I found Johnny Thunders by first hearing his song, You Can’t Put Your Arms Around A Memory in a Sopranos episode. Loved that jangly guitar and good strong voice. I read on about his addiction struggles. His starts and stops with bands and relationships. For all the great things he appeared to have, this talented man also lived a hard life. To everyone battling addiction, please hang in there and please get help. ✌🏾
20 yrs of heroin n crack cocaine use nearly lost my right arm from that krokadil n 2012 b4 it was a thing my flesh was rottin away @ injection sites n just got bigger where forearm bone was visible also lost mobility n my wrist cuz of bad n deep infection was I went to prison thank God that took a year to heal up n no 1 believed it was from injection of dope but u don't no what u get n @ time I was makin about $1500 to $5000@ a week depending on how many days I'd go on I lived that hard tough Rockstar life without the tour girls that were 10s n just getting into it would fuck me for a shot of smack n were talking Jessica Alba hot man I had some good pussy I had that life but no1 would no me im gonna make sure mofos remember me
For me personaly Johnny had changed Rock’n’Roll. Now when I listen Status Quo, ELO, or other R’n’Roll songs like Beatles or even Led Zeppelin R’n’R. They all sound so childish comparing to Johnnys pure inner soul RockNRoll
Walter Lure is hardly "unsung!" Read or listen to his autobiography "To Hell and Back." He inspired and played in the band The Waldos (named in tribute to him) and led L.A.M.F. on tour with Clem Burke (Blondie), Tommy Stinson (The Replacements) and Wayne Kramer (MC5)!
Hah !! Invisible gum best description of the side effects of slamming blow. I have never seen anything good come of it Public Disclaimer: kids don't try this at home. I chuckle when I listen to interview with Johnny " I just want to make the kids dance" Yo, the " kids" were sliding down the walls they were so high . After awhile you didn't see them anymore ticket$$ went straight in their arm.
@@theedrstrangelove no no as vet ( n not proud) tongue twisting is a tell tale sign of slamming blow n maybe speed balling going on Damn I don't miss that shit
1:20 You can almost see Walter thinking ...."wish I was at Wallstreet, to make some serious dough". Little Johnny invented a new schtick right there on the spot "tongue in cheeky". The boy oozed low quality smack cut up with strychnine , that amongst other things is what made him so endearing to the CBGB coterie who are so fond of slow motion train crashes . Just nagging , such a talented dude.......(once).....
I remember catching INNER TUBE on cable back when I was a kid in NYC! They showed all the bands you couldnt see anywhere else...unless you went down to Max's,CB's,Club 57 etc.No MTV or musical video clips in those days.Thanks for a great TV channel👍!
Me too, Claudine. Public access television on Manhattan Cable was so interesting to watch! Inner Tube was exciting. I was 12, 13 when I discovered it. This incredible scene that was going on downtown. I grew up on 72nd street.
Played on the same bill as thunders and Nolan twice in 82. London rock garden and the railway in Kensington.... he couldn’t stand in the dressing room but somehow managed to crawl on stage. Kept me off the heavy stuff from then on.
@@barrygreenstein8383 this video should convince you that he was a junkie all by itself. Here it is exhibit A. He was a proud, shameless junkie. He shouldve been ashamed of all the kids he inspired to be junkies just like their hero Johnny
Grateful YOURE still around Paul...Unless someone's posting your archives. Its Beautiful to see this eta in NYC preserved so honestly you can feel it hit your stomack then pins & needles up the spine & a wave of peacefulness....& no hollow point delivery..Amazing and always in the market for true, raw recordings..LL&R
The Stones totally copied the Dolls. Bands like the Beatles, the Stones, The Who, were not original in any way. They put their ears to the street and took their style from the "lesser" acts. Copy cats.
@@USAwelsh I’m sorry, but that’s fucking ridiculous. The stones were doing the androgynous rock ‘n’ roll thing before the dolls ever formed. Long before. Do a little research before you say something so stupid.
I just literally walked by CBGBs and what a shame. It’s now a retail store called “Patagonia “ Not even a mention of the history on the building. FUCKIN SHAME ON NYC. For not making it a landmark.
