I'm 68 and that was like us East-Coasters here in North-America mocking the Stones and how 'Poof' was easy to do in a great style that helped usher in Punk. England did fire a salvo back in the form of the Clash' 'London Calling' shortly after, but it was America's joke via the NYC Dolls, that help wake their youth up to the fraud, rock was becoming.
I waited for this album in 1973! In the '70s Rock music was happening FAST. '69-Stooges, '70-Black Sabbath, '71-T.Rex, '72-Alice Cooper, '73-NYDolls. My first love was Metal/Hard Rock, but I checked it ALL out. I'm 62 now, and with RUclips l still check it ALL out.
The Dolls never got big, in the sense that The Velvet Unground never got big, but both influenced so much that came after. The Dolls are definitely a piece of glorious Rock & Roll history.
@daemontargaryen6757 Nobody regards The Sex Pistols as good anything. You are delusional. I don't even know how the Smiths are in convos. They sound nothing like punk rock.
It's weird how they never seem to receive the same respect they deserve in regards to the contribution they made to the Punk Rock sound and scene. Unlike The MC5, Iggy & The Stooges, Cheap Trick, Ramones etc. Watching from London UK.
Yeah I’d like to think so that has iggy and the Stooges and they were so much more raw than this. . The later 80’s glam might not have been around tho. Love the dolls no matter what tho.
@@sammyjett7396 I love them but don't go all the way that far. This band with newer members is actually 100 times better live. I have seen them in Coney Island many times.
Remember sitting watching the OGWT when I was a teenager and the Dolls came on and it was a WTF moment. Didn't know how to react at the time, but knew they were something that would change music to come. Still watching this nearly 50 years later!
where is this rebellious energy and outspoken truth about shitty reality nowadays?It's just like the New York Dolls broke down every doors the establishment tried to close in front of them,plus they were pionneers amongst all kind of other bands coming out of nowhere and even today I will always maintain that they still are the best of the best and in my opinion if there was a true godlike representation of rock n'roll nowadays it could only be the good old line-up of the 70's Dolls.
I saw them in the dingy basement ballroom of the Bridgeport Hotel in 1974, and they tore it right up. Johnny and Sylvain exchanged insults with wise guys punks in the crowd. As a young skinny kid it was loud and scary, which is what the Dolls were going for I’m sure. A highlight of my rocking life.
I did on New Years Eve in Detroit. It was great. They played their set and ran out of songs, so they played several all over again. As I seem to recall.
My favorite band: they were one of the original proto-punk bands, one of the original glam rock bands, etc. They had a gritty, nasty sound that the 80s imitators could never touch
@Coogan Bull shite -they were a DIY band, that were getting away from Emerson, Lake & Palmer or the band Yes. NY Dolls the Stooges, the Ramones in 74. None of them were Punk because they came before, but they went to Europe, got Malcolm MacLaren (later manages the Sex Pistols) to be their manager, etc. They Are proto-Punk. Maybe you're more of an 80 GLAM (Gay LA Metal) fan, and want the Dolls as part of your lineage, but they just are not. Look at Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers, after the Dolls - very much Punk.
At 1:58 you can hear the mic being slightly jostled on the floor as he goes to pick it up. On the other hand, the claps are super crisp and clean, with very even volume, so IDK@@harrynewiss4630
Watching this again just now, I saw Whispering Bob's "mock rock" comment in a different light. It doesn't seem to me he was being dismissive of them so much as he was letting the Dolls and the TV audience know that he "got the joke." I believe he sensed that they were using rock 'n' roll clichés simultaneously to mock the form and celebrate it. Or maybe I'm high.
I still think he was serious. I don't think he got them at all. His comment suggested that they were a manufactured band but they weren't. What you saw was exactly what they were. A completely honest performance. This obviously became a manufactured model for bands like the Sweet, but the rawness of the sound and the underlying attitude became the foundation of punk, and I don't think Whispering Bob ever understood any of that.
First time I heard their debut must have been 1987, I got a copy of both their albums on tape, jesus, that's almost thirty years ago still a big fan of both albums, great party atmosphere music, good energy, good dirty rock.
The New York Dolls were and still are a fantastic group. Just love them. There is no doubt that Punk would have happened in the UK without this group. Unlike some other posts, I am sure Malcom Maclaran, the Sex Pistols manager and saw them In a concert in New York in the early 70s. Came back to the UK and wanted to form a band which replicated the NYDOLLS music. The Sex Pistols were formed and the rest is history.
