:26:03,800
Yeah, no. We, we were
a band's band, you know?
1367
01:26:04,000 --> 01:26:04,640
In a lot of ways.
1368
01:26:04,840 --> 01:26:06,140
And we influenced
a lot of bands
1369
01:26:06,340 --> 01:26:08,930
and a lot of kids
were influenced by us
1370
01:26:09,130 --> 01:26:10,060
who started bands, you know.
1371
01:26:10,260 --> 01:26:13,040
Take the Ramones.
1372
01:26:13,240 --> 01:26:14,480
The Ramones saw us and they,
1373
01:26:14,680 --> 01:26:16,170
they looked at each
other and said,
1374
01:26:16,370 --> 01:26:17,840
"Hey, if these guys can
do that, we can do that."
1375
01:26:18,040 --> 01:26:21,220
And to have influence
like that on people,
1376
01:26:21,420 --> 01:26:24,430
I think, is really good,
you know.
1377
01:26:24,630 --> 01:26:26,850
To give people the...
1378
01:26:27,050 --> 01:26:27,620
the idea like,
1379
01:26:27,820 --> 01:26:29,540
"Hey, I could do that."
1380
01:26:33,280 --> 01:26:36,770
Wow, listen to
how sweet that is.
1381
01:26:38,520 --> 01:26:42,680
Didn't I make you feel
1382
01:26:42,880 --> 01:26:48,030
- Like you were the only man
- Whoo!
1383
01:26:49,780 --> 01:26:51,690
That's probably
Aretha playing piano.
1384
01:26:51,880 --> 01:26:53,370
- Didn't I give you everything
-You know that?
1385
01:26:53,570 --> 01:26:55,040
That a woman possibly can
1386
01:26:55,240 --> 01:26:57,540
- Is this her sister?
- Yeah.
1387
01:26:57,750 --> 01:27:01,340
But with all the
love I give ya
1388
01:27:01,540 --> 01:27:02,720
It's never enough
1389
01:27:02,920 --> 01:27:05,430
But I'm gonna show ya, baby
1390
01:27:05,630 --> 01:27:08,540
That a woman can be tough
1391
01:27:08,730 --> 01:27:11,370
Is there any
music you just don't like?
1392
01:27:11,570 --> 01:27:15,310
Most, most stuff on
the radio.
1393
01:27:15,510 --> 01:27:16,690
I don't even know
what I don't like,
1394
01:27:16,890 --> 01:27:19,020
because I just don't hear it.
1395
01:27:19,220 --> 01:27:20,360
You know?
It doesn't,
1396
01:27:20,560 --> 01:27:22,570
if I like something it stops in
the middle of my head
1397
01:27:22,770 --> 01:27:24,070
and it just rattles around
1398
01:27:24,270 --> 01:27:28,080
and if I don't like it it just
kind of goes through me and
1399
01:27:28,280 --> 01:27:29,080
I don't grab it.
1400
01:27:29,280 --> 01:27:31,560
You know, my show is not like
1401
01:27:31,760 --> 01:27:33,330
something that...
1402
01:27:35,410 --> 01:27:40,170
your average kid
would understand.
1403
01:27:40,370 --> 01:27:43,010
Why not?
1404
01:27:43,210 --> 01:27:44,170
Why not?
1405
01:27:44,380 --> 01:27:47,140
Because it's, it's
out of the ordinary,
1406
01:27:47,340 --> 01:27:50,300
you know, it's kind of like...
1407
01:27:51,640 --> 01:27:55,020
it's got, it's like peculiar
to my taste, you know.
1408
01:28:01,660 --> 01:28:06,110
That Marilyn Horne version,
she gets right to the meat.
1409
01:28:14,280 --> 01:28:15,770
Did the folks play that stuff?
1410
01:28:15,970 --> 01:28:17,560
- How'd you get turned on to...
- Oh, you know, my old man,
1411
01:28:17,760 --> 01:28:20,160
he was an opera singer.
1412
01:28:21,750 --> 01:28:23,630
And it's like, all that we heard
1413
01:28:23,830 --> 01:28:25,800
had been classical
music when I was a kid,
1414
01:28:26,000 --> 01:28:27,590
- Oh.
- which used to drive me crazy.
1415
01:28:27,790 --> 01:28:29,450
- Mm-hmm.
- My old man would be like
1416
01:28:29,650 --> 01:28:30,870
wearing his army clothes,
paint in the house
1417
01:28:31,070 --> 01:28:32,740
and the Texaco Opera
on the Grundig
1418
01:28:32,940 --> 01:28:35,140
would be in the window,
blaring out.
1419
01:28:35,340 --> 01:28:36,520
And my friends would come by,
1420
01:28:36,720 --> 01:28:39,020
on Saturday and I'd be like
holding the ladder
1421
01:28:39,220 --> 01:28:40,500
and I'd be like...
1422
01:28:43,830 --> 01:28:45,490
My old man would
be up there like
1423
01:28:48,790 --> 01:28:50,450
And now...
1424
01:28:50,650 --> 01:28:54,430
and now it's all
over your radio show.
1425
01:28:56,860 --> 01:28:58,600
This next song, I wrote it to
1426
01:28:58,800 --> 01:29:01,370
a Lightnin' Hopkins song.
1427
01:29:02,080 --> 01:29:03,320
Texas Blues.
1428
01:29:03,520 --> 01:29:05,400
I gave the lyrics to Brian,
1429
01:29:05,600 --> 01:29:06,840
see what he wanted
to do with it.
1430
01:29:07,040 --> 01:29:09,320
And he came up with
this really great song
1431
01:29:09,520 --> 01:29:11,740
and we're gonna
sing it for you now.
1432
01:29:11,940 --> 01:29:14,640
So the only one who sounds
like Lightnin' Hopkins
1433
01:29:14,840 --> 01:29:17,000
in this version is me.
1434
01:29:20,570 --> 01:29:22,380
I give you that Eddie
Murphy smile, like...