Skiba Covers actually, that is real good coke right there.. you can’t buy it like that anymore.. maybe in NYC or Florida you could get close.. but no where else.. it’s all stepped on af
Such an underrated guitarist. I mean, he truly held it all together in moments like this. Well, he kept the plane from crashing into the side of the mountain at least. 😄
@@donarturas thats fairly obvious, but in his solo part to pirate love he rushes into some 50s or surf riff. he does the exact same on the live album at max but anywhere else. been years and I cant pin down the riff
@@MrChe1999 One: this is live and improvisations are logical. Two: Five to One is in my UA-cam JT playlist, Pirate Love is very rare stuff, when you watch hundreds of hours JT live performances, in one of them your will find Pirate Love.
u clearly dont play guitar. im simply trying to figure out the riff st 4:30 which he plays. its not part of "pirate love", its a taken riff from else where
Remember he was also missing several teeth at this point, and when you have teeth that are missing you do that tongue thing a lot. Well, it's probably a bit of both, now that I think about it. 😆
I agree 100 % with Paul Tschinkel . I knew and work with all the musicians there and Waldo to on the Heroes single and I can tell you something John was a real great guy sensible and an human being like many should be . Sure he had demons like anybody else. But when he had his guitar between his hand he could be magic and so all the band The Heartbreakers are and will forever be a great band . John . Jerry . Billy . We miss you . Love you Walter . 💔💔💔💔
@@TeleCaster66 Better than you. Who's buyin' your records? When's the last time you played Tokyo? Sold out the Lyceum? Go back to beating off to John 5 video clips.
Some guy in Brooklyn used to call me Johnny Thunders. Anyway. There's only one Johnny and he does make some of the most amazing guitar sounds ever recorded.
Bassist is high as fuck, too. He’s got that ‘I’m wired but gotta keep it together’ face on. Blow is the worst drug to do live music music on, as you feel like everyone’s staring at you -but not in the good way.
more energy lol these dudes are doing the 1,000 yard stare right here and it still sounds decent, i wanted to hate on that drummer kid because it wasn't Nolan but he's pretty good
4:42..he says.'..here's a little Rinocerous. ' it was a band that recorded ' Apricot Brandy ' which gave him the .... basic figure , the slide jump riff. Alot of NY bands in the early 70s knew that riff.
I gave Johhny a real qualude at nunzios in Detroit and he he got in my friends Trans am. Was about 3 hours before show. We cruised around town . Snorted a shitload of coke, had a blast giving him a tour of my neighborhood in detroit...
He's probably been coke binging for days on end, he needs to hydrate, eat, &rest, but he still manages to do the gig! This guy had enormous strength and drive..!
Seems like he trusted the wrong crowd and a few (literal) punks kicked his ass to death. Nobody knows the real reason, but some say Thunders wanted to trade some methadone for money/other drugs/whatever(?) and the others dudes prefered to keep it all. What a stupid death... a legend dead because of a bunch of nobodies!!!
@@humbertojimmy i heard or read he was found dead in hotel . He had money lm sure . On reading police thought he died of drug overdose an did not investgste it . Aucustic album good
without the addiction he might have ended up working in a bank or something, one thing is for sure, a sober thunders wouldn't have been playing those songs in that environment with those people. his life would have undoubtedly brought him someplace else. he might never have taken music seriously as a lifestyle option and ended up managing a grocery store or something. he might have done music as a hobby or lost interest after high school. i feel this way about alot of my favorite artists who suffered/suffer from addiction. its partly the addiction that brought them to the place in life where they created the art that attracted us to them in the first place. some people's destiny in life is to be a warning to others. these guys gave us an insight into a realm of the human condition that most of us are never or rarely exposed to in our normal life. i've been a dolls/thunders/heartbreakers fan for some 30 years now, since i was a young teenager. it never seemed glamorous or cool to me, to be addicted to heroin or hard drugs. seeing vids of thunders smacked out when i was a kid was one of the only places to see that reality. sid vicious vids were another one. seeing a video i never saw before like this one, after so many years, reinforces these beliefs. i spent a good number of years struggling with addiction, and now i've been sober a solid bunch (almost 8 yrs no alcohol or hard drugs). and i just love this video so much. because it shows what i learned firsthand, that while absent addiction they may have been more successful or lived longer or whatever, they would not have been in that place, at that time, doing what they did. what if? is a fiction game our brains play. what if didn't happen, this is what WAS. thanks for documenting it.
