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Johnny Thunders

Johnny Thunders

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Sep 23, 2026

JohnGUEST
21:57
the western world uh they had an album in i want to say the 73 was the the one that yeah uh their self-titled album 1973 new york dolls um remember that personality crisis is the the lead song on that and that that's a super influential song um and a lot of people i think you hear a lot of covers like A lot of people cover this song.
JohnGUEST
22:28
Johnny Thunders played guitar in that band.
JohnGUEST
22:32
Just so you remember, we did the Murder City Devils.
JohnGUEST
22:34
They had a song called Johnny Thunders.
JohnGUEST
22:37
So many people came in and out of that band.
JohnGUEST
22:40
It's a who's who.
Simon TeslerHOST
39:16
It was very new to me.
Simon TeslerHOST
39:18
In a few minutes, the former New York doll and heartbreaker Johnny Thunders, with you can't put your arms around a memory, but this is Alanis Morissette and Head Over Feet.
speaker_3SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
39:29
I had no choice but to hear you You stated your case time and again I thought about it You treat me like I'm a princess I'm not used to Like you may add You ask how my day was You've already won me over In spite of me And don't be alarmed if I And don't be surprised if I love you For all that you are I couldn't help it It's all your fault Your love is thick And it's followed me whole You're so much braver Than I gave you credit for That's not lip service You've already won me over In spite of me And don't be alarmed if I fall Head over feet And don't be surprised if I love you For all that you are I couldn't help it It's all your fault You are the bearer of unconditional things You held your breath and the door for me Thanks for your patience You're the best listener that I've ever met You're my best friend, best friend with benefits What took me so long? felt this healthy before I've never wanted something rational I am aware now I am aware now you've already won me over in spite of me and don't be alarmed if I fall Head over feet And don't be surprised if I love you For all that you are I couldn't help it It's all your fault You've already won me over In spite of me And don't be alarmed if I fall Head over feet And don't be surprised if I love you It's all your fault
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
43:51
doesn't pay to try all the smart boys know why it doesn't mean i didn't try i just never know why Big deal, I'm still alive So old And when they go They let you know You can't put your arm around a memory Don't try Don't try And you've got no name Cause you're living with me We're one and the same And even though they don't show The scars are so old And when they go They let you know You can't put Don't try You can't put your arm around a memory Don't try Don't try
Simon TeslerHOST
47:23
Head Over Feet from Alanis Morissette, and then You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory, written and recorded by the outlaw guitarist Johnny Thunders for his first solo album, So Alone.
Simon TeslerHOST
47:37
In the mid-1970s, Thunders had been one of the originators of New York's glam punk scene as part of the New York Dolls.
Simon TeslerHOST
47:45
And then as the drugs took hold, he came to London with some of the remnants of the dolls under the new name, the Heartbreakers.
Clint BoonGUEST
5:51
But knowing or believing at the time that you couldn't do it, you know, kids from Oldham like me couldn't become pop stars and end up on the television and end up in a band and end up doing gigs.
Clint BoonGUEST
6:01
Seeing the Pistols that night with the Clash and the Buzzcocks and Johnny Thunder's Heartbreakers, that was December of 76.
Clint BoonGUEST
6:09
And that was the moment where I just thought, it's absolutely obvious that I can do this.
Clint BoonGUEST
6:13
I can be in one of these bands.
BrodyHOST
68:52
Follow that up with Screaming Demons and We March from A Tribute to George Romero.
BrodyHOST
68:56
We finish with Johnny Thunders in Cold Blood from Punk Rock Halloween Vol.
BrodyHOST
69:02
2.
BrodyHOST
69:04
All right.
Jay Jay FrenchGUEST
39:25
Well, I knew the Dolls individually because I used to deal to a couple of the guys anyway in the park.
Jay Jay FrenchGUEST
39:29
And I knew Johnny Thunders because he was a client and he was always the worst fucking guitar player in the fucking...
Jay Jay FrenchGUEST
39:35
I mean, he made Neil Young sound like Yngwie Malmsteen.
Jay Jay FrenchGUEST
39:37
This fucking guy was fucking awful.
Gary LachmanGUEST
22:13
and joined television, Tom Verlaine's band, because Richard Hell had left.
Gary LachmanGUEST
22:17
And because he joined, he started the band called The Heartbreakers with Johnny Thunders from The Dolls who had broken up.
Gary LachmanGUEST
22:23
And so Fred did that.
Gary LachmanGUEST
22:25
And then Clem said, I was living in New York, writing very bad poetry and starving, working as a messenger.
Jack RabidHOST
47:42
Otherwise, he would have all just died young.
Jack RabidHOST
47:44
much like Johnny Thunders and Jerry Nolan and Dee Dee Ramone and a lot of the other junkies that were on the New York scene in the late 70s.
Jack RabidHOST
47:56
I'm glad he got to be that old, though.
Jack RabidHOST
47:58
The last couple of Dead Boy shows I saw with their modern lineup, I thought were really quite good.
Scott HudsonHOST
69:52
Both Jeff Dahl and the Cowgirls were terrific, but having Chrome in his band seemed to give Dahl extra motivation, and the two of them played off each other in jaw-dropping style.
Scott HudsonHOST
70:02
For a fan of that Dead Boy slash Snoozy slash Johnny Thunder sort of thing, you could hardly do better.
Scott HudsonHOST
70:09
And Cheetah also recorded a single with Dahl.
Scott HudsonHOST
70:13
And I've got both of those tracks here.

37 MINS LATER

Scott HudsonHOST
107:44
Jenny Raven's choice of the Ramones' song, Here Today, Gone Tomorrow, is brilliant.
Scott HudsonHOST
107:49
They may have been headbangers, but they were Ronnie Spector fans.
Scott HudsonHOST
107:53
Members of Johnny Thunder's Heartbreakers, the Dead Boys, and Mink DeVille must have been honored to appear on this.
Scott HudsonHOST
107:59
And yes, Cheetah Chrome is on, from what I've read, most of the album, if not all of it, including... that already mentioned cover of the Ramones, Here Today, Gone Tomorrow.
Scott LippsHOST
42:02
...
Scott LippsHOST
42:02
Johnny Thunders.
Mike NessGUEST
42:03
It's an homage.
Scott LippsHOST
42:04
It's an homage.
JackHOST
106:02
That was Kriegert's Hunder and heard Annie before Drapslag with Bang Bang Down You Go, that band from Estonia.
JackHOST
106:10
Heard some lives with Burn before Annie and some Cheap Kiss with I Wanna Be a Junkie Like Johnny Thunders and the Limewires before Cheap Kiss.
JackHOST
106:18
That's what's called the art of hypocrisy.
JackHOST
106:20
you've been listening to the punk rock demonstration.

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