#johnny thunders

[unioncityblues]

Debbie Harry and Johnny Thunders at The Village Gate in New York City, New York. August 1977.

Photographed by Bob Gruen.

#debbie harry #blondie #johnny thunders #1970s #punk rock #music #new york city #rock music #70s #70s music #classic rock #rock n roll #1970s music #70s style #punk scene #vintage #female singer #70s fashion #1970s style #punk music #rock band

[principiumindividuationis777]

#Johnny Thunders #punk rock #guitar #photography #black and white #art #polka dots

[legendarytragedynacho]

Johnny Thunders, Sable Starr & Iggy Pop at CBGB, 1977

📷 Bob Gruen

#johnny thunders #sable starr #iggy pop #bob gruen #cbgb #the heartbreakers #new york dolls #the stooges #punk rock #proto punk #hard rock #glam punk #garage rock #post punk #actor #groupie #queen of the groupie scene

[rodpower78]

Johnny Thunders, 1983

#johnny thunders #1980s #1983 #classic rock

[mygirlhatesmyheroin]

Johnny Thunders and Nina Antonia photographed by John Tiberi, 1986

#mygirlhatesmyheroin #vintage #1980s #80s #1986 #punk #johnny thunders #johnny thunders and the heartbreakers #nina antonia #john tiberi

[autoluminesaint]

moving - suede // (i know) a girl called jonny - rowland s. howard // i’m a boy, i’m a girl - johnny thunders // lola - the kinks // dilly boys - the libertines // when my boy walks down the street - the magnetic fields

#thinking.... #suede #suede band #rowland s. howard #johnny thunders #the kinks #the libertines #the magnetic fields #parallels #music #mine

[undergroundrockpress]

Detroit Punk Underground - 1977/1978. Photos : Sue Rynski.

#rock photography #Sue Rynski #The Cramps #Johnny Thunders #Destroy All Monsters #Patti Smith #Pere Ubu #punk rock #1977 #1978 #1970s

[iamdangerace]

New York Dolls

#arthur harold “killer” kane #sylvain sylvain #jerry nolan #david johansen #johnny thunders

[theunderestimator-2]

Johnny Thunders during his Gang War era performing at The Ritz in NYC, August 1980, as captured by Herbert Tinz.

After the disbandment of the New York Dolls and The Heartbreakers and following some drug-fuelled solo recording and gigs with various of his rock'n'roll buddies, Johnny Thunders moved to Detroit with his wife Julie in 1979 and teamed up with Philippe Marcade, former frontman of the Senders, and the recently released from prison Wayne Kramer of the MC5 to form the ill-fated Gang War. To quote Kramer: “We had an expression that we used to say about Johnny Thunders. We used to say that he was always 'snatching defeat from the jaws of victory', because everything would be set up perfectly and Johnny would fuck it up”.

According to Phillipe Marcade, the only cheap place their manager found for them to record in Ann Arbor was a small home studio where jingles were recorded for commercials:

“So we show up and the owner sees this bunch of fuckers come out of the car. You know, Johnny in a ripped T-shirt, all fucked up, and the owner asked to see everybody's ID. Johnny said, 'Fuck this crap, man, let's go somewhere else." So the manager starts negotiating with the guy from the studio. He would tell him, “Are you crazy? This is Johnny Thunders from the New York Dolls." "No, it's not him, it's not, and don't try to lie to me, because my son upstairs is a fan of the New York Dolls, and I can find out right now." So he tells his son to come downstairs, a big fat boy in his shorts, who looks around and says, “It IS! That's Johnny Thunders!" So they got their mom, they got the Instamatic camera out and they're all posing and Johnny's all fucked-up, hahaha. Then we went into the studio and Johnny was like flat as hell. 'But he can't sing!' Then he kept asking me why Johnny kept making trips to the bathroom. I said "He drinks a lot of water." At the end of the session, the owner came up to me, I could tell that he was feeling bad about something and he had a clean T-shirt in his hand. He told me: “I feel really bad, because my son's with a big star, but Johnny must be very poor, he's got that t-shirt, it's old and ripped, there's holes in it., holey T-shirt. Give him that so he can at least have a clean T-shirt to wear." "Please Kill Me: the Uncensored Oral History of Punk"

By 1980, JT and WK had both returned to their drug habits and Gang War kept playing gigs as a way to get the money needed to buy dope -it would be either that or JT fucking his bandmates over. They lasted a little less than a year, making this another story of a supergroup that could have been but was not.

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#johnny thunders #wayne kramer #phillippe marcade #gang war #rock n roll #punk rock #punk #1980 #live gig #early punk scene #people

[punkisnotdead11]

New York Dolls

Pic by Bob Gruen

#new york dolls #johnny thunders #arthur kane #david johansen #sylvain sylvain #jerry nolan #punk is not dead #punk #punk rock #queens #new york

[zimtrim]

New York Dolls - David Johansen

#new york dolls #david johansen #johnny thunders

[ornithorynquerouge]

The New York Dolls - Johnny Thunders, David Johansen. 1973

#the new york dolls #johnny thunders #david johansen #rock & roll

[legendarytragedynacho]

Johnny Thunders and Joe Strummer

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[whitetrashsoul]

#johnny thunders #johnny thunders and the heartbreakers #punk rock #rock'n'roll #punk rock'n'roll

[mentholdan]

#johnny thunders #david johansen #new york dolls #classic rock #punk #70s

[tejuinito]

Vampire dump! This all started w me doing fangs studies lol

(No I did not ignore the bdays, my hand just went on strike)

#drawing #art #80s rock #digital fanart #guns n roses #my art #rock music #digital drawing #axl rose #siouxsie and the banshees #siouxie sioux #caifanes #saul hernandez #new york dolls #johnny thunders #izzy gnr #guns n roses fanart #izzy stradlin #vampire #doodle #sketch #70s music #vampire au #music #goth music