Some interesting expressions on Walter Lure's face at certain points. When Johnny slaps Walter's hand off his guitar neck at 3:16 ... I thought for a second Walter was going to punch him out.
@@donarturas nope, he wrote most of his best songs, like arms around a memory and pirate love, before he ever even tried heroin. He was also sober for a lot of 77” which was the peak of the heartbreakers.
Thunders was alway great. I like him way better than the rest of the dolls. And you can say he’s a rip off of Keith Richards, but he could also do jagger, and Izzy Stradlin definitely based lots of his style off him and I love Izzy’s stuff too, and GnR for introducing my generation to thunders.
UA-cam should be proud having this video in it's collection
Damn right! :)
Thanks utube and Paul for this upload , I never would've witnessed this greatness otherwise!
He's like a heckler disrupting his own show.
Johnny's mouth is on its own trip.
"Johnny what tuning are you in?"
"No."
😂
He probably would say "WTF cares" - and he would be right
Key of speed, tune of ball!
Hahaha!
@@-xirx- You nailed it! 🤣🤣
i heard he was the designated driver that night
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I found Johnny Thunders by first hearing his song, You Can’t Put Your Arms Around A Memory in a Sopranos episode. Loved that jangly guitar and good strong voice. I read on about his addiction struggles. His starts and stops with bands and relationships. For all the great things he appeared to have, this talented man also lived a hard life. To everyone battling addiction, please hang in there and please get help. ✌🏾
20 yrs of heroin n crack cocaine use nearly lost my right arm from that krokadil n 2012 b4 it was a thing my flesh was rottin away @ injection sites n just got bigger where forearm bone was visible also lost mobility n my wrist cuz of bad n deep infection was I went to prison thank God that took a year to heal up n no 1 believed it was from injection of dope but u don't no what u get n @ time I was makin about $1500 to $5000@ a week depending on how many days I'd go on I lived that hard tough Rockstar life without the tour girls that were 10s n just getting into it would fuck me for a shot of smack n were talking Jessica Alba hot man I had some good pussy I had that life but no1 would no me im gonna make sure mofos remember me
@@Kingofslumpz are you Russian by any chance?
Awesome 👍
He never had the makings of a varsity athlete...
his life was only hard because of the obstacles he created
Walter Lure always kept the Johnny show rolling no matter what... an unsung R&R hero.
In this case it seems like the drummer kept it rolling
For me personaly Johnny had changed Rock’n’Roll. Now when I listen Status Quo, ELO, or other R’n’Roll songs like Beatles or even Led Zeppelin R’n’R. They all sound so childish comparing to Johnnys pure inner soul RockNRoll
@@donarturas what about the Doors he was covering them in the beginning when he tried to sing five to one lol
@@donarturasyou care more about image than rock and roll
Walter Lure is hardly "unsung!" Read or listen to his autobiography "To Hell and Back." He inspired and played in the band The Waldos (named in tribute to him) and led L.A.M.F. on tour with Clem Burke (Blondie), Tommy Stinson (The Replacements) and Wayne Kramer (MC5)!
A great bloke off-stage and a different person on it. Glad I met him.
Yeah i remember he slapped you in the ear for saying, “bloke”
And in the studio. New York Dolls self-titled and L.A.M.F. are easily two of the greatest rock albums ever made, fuggedaboudit.
Upvote if Johnny snorted the whole eight-ball before he hit the stage.
speed-ball baby
snorted? MAIN LINE mien Freund
@@landcarp123 definitely had a cocktail...look at him snort and lick around his mouth...RIP to the man though heroin sucks
Shot. Johnny did not snort.
@@johnp.johnson1541 Both
Johnny's guitar failed a drug test
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Yes but he plays straight up
No words....🙏
Now that was funny 😂
Walter's is underrated.
This band is like the rolling stones full of Keith richards
Yess :)!
No, Rolling Stones cannot compare to this. Johnny is much better than Jagger
@@donarturas jagger? Who's that?
