Thunders, Kane, & Nolan - You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory
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Actor: Thunders Kane & NolanDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Live, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-10-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Mvd Visual
DVD Reviews of Thunders, Kane, & Nolan - You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory
DVD Review: IF YOU WERE WONDERING WHAT ALL THE FUSS WAS ABOUT....
Summary: 5 Stars
Finally some footage of Johnny that shows why he was and remains a true guitar legend. Johnny's drug problems have been well documented and unfortunately much of the video that's available out there doesn't really show how he could play when he was really on. I'm sure there are many who have seen some of these clips and wonder "why all the fuss about this guy?...doesn't really seem like he can play all that well." Finally, with this release, comes a show captured on film of Johnny Thunders is truly great form. Here you can really see the genius, soul, the raw power of his guitar playing. I know that some others have commented on the low production value, one camera, etc. Doesn't matter - you can see what you need to see, and that's Johnny Thunders playing guitar like no other ever could! Highly recommended.DVD Review: It's About All You'll Get
Summary: 4 Stars
Yes, the video looks like a home movie, yes the sound could be better BUT if you're a Johnny Thunders fan like I am, it's a great way to see him in action. He's in good voice, his guitar sounds great and he gives his all in some of his best songs. On the negative side, you can't see Kane and the audience acts like it's asleep. Buy it anyway. Johnny's not coming back!!!
DVD Review: Sounds great
Summary: 5 Stars
The sound is better than on a lot of Thunders albums. This is a great performance from all 3, Thunders is notable for a lucid and very affecting performance. Yes, the visual production is primitive, you can hardly see Jerry and Arthur, but, on the basis of the quality of the performance alone, as well as its uniqueness, I decided halfway through it was a keeper (having rented it first) and I scarcely buy DVDs. I have read it was a bootleg that the estates of Thunders and Kane authorized release of. DVD Review: Toeing, And Hoovering, The Line(s)
Summary: 4 Stars
"You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory" finds Johnny Thunders reuniting for a one-off gig at the Roxy in Los Angeles with two other dead guys (Jerry Nolan and Arthur Kane, natch!) and ex-London Cowboy Barry Jones sitting in for a surprisingly AWOL Walter Lure about 12 years after the New York Dolls' star darkened forever in Florida of all places.
All three ex-Dolls were face down in their own dusty legend by this point, starting to unravel or maybe just completing the process. Stopped. Finished. Lost it. Thunders had degenerated into a potty-mouthed malcontent, in part to reinforce his adoring public's expectations of drug-induced dysfunction while they craned nervously for a view of the exits. Here, though, he's downright cordial.
If, as Syl Sylvain opines in Nina Antonia's Thunders bio, there's nobody more charismatic than someone who looks as if they're about to drop dead, these guys are positively messianic, stubbornly continuing their grubby, ramshackle offensive on a world gone day-glo, acid washed, and perfumed new wave. What hadn't yet killed them appears to have made them stronger.
Thunders musters enough weapons-grade guitar noise to knock a maggot off a garbage truck, Kane and Nolan manage to punch in and out on time despite rumors of extended hallucinatory vacations, and while Jones may not be the on-stage foil that is Waldo, his guitar sounds like it's strung with barbed wire, a barroom bust-up to Thunders' mangled trainwreck.
It's doubtful that "Memory" was ever intended for mass consumption, shot with a primitive pre-MTV technique and one camera up above and to stage left, grainy and poorly lit, but the performance itself is a spleen venter which drags the lake of Thunders, Kane, and Nolan's past with only a short acoustic respite from Thunders, mucking about like some insane conductor on the verge of some great discovery, thrown in for texture.
Like "All Dolled Up," this disc points to humanity's morbid curiosity with the fallen and by this time, the New York Dolls' vaults must be getting to be a pretty lonely place. Of course the master tapes of that Syl Sylvain & The Teardrops album are collecting dust somewhere, begging for digital upgrade and giving purpose to my life, if I uh, had one that is.
DVD Review: worth getting......but.
Summary: 4 Stars
i do like this. johnny keeps his mouth shut and plays his guitar---really well in fact. guess jerry had a 'talk' with him.
ths sound is great too, and though the visuals are not as good as the 'DOA' dvd, at least the sound isn't dubbed (wtf?)!!!
but still---something is missing--johnny is a shadow of his former self. anyone who wants to witness the power and glory of the HEARTBREAKERS at their wild, energetic peak---when they ruled nyc ( really ) should search out one of the Max's Kansas City bootlegs--you know where to find them.
ps---too bad the crowd shots are mostly clueless fratboys on the side--when the cam cuts to the main crowd they are very animated.
especially that guy that looks like Pablo Escobar! maybe it was him ha ha!
Description of Thunders, Kane, & Nolan - You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory
On January 4th, 1987, core New York Dolls members Johnny Thunders, Arthur "Killer" Kane, and Jerry Nolan performed an informal reunion at the Roxy in LA. Sadly, of the three, only Arthur Kane lived long enough to briefly enjoy the Dolls formal reunion.Alternative Rock Music CDs
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