NY Dolls in a NY Minute
Posted by Dylan on January 25, 2010There’s something terribly, terribly attractive about arrogance, especially in the world of rock and roll. In New York City, it’s even more attractive when someone can pull it off, because not it’s not only the most exciting city in the world, it’s also one of the toughest. Someone making a claim to be the greatest of anything in New York City will have the opportunity to prove it, and the opportunity usually only lasts a couple seconds. The people who live here are often among the best at what they do, and they make very astute, and also very severe, judges.
So it’s always a strange but real thrill when a group like the New York Dolls can keep up a very potent reputation, and the band continues in various incarnations and side projects (and even occasionally a reunion show thanks to Morrissey). You can trace some of the footsteps with any visit to the city. Booking a hotel is fairly straightforward at newyorkboutiquehotel.com, and you can find gracious attitude with elegance. There are lots of amenities with anything that you do in New York, but the arrogance is something you’ll have to come up with on your own, and you better be able to back it up.
The New York Dolls began their assault on the world of rock and roll in 1971. Cross-dressing and an enormous dose of attitude characterized their on-stage persona, and the music was spectacularly rough. There were definite traces of the Rolling Stones and the Velvet Underground in what they played, and to a large degree in their performance. But there was also a strange mix of surf music, and the whole thing had a sense of instant nostalgia. It was almost as if the old school rhythms kept the chaotic presentation from getting completely out of control. But there was always the sense that they could lose it at any moment, and that’s really at the heart of rock and roll, and New York City, too, for that matter.
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