@@danielbr6662 Mick Jagger
@@donarturas oh yes, Jagermeister owner, right?
A shambolic display of genius and entertainment
Like Darby and the Germs.
chewing invisible gum, coked outta his head, and Walter just looking at him, like, I can't believe this guy..
rick weber I don’t know how Walter didn’t lose his shit!!
No coke going on here. Pure China White. Get your drugs straight.
@@theedrstrangelove I'd bet a million to one it was both, speedball Mon ami, if we're being picky! 🙂
Hah !! Invisible gum best description of the side effects of slamming blow. I have never seen anything good come of it
Public Disclaimer: kids don't try this at home. I chuckle when I listen to interview with Johnny " I just want to make the kids dance" Yo, the " kids" were sliding down the walls they were so high . After awhile you didn't see them anymore ticket$$ went straight in their arm.
@@theedrstrangelove no no as vet ( n not proud) tongue twisting is a tell tale sign of slamming blow n maybe speed balling going on
Damn I don't miss that shit
2024 August. Can’t stop watching this. Every time I drink glass of whiskey I put this masterpiece on loud
"Any body know the words..?" This is so good !!! We want more!!!!
Fantastic, I was at this show up front..
You get to meet any of the guys, Johnny was sure fucked up
Too much blow. He's got a very dry mouth..
Were you guys wearin concrete boots that night...? that's an awful lot of standing around at a Heartbreakers show
Me to0
@@flinchey6962 The guys in front of Walter wearing the suits are friends from Wall Street.
1:20 You can almost see Walter thinking ...."wish I was at Wallstreet, to make some serious dough".
Little Johnny invented a new schtick right there on the spot "tongue in cheeky".
The boy oozed low quality smack cut up with strychnine , that amongst other things is what made him so endearing to the CBGB coterie who are so fond of slow motion train crashes .
Just nagging , such a talented dude.......(once).....
this is fckn gold man!10 years searchin on the net for JT footage,never seen this one!Thanx a million PLEASE keep em comin!!!
Nice one mate, me as a rock music fan, I was amazed to find out Johnny
Saw
"sounds good to me" I fucking love that part
He says sound new to me
I remember catching INNER TUBE on cable back when I was a kid in NYC! They showed all the bands you couldnt see anywhere else...unless you went down to Max's,CB's,Club 57 etc.No MTV or musical video clips in those days.Thanks for a great TV channel👍!
Me too, Claudine. Public access television on Manhattan Cable was so interesting to watch! Inner Tube was exciting. I was 12, 13 when I discovered it. This incredible scene that was going on downtown. I grew up on 72nd street.
i luved 57
1:38 This dude is every cool high school teacher I ever had
Pretty good sound quality . God speed Johnny! 🤘
Very glad you are working on this, thank you Mr. Tschinkel!
If Jack Sparrow did smack for 350 years, this is what he’d look like
That’s Keith Richards, Johnny Thunders is his long lost son.
Your funny 😁 I agree lol
I dunno if I’ve ever seen anyone ever so clearly on cocaine as Johnny Thunders is here LOL
This man had good composition for what rock n roll is,that make he great,you can dont agree,but it is for me
I like Born to Lose, but the guy was an unhinged slob
If Elvis was king, then Johnny was God
Learn English and then make youtube comments
@@JayyVee41 ??
@@facundofernandez5531 you heard me FACUNDO
Great Video!!. . . One of the cleanest JT videos
Great footage!
Love Thunder's vocals ❤
Pirate Love's one of the greatest rock songs ever written. L.A.M.F.
Played on the same bill as thunders and Nolan twice in 82. London rock garden and the railway in Kensington.... he couldn’t stand in the dressing room but somehow managed to crawl on stage. Kept me off the heavy stuff from then on.
I had read in an old magazine article that Thunders was a heroin addict. Is that a fact or magazine B.S.?
Thanks Brian. I suspected that he was but I wasn't sure.
Barry Greenstein the heartbreakers are considered the ones that got every band in that time get hooked on heroin
@@barrygreenstein8383 this video should convince you that he was a junkie all by itself. Here it is exhibit A. He was a proud, shameless junkie. He shouldve been ashamed of all the kids he inspired to be junkies just like their hero Johnny
Awesome thanks for Sharing. Love His Guitar Playing and Singing!