1435
01:29:52,970 --> 01:29:58,930
I keep watching
and wondering
1436
01:29:59,130 --> 01:30:05,140
Why a little bird
flies up to the sky
1437
01:30:06,480 --> 01:30:12,800
Only God knows,
maybe he don't
1438
01:30:13,000 --> 01:30:19,120
You know that holy
talk has been a lie
1439
01:30:20,120 --> 01:30:26,360
I keep praying
it's the truth
1440
01:30:26,560 --> 01:30:32,460
And I ain't got
no death to die
1441
01:30:33,710 --> 01:30:38,430
I ain't got no death to die
1442
01:30:46,890 --> 01:30:53,280
Yeah, I keep
hollering and prayin'
1443
01:30:53,990 --> 01:31:00,160
I don't have to be
such a hurtful bum
1444
01:31:00,780 --> 01:31:06,520
How could I
sometimes be so good
1445
01:31:06,720 --> 01:31:12,670
And turn around and
be so wrong to some
1446
01:31:14,170 --> 01:31:20,340
Ah, what's the use
of all this praying
1447
01:31:21,100 --> 01:31:28,070
When I don't know
the spirit from
1448
01:31:28,270 --> 01:31:34,360
The spirit from who
this prayer have come
1449
01:31:48,460 --> 01:31:51,420
That old eternal spirit
1450
01:31:51,620 --> 01:31:54,990
Always whispering in my ear
1451
01:31:55,190 --> 01:31:57,680
Radiance of the infinite
1452
01:31:57,880 --> 01:32:01,720
Seems to be everywhere
1453
01:32:02,850 --> 01:32:07,060
But my weary eyes can't see
1454
01:32:08,230 --> 01:32:14,360
And I'm afraid my
old ears cannot hear
1455
01:32:16,320 --> 01:32:22,410
Afraid my old
ears cannot hear
1456
01:32:33,210 --> 01:32:39,420
You've been a
consolation of my life
1457
01:32:41,550 --> 01:32:47,270
And you will be of my death
1458
01:32:48,020 --> 01:32:54,110
And I pray that
you'll have mercy
1459
01:32:54,690 --> 01:33:00,440
Moment of my last breath
1460
01:33:01,900 --> 01:33:07,910
I know these
words of weariness
1461
01:33:08,120 --> 01:33:15,170
Just don't make me wander
from death to death
1462
01:33:15,370 --> 01:33:21,470
Don't make me wander
from death to death
1463
01:33:52,950 --> 01:33:53,670
Beautiful.
1464
01:33:59,420 --> 01:34:03,320
Now, our next guest
is truly a unique rock star.
1465
01:34:03,520 --> 01:34:08,060
I mean he's what you call a
free spirit, a knockout singer,
1466
01:34:08,260 --> 01:34:11,080
starting a heat wave right
here at the Waldorf-Astoria
1467
01:34:11,280 --> 01:34:14,730
singing Hot Hot Hot,
Buster Poindexter!
1468
01:34:14,930 --> 01:34:16,730
One, two, three!
1469
01:34:16,930 --> 01:34:20,760
Ole-Ole-Ole-Ole
1470
01:34:20,960 --> 01:34:25,990
Ole-Ole-Ole-Ole
1471
01:34:26,190 --> 01:34:31,660
That was like, the bane of my
existence, that song, you know.
1472
01:34:33,040 --> 01:34:34,670
I don't know how I
feel about it now.
1473
01:34:34,870 --> 01:34:36,650
I haven't heard it lately.
1474
01:34:36,850 --> 01:34:37,940
Would
you hear it like
1475
01:34:38,140 --> 01:34:39,170
all over the place like...
1476
01:34:39,370 --> 01:34:40,840
Oh, God, that's
ubiquitous, that song.
1477
01:34:41,040 --> 01:34:44,450
It was like, forget about it.
1478
01:34:44,650 --> 01:34:45,930
It's like, you know,
1479
01:34:46,130 --> 01:34:52,390
they play it at weddings,
bar mitzvahs. It's like...
1480
01:34:52,590 --> 01:34:53,540
Six Flags.
1481
01:34:53,740 --> 01:34:54,730
Six Flags!
1482
01:34:54,930 --> 01:34:56,770
Hot hot hot
1483
01:34:56,970 --> 01:34:58,570
Hot hot hot
1484
01:34:58,770 --> 01:35:00,260
Hot hot hot
1485
01:35:00,460 --> 01:35:02,900
They used to have a show
on VH1 called One Hit Wonders.
1486
01:35:03,100 --> 01:35:07,470
And I was on it
twice because I sang,
1487
01:35:07,670 --> 01:35:13,710
you know, like that Animals
medley thing as David Johansen.
1488
01:35:13,910 --> 01:35:16,040
And then I sang
Hot Hot Hot as Buster,
1489
01:35:16,240 --> 01:35:20,320
so I was a one hit wonder twice.
1490
01:35:20,520 --> 01:35:23,720
Did you
have like a vision for
1491
01:35:23,920 --> 01:35:25,780
what your life would
be like at this point?
1492
01:35:25,980 --> 01:35:28,930
You can make plans
and they're fun to do,
1493
01:35:29,130 --> 01:35:33,270
but they're rarely...
1494
01:35:33,470 --> 01:35:35,710
What you want to do by
the time you get there.
1495
01:35:35,910 --> 01:35:38,440
I think I used to be like...
1496
01:35:39,650 --> 01:35:41,110
five year increments.
1497
01:35:41,310 --> 01:35:43,700
Where I'll be in five years
or whatever, when I was a kid.
1498
01:35:43,900 --> 01:35:45,030
Yeah.
1499
01:35:45,230 --> 01:35:46,510
Somebody
said that some guy
1500
01:35:46,710 --> 01:35:48,660
who was a record producer,
1501
01:35:48,860 --> 01:35:51,060
he was a...
he was a millionaire.
1502
01:35:51,260 --> 01:35:52,980
And I thought,
"Wow, a millionaire."
