Baby Doll, Baby Doll…
I’m sure you all know about this one by now…Earl Slick has joined the New York Dolls for a
It’s great news for both Bowie fans needing an Earl Slick fix and Dolls’ fans needing somebody with enough credibility to authentically recreate those classic Johnny Thunders‘ licks.
I spoke to Slicky at his home during a day off from rehearsals and it was clear that he was very much looking forward to these shows.
Growing up in the New York City borough of Staten Island, (as did David Johansen) naturally Slick was an earlier follower of the Dolls…he even remembers Johansen’s pre-Dolls band Vagabond Missionaries.
It’s also highly likely that Slick would have been at the shows that Bowie attended in 1972.
Local fans of the band will be pleased to learn that there will be a New York Dolls’ signing session at Best Buy in Union Square in New York on March 15th. (Details
If you can’t make the session, you can pre-order a signed copy of Dancing Backward In High Heels via
I’ll leave you with the tour break down as it stands right now, commencing, as it does, with two shows at the Bowery Ballroom in NYC, the day after the signing session…
Well, it’s all very exciting, and I for one can’t wait to see them in the confines of the tiny Old Vic Tunnels in London.