"Trash"

New York Dolls - Trash Don Kirshner's Rock Concert "Bodyblow, Bodyblow" This gem is to the DR. @ Transafixion! What can be said but....Rock genius at a time well needed in pop music. So, in 1972, when rock & roll was all but dead in Manhattan, five cross-dressing glam punks from the boroughs began hammering out crude, sub-Chuck Berry rock for the downtown in-crowd. It took another year before a record company dared to sign them, thus foisting The New York Dolls on an essentially uninterested world.Who'd a thunk it? Taking their cue from the band's guitarist/Keefalike Johnny Thunders, hardcore Dolls fans pooh-poohed Todd Rundgren's production as wimpy(I agree)but twenty-five years after its release, songs like "Personality Crisis" and "Looking for a Kiss" sound more trashily invigorating than ever.Personally I think it just could've been heavyier.(Like I could've done better) With the Rolling Stones finished as a vital force by '73, the doomed Dolls were there to step into the void.(I'm sure the Stones' fanatics that will get all bent here, but C'mon and FACE IT!! They were wrapped up! And remain so.)