1503
01:35:53,180 --> 01:35:54,250
He was 23, you know?
1504
01:35:54,450 --> 01:35:56,560
And I was like,
"Wow, a millionaire at 23.
1505
01:35:56,760 --> 01:35:57,900
That'd be great."
1506
01:35:58,100 --> 01:36:01,170
But I didn't...
1507
01:36:01,370 --> 01:36:04,570
I came to realize, well,
that's not really so good.
1508
01:36:04,770 --> 01:36:07,800
Because the guy, turned out,
1509
01:36:08,000 --> 01:36:08,910
he was a murderer.
1510
01:36:10,630 --> 01:36:13,520
- Do I want to do like this?
- Yeah.
1511
01:36:13,720 --> 01:36:14,730
Yeah. I like this.
1512
01:36:14,930 --> 01:36:16,210
Get the oil
off your chest.
1513
01:36:16,410 --> 01:36:17,650
Just because I'm
not like responding,
1514
01:36:17,850 --> 01:36:19,790
doesn't mean I'm not in ecstasy.
1515
01:36:19,990 --> 01:36:23,590
I know that.
We're married.
1516
01:36:23,790 --> 01:36:24,880
Here you go.
1517
01:36:25,080 --> 01:36:26,470
So what
were you saying Mommy
1518
01:36:26,670 --> 01:36:28,800
about what we wanna make
sure we get in this?
1519
01:36:29,000 --> 01:36:31,970
You spend a lot of
time putting on a show,
1520
01:36:32,170 --> 01:36:35,460
while you're keeping hidden
not just your interior life,
1521
01:36:35,660 --> 01:36:38,690
but a lot of other aspects
of your life, right?
1522
01:36:38,890 --> 01:36:40,020
- And...
- Yeah.
1523
01:36:40,220 --> 01:36:41,380
You guys see the pants?
1524
01:36:41,580 --> 01:36:43,940
I can see
the, the pants are yellow.
1525
01:36:44,140 --> 01:36:45,260
- That's good.
- But I can't
1526
01:36:45,460 --> 01:36:47,050
see like the whole
style of the pants.
1527
01:36:47,250 --> 01:36:48,360
That's OK.
1528
01:36:48,560 --> 01:36:49,910
You wanna
see what you look like?
1529
01:36:50,110 --> 01:36:51,890
I wanna see what
you're gonna shoot.
1530
01:36:52,090 --> 01:36:53,790
It's best to leave
an incomplete...
1531
01:36:53,990 --> 01:36:56,120
- Yeah.
- picture of yourself.
1532
01:36:56,320 --> 01:36:57,560
Can we have the, uh,
1533
01:36:57,760 --> 01:37:00,250
like can we have the
coquettes showing on the book?
1534
01:37:00,450 --> 01:37:01,670
I was
gonna have David
1535
01:37:01,870 --> 01:37:03,070
look at that book, actually.
1536
01:37:03,270 --> 01:37:04,900
Oh!
1537
01:37:05,100 --> 01:37:08,430
I mean let's face it.
We've been very happy together.
1538
01:37:08,630 --> 01:37:12,240
We're very happy
and Leah is very happy.
1539
01:37:12,440 --> 01:37:14,200
That's like really
good because...
1540
01:37:14,400 --> 01:37:18,710
occasionally we have to
deal with like, you know,
1541
01:37:18,910 --> 01:37:20,610
I don't wanna use
the word crisis.
1542
01:37:20,800 --> 01:37:21,960
But you know, whatever.
1543
01:37:22,160 --> 01:37:23,460
- Something that's...
- We've had some crises.
1544
01:37:23,660 --> 01:37:24,880
Yeah.
1545
01:37:26,630 --> 01:37:31,370
As we get
older, we accumulate ghosts.
1546
01:37:31,570 --> 01:37:33,640
'Cause, you know,
there's a lot more dead people
1547
01:37:33,840 --> 01:37:37,120
than there are the living.
1548
01:37:37,320 --> 01:37:41,390
I've lived through
like, Vietnam War,
1549
01:37:42,060 --> 01:37:44,380
the AIDS epidemic...
1550
01:37:44,580 --> 01:37:46,630
and so many things, you know?
1551
01:37:46,830 --> 01:37:48,190
And had people who I love
1552
01:37:48,400 --> 01:37:52,870
that have died from COVID
very recently, you know.
1553
01:37:53,070 --> 01:37:55,060
Put your sweet lips
1554
01:37:55,260 --> 01:37:59,080
A little closer to mine
1555
01:37:59,280 --> 01:38:01,880
You know, there's
Hal Wilner, for example.
1556
01:38:02,080 --> 01:38:03,730
Given
that you lost someone
1557
01:38:03,930 --> 01:38:05,190
in your band at 21,
1558
01:38:05,390 --> 01:38:09,110
was an early death something
that you yourself feared...
1559
01:38:09,310 --> 01:38:11,380
- when this...
- No.
1560
01:38:12,010 --> 01:38:15,430
No. I never learned my lesson.
1561
01:38:19,070 --> 01:38:21,020
You know, after I was
in the original Dolls,
1562
01:38:21,220 --> 01:38:27,480
the ones that there was a lot of
you know, catastrophic stuff.
1563
01:38:27,680 --> 01:38:32,820
I had a band called David
Johansen Band I made for...
1564
01:38:34,130 --> 01:38:36,490
We got in a van and
went back and forth,
1565
01:38:36,690 --> 01:38:40,040
across this country about,
I don't know, nine times,
1566
01:38:40,240 --> 01:38:44,500
opening for heavy mental
acts at hockey rinks.
1567
01:38:44,700 --> 01:38:46,070
Oh my God.
1568
01:38:46,260 --> 01:38:49,030
When I think of that...
1569
01:38:49,230 --> 01:38:51,800
It killed me.
It actually killed me.
1570
01:38:53,510 --> 01:38:57,760
These guys, they called
magazines, books.