What a mess,but how i wish i was there,i know how to take the good & the bad ,we miss ya Johnny,thanks a million for uploading,keep ‘em coming.
this is great i play cbgb's all by myself every day like to see more of this concert greetz from holland
Toffe muziek he.
@@amadeus7569 ja echt wel
I was there - and remember it as a great show. Saturday January 8 1983
Can't wait for the film !!!!
Grateful YOURE still around Paul...Unless someone's posting your archives. Its Beautiful to see this eta in NYC preserved so honestly you can feel it hit your stomack then pins & needles up the spine & a wave of peacefulness....& no hollow point delivery..Amazing and always in the market for true, raw recordings..LL&R
This is the first footage I have ever seen of the man. Thanks!
I love playing this song - so rad.
Walter's look at the start of Pirate Love is priceless.....he sayin...c'mon JT let's go.....
Nice footage of legendary johnny thunder
What people think Keith Richards is is what Johnny Thunders was
You mean American lol
The Stones totally copied the Dolls. Bands like the Beatles, the Stones, The Who, were not original in any way. They put their ears to the street and took their style from the "lesser" acts. Copy cats.
@@USAwelsh I’m sorry, but that’s fucking ridiculous. The stones were doing the androgynous rock ‘n’ roll thing before the dolls ever formed. Long before. Do a little research before you say something so stupid.
@@USAwelsh Not true the Beatles, Stones, The Who all came before the dolls if anything Johnny was a fan of Keith Richards
Johnny's a mix of Keith Richards and Darby Crash.
Most things haven't worked out and JT Rocks always Respect
The bloods runnin cold ain't it... Thunders was the Real Respect
I just literally walked by CBGBs and what a shame. It’s now a retail store called “Patagonia “ Not even a mention of the history on the building. FUCKIN SHAME ON NYC. For not making it a landmark.
Hell yeah...
Max's too. I saw these guys there, Dead Boys, Richard Hell... All at the age of 14 in '79. New York used to be a hell of a place.
@@csedan510 it's a shit hole BLm state at this point, NO ONE IS Brave enough to break the stale BS
Actually it’s not the Patagonia shop. It’s the shop next to it called John Varvatos on 315 Bowery
NY is dead even Satan left
I now can see where The Replacements / Paul Westerberg got there inspiration from 😂
This vireo is national treasure
very cool clip..... never saw Walter play a White Gretch!! Bring on any JT doc!!
Johnny is higher than a kite, and still doing a half descent job.
Yeah his guitar is on point 👉
Just superb RIP Johnny.
I got addicted to cocaine from watching this.
LMAO
Ha, cocaine is child’s play to these guy. That’s some junkie business there 😎
Skiba Covers actually, that is real good coke right there.. you can’t buy it like that anymore.. maybe in NYC or Florida you could get close.. but no where else.. it’s all stepped on af
omg i know! that amphetamine tongue flick ..he's LOADED :)
Speedballs anybody?
jolly rodger is ripping in the backround!!!!
Wow I thought I knew all the rock and rollers out there, how come I never heard of Johnny thunders before, guess I have some more discovering to do
Omg check it out! Good music. Cant put your arm around a memory
steven castillo Check out the New York Dolls, and the Heartbreakers Live at Max’s Kansas City
fuk yea !!
WALTER LURE (R.I.P.) The last of The Heartbreakers. :(
Damn. Check my collection. ua-cam.com/video/WoNLJsMdsiU/v-deo.html
All By Himself
Such an underrated guitarist. I mean, he truly held it all together in moments like this. Well, he kept the plane from crashing into the side of the mountain at least. 😄
anybody know what is he playing at 4:30? thanks
Two song mix: Five To One and Pirate Love
@@donarturas thats fairly obvious, but in his solo part to pirate love he rushes into some 50s or surf riff. he does the exact same on the live album at max but anywhere else. been years and I cant pin down the riff
@@MrChe1999 One: this is live and improvisations are logical. Two: Five to One is in my UA-cam JT playlist, Pirate Love is very rare stuff, when you watch hundreds of hours JT live performances, in one of them your will find Pirate Love.
u clearly dont play guitar. im simply trying to figure out the riff st 4:30 which he plays. its not part of "pirate love", its a taken riff from else where
@@MrChe1999 Here u go buddy ua-cam.com/video/mjdRgBAY278/v-deo.html
Lightning strikes but Thunders hit the spot... the stuff of legends
You are so right man.. Johnny really hits
Morrison wants some of his lyrics back. Lol
I notice that Johnny's doing the licking the inside of the mouth bit when you've had too much cocaine. Been there, too and on stage!