I like this music and performance...I hear and see a bit if The Rolling Stones and T-Rex, most likely because they are of the same genre. I am surprised when watching The Smiths videos that I see/hear no influence from The New York Dolls, and apparently Morrissey was a huge fan.
That's great! Better late than never, right? Check out Morrissey "Live in Dallas" on you tube. It's an amazing live show from '92(I think). If he's playing anywhere near you on his current tour you should check him out. He still puts on a great show.
I think you see Rolling Stones but they don't sound like them. The Dolls are always dismissed for that. They had their own sound though. Too bad it ended up costing them finacially (probably a billion dollars at this point... no joke.)
@@DonaldRMalen check out a band called The Wedding Present, they are everything the Smiths should be.. When I first heard them I thought to myself, ahh, The Smiths - with balls (and sadly lacking a bit of that Marr-esque quality..)
To these eyes it is Mick Jagger (Johansen) with Keith Richards (Thunders) on steroids. Truth be told, Thunders copied Keith's style but played lead while Sylvain Sylvain played the role of Richards' rhythm guitarist.
@Cero Z No kidding, 'The moves like Jagger' is more of an insult than anything. Id rather move like this guy or Morrison than Jagger. Still a fantastic front man but this guy knows how to move.
Thunders ha influenzato tutta la scena punk inglese, e' stato pioniere del glam, rock, punk, hair metal, tutti i gruppi anni 80 come i Motley crue, erano ispirati da loro, i guns and Roses per primi
If he meant 'mocking rock', that was a good observation. Seems like arena rock was becoming big in those days, and then relief came in the form of punk, or in this case, the precursor to punk. Hit it!
So raw, such pure elements of core rock'n''roll, and greatly overlooked by rock history because they were so ahead of their time. Kids... take notice and notes if you want to be a rocker...
As an avid watcher of TOGWT from when it took over from 'Colour me pop', I can honestly say I was blown over by the Dolls, like a smack between the eyes (as I was the previous year with Starman and Bowie)! I think we all needed a change from all that pretentious 'prog rock' stuff with drum and guitar solos that put years on you! And by the Gods, we got it, with the precursors of punk...
As a fan of Genesis , Yes and Tull - I wholeheartedly approve of this magnificent song and performance. Bob didn't have a clue. The following year , Genesis recorded a double album telling the story of a New York punk called Rael.
If you want to understand the significance of the Dolls in the development of punk, I suggest you read this: books.google.co.uk/books/about/England_s_Dreaming.html?id=ORDbbwAACAAJ&redir_esc=y&hl=en
"Jet Boy stole my baby!" This band really make me think of the movie The Warriors! Maybe the filthy New York spirit of the 60's, 70's decades is for something!
Yes, this is from The Old Grey Whistle Test. I have the DVD "The Old Grey Whistle Test, Volume 2" This performance is on that DVD, from BBC productions. As told in some of the stories on the DVD, performances on the OGWT were sometimes lip-synced, and performed in front of a cameraman only. Its easy to see this was lip synced, and in front of an audience of one or two cameramen.
the BBC video is in itself a masterpiece which accentuates and (hard to believe) takes this genius performance of a classic song making it even greater! WOW!
Wow...Thunders’ guitar tone sure changed by the time he played The Mason Jar Phoenix Arizona late 80’s. The entire club shuddered at each bone dry note. Insanely huge sound 🌟
Apparently one night, just after the Pistols had signed to A&M records, "Whispering" Bob Harris went to the Speakeasy with a couple of music biz officials and a few long haired muso types, when who should turn up but Johnny Rotten and his entourage which included Sid Vicious and Jah Wobble, who were all slightly inebriated. it is alleged that Harris was approached first by Wobble who was a bit miffed that The Old Grey Whistle Test would not show the Pistols on their show, thus an argument ensued in which Sidney set about members of the Bob Harris crew, which resulted in one of his ((Harris) pals getting a bit roughed up and requiring medical attention. When a certain Malcolm McClaren the pistols manager, was questioned by the press after said incident, he famously retorted ;"What can I say-boys will be boys..." The incident led to the Pistols being sacked from A&M records after only a week.
@@Blooobirds27 Well Sidney isn't his name, it's John but more importantly, the word you are looking for is twat.. can you please tell all your pals in the good ol'U.S of A that it is in fact t-w-A-t and not spelt with an O.. Much obliged, thanks..