1571
01:38:59,240 --> 01:39:00,680
OK.
1572
01:39:01,350 --> 01:39:03,500
So, what are you
readin' there, pal?
1573
01:39:03,700 --> 01:39:04,980
Viva.
1574
01:39:05,980 --> 01:39:08,070
My book.
1575
01:39:08,270 --> 01:39:10,760
I said, that's not a book.
That's a Viva Magazine.
1576
01:39:10,960 --> 01:39:13,570
You know what I'm saying?
1577
01:39:13,770 --> 01:39:17,890
Thank God they had, they'd
come out with Walkmans by then,
1578
01:39:18,090 --> 01:39:20,040
you know.
1579
01:39:20,240 --> 01:39:23,410
And of course gin, you know,
which they always had.
1580
01:39:23,620 --> 01:39:25,730
A one, two, three, four...
1581
01:39:49,350 --> 01:39:54,240
You call that love in French,
but it's just Frenchette
1582
01:39:54,440 --> 01:40:00,790
I've been to France,
so let's just dance
1583
01:40:00,990 --> 01:40:06,230
I get all the love
I need in a luncheonette
1584
01:40:06,430 --> 01:40:12,710
In just one glance,
so let's just dance
1585
01:40:13,420 --> 01:40:19,350
I can't get the kind
of love that I want
1586
01:40:19,550 --> 01:40:20,970
And I need
1587
01:40:21,170 --> 01:40:24,720
So let's just dance
1588
01:40:25,890 --> 01:40:30,400
You come on like it's
all natural darling
1589
01:40:30,600 --> 01:40:32,030
But you know
1590
01:40:32,230 --> 01:40:36,260
Oh it's really
only naturalette
1591
01:40:36,460 --> 01:40:40,280
It's just like all of
your leathers darling
1592
01:40:40,480 --> 01:40:41,760
They don't scare me
1593
01:40:41,960 --> 01:40:48,060
I know what's really
only leatherette
1594
01:40:48,260 --> 01:40:52,110
I could take it down
and wash it down
1595
01:40:52,310 --> 01:40:58,260
I scrub you on down
in any old launderette
1596
01:41:00,590 --> 01:41:05,410
I can't get the kind
of love, that I want
1597
01:41:05,610 --> 01:41:11,770
Let's just dance
and I 'll forget
1598
01:41:12,810 --> 01:41:17,200
I want you to
come in my kitchen
1599
01:41:17,400 --> 01:41:19,240
Not my kitchenette
1600
01:41:19,440 --> 01:41:23,330
I want you to come
in my dining room
1601
01:41:23,530 --> 01:41:25,160
Not my dinette
1602
01:41:25,360 --> 01:41:27,730
I can't get the
kind of love
1603
01:41:27,930 --> 01:41:31,920
So let's just dance
and I'll forget
1604
01:41:32,120 --> 01:41:38,090
I can't the kind of love
that I want and I need
1605
01:41:38,290 --> 01:41:41,760
So let's just dance
1606
01:41:41,960 --> 01:41:47,430
I can't the kind of love
that I want and I need
1607
01:41:47,630 --> 01:41:49,230
So let's just dance
1608
01:41:49,430 --> 01:41:53,640
Come on, boys!
So let's just dance!
1609
01:42:16,210 --> 01:42:21,050
Oh woah-wo-wo-wo-wo
1610
01:42:21,250 --> 01:42:22,300
Come on, every one join.
1611
01:42:22,500 --> 01:42:24,880
Oh woah-wo-wo-wo-wo
1612
01:42:27,640 --> 01:42:32,350
Remember how we marveled
darling, we was marveling
1613
01:42:32,550 --> 01:42:37,170
We were marveling
at The Marvelettes
1614
01:42:37,370 --> 01:42:41,180
Yeah we fell in
love with Veronica
1615
01:42:41,370 --> 01:42:46,320
And every last one
of The Ronettes
1616
01:42:47,780 --> 01:42:51,080
It sure got hot
when Levis Stubbs
1617
01:42:51,280 --> 01:42:52,620
He got burned boy
1618
01:42:52,820 --> 01:42:57,690
Messing around
with Bernadette
1619
01:42:57,890 --> 01:43:01,630
You call that love in French,
but it's just Frenchette
1620
01:43:01,830 --> 01:43:06,930
I've been to France,
so let's just dance
1621
01:43:07,130 --> 01:43:11,250
I get all the love I
need in a luncheonette
1622
01:43:11,450 --> 01:43:16,250
In just one glance,
so let's just dance
1623
01:43:16,450 --> 01:43:18,850
Let's just dance
1624
01:43:19,770 --> 01:43:22,070
Let's just dance now
1625
01:43:23,320 --> 01:43:25,510
Let's dance
1626
01:43:25,710 --> 01:43:27,970
Let's just dance
1627
01:43:28,170 --> 01:43:32,020
Going to take a
little roll with you, honey
1628
01:43:32,220 --> 01:43:34,240
Let's just dance
1629
01:43:35,330 --> 01:43:37,710
A little stroll with
you, honey
1630
01:43:37,910 --> 01:43:40,420
Yeah, let's just dance
1631
01:43:41,710 --> 01:43:43,300
Just dance
1632
01:43:43,500 --> 01:43:47,390
My doctor said to
take it easy, baby
1633
01:43:47,590 --> 01:43:49,430
So let's just dance
1634
01:43:49,630 --> 01:43:53,480
My doctor said to
take it easy, baby
1635
01:43:53,680 --> 01:43:56,100
Let's dance
1636
01:43:56,300 --> 01:43:58,440
Come on, let's just dance
1637
01:43:58,770 --> 01:43:59,670
Yeah, baby
1638
01:43:59,870 --> 01:44:01,820
Let's just dance
1639
01:44:02,020 --> 01:44:03,010
All right.
