NEW YORK DOLLS Guitarist Interviewed On 'The Metal File'; Audio Available
June 24, 2009Guitarist Sylvain Sylvain of legendary rockers NEW YORK DOLLS was interviewed for this week's "The Metal File" podcast from Montreal's CHOM-FM. You can stream the show online at this location.
NEW YORK DOLLS' new album, "Cause I Sez So", sold 3,900 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 159 on The Billboard 200 chart.
After working together on the NEW YORK DOLLS' influential debut in 1973, the group reunited this winter with producer Todd Rundgren to record the new LP at Rundgren's studio on the island of Kauai, Hawaii.
"Cause I Sez So" features 11 original compositions and a new version of "Trash", which was on the band's 1973 debut album. "It was amazing working with Todd again, and I think we were able to evoke the special sound of our first album and drag it by the hair into the present," said frontman David Johansen.
The NEW YORK DOLLS swaggered onto the New York music scene in the early '70s, influencing a generation with its subversive mix of high-decibel rock and high-heeled androgyny. The original band recorded a pair of milestone records — "New York Dolls" (1973) and "Too Much Too Soon" (1974) — before breaking up in 1977. The surviving members reformed the group in 2004 to much acclaim, but soon lost bassist Arthur Kane to leukemia. Two years later, Johansen and Sylvain reunited again to record the NEW YORK DOLLS' third studio album, "One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This".
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