@@ChrisJohnson-ld3wq Such an ignorant and unwarranted retort about John Simon Ritchie/ Beverly. I am from South Wales UK and not a yank as you quite bombastically resorted to calling me .It's not my fault if you are unable to accept the fact that other people are entitled to A point of view,that fails to collaborate with you Anglo Saxon conqueror/colonised imperial mindset.I am a Celt not a pussy. Your views on me, or what I say- are about much use as the Popes dick. Fuck your Union jack
@@Blooobirds27 well there you go.. i assumed.. and what has happened, yep, i have made an ass out of u and me.. sorry for calling you a yank, that was uncalled for.. it's still twAt with an A though.. no need to get angry
This is why it was great to live in NYC in the Seventies. You had established bands around, rising punk bands and then just all sort of other bands trying to push their own ideas. And a lot of them looked cool. These guys had a great look as well.
@@jasperlufkin during the first guitar break around 1:30, you can hear the mic getting knocked around, and then again around 2:00 when Johnny is stomping next to it, but then there is the unexplained sigh at 2:24 among other anomalies. A real riddle. Superb showmanship by David, not hogging the limelight.
@ARYA DHARMA No, its all lip-synced. Read Sylvains' book. He even confirms that that Vox was a crappy guitar, it's not playing those leads with all that sustain, that's an SG special from the record.
@@seancurran6727 Yes, all pre-recorded, but as can be heard by all the clunking.. the mic is very much live. I used to insist on that if I had to do promo performances to playback (usually in Europe) - otherwise you'd feel a total fraud wouldn't you!?
Watching this in 1973 only confirmed to me how awesome they really were. Still listen to their vinyl LP's and wish how I could go back in time to relive it all again!
Greatest most imp band to come out of NY ❤❤. Influenced so many who followed in sound, style, attitude. Led to Punk Rock. Nikki Sixx copped all who Johnny Thunders was - no JT = no Motley Crue. Long live the NEW YORK DOLLS.
David Jo is the nicest man ever.Met him in 87 on Melrose.Was totally willing to sit and chat with me.i had just seen Thunders weeks earlier in Miami.That was all he wanted to talk about.How was Johnny.Great band Great people.Sylvain still has rampage of records going.And looking for Johnny came out last year.Dolls 4ever!
@omegajrz1269 ha! Those bands were bullshit nonsense. Do your research. Dolls were punk and inspired hundreds of punk bands. Don't let their costumes deceive you.
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The Dolls were SO ahead of their time. RIP Jerry, Sylvain, Johnny.
if you like this you might like my brothers music. His name is Stu Morris and she has a car is a good song by him
You forgot Arthur killer Kane
I'm 68 and that was like us East-Coasters here in North-America mocking the Stones and how 'Poof' was easy to do in a great style that helped usher in Punk. England did fire a salvo back in the form of the Clash' 'London Calling' shortly after, but it was America's joke via the NYC Dolls, that help wake their youth up to the fraud, rock was becoming.
I waited for this album in 1973! In the '70s Rock music was happening FAST. '69-Stooges, '70-Black Sabbath, '71-T.Rex, '72-Alice Cooper, '73-NYDolls. My first love was Metal/Hard Rock, but I checked it ALL out. I'm 62 now, and with RUclips l still check it ALL out.
Awesome! You're doing it right!
Loved the tunes from the glam rock bands, bought alot of these albums
Then Ramones came out in 1974
I'm 2 years younger and you keep on keeping on pal! Keep on rocking'!
61 HERE - IM WITH YA'!
Johnny Thunders looks so badass in the opening of this…. Pure Rock God status and this is 1973..
The Dolls never got big, in the sense that The Velvet Unground never got big, but both influenced so much that came after. The Dolls are definitely a piece of glorious Rock & Roll history.
Nonsense.
A Footnote. Garage Band quality 3 chord crap.
@daemontargaryen6757 Did they Influence any good bands? Nope.
@daemontargaryen6757 Nobody regards The Sex Pistols as good anything. You are delusional. I don't even know how the Smiths are in convos. They sound nothing like punk rock.
@@dragonpundit.6443Guns N Roses & Hanoi Rock 🙄
Rest in Peace Billy, Jerry, Johnny, Arthur, and Syl. These dolls are now in Heaven. 😢
Disculpa, leo que si lo añadiste...Thunders, con la muerte de Murcia, quedó muy, muy, afectado.
R.I.P. Sylvain Sylvain, thank you for changin' my life and the rock history. Eternally in my heart and ears! Go in peace, man.