1640
01:44:03,210 --> 01:44:04,400
Let's just dance
1641
01:44:04,600 --> 01:44:08,400
Come on, let's just dance
1642
01:44:10,490 --> 01:44:15,250
I can't get the kind
of love that I want
1643
01:44:15,450 --> 01:44:16,500
And I need
1644
01:44:16,700 --> 01:44:18,880
So, let's
1645
01:44:19,080 --> 01:44:23,090
Just
1646
01:44:23,290 --> 01:44:30,090
Dance
1647
01:44:51,780 --> 01:44:54,490
Oh, hi...
1648
01:44:59,250 --> 01:45:01,500
You know, when I was a...
a kid,
1649
01:45:01,700 --> 01:45:03,610
I was probably like,
not a kid.
1650
01:45:03,810 --> 01:45:07,360
I was probably like almost
30-years-old or something.
1651
01:45:07,560 --> 01:45:09,660
Maybe I acted like a kid.
1652
01:45:09,860 --> 01:45:12,260
I... went to...
1653
01:45:12,460 --> 01:45:14,660
see Milos Forman
1654
01:45:14,860 --> 01:45:18,180
to audition for a...
1655
01:45:19,180 --> 01:45:21,270
a part of one of the two,
1656
01:45:21,470 --> 01:45:24,210
like lead guys in Hair.
1657
01:45:24,410 --> 01:45:25,880
In the movie Hair.
1658
01:45:26,080 --> 01:45:28,590
You know, I figured,
an actor, what is that?
1659
01:45:28,790 --> 01:45:32,390
So, I think I have
all the prerequisites,
1660
01:45:32,590 --> 01:45:34,530
completely irresponsible,
1661
01:45:35,450 --> 01:45:37,160
drunk a lot.
1662
01:45:37,700 --> 01:45:39,170
Hey, I can go on and on.
1663
01:45:39,370 --> 01:45:41,670
But...
I fit the bill.
1664
01:45:41,870 --> 01:45:43,830
So I went to see Milos and...
1665
01:45:45,460 --> 01:45:46,710
I didn't even do the audition.
1666
01:45:46,910 --> 01:45:50,320
I mean, we got along
like a house on fire.
1667
01:45:50,520 --> 01:45:54,510
I mean, "Oh God, David.
David, I love you."
1668
01:45:54,710 --> 01:45:55,850
And we were drinking schnapps
1669
01:45:56,050 --> 01:45:59,310
and we were smacking
each other on of back
1670
01:45:59,510 --> 01:46:03,130
and we were having a
gay old time, OK?
1671
01:46:03,330 --> 01:46:05,250
Oh my God, it was so great.
1672
01:46:05,450 --> 01:46:07,440
So then he calls
Twyla Tharp and he says,
1673
01:46:07,640 --> 01:46:09,340
"I got, I got the guy.
1674
01:46:09,540 --> 01:46:12,300
This is the guy.
I'm gonna send him over.
1675
01:46:12,500 --> 01:46:14,370
You see if he can dance."
1676
01:46:14,570 --> 01:46:16,140
In order to get this part,
1677
01:46:16,340 --> 01:46:21,440
the... one of the major parts
that you had to pass.
1678
01:46:21,640 --> 01:46:23,610
Milos, Twyla...
1679
01:46:23,810 --> 01:46:25,610
and Galt MacDermot,
1680
01:46:25,810 --> 01:46:27,840
who wrote the music.
1681
01:46:28,040 --> 01:46:30,970
So I went over to Twyla Tharp's.
1682
01:46:31,170 --> 01:46:32,320
I was...
1683
01:46:32,520 --> 01:46:35,640
dancing... like Nijinsky.
1684
01:46:35,840 --> 01:46:37,390
I mean, I was like...
1685
01:46:37,890 --> 01:46:39,680
like a gazelle.
1686
01:46:39,880 --> 01:46:41,080
Back and forth
1687
01:46:41,280 --> 01:46:44,960
with the whole troop back and
forth, like throwing flowers.
1688
01:46:45,160 --> 01:46:48,610
I mean imaginary flowers,
but still.
1689
01:46:48,810 --> 01:46:49,940
Twyla calls up Milos,
1690
01:46:50,140 --> 01:46:52,280
"He's, he's great.
He's a natural. He's great."
1691
01:46:54,070 --> 01:46:57,390
I'm thinking, you know,
"Hollywood, here I come."
1692
01:46:57,590 --> 01:47:00,520
I'm like picking
out real estate,
1693
01:47:00,720 --> 01:47:02,240
you know what I'm saying?
1694
01:47:03,540 --> 01:47:05,960
Next day I go to
see Galt McDermott.
1695
01:47:06,160 --> 01:47:10,010
It's up on one of those
Broadway rehearsal rooms,
1696
01:47:10,210 --> 01:47:13,490
you know, at the piano and
everybody's standing around.
1697
01:47:13,690 --> 01:47:15,720
He's got the piano
and I come in
1698
01:47:15,920 --> 01:47:20,200
and I decide to
sing the song Hair.
1699
01:47:20,400 --> 01:47:21,930
I figured, you know,
1700
01:47:23,010 --> 01:47:24,420
I hadn't really prepared.
1701
01:47:24,620 --> 01:47:28,820
You know and...
but Galt McDermott stood up.
1702
01:47:29,020 --> 01:47:32,030
He shut the... the...
the lid of the keyboard
1703
01:47:32,230 --> 01:47:35,650
and he said,
"This guy can't sing!"
1704
01:47:37,200 --> 01:47:40,540
I was like, "Wait a
minute, wait a minute.
1705
01:47:40,740 --> 01:47:42,460
I don't, I don't act.
1706
01:47:42,660 --> 01:47:43,910
I don't dance, but I'm a singer.
1707
01:47:44,120 --> 01:47:47,920
You know, I, that's
what I do. I'm a singer."
1708
01:47:48,120 --> 01:47:50,400
I didn't get the part anyway.
1709
01:47:50,600 --> 01:47:52,590
My dreams were crushed.
