NEW YORK DOLLS To Play Free Show In New York City This Friday

August 15, 2006

NEW YORK DOLLS will perform a free show this Friday, August 18 at the South Street Seaport, Pier 17 in New York City. The band will go on stage at 8:00 p.m.

NEW YORK DOLLS' "comeback" CD, "One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This", sold around 7,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 129 on The Billboard 200 chart. The initial pressing of the band's first studio album in over 30 years includes a special 45-minute "making-of" DVD as well as the bonus track "17". The DVD, shot and compiled by Walker Lamond, contains witty and insightful candid studio moments with founding members David Johansen, Sylvain Sylvain and the rest of the DOLLS, as well as footage of guest artists and legendary producer Jack Douglas (JOHN LENNON, AEROSMITH).

"One Day…" marks the triumphant return for the band since 1974's "Too Much Too Soon". It features 13 new tracks and guest appearances by Michael Stipe ("Dancing on the Lip of A Volcano"),Iggy Pop ("Gimme Luv and Turn On the Light"),Tom Gabel of AGAINST ME! ("Punishing World"),and the DOLLS' own hero, Bo Diddley ("17").

THE NEW YORK DOLLS, who formed in 1971, only to burn brightly then break up in 1975, has been accused of inspiring everything from punk rock to "hair metal." "A lot of the mess people are listening to gets blamed on the DOLLS, but we've always been just a stupid R&B-based rock 'n' roll band," says the group's self-professed idiot savant leader David Johansen.

(Thanks: Mikey / www.HeadbangerNYC.com)

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