@Falhawk73 Yes, David must feel so alone now.... :-(
Oh God! I didn't know Syl had passed. Rest in peace.
I look at the album cover and now there's only one living person on that cover. :(
Changed history if Ramones and Sex Pistols. Thanx and RIP.
Wow what an amazingly pathetic Life you must have led then. Hahahaa he teach how to wear lipsticks and women’s clothes hahahaa
This is still great almost 50 years later.
What is great about it???
@@dragonpundit.6443 Really ???
@@dragonpundit.6443🤣🤣🤣
They opened for Lynyrd Skynyrd in my hometown 70s
You suck.@@dragonpundit.6443
Was a monster track in 73 and still is today what a great live band the original Punks. Crank that volume button up and enjoy.
Seems like Glam Rock v The Stones to me.
@@lordprotector3367 😆😅
It's weird how they never seem to receive the same respect they deserve in regards to the contribution they made to the Punk Rock sound and scene. Unlike The MC5, Iggy & The Stooges, Cheap Trick, Ramones etc. Watching from London UK.
Johnny thunders dolls look was accidentally responsible for the 80s
@@TheLucreziia it's true thunders said in interviews he wanted to be Keith Richards and chuck berry
RIP Syl - you helped define what my teen years were going to be like back in 1973. Thank God I was running around NYC so high.
Post Glam, Rolling Stones with Punk, Punk. Johnny Thunders Iconic. A truly ahead of their time maverick band.
Would punk rock ever have evolved quite the way it did, had it not been for the Dolls coming out with their harsh sound in the early '70s?
No, they totally set the stage. The Sex Pistols worshipped the Dolls.
They are what are ,take it or leave it,they had a no nonsense attitude. Sometimes you love to be hated or you hate to be loved.
Of course not. Malcolm McClaren, upon seeing the Dolls performing in London, formed the Sex Pistols, which spear-headed the whole punk rock movement.
Yeah I’d like to think so that has iggy and the Stooges and they were so much more raw than this. . The later 80’s glam might not have been around tho. Love the dolls no matter what tho.
Hell no.
I like this. I honestly don't get why people feel the need to shit on others for something as harmless as their taste in music.
McBandit Hope agreed! NYD rock!
Anyone who doesn't like this and claims to like rock n roll can go suck it.
Insecurity?
Whisperin' Bob got it wrong.
@@sammyjett7396 I love them but don't go all the way that far. This band with newer members is actually 100 times better live. I have seen them in Coney Island many times.
I don't think it gets more bad ass than this right here.
rest in peace sylvain sylvain❤️❤️❤️
Sad day
Can't even imagine what direction rock would have taken without bands like the Dolls and Iggy and the Stooges.
a better one
RIP Sylvain Sylvain. Absolute giant.
Both Aerosmith and KISS were heavily influenced by The Dolls. Not too mention the dozens of glam metal rock bands in the 80's.
Definitely!!!!!
Yeah
And all of punk that followed!
Morrissey was too talk about different genre's
@@clintbrannan9510 Morrissey was a huge New York Dolls fan!
Johnny Freeaaakin THUNDERS!!!!
One of THE original wildmen...
buchanan vanderbilt FUCK YES
You don't know what you got till its gone - that was a powerful line up in rock and roll terms
@@Ess666 F*ck yeah man !
@George Morenstein Yup! And all those LA and NY Punk, Glam and Heavy bands. Johnny has lots of offsprings!
Brilliant. And in bloody 1973!
noone invents anything anymore since 1969
They were miming the album version!
Oh they stole their whole act from Liberace
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The mystery of Johnny Thunders' death is how he managed to stay alive until 1991 LOL
He was clean since 1980's. The mystery was how we stayed live the 70's
they don't imitate ,they blow away ,unapologetic cockiness .gotta love them.
I’ve watched this every day for the past 2 weeks. NY Dolls forever ❤️
Remember sitting watching the OGWT when I was a teenager and the Dolls came on and it was a WTF moment. Didn't know how to react at the time, but knew they were something that would change music to come. Still watching this nearly 50 years later!
He was a on old hippie. He knew his time was gone, bob Harris.
where is this rebellious energy and outspoken truth about shitty reality nowadays?It's just like the New York Dolls broke down every doors the establishment tried to close in front of them,plus they were pionneers amongst all kind of other bands coming out of nowhere and even today I will always maintain that they still are the best of the best and in my opinion if there was a true godlike representation of rock n'roll nowadays it could only be the good old line-up of the 70's Dolls.
