With all the gardening talk last year, and there will be more this year, we should sow the seeds of love. This was really the 80's version of hippie idealizm.
Sometimes we are looking for love or just a kiss.
And for the ones out there still searching for slightly more:
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Wow. Cool. New York Dolls and Violent Femmes. Not one, but two videos that remind me of my platonic friend Laura (who was one of the two friends I "combined" to make the "Lori" character in my "Introduction to the 'Dover Street' Stories").
Back in the '90s, when she was in her early twenties, Laura and I made several trips -- once every month or two -- to New York. She was a huge fan of the late Johnny Thunders, who had started out with the New York Dolls and went on to form the Heartbreakers (no relation to Tom Petty's group), before going solo and dying of a heroin overdose.
Anyway, a surviving member of the Heartbreakers, Walter Lure, would play the Continental in NYC every month or so. Depending on the members of his back-up band, they'd either play as The Waldos or The Lures. Laura and I would go to see them, and we got to know Walter -- whose full-time job was as a stock broker! -- fairly well.
Laura and I would also visit Johnny's grave on his birthday and the anniversary of his death. During one such visit, we met Johnny's sister and mother. Laura got to know them, too, and asked about Johnny's children...
To make a long story short, Laura ended up contacting Johnny's son Vito. They ended up getting married. They had a son together, before eventually divorcing.
How many women can say that they gave birth to the grandchild of their musical idol?!?!
Oh, and as for the Violent Femmes... Between our New York trips, record shopping jaunts, and other time we spent together, Laura and I listened to a lot of CDs! A lot of punk, a lot of rockabilly, and some other great stuff which doesn't fall into either of those two categories. That's where the Violent Femmes came in. Our two favorites by them were "Kiss Off" and "Add It Up."
Thanks for the memories, as Bob Hope used to say.
That is kinda cool.
Too bad Janis Joplin or Jimmi Hendrix never had children, there would be an idea.
Blister in the Sun was one of my favorites by Violent Femmes growing up as well as the two you named.
I forgot how much I liked them until I saw their best of album while looking for musical biscuits for my wee ones. I did end up spending a bit on myself that night.
I realized the cd fun store, as appose to the no fun cd multi-mart store, was too hazardous to my financial health.
Happy to help you remember happy memories of a good friend.
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