1710
01:47:52,790 --> 01:47:55,970
But I only had those
dreams for three days.
1711
01:47:56,170 --> 01:48:00,180
So it wasn't like a lifetime.
1712
01:48:03,680 --> 01:48:05,600
You know, years later...
1713
01:48:05,800 --> 01:48:07,080
I saw...
1714
01:48:07,280 --> 01:48:09,880
Galt McDermott
at an awards ceremony.
1715
01:48:10,080 --> 01:48:13,360
We were both getting a
medal for something and...
1716
01:48:14,570 --> 01:48:16,610
he was in his dotage.
1717
01:48:16,810 --> 01:48:20,830
And... we shook hands
and the whole thing.
1718
01:48:21,030 --> 01:48:23,980
He didn't remember me from,
from that day.
1719
01:48:24,180 --> 01:48:27,000
But, I didn't remind
him I didn't mention it.
1720
01:48:27,200 --> 01:48:29,410
You know, I didn't mention it.
1721
01:48:31,420 --> 01:48:33,210
I'm not that kind of guy.
1722
01:48:47,640 --> 01:48:49,100
This is nice.
1723
01:49:10,040 --> 01:49:13,090
It's a maimed happiness
1724
01:49:13,290 --> 01:49:16,840
I keep trying to acquiesce
1725
01:49:17,040 --> 01:49:21,070
It's like a
tempestuous child
1726
01:49:21,270 --> 01:49:25,720
You play with
and humor to keep
1727
01:49:25,930 --> 01:49:29,040
Quiet as you possibly can
1728
01:49:29,240 --> 01:49:34,110
'Til finally
it goes to sleep
1729
01:49:34,310 --> 01:49:38,590
Life takes a lot of finesse
1730
01:49:38,790 --> 01:49:41,440
It's a maimed happiness
1731
01:49:49,740 --> 01:49:54,980
I keep myself to every way
1732
01:49:55,180 --> 01:49:58,920
Both refined and uncouth
1733
01:49:59,130 --> 01:50:02,950
Then maybe once in a while
1734
01:50:03,150 --> 01:50:08,640
I can be with the truth
1735
01:50:08,840 --> 01:50:09,960
Don't know
1736
01:50:10,160 --> 01:50:14,710
If there's that
much to be said
1737
01:50:14,910 --> 01:50:18,690
I thought this world
and all the time
1738
01:50:18,890 --> 01:50:24,490
That we spend
1739
01:50:25,490 --> 01:50:27,580
Still I think
1740
01:50:27,780 --> 01:50:31,000
I want to live
1741
01:50:31,200 --> 01:50:37,670
This crazy life over again
1742
01:50:41,000 --> 01:50:44,280
Yeah, I've been
to the doctor
1743
01:50:44,480 --> 01:50:48,140
He said there ain't
much he can do
1744
01:50:48,340 --> 01:50:52,560
Said you got the
human condition
1745
01:50:52,760 --> 01:50:57,170
Boy, I feel sorry for you
1746
01:50:57,370 --> 01:51:00,820
There's a sorrowful joy
1747
01:51:01,020 --> 01:51:04,870
I know it since I was a boy
1748
01:51:05,070 --> 01:51:09,730
Joyful sorrow, I guess
1749
01:51:09,920 --> 01:51:14,200
It's a maimed happiness
1750
01:51:40,610 --> 01:51:42,400
Beautiful!
1751
01:51:44,980 --> 01:51:46,850
You guys have been great.
1752
01:51:47,040 --> 01:51:50,240
Thank you.
Thank you.
1753
01:51:52,720 --> 01:51:58,210
My friends.
1754
01:52:01,250 --> 01:52:02,900
Maimed Happiness.
1755
01:52:03,100 --> 01:52:05,840
I feel like that could be
your thesis for the show.
1756
01:52:06,040 --> 01:52:09,350
Yeah. Mara, what's that...
1757
01:52:09,550 --> 01:52:11,060
Those two brothers,
they were writers,
1758
01:52:11,260 --> 01:52:12,620
but one was a philosopher.
1759
01:52:12,820 --> 01:52:14,730
Henry James
and William James?
1760
01:52:14,930 --> 01:52:16,060
Who wrote that book?
1761
01:52:16,260 --> 01:52:17,770
Well, Henry James
was the novelist.
1762
01:52:17,970 --> 01:52:19,860
Right. So it was William
James was the philosopher.
1763
01:52:20,060 --> 01:52:21,840
- Right.
- Yeah.
1764
01:52:22,040 --> 01:52:25,340
I was reading that
William James
1765
01:52:25,540 --> 01:52:29,640
Variety of Spiritual
Experiences,
1766
01:52:29,840 --> 01:52:31,240
I guess it's called.
1767
01:52:31,440 --> 01:52:35,080
At one point he used the
expression "maimed happiness."
1768
01:52:35,280 --> 01:52:40,210
"It's kind of like a maimed
happiness," whatever he said.
1769
01:52:40,410 --> 01:52:44,210
And it just stuck in
my mind, you know.
1770
01:52:44,420 --> 01:52:48,840
It's just, existence is...
1771
01:52:51,930 --> 01:52:53,220
maimed happiness.
1772
01:52:53,420 --> 01:52:54,870
Happy birthday, man.
1773
01:52:55,070 --> 01:52:56,890
- Freddy.
- A lot more energy tonight.
1774
01:52:57,090 --> 01:52:59,750
Yeah, I slept like
10 hours last night.
1775
01:52:59,950 --> 01:53:03,310
You are not today who you
were when you were 17.
1776
01:53:03,810 --> 01:53:05,270
So...
1777
01:53:06,320 --> 01:53:10,490
- you were this innocent...
- Hmm...
1778
01:53:10,690 --> 01:53:11,870
Listen, sorry.
1779
01:53:12,070 --> 01:53:14,060
You were spinning around
1780
01:53:14,260 --> 01:53:17,020
on the parking meter
in front of Gem Spa.