Two words mate: Ty Segall.. check him out.. Starcrawler ain't bad either.. there is hope
Gotta get rid of these boring sulky Indie bands first and clear the clutter to get back to real R&R
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Would love to have seen this band live back in 1973. I'd say they left a lasting impression!
I was lucky to get seats to the New York Dolls live in the Rainbow Room at Biba. We all danced on table tops - it was 1973.
8 shows in 4 nights in Denver. Changed my life. I forgot I had a job, and never went back.
Saw Johnny Thunders shortly before he died at the Marquee in London.
I saw them in the dingy basement ballroom of the Bridgeport Hotel in 1974, and they tore it right up. Johnny and Sylvain exchanged insults with wise guys punks in the crowd. As a young skinny kid it was loud and scary, which is what the Dolls were going for I’m sure.
A highlight of my rocking life.
I did on New Years Eve in Detroit. It was great. They played their set and ran out of songs, so they played several all over again. As I seem to recall.
Johnny Thunders had such a presence before fucking smack started to takes its toll
Yeah! Mock Rock. Nice one Bob. You still frontin' that BBC Radio 2 Country Music Show every Thursday night at 9pm ? Unbelievable!!
Joey Ramone said this was the period he took influence from Johnny Thunders !!!
Dee Dee Ramone felt the same. I think once the New York Dolls started to grow it really pushed The Ramones to get started with their band.
@@moondusk8385 so ahead of their time. I would have loved to see these guys live
So did Steve Stevens!
The only Ramone who didn't like The Dolls was Tommy. He told Johnny they were terrible.
I saw Thunders Live with Jerry Nolan on drums, glen Mattlock on bass .. Thunders did a solo acoustic set in the show too . R.I.P Johnny.
My favorite band: they were one of the original proto-punk bands, one of the original glam rock bands, etc. They had a gritty, nasty sound that the 80s imitators could never touch
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@Coogan Bull shite -they were a DIY band, that were getting away from Emerson, Lake & Palmer or the band Yes. NY Dolls the Stooges, the Ramones in 74. None of them were Punk because they came before, but they went to Europe, got Malcolm MacLaren (later manages the Sex Pistols) to be their manager, etc. They Are proto-Punk. Maybe you're more of an 80 GLAM (Gay LA Metal) fan, and want the Dolls as part of your lineage, but they just are not. Look at Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers, after the Dolls - very much Punk.
0:05
The only video of this that begins appropriately with the skull on the back of Thunder's jacket/and the opening riff...
Fuck yeah! 😎
I think this is my favorite clip of Johnny with the snarl and all that hair... The Dolls were great.
One of the first sounds that i found i wanted to play as a young kid. Thunders was such a good guitarist
Love how you can hear the amps trying to keep up. So raw.
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i dont think this is the original audio from ogwt
@@zg-mzga correct, it isn't
At 1:58 you can hear the mic being slightly jostled on the floor as he goes to pick it up. On the other hand, the claps are super crisp and clean, with very even volume, so IDK@@harrynewiss4630
That whole 1980s Sunset Strip scene, these guys were the model for it
the 80s Sunset Strip scene was the watered down version of this
Apparently calling the Dolls 'mock rock' was an act of retaliation for being called 'bunny teeth'.
LOL! The host was a twat!
@dread true LOL!
@Disco Sucks He sure did! Typical Englishman!
Did he try not having bunny teeth
Watching this again just now, I saw Whispering Bob's "mock rock" comment in a different light. It doesn't seem to me he was being dismissive of them so much as he was letting the Dolls and the TV audience know that he "got the joke." I believe he sensed that they were using rock 'n' roll clichés simultaneously to mock the form and celebrate it. Or maybe I'm high.
I still think he was serious. I don't think he got them at all. His comment suggested that they were a manufactured band but they weren't. What you saw was exactly what they were. A completely honest performance. This obviously became a manufactured model for bands like the Sweet, but the rawness of the sound and the underlying attitude became the foundation of punk, and I don't think Whispering Bob ever understood any of that.
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This is still so ON! Sparkling fresh like a soda pop!
Love you Sylvain - playing your music with a toast to every song - thanks for the great music - Phil
Sylvain Sylvain.....I will never get over your passing....R.I.P. Rock God.!!!!