Remember he was also missing several teeth at this point, and when you have teeth that are missing you do that tongue thing a lot. Well, it's probably a bit of both, now that I think about it. 😆
I agree 100 % with Paul Tschinkel . I knew and work with all the musicians there and Waldo to on the Heroes single and I can tell you something John was a real great guy sensible and an human being like many should be . Sure he had demons like anybody else. But when he had his guitar between his hand he could be magic and so all the band The Heartbreakers are and will forever be a great band . John . Jerry . Billy . We miss you . Love you Walter . 💔💔💔💔
Just saw Walter Lure and the Waldos ...frickn awesome ....
Magic? This sucks! He was good for a few years with the Dolls and LAMF, then he was the worst guitar player ever.
@@TeleCaster66 Better than you. Who's buyin' your records? When's the last time you played Tokyo? Sold out the Lyceum? Go back to beating off to John 5 video clips.
Henri-Paul you were one of his best rythym players ever.
@@misterslats 🎶🎶🎶💜🎸🎶🎶💜
Some guy in Brooklyn used to call me Johnny Thunders. Anyway. There's only one Johnny and he does make some of the most amazing guitar sounds ever recorded.
Bassist is high as fuck, too. He’s got that ‘I’m wired but gotta keep it together’ face on. Blow is the worst drug to do live music music on, as you feel like everyone’s staring at you -but not in the good way.
3:50 Johnny’s face when he regrets letting someone in the audience sing
😁😁
Oh sht! Thank you for pointing that out 😆
3:16 What tha...?!
Wonder why johnny did that lol I'll ask him if I meet him in the afterlife
He wanted only bass and drum that's how in the studio version
3:51 estan peor que yo. eso es posible?
it's pretty remarkable they lasted as long as they did....this must be the most smacked out band of all time. god i love them..........
My lips are numb just watching this
Slow down JT you're going to have a heart attack been there my friend. All jamed up
L.A.M.F.dispute all the talk of the mix still one of the best LPS ever
saw live at MAX's ....the Heartbreakers 'round 78 & 80 , they 're such more into it , more energy on Pirate Love
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Saw them quite a few times at Max's...as I recall, they were playing monthly shows back then...
more energy lol these dudes are doing the 1,000 yard stare right here and it still sounds decent, i wanted to hate on that drummer kid because it wasn't Nolan but he's pretty good
AWESOME💖 Very Cool One🎵😍 THANX Mr.Paul Tschinkel💋 Please Please UPLOAD Johnny's Clip More🙏😇🎸💘 with LUV from far east side japan
I swear half the people came to see Johnny OD on stage
4:42..he says.'..here's a little Rinocerous. ' it was a band that recorded ' Apricot Brandy ' which gave him the .... basic figure , the slide jump riff. Alot of NY bands in the early 70s knew that riff.
The entire band is jacked, lol.
I waz just goin to write that, and your comment was first. 👍
so what???
JACKED THE FUCK UP!!!
@ NO NO NO..That's so koooool..Somebody's got to do it.... Keith Richards?.Maybe...most of the time...But Johnny?....Fuck!
Yeah, me too! LMFAO, OH!! 🤣 🤣
If heroin and cocaine could play instruments, this is what’s I’d expect.
RIP Johnny
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Walter Lure was the man. Outlived all the other heartbreakers. One of my fav guitar players
Richard Hell was in The Heartbreakers. He's still alive...Why is he not "the last man standing"?
@@ragpicker619 good point!
Legendary!
That’s first track...Johnny was rock n roll man
This track was a guidance to proper rock'n'roll to me
What's the name of the first song? I cant find it
Five To One. There is a studio version in my playlist of JT
I gave Johhny a real qualude at nunzios in Detroit and he he got in my friends Trans am. Was about 3 hours before show. We cruised around town . Snorted a shitload of coke, had a blast giving him a tour of my neighborhood in detroit...
