Johnny Thunders applied himself to guitar in the Dolls, under the tutelage of Sylvain. Before the Dolls, Johnny played bass. After the heroin took hold, JT stopped practicing guitar in general. He would say in interviews that his philosophy was that musicians should not be competitive, and that's why he doesn't practice, but really, he had changed priorities. What impressed me about his guitar playing was how far he could stretch a 10 riff repertoire so far.
I first heard this concert on WLIR, Tuesday night concerts. They announced it as being recorded at the Spectrum. I don't think this early in their success could they fill the Spectrum.
Along with "Be My Baby" by the Ronettes, Marc Bolan's original is hands down the best pop song of all time. Debbie and Johnny kick the backside out of this cover. Bet Bolan loved this....
Never heard Thunder's reason for existence so well summarised. He was a flawed person - but a great rocker, a lean mean style all his own.....and an inspiration for good and bad reasons..
Yeah..! I love all the Great smack heads, (I'm a smack/pot head myself, so what?) like Johnny Thunders, Iggy, Keef, and God knows who. I love 'em, they don't pretend anything. Their music, clothes, cool attitude, etc... But I'm also very fond of '60s golden age of rock/beat/psychedelia until '73/'74, Krautrock, the USA/Brit - 1st punk era, and a lot of post punk/cult/underground from whenever. But Thunders, Pop, and everything from Pot Head Pixie Daevid Allen is fe-no-me-nal! LUV it! ;-)
Parts of this show have been officially released on Picture This Live (1998) and Blondie Live - Philadelphia 1978/Dallas 1980 (1999), but neither with JT. The next song was Jet Boy, and JT played on that one, too. Thanks for this!
+dopo666 some asshole talks shit about johnny bc he had a drug problem, I gurantee any band he likes, if at all likes , or knows anything about music, used drugs. Maybe not Ted Nugent . MAYBE. It was the 70's.
@firstcat Yea ,your so right about Johnny's playing philosophy,thats what inpired so many of us young punks to make the scene only knowing "three chords" ,that whole event ,momentum thing ,all that energy and bad attitude gave us hope without false asperations , never heard this track before tho ,l think its great ,loved hearing it ,l remember seein Debbie join Johnny on stage once at a great ol punk dico in NYC called " Heat " once ,oh say maybe in 78 ,or somewhere around then ...
4:50 and on... It turns into a real show, a real jam.. a real "get it on"... All the critiques i read only illustrate that the critics probably don't know how to be an authentic musician and "get it on" or let go and live and let live..
Those were the days of rock roll it cool and easy where the ladies come out and see the boys dress up and would say I want this one I want that one we like all the young dudes we were dress with platform boots velvet pants and really cool shirts from englend at Nobodies bar this is met Johnny Thunder he was so cool .artie Torres those were the days be cool every body
I love this song " Get it ON ! " Where is the video ? Blondie must of thought about making a video of this gig. Perhaps someone forgot to bring the video camera !
Johnny was so loaded in San Francisco in 1980 he pinched my pretty boyfriend in the ass thinking he was a girl. (Karl on a bad day was prettier than most females around). I fucking loved this guy!
+mark james No Mark. Johnny was a fun, nice guy, like myself. You actually sound like a sad, authoritarian bummer. So sorry for you. Have a good life, man. If you can.
Lotsa people would say the same about Strummer's playing (including ol'Joe himself, I'm sure, if he were still here to say so). Mick Jones had limited prowess as well, but I personally like that. Clash 4ever!