First time I heard their debut must have been 1987, I got a copy of both their albums on tape, jesus, that's almost thirty years ago still a big fan of both albums, great party atmosphere music, good energy, good dirty rock.
They are indeed one of the greatest Rock Bands ever; they influenced a countless amount of bands/artists. I can't get enough of this first album.
Classic, RIP, Jerry, Johnny, Arthur and of course Billy Murcia. Glam punk at it's finest
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The New York Dolls were and still are a fantastic group. Just love them.
There is no doubt that Punk would have happened in the UK without this group. Unlike some other posts, I am sure Malcom Maclaran, the Sex Pistols manager and saw them In a concert in New York in the early 70s. Came back to the UK and wanted to form a band which replicated the NYDOLLS music.
The Sex Pistols were formed and the rest is history.
Rod Stewart and Small Faces had them as a support act at Wembley. The Dolls first big gig
Oh, thanks, didn‘t know that!
Those first two albums are both awesome. Why was the host so negative? This was a pretty strong performance.
That's 'Whispering' Bob Harris. He's not negative just understated.
He’s an old hippy that didn’t like music the kids were making
Because Johanssen told Bob he had bunny teeth 🦷 and he responden by calling them mock-rock
@@NeonCherryBlossum LMFAO! At least he didn't compare her to a ' 58 Plymouth Fury!
@@voyagersa22 Lol,at the end he really did look like he had bunny teeth.
1:33 - I didn't realize Nigel Tufnel played drums for the the New York Dolls on top of playing guitar in Spinal Tap!
“This bow tie goes to eleven.”
Blow my mind in 70s and still doing it today
I like this music and performance...I hear and see a bit if The Rolling Stones and T-Rex, most likely because they are of the same genre. I am surprised when watching The Smiths videos that I see/hear no influence from The New York Dolls, and apparently Morrissey was a huge fan.
A lot of Morrissey's more recent solo stuff has more of a Dolls feel than the Smiths. Also, years ago he used to cover "Trash" live.
thank you. I just discovered The Smiths and Moz, believe it or not, about 3 months ago and it changed my life!
That's great! Better late than never, right? Check out Morrissey "Live in Dallas" on you tube. It's an amazing live show from '92(I think). If he's playing anywhere near you on his current tour you should check him out. He still puts on a great show.
I think you see Rolling Stones but they don't sound like them. The Dolls are always dismissed for that. They had their own sound though. Too bad it ended up costing them finacially (probably a billion dollars at this point... no joke.)
@@DonaldRMalen check out a band called The Wedding Present, they are everything the Smiths should be.. When I first heard them I thought to myself, ahh, The Smiths - with balls (and sadly lacking a bit of that Marr-esque quality..)
To these eyes it is Mick Jagger (Johansen) with Keith Richards (Thunders) on steroids. Truth be told, Thunders copied Keith's style but played lead while Sylvain Sylvain played the role of Richards' rhythm guitarist.
@Cero Z No kidding, 'The moves like Jagger' is more of an insult than anything. Id rather move like this guy or Morrison than Jagger. Still a fantastic front man but this guy knows how to move.
Their original manager became Aerosmith’s manager..you can see their washed down style of the dolls in their early career.
the Dolls were just a *better* Stones
@@sexobscura ha - you’re funny xD
Thunders ha influenzato tutta la scena punk inglese, e' stato pioniere del glam, rock, punk, hair metal, tutti i gruppi anni 80 come i Motley crue, erano ispirati da loro, i guns and Roses per primi
If he meant 'mocking rock', that was a good observation.
Seems like arena rock was becoming big in those days, and then relief came in the form of punk, or in this case, the precursor to punk. Hit it!
From what I understand the host was just being a snob.
@@chrisholzhauer8059 The band had made fun of his buck teeth so he was pissed off with them
@@MormonHoldem That is hilarious
@@chrisholzhauer8059 time proves him a moron...
So raw, such pure elements of core rock'n''roll, and greatly overlooked by rock history because they were so ahead of their time. Kids... take notice and notes if you want to be a rocker...
Or cool
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This was the era of folk rock, prog rock, etc. No way did the Dolls stand a chance, but they were great while they lasted!
This is a jamming song, Some of their stuff I don't like, but this ROCKS
All the folk people had gone electric by 73 for the most part. Dolls are timeless.
Amazing band, it was the perfect sound
As an avid watcher of TOGWT from when it took over from 'Colour me pop', I can honestly say I was blown over by the Dolls, like a smack between the eyes (as I was the previous year with Starman and Bowie)! I think we all needed a change from all that pretentious 'prog rock' stuff with drum and guitar solos that put years on you! And by the Gods, we got it, with the precursors of punk...