1781
01:53:17,220 --> 01:53:19,420
I was spinning around on
the other parking meter.
1782
01:53:19,620 --> 01:53:22,170
It's the
Mansion of Fun show
1783
01:53:22,370 --> 01:53:25,920
where we do our thing and we
don't worry about the outcome,
1784
01:53:26,120 --> 01:53:30,120
because we recognize
sorrow as of the essence.
1785
01:53:30,310 --> 01:53:33,410
Because when there's
time, there's sorrow
1786
01:53:33,610 --> 01:53:36,140
and we can't rid
the world of sorrow,
1787
01:53:36,340 --> 01:53:42,020
but we can choose
to live in joy.
1788
01:53:42,890 --> 01:53:45,860
Look how beautiful.
1789
01:53:46,060 --> 01:53:47,840
Hi, baby.
1790
01:53:48,040 --> 01:53:49,200
Long time no see.
1791
01:53:49,400 --> 01:53:50,950
Like
when was the first time
1792
01:53:51,150 --> 01:53:52,260
you felt like your sadness
1793
01:53:52,460 --> 01:53:55,060
kind of connected
you to the world?
1794
01:53:55,260 --> 01:53:56,660
Oh.
1795
01:53:58,800 --> 01:54:00,700
Yeah, in 3D.
1796
01:54:01,620 --> 01:54:03,040
Oh, man.
1797
01:54:03,960 --> 01:54:06,320
Then the ostrich comes out.
1798
01:54:06,520 --> 01:54:08,300
People think I'm
so young, right?
1799
01:54:08,500 --> 01:54:09,970
And I'm sure people say that
to you, "You're so young."
1800
01:54:10,170 --> 01:54:13,930
'Cause it took us
so long to grow up.
1801
01:54:14,130 --> 01:54:16,700
Like we hit every crack.
1802
01:54:16,900 --> 01:54:17,950
We had to be...
1803
01:54:18,150 --> 01:54:21,250
we fulfilled the
premise of becoming.
1804
01:54:21,450 --> 01:54:23,080
- That's right.
- We fulfilled it.
1805
01:54:23,280 --> 01:54:26,070
- What's the rush?
- What's the rush?
1806
01:54:26,270 --> 01:54:29,550
There's a lot of
different things that
1807
01:54:29,750 --> 01:54:32,280
you can hear or see,
1808
01:54:32,480 --> 01:54:38,740
you know, people
overcoming obstacles.
1809
01:54:39,910 --> 01:54:41,210
Surviving.
1810
01:54:53,040 --> 01:54:54,760
Come on!
1811
01:54:55,760 --> 01:54:57,930
Wow!
1812
01:54:59,800 --> 01:55:01,640
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
1813
01:55:01,840 --> 01:55:02,770
Yeah baby no
1814
01:55:02,970 --> 01:55:04,190
Go baby yeah
1815
01:55:04,390 --> 01:55:06,190
Yeah, no, yeah, yeah
1816
01:55:06,390 --> 01:55:08,060
Wow
1817
01:55:09,810 --> 01:55:11,940
Wah-hah!
1818
01:55:13,400 --> 01:55:15,990
We can't take it this week
1819
01:55:16,190 --> 01:55:19,040
And her friends don't
want another speech
1820
01:55:19,240 --> 01:55:21,790
Hoping for a
better day to hear
1821
01:55:21,990 --> 01:55:24,060
What she's got to say
1822
01:55:24,260 --> 01:55:27,420
All about that
personality crisis
1823
01:55:27,620 --> 01:55:30,570
You got it while it was hot
1824
01:55:30,770 --> 01:55:36,140
But frustration, heartache
that's what you got
1825
01:55:36,340 --> 01:55:40,890
I gotta say about
the personality
1826
01:55:41,090 --> 01:55:42,160
Yeah
1827
01:55:42,360 --> 01:55:44,810
Yeah, yeah, yeah
1828
01:55:49,560 --> 01:55:51,320
Now you're trying
to be something
1829
01:55:51,520 --> 01:55:53,010
Now you gotta do something
1830
01:55:53,210 --> 01:55:55,610
Wanna be someone
who cow wow wows
1831
01:55:55,810 --> 01:55:57,950
But you thinking
about the time you did
1832
01:55:58,150 --> 01:56:01,290
They took every ounce
1833
01:56:01,490 --> 01:56:04,020
Well it's sure
gonna be a shame
1834
01:56:04,220 --> 01:56:06,710
When you start to
scream and shout
1835
01:56:06,910 --> 01:56:08,210
Wow
1836
01:56:08,410 --> 01:56:10,340
You contradict all the time
1837
01:56:10,540 --> 01:56:12,710
You were butterflying about
1838
01:56:12,920 --> 01:56:14,010
Butterfly
1839
01:56:14,210 --> 01:56:16,220
But that personality crisis
1840
01:56:16,420 --> 01:56:18,680
You got it while it was hot
1841
01:56:18,880 --> 01:56:21,290
It's always hard to
know when frustration
1842
01:56:21,490 --> 01:56:24,660
Heartache that's
what you got
1843
01:56:24,860 --> 01:56:28,940
It's just a song
about personality
1844
01:56:29,140 --> 01:56:30,650
We are
1845
01:56:53,460 --> 01:56:55,470
And you're a
prima ballerina
1846
01:56:55,670 --> 01:57:00,030
On a spring afternoon
1847
01:57:00,230 --> 01:57:04,350
Turn into a wolfman
howlin' at the moon
1848
01:57:04,550 --> 01:57:06,060
Yahoooooooo
1849
01:57:06,260 --> 01:57:07,940
With a personality crisis
1850
01:57:08,140 --> 01:57:10,860
You got it while
you was hot
1851
01:57:11,060 --> 01:57:12,130
It's always hot.