Hey give him some reverb!
Johnny 👌😄❣
He's probably been coke binging for days on end, he needs to hydrate, eat, &rest, but he still manages to do the gig! This guy had enormous strength and drive..!
Only heard of Johnny by Billy Duffy who bought a Jean jacket of Johnny's and blood was in the inside of the arms. How did he die really?
Seems like he trusted the wrong crowd and a few (literal) punks kicked his ass to death. Nobody knows the real reason, but some say Thunders wanted to trade some methadone for money/other drugs/whatever(?) and the others dudes prefered to keep it all. What a stupid death... a legend dead because of a bunch of nobodies!!!
@@humbertojimmy i heard or read he was found dead in hotel . He had money lm sure . On reading police thought he died of drug overdose an did not investgste it .
Aucustic album good
Johnny's ongoing battle with dry mouth continued on and on.
I must admit I never even heard of them until I read his obit in Rolling Stone. Definitely authentic punk
I wouldn’t say anything to you except I specifically heard JT say he was not punk.
Authentic junk
Did any broads go to theses shows?
Johnny is higher than a hippie in an airplane.
He wants to take a magic carpet ride
Wow, great but sad footage.
Poor JT.
this footage have a bit of romantic in it
John Anthony Genzale Luv u Man
Searching for that last line in his mouth,lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂😂
without the addiction he might have ended up working in a bank or something, one thing is for sure, a sober thunders wouldn't have been playing those songs in that environment with those people. his life would have undoubtedly brought him someplace else. he might never have taken music seriously as a lifestyle option and ended up managing a grocery store or something. he might have done music as a hobby or lost interest after high school. i feel this way about alot of my favorite artists who suffered/suffer from addiction. its partly the addiction that brought them to the place in life where they created the art that attracted us to them in the first place. some people's destiny in life is to be a warning to others. these guys gave us an insight into a realm of the human condition that most of us are never or rarely exposed to in our normal life. i've been a dolls/thunders/heartbreakers fan for some 30 years now, since i was a young teenager. it never seemed glamorous or cool to me, to be addicted to heroin or hard drugs. seeing vids of thunders smacked out when i was a kid was one of the only places to see that reality. sid vicious vids were another one.
seeing a video i never saw before like this one, after so many years, reinforces these beliefs. i spent a good number of years struggling with addiction, and now i've been sober a solid bunch (almost 8 yrs no alcohol or hard drugs). and i just love this video so much. because it shows what i learned firsthand, that while absent addiction they may have been more successful or lived longer or whatever, they would not have been in that place, at that time, doing what they did. what if? is a fiction game our brains play. what if didn't happen, this is what WAS.
thanks for documenting it.
it is the cigarette that smokes billy
Johnny's obviously baked.
Not at all, he probably just had a poor night's sleep the night before.
Baked? I’m guessing that implies a speedball.
Johnny’s tongue seems to be into it, dancing up a storm.
Some interesting expressions on Walter Lure's face at certain points. When Johnny slaps Walter's hand off his guitar neck at 3:16 ... I thought for a second Walter was going to punch him out.
Well, that's original Heartbreakers bassist Billy Rath so this is definitely them ... what year is this, I wonder?
Needed it so baddd. Drugs.
Yea, but under these drugs he created this masterpiece
@@donarturas nope, he wrote most of his best songs, like arms around a memory and pirate love, before he ever even tried heroin. He was also sober for a lot of 77” which was the peak of the heartbreakers.
The first row are getting high off Johnny's sweat
Thunders was alway great. I like him way better than the rest of the dolls. And you can say he’s a rip off of Keith Richards, but he could also do jagger, and Izzy Stradlin definitely based lots of his style off him and I love Izzy’s stuff too, and GnR for introducing my generation to thunders.
No...Izzy could get attention by using Johnny's look......ha ha
I don't think billy rath could get cooler looking damn beautiful man 💕
This reminds me of something out of the Sid & Nancy movie.
Waldo makes that wildcat guitar look like a toy!
JT you are very loved....still ❤
Johnny found a universe more to his liking.