As a fan of Genesis , Yes and Tull - I wholeheartedly approve of this magnificent song and performance. Bob didn't have a clue.
The following year , Genesis recorded a double album telling the story of a New York punk called Rael.
This is great: what rock'n'roll should be about!
So true ! 👍🤠
The most pre-pandemic knees-up I've ever witnessed. Things will never be the same.
Half way between the stones and the pistols, yet American.
Punk before punk \m/ fucking love them
You don't what punk is you clown
MrErmmmmmm bro this is glam rock
I always liked to believe punk started in the late 60's with the stooges, but i could be wrong
If you want to understand the significance of the Dolls in the development of punk, I suggest you read this: books.google.co.uk/books/about/England_s_Dreaming.html?id=ORDbbwAACAAJ&redir_esc=y&hl=en
"Jet Boy stole my baby!" This band really make me think of the movie The Warriors! Maybe the filthy New York spirit of the 60's, 70's decades is for something!
Jerry Nolan, What an Amazing Drummer, Totally Underrated...❤🔥❤️
Johnny Thunders is an underrated gem. His live version or chatterbox, and a bu bc h of his solo stuff is pure gold
David Johansson was in the movie LET IT RIDE with Richard Dreyfus and Terri Garr which was a severely underrated.
He was also in tales from the darkside😉
Can't help noticing, at 1:31, it looks like Nigel Tufnel is sitting in on drums!
Second album Too Much Too Soon is the gem
Sylvain now up in rock n roll heaven 😔
Arthur Kane is so out of it he literally ends up out of it
What a great performance and quality! Thanks for posting!
Yes, this is from The Old Grey Whistle Test. I have the DVD "The Old Grey Whistle Test, Volume 2" This performance is on that DVD, from BBC productions. As told in some of the stories on the DVD, performances on the OGWT were sometimes lip-synced, and performed in front of a cameraman only. Its easy to see this was lip synced, and in front of an audience of one or two cameramen.
Yes, yet so many 'Sheeple' can't tell the difference!
the BBC video is in itself a masterpiece which accentuates and (hard to believe) takes this genius performance of a classic song making it even greater! WOW!
思わず手拍子しちゃうね!✨😆💦
Nigel Tufnil on drums??????? When did he switch to gultar? These boys rocked....
This was complletely different from anything at the time.
Wow...Thunders’ guitar tone sure changed by the time he played The Mason Jar Phoenix Arizona late 80’s.
The entire club shuddered at each bone dry note. Insanely huge sound 🌟
[28 June 2020] How brilliant David Johansen was. He really did look like an evil doll...
He still does!
"Mock rock" my arse, Harris you twot I'm glad Sid gave you what for at the Speakeasy all those years ago. Happy times...
Raymondspongey if you have time i would like to hear what happened at the speakeasy. did sid give him some shit i take it?
Apparently one night, just after the Pistols had signed to A&M records, "Whispering" Bob Harris went to the Speakeasy with a couple of music biz officials and a few long haired muso types, when who should turn up but Johnny Rotten and his entourage which included Sid Vicious and Jah Wobble, who were all slightly inebriated. it is alleged that Harris was approached first by Wobble who was a bit miffed that The Old Grey Whistle Test would not show the Pistols on their show, thus an argument ensued in which Sidney set about members of the Bob Harris crew, which resulted in one of his ((Harris) pals getting a bit roughed up and requiring medical attention. When a certain Malcolm McClaren the pistols manager, was questioned by the press after said incident, he famously retorted ;"What can I say-boys will be boys..." The incident led to the Pistols being sacked from A&M records after only a week.
@@Blooobirds27 Well Sidney isn't his name, it's John but more importantly, the word you are looking for is twat.. can you please tell all your pals in the good ol'U.S of A that it is in fact t-w-A-t and not spelt with an O.. Much obliged, thanks..
@@ChrisJohnson-ld3wq Such an ignorant and unwarranted
retort about John Simon Ritchie/ Beverly. I am from South Wales UK and not a yank as you quite bombastically resorted to calling me .It's not my fault if you are unable to accept the fact that other people are entitled to A point of view,that fails to collaborate with you Anglo Saxon conqueror/colonised imperial mindset.I am a Celt not a pussy.