1852
01:57:12,330 --> 01:57:15,420
Frustration, heartache
that's what you got
1853
01:57:15,620 --> 01:57:21,530
Oh, I'm talking about
your personality
1854
01:57:28,540 --> 01:57:30,330
Now with all the
crossin' fingers
1855
01:57:30,530 --> 01:57:31,980
Mother Nature said
1856
01:57:32,180 --> 01:57:33,500
Your mirror's
getting jammed up
1857
01:57:33,700 --> 01:57:35,130
With all your friends
1858
01:57:35,330 --> 01:57:36,510
Personality
1859
01:57:36,710 --> 01:57:38,800
It was just
starting to blend
1860
01:57:39,000 --> 01:57:40,510
It ain't like one.
1861
01:57:40,710 --> 01:57:42,370
With the personality
1862
01:57:42,570 --> 01:57:46,810
When your mind's
going to bend
1863
01:57:47,010 --> 01:57:48,370
Personality
1864
01:57:48,570 --> 01:57:50,850
Glad you know a friend,
of a friend of a friend
1865
01:57:51,050 --> 01:57:52,400
Friend of a friend
1866
01:57:52,600 --> 01:57:53,750
Personality
1867
01:57:53,950 --> 01:57:56,490
One that has
celebrities ever mend
1868
01:57:56,690 --> 01:57:58,530
Lookin' fine
on television
1869
01:57:58,730 --> 01:58:00,140
Personality crisis
1870
01:58:00,330 --> 01:58:03,910
Yeah, you got it
while it was hot
1871
01:58:04,110 --> 01:58:05,990
It's frustration, heartache
1872
01:58:06,200 --> 01:58:08,040
It's what you've got
1873
01:58:08,240 --> 01:58:09,540
All right.
1874
01:58:09,740 --> 01:58:12,520
Personality crisis
1875
01:58:12,720 --> 01:58:15,550
Please don't cry
1876
01:58:15,750 --> 01:58:17,420
A personality crisis
1877
01:58:17,620 --> 01:58:20,280
Please don't stop
1878
01:58:20,480 --> 01:58:23,470
Because you walk
with personality
1879
01:58:23,670 --> 01:58:26,850
You talk with personality
1880
01:58:27,050 --> 01:58:28,910
Yeah.
1881
01:58:29,110 --> 01:58:30,890
Yeah, baby.
1882
01:58:31,090 --> 01:58:33,250
That's what I'm talking about.
1883
01:58:33,450 --> 01:58:35,020
Personality.
1884
01:58:35,220 --> 01:58:36,980
Yeah.
1885
01:58:53,660 --> 01:58:59,860
You know, Plastic Bertrand
goes around saying he...
1886
01:59:00,060 --> 01:59:01,070
invented punk rock,
1887
01:59:01,270 --> 01:59:03,820
but I think that
one was really good.
1888
01:59:07,760 --> 01:59:10,020
You know what I always say?
1889
01:59:10,220 --> 01:59:14,100
Nothing recedes like success.
1890
01:59:19,400 --> 01:59:20,990
Am I...
1891
02:00:00,520 --> 02:00:02,110
You think I'm a whore
1892
02:00:02,310 --> 02:00:07,620
But I got a heart of gold
1893
02:00:07,820 --> 02:00:09,330
You're lockin' your doors
1894
02:00:09,530 --> 02:00:15,210
You're leavin' me
out in the cold
1895
02:00:15,410 --> 02:00:19,460
Well I've been
bought and baby
1896
02:00:19,660 --> 02:00:22,820
I've been sold and I
1897
02:00:23,020 --> 02:00:29,090
I need protection
from the cold
1898
02:00:31,340 --> 02:00:38,310
You may think
that my humanity
1899
02:00:38,510 --> 02:00:44,440
Has been the cause
of all this insanity
1900
02:00:46,030 --> 02:00:52,950
This whole damn world's
got so much uncertainty
1901
02:00:53,150 --> 02:00:59,290
I sure wish you'd
see something in me
1902
02:01:01,210 --> 02:01:02,630
You think I'm a whore
1903
02:01:02,830 --> 02:01:08,300
But I got a heart of gold
1904
02:01:08,500 --> 02:01:09,760
You're lockin' your doors
1905
02:01:09,960 --> 02:01:15,560
You're leavin' me
out in the cold
1906
02:01:15,760 --> 02:01:19,730
Yeah, I've been bought,
baby
1907
02:01:19,930 --> 02:01:22,920
I've been sold and I
1908
02:01:23,120 --> 02:01:29,190
I need protection
from the cold
1909
02:03:02,320 --> 02:03:03,560
Happy birthday, boss.
1910
02:03:09,500 --> 02:03:11,210
And many more.
1911
02:03:16,630 --> 02:03:17,910
Oh, baby.
1912
02:03:48,710 --> 02:03:54,920
You may think
that my humanity
1913
02:03:55,630 --> 02:04:01,250
Was the cause of
all this insanity
1914
02:04:01,450 --> 02:04:02,710
Hm-hmm.
1915
02:04:02,910 --> 02:04:09,610
This whole damn world's
got so much uncertainty
1916
02:04:09,810 --> 02:04:15,940
I sure wish you'd
see something in me
1917
02:04:17,700 --> 02:04:19,490
You think I'm a whore
1918
02:04:19,690 --> 02:04:24,660
But I got a heart of gold
1919
02:04:24,860 --> 02:04:26,460
You're lockin' your doors
1920
02:04:26,660 --> 02:04:31,170
You're leavin' me
out in the cold
1921
02:04:32,460 --> 02:04:35,720
I've been bought and baby
1922
02:04:35,920 --> 02:04:39,080
Yeah, I've been sold and I
1923
02:04:39,270 --> 02:04:44,060
I need protection
from the cold
1924
02:04:44,260 --> 02:04:46,500
Yeah, man.
1925
02:04:46,700 --> 02:04:51,820
I need protection
from the cold
1926
02:04:52,020 --> 02:04:54,490
All right, baby.
1927
02:04:54,690 --> 02:04:57,410
I need protection
1928
02:04:57,610 --> 02:05:04,700
From the cold
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