R.I.P. Sylvain Sylvain of New York Dolls.

brianlux
brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
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Just heard the new.  Just 69 yrs old and gone.  Sylvain was so cool and the New York Dolls were such an awesome band.  Really sad to hear this.
R.I.P., Syl.

RIP Sylvain Sylvain- New York Dolls Steve Hoffman Music ForumsSylvain Sylvain guitarist for New York Dolls dead at 69



"It's a sad and beautiful world"
-Roberto Benigni

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  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,126
    RIP. I love the Dolls. There is a great documentary on Arthur Kane on Amazon. I highly recommend it  

    I think David Johansen is the last man standing in that band. I’m going to have to listen to them today. 
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    GlowGirl said:
    RIP. I love the Dolls. There is a great documentary on Arthur Kane on Amazon. I highly recommend it  

    I think David Johansen is the last man standing in that band. I’m going to have to listen to them today. 

    Another Dolls fan! Very cool, GG!

    Big thumbs up to the documentary New York Doll.  Have watched that several times.

    Another good Dolls film is "New York Dolls, All Dolled Up".  Bob Gruen and Nadya Beck followed the band around in the early 70's and caught several performance on film.  The film and sound quality are marginal but the performances and band history more than make up for it.  I have the DVD and it includes some full performance in the extras and some of them are terrific, especially "Vietnamese Baby" (Johansen is rather stunning as the blonde cowgirl with the big voice, lol), "Jet Boy" and a few others.

    Yeah, sadly David J is the last Doll standing. 
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    GlowGirl said:
    RIP. I love the Dolls. There is a great documentary on Arthur Kane on Amazon. I highly recommend it  

    I think David Johansen is the last man standing in that band. I’m going to have to listen to them today. 

    Same.
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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,782
    edited January 2021
    Sorry for the loss.

    I saw them once in 2010 play at joey ramones bday bash. I'm not familiar with their stuff, but they had a bunch of dancing nuns on stage and one of the members son on guitar. The show was a bit....shocking. In a twisted fun way. 
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Loujoe said:
    Sorry for the loss.

    I saw them once in 2010 play at joey ramones bday bash. I'm not familiar with their stuff, but they had a bunch of dancing nuns on stage and one of the members son on guitar. The show was a bit....shocking. In a twisted fun way. 

    Sounds crazy, wild, AND fun, L!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • JOEJOEJOE
    JOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,827
    edited January 2021
    Got to see the NY Dolls when they opened for X on my birthday in 2008......glad I got to see them at least once....they are part of music history.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    JOEJOEJOE said:
    Got to see the NY Dolls when they opened for X on my birthday in 2008......glad I got to see them at least once....they are part of music history.

    Wow!  Awesome birthday treat!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

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