how could anyone say johnny did not influence many many guitarist? johnny was one of the best ever and as far as cool, johnny was the coolest of them all, and the drug use yea its sad him and many others died no doubt but thats no reason to discount his talents because he used drugs, i am not gonna say its wrong to use drugs i use them myself, do they hurt others that love us yes they do but thats no reason to not love or respect someone because he or she used drugs
alright then, name one guitarist that 101ers77 influenced if you're so sure of yourself. because i can think of 15 guitarists off the top of my head that JT influenced
I'm nowhere near 60 & know from reading "PLEASE KILL ME" The Uncensored Oral History of PUNK - (a book my fiancée gave me) that Johnny was indeed a HARD CORE junkie who fatally O.D'd in N.O., not 5 miles from where we live. BTW, what does being over 60 have 2 do with anything? As my fiancée says, his entire career was overshadowed by the fact that he was a degenerate addict, much to the detriment of his success. That said, the guy was a great rock and roll musician and songwriter. sKot13 & G117
he certainly drew the biggest crowds, dont forget that after most of these people signed with Sire, the Ramones and Blondie especially, rarely played NY clubs after about 1977-8...Johnny never really escaped the clubs due to the obvious. The Ramones never would have had a shot if not for JT
johnny was a memory, a memory of a rebel without a cause, a bad boy, the best bad boy that ever was...
You can’t put your arm around a
Memory.
Johnny Thunders applied himself to guitar in the Dolls, under the tutelage of Sylvain. Before the Dolls, Johnny played bass. After the heroin took hold, JT stopped practicing guitar in general. He would say in interviews that his philosophy was that musicians should not be competitive, and that's why he doesn't practice, but really, he had changed priorities. What impressed me about his guitar playing was how far he could stretch a 10 riff repertoire so far.
No, he grew up playing the guitar. He was a much better player than Sylvian and had a totally different style.
This is real rock in roll from the streets Of NYC USA
They both are "Heartbreakers" !!!!! My heart is broken by this. Get it on !!!!
He knows a couple chords, knows a couple leads. He made 'em work.
I can't believe I've never heard this! Blondie, Johnny, T Rex??????
Gustando la guitarra de Jhonny, incluso desde el tiempo de los Dolls, se entiende el amor por T Rex y bueno, Blondie no se queda atrás!
Brilliant ♡♡♡
Chinese rocks oh yeah
They also did Jet Boy.
I first heard this concert on WLIR, Tuesday night concerts. They announced it as being recorded at the Spectrum. I don't think this early in their success could they fill the Spectrum.
This is properly loose, old school R&R done brilliantly… can’t believe I never heard it before! ❤
Along with "Be My Baby" by the Ronettes, Marc Bolan's original is hands down the best pop song of all time. Debbie and Johnny kick the backside out of this cover. Bet Bolan loved this....
Johnny羨ましいなあ…
最高だぜ！
Never heard Thunder's reason for existence so well summarised.
He was a flawed person - but a great rocker, a lean mean style all his own.....and an inspiration for good and bad reasons..
The best rock song ever. RIP Marc Bolsn
Love the guitar sound. Simple and distinctive. Squeezes a lot of attitude from just a few chords and creates his own sound on the go.
what an understatedly perfect tune for Johnny ...
"Bang a Gong...get it on," who knew?!!!!
Thunders was heavily influenced by T. Rex. You could just guess that from his tone.
I thought I was a big JT fan but I never knew this happened. Johnny on top form. Thanks for putting this on TH-cam.
Debbie Harry is my goddess and Johnny Thunders was my inspiration!
Brian Herzog it fucking rocks xxxxxxxxxxx
Grow up, a pair of Smak-heads are you're heroes?? You serious???
Yeah..! I love all the Great smack heads, (I'm a smack/pot head myself, so what?) like Johnny Thunders, Iggy, Keef, and God knows who. I love 'em, they don't pretend anything. Their music, clothes, cool attitude, etc... But I'm also very fond of '60s golden age of rock/beat/psychedelia until '73/'74, Krautrock, the USA/Brit - 1st punk era, and a lot of post punk/cult/underground from whenever. But Thunders, Pop, and everything from Pot Head Pixie Daevid Allen is fe-no-me-nal! LUV it! ;-)
@@olibradbury3700 Why don't YOU grow up and keep your trap shut?
@@kotjmf1968 The Motor City 5.......
I love Blondie and Sir Johnny Thunders
Wow! Debbie Harry and Johnny Thunders. :-)
Are you kidding me !?!! This is wicked awesome.
