The New York Dolls played their first show together since the 1970s at the behest of this year's Meltdown Festival curator, Morrissey. Super-totally-awesome Libertines drummer Gary Powell sat in on drums in place of the late Jerry Nolan. No word on who had the unenviable task of taking Johnny Thunders's place on guitar. They even played Thunders's "You Can't Put Your Arms around a Memory" for an encore. By the way, if you do a lyrics search for the latter, all you get is Guns n' Roses sites, since they did that shitty cover version on The Spaghetti Incident. And speaking of Gn'R, can you believe that Velvet Revolver's new album, Contraband, is number one on the Billboard album chart? I, myself, cannot (spot the movie reference??). Something about Scott Weiland just screams "semi-retarded, talentless washout." But, as you well know, the management is sometimes cruel and unforgiving. Besides, you gotta give it to Slash, who still sports the Marc Boland stovepipe hat and gets into bar fights with people when they doubt his identity.
Anyway, the New York Dolls received a huge standing ovation after a triumphant performance. I'm taking this as a good Johnny Ramone omen.
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