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Name: Fleabit Peanut Monkey
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Subject: RE: RE: RE: RIP Arthur Kane (nsc)
Date: Thursday, July 15, 2004
Time: 10:36:01 AM
Remote Address: 64.179.100.68
Message ID: 117719
Parent ID: 117718
Thread ID: 117655
>Without Thunders, they're not the Dolls.
Like the Stones without Keef.
Can't argue with that - BUT!!!! If the Stones had broken up after Exile, and now this year Mick and Charlie were going out with a pickup band to play it live for the first time in over 30 years, would you go? I know I would! It wouldn't be the Glory Days, but these days you take what you can get.
It's a little like the Pistols reunions I saw - sure, they had ZERO social impact, which was half the point of the original incarnation. But, not having been lucky enough to see them the first time around, I wouldn't trade either of the shows I saw ('96 & '02) for ANYTHING. I really LOVE the Dolls' albums, and I'd love to see those songs played as close to the originals as possible, with as many of the original musicians as are alive at the moment. That's all. Nobody's expecting miracles. ALSO like the Pistols, the Dolls have honed their skills in the last 30 years, and musically they are by all accounts a LOT better than they were in their original heroin haze.
It's also a little like the great Hubert Sumlin show I posted about last month. Howlin' Wolf is long dead, and there was only ONE guy on stage who had ever played with him, but it was the ONLY chance I was going to get to hear those great songs, and I wouldn't trade the experience for anything.
I don't know if the Dolls will tour anymore after this sad event. But if they do, I'm going to try to see them. Gazza said they were scheduled to open for the White Stripes next month in Dublin - WOW. THAT would be a show worth seeing.
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