Thank the 'gods" that there is youtube to hear stuff like this.Thanks for posting brings back great memory's from years gone bye...
svagrod ONLY ONE G-D!
Don't EVER FORGET THAT!
HE IS THE REASON WE ARE ALL ALIVE IN THE FIRST PLACE BROTHER!
DealReal12 cough cough! bullshit!!!
Lol
I like Johnny Thunders and Blondie
fuck off
The guitar of Johnny...
+Rodrigo Palmer AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hahaha... Luv it, aldo he didn't put too much effort to make it sound good.. But hey, that's Johnny...! Love ya anyway..
ジョニーサンダースのこんな嬉しそうな顔は初めて観た。
デボラハリーはええ女ぁ❤
歌ハリー🎸サンダース曲ボラン❗️まさに最高🎉
My cousin Jerry turned me on to Johnnie Thunders.New Port Rhode Island 1978.
Parts of this show have been officially released on Picture This Live (1998) and Blondie Live - Philadelphia 1978/Dallas 1980 (1999), but neither with JT. The next song was Jet Boy, and JT played on that one, too. Thanks for this!
Mean while..........I was still thinkin !!!!
Nice high tempo cover of the T-Rex song by some great musicians.
Holy shit how have I not heard this before! Thanks for the upload
+dopo666 some asshole talks shit about johnny bc he had a drug problem, I gurantee any band he likes, if at all likes , or knows anything about music, used drugs. Maybe not Ted Nugent . MAYBE. It was the 70's.
wish there was video to this!
love it !! Johnny thunders was hot !! Blondie much love !
Love Em all and i love you!
@firstcat Yea ,your so right about Johnny's playing philosophy,thats what inpired so many of us young punks to make the scene only knowing "three chords" ,that whole event ,momentum thing ,all that energy and bad attitude gave us hope without false asperations , never heard this track before tho ,l think its great ,loved hearing it ,l remember seein Debbie join Johnny on stage once at a great ol punk dico in NYC called " Heat " once ,oh say maybe in 78 ,or somewhere around then ...
a wonderfull 'salute' to Marc i guess !!
absolute bliss :-)
Awesome Sauce!
Three faves meet: Blondie, Johnny and T-Rex!
nuff said
@101ers77 he influenced more guitarists then you ever will
Excellent team. Three faves meet, like.
Damn, this fucking ROCKS!!! Wish I'd been there, but I was 5! CBGB'S, wish I'd been there at this time, seeing all the gr8s!
that's fuckin great! i do love johnny's way of playin and debbie is just awesome!! LUV
awesome is all but this is eternal
ooo, debbie, marc and jonny i'm in heaven, lol
Wow ! That was a cool ride !
great
this is awesome!!!
the godesses and gods - rock and roll zenith - glad my lil' old nieces and nephews don't get "Born to lose"! No way to live, for us mortals...
+Dino Mensa It's a song title. So stupid.
Johnny did not exactly bring his Heartbreakers chops to this little foray. Probably a miracle he was able to stand.
Utube is the new MTV !!!
4:50 and on... It turns into a real show, a real jam.. a real "get it on"... All the critiques i read only illustrate that the critics probably don't know how to be an authentic musician and "get it on" or let go and live and let live..
Poor poor Johnny ..il est un peu à côté. I love J.T
buen cover!
Those were the days of rock roll it cool and easy where the ladies come out and see the boys dress up and would say I want this one I want that one we like all the young dudes we were dress with platform boots velvet pants and really cool shirts from englend at Nobodies bar this is met Johnny Thunder he was so cool .artie Torres those were the days be cool every body
Mr.Johnny Thunders.
best valentines present to ME! TO ME!!! XXX
I love this song " Get it ON ! " Where is the video ? Blondie must of thought about
making a video of this gig. Perhaps someone forgot to bring the video camera !
❤ブロンディ❤最高❤
wooow, this is so cool
Paridise Ballroom Boston MA, 1978
the Paradise Theater is the name on 969 Commonwealth Avenue located in the heart of Boston University
Jamming some Mark Bolan.....T REX!
upload Jet Boy frpm same show please, ty
Too incredible cool!