Your views on me, or what I say- are about much use as the Popes dick. Fuck your Union jack
@@Blooobirds27 well there you go.. i assumed.. and what has happened, yep, i have made an ass out of u and me.. sorry for calling you a yank, that was uncalled for.. it's still twAt with an A though.. no need to get angry
Bob Harris' legendary 'mock rock' quote, Like he was their baby...
He called it Mock Rock cos Johannsen told him that he had bunny teeth!
@@hector7187 🤣
Rip Sylvain..yiur now in Jetboy heaven..with thunders like you were my baby...like you were....like you..
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So influential. Incredible.
What?
@@cafinario he’s right
I like the idea that J Thunders "battled addiction". I think addiction battled him - met its match, could barely keep up.
Which one won?
This is why it was great to live in NYC in the Seventies. You had established bands around, rising punk bands and then just all sort of other bands trying to push their own ideas. And a lot of them looked cool. These guys had a great look as well.
if you like this you might like my brothers music. His name is Stu Morris and she has a car is a good song by him
They don't look a million miles away from the bands like motley crew or posion that came around 15 - 20 years later
RIP Sylvain Sylvain.........massively influencial band
Love this...you know what thou. I think David's mike is hot while the rest of the band is playing to a prerecorded track....
Billy Lightning Probably true... David sounds great here- really puts himself into it.
Wow, I went back and re-watched it and I think even David is pre-recorded....oh well, check out the musikladen videos if you haven't seen them.
@@jasperlufkin during the first guitar break around 1:30, you can hear the mic getting knocked around, and then again around 2:00 when Johnny is stomping next to it, but then there is the unexplained sigh at 2:24 among other anomalies. A real riddle. Superb showmanship by David, not hogging the limelight.
@ARYA DHARMA No, its all lip-synced. Read Sylvains' book. He even confirms that that Vox was a crappy guitar, it's not playing those leads with all that sustain, that's an SG special from the record.
@@seancurran6727 Yes, all pre-recorded, but as can be heard by all the clunking.. the mic is very much live. I used to insist on that if I had to do promo performances to playback (usually in Europe) - otherwise you'd feel a total fraud wouldn't you!?
What a great sound they had 👍
Now David Johansson is the only one left. R.I.P. to the rest.
Watching this in 1973 only confirmed to me how awesome they really were. Still listen to their vinyl LP's and wish how I could go back in time to relive it all again!
They were punk rock before it had a name.😊
if you like this you might like my brothers music. His name is Stu Morris and she has a car is a good song by him
最初のコーラスではジョニー・サンダースが背低くて、デヴィッド・ヨハンセンのマイクに届かなかったので
２回目からは、ヨハンセン屈んであげてますね🤣🤣🤣
Saw the Dolls in Allen Park Ice Arena just outside Detroit they kicked ass not many in attendance but what a show!
Formidable tema que cierra el debut de un icono proto-punk.
Greatest most imp band to come out of NY ❤❤. Influenced so many who followed in sound, style, attitude. Led to Punk Rock. Nikki Sixx copped all who Johnny Thunders was - no JT = no Motley Crue. Long live the NEW YORK DOLLS.
Love this song.....1973 omg I was a kid ...
I adore this ...................
David Jo is the nicest man ever.Met him in 87 on Melrose.Was totally willing to sit and chat with me.i had just seen Thunders weeks earlier in Miami.That was all he wanted to talk about.How was Johnny.Great band Great people.Sylvain still has rampage of records going.And looking for Johnny came out last year.Dolls 4ever!
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the drummer looks like a young Christopher Guest (Spinal Tap)....1:34
These guys were innovative, bad ass rockers. David, Killer Kane, Sylvain Sylvain, Johnny Thunders, Jerry Nolan. The Dolls!
Loves this song. This is glam rock at it's best.
This is NOT glam Rock. This is pure punk. Rebellious, raucous punk.
Glam was nothing more than glitter bubble gum.
@@MARCD-tj8bwThis is glam punk. Similar to the glam metal of Kiss or Twisted Sister.
@omegajrz1269 ha! Those bands were bullshit nonsense. Do your research. Dolls were punk and inspired hundreds of punk bands. Don't let their costumes deceive you.
@@MARCD-tj8bw Kiss has some songs that I like. I admit it. But New York Dolls is much better. And the other glam ones like T. Rex and Sweet too.
I fucking love the New York Dolls - the best band ever to wear your granny's frocks! Fucking Marvellous!
1973..pretty fucking radical for the time.