Thank you for reading David! I wish the Dolls would've had more staying power because the music was great! I wasn't as into Johnny and the Heartbreakers or David's solo work. The Dolls were an awesome blip in music history.
Always a pleasure, I love your perspective. As I’ve said before, I was there (well, in Sacramento…but with Creem and Hit Parader, you could feel like you were), and I was open to all of it, but I didn’t have quite as large in context. I was a teenager. But when I think back to just that period of time, starting with Ziggy Stardust and 72 and Transformer and then Alladin Sane and the first Dolls… I knew it was special at the time, even though I was only 16 and 17. But I thought it would last forever. In some ways, I guess it did. And that’s not even counting the even bigger stuff, like Dark Side of the Moon and Houses of the Holy, and on and on…still so happy to have lived it “live” as it were.
Excellent write-up as always, Jami. I’m sure some readers will be surprised by this one. It’s yet another reminder of just how deeply the LGBTQ scene in New York shaped the course of music history.
This was excellent, thanks for shining the light on the music’s origins. I’d heard many of the names but hadn’t really connected the dots and certainly hadn’t realized how centered in queerness punk was in its infancy.
Yes! A lot of Bowie's characterizations were heavily influenced by Warhol and his social circle in the back room of Max's Kansas City. That's where he was introduced to Iggy Pop and Lou Reed for the first time.
I loved reading this! I'll have to dive back into my punk catelogue passed down to me by my father. It's wild to me that anyone would believe an aesthetic and ideology such as punk could be heteronormative, but there you go.
Right on, as usual. I got the first Dolls album the week it came out. Hugely important.
Thank you for reading David! I wish the Dolls would've had more staying power because the music was great! I wasn't as into Johnny and the Heartbreakers or David's solo work. The Dolls were an awesome blip in music history.
Always a pleasure, I love your perspective. As I’ve said before, I was there (well, in Sacramento…but with Creem and Hit Parader, you could feel like you were), and I was open to all of it, but I didn’t have quite as large in context. I was a teenager. But when I think back to just that period of time, starting with Ziggy Stardust and 72 and Transformer and then Alladin Sane and the first Dolls… I knew it was special at the time, even though I was only 16 and 17. But I thought it would last forever. In some ways, I guess it did. And that’s not even counting the even bigger stuff, like Dark Side of the Moon and Houses of the Holy, and on and on…still so happy to have lived it “live” as it were.
You're so right! You are lucky to have lived it in real time. It's one of my favorite eras of rock history and I just missed it. So much great music.
Excellent write-up as always, Jami. I’m sure some readers will be surprised by this one. It’s yet another reminder of just how deeply the LGBTQ scene in New York shaped the course of music history.
Loved this, thanks for sharing
Interesting analysis!
This was so good, thank you!
This was excellent, thanks for shining the light on the music’s origins. I’d heard many of the names but hadn’t really connected the dots and certainly hadn’t realized how centered in queerness punk was in its infancy.
Erm…Bowie…!?
Yes! A lot of Bowie's characterizations were heavily influenced by Warhol and his social circle in the back room of Max's Kansas City. That's where he was introduced to Iggy Pop and Lou Reed for the first time.
I loved reading this! I'll have to dive back into my punk catelogue passed down to me by my father. It's wild to me that anyone would believe an aesthetic and ideology such as punk could be heteronormative, but there you go.