Nice one !
Everyone who thinks the Bandstand performance ca. '72 is definitive ought to hear this.
Great!
Johnny was so loaded in San Francisco in 1980 he pinched my pretty boyfriend in the ass thinking he was a girl. (Karl on a bad day was prettier than most females around). I fucking loved this guy!
+mark james No Mark. Johnny was a fun, nice guy, like myself. You actually sound like a sad, authoritarian bummer. So sorry for you. Have a good life, man. If you can.
+mark james Johnny was a great. Your an ignorant ass.
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mark james &
mark james *
I would have loved to have seen this, LUcky people!!!
Gracias PANDA CHANNEL #Brutal
Debbie and Johnny should've done more together.
Don't miss Travis Bickle appearing at the Belmore Cafeteria!!!
nice one
Awww, he got a kiss from Blondie? Me jealous
Johnny play fender in this guest?
Indeed!
3 Icones Du Rock .......
Exactly, you're right- thanks for that. :-)
いいねいいね
I stand corrected- thanks.
Fuck - this rocks !!!!
some comments just proove that being a musician is sometimes a limit in understanding music, history , life more in general....
Blondie rock side
HELL YEAH!!
Fucking awesome n/m
sick!!
I want video!
Lotsa people would say the same about Strummer's playing (including ol'Joe himself, I'm sure, if he were still here to say so). Mick Jones had limited prowess as well, but I personally like that. Clash 4ever!
Debbie Harry* not “Blondie” which was her band’s name
Thanks....I didn't know...
It is her band, Blondie, playing.
It's the band Blondie with Johnny Thunders.
@@RodrigoPalmer91 It’s blondie with Johnny thunders doing some weee wee woo woo bends on his guitar 😂
JT!!!
Oh Blondie!
The rhythm section sounds sick af . Wonder who the bassist is , these guys provide the perfect base for Thunders´s all over teh place approach .
Aw piss off.
Where in Philly? Anyone? Anyone? Buhler? Was it at the Chestnut Cabaret?
Eastside Club?
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
You cannot HEAR JTs guitar.....(Thats not him on lead guitar}
😍
Tu ne savais pas ce que c'est que le Rock'n'Roll ? ben voilà, tu sais, maintenant...
Thunders ser glatt översakad ut, men vem skulle inte bli det av en kindpuss av Blondie?
Fuck du har helt rett..
how could anyone say johnny did not influence many many guitarist? johnny was one of the best ever and as far as cool, johnny was the coolest of them all, and the drug use yea its sad him and many others died no doubt but thats no reason to discount his talents because he used drugs, i am not gonna say its wrong to use drugs i use them myself, do they hurt others that love us yes they do but thats no reason to not love or respect someone because he or she used drugs
alright then, name one guitarist that 101ers77 influenced if you're so sure of yourself. because i can think of 15 guitarists off the top of my head that JT influenced
I'm nowhere near 60 & know from reading "PLEASE KILL ME" The Uncensored Oral History of PUNK - (a book my fiancée gave me) that Johnny was indeed a HARD CORE junkie who fatally O.D'd in N.O., not 5 miles from where we live. BTW, what does being over 60 have 2 do with anything? As my fiancée says, his entire career was overshadowed by the fact that he was a degenerate addict, much to the detriment of his success. That said, the guy was a great rock and roll musician and songwriter. sKot13 & G117
What club was this in? I'm from Philadelphia.
+liselle sloan Live at The Walnut Theatre, Philadelphia,1978.
okay, thanks.
+liselle sloan Philly started this scene ...and were proud of it!!! S.P all day.
pretty hot; what's the lineup?
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Bang a Gong!
he certainly drew the biggest crowds, dont forget that after most of these people signed with Sire, the Ramones and Blondie especially, rarely played NY clubs after about 1977-8...Johnny never really escaped the clubs due to the obvious. The Ramones never would have had a shot if not for JT