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i'm feeling hot,hot,hot!!!! they should have played that song!!

well i'm sure any show in amsterdam is awesome.

Morrissey contributed something good to the world? That's a first.

Alkaline Trio....ughh

to SlackMfr:
You listen to the Alkaline Trio...your opinion doesn't count.

`tis a message for the author of this review. just saw that you live in utrecht. as do i! just here for a year. i love it, so beautiful. would be fun to meet a fellow friend in utrecht who is into punk rock. i, for one, don't know of any resource for utrecht shows, ways to find good local bands to see, etc. . any advice you have would be most awesome. - g. olney (grant@math.utexas.edu)

and by the way, Hanoi Rocks was hair metal and not "punk" like they sometimes claimed. Fuck hair metal, there's nothing to it.

This band eats armadillo ass.

I'll take hanoi over @99% of the bands on this site. Poor misguided children don't even realize what they are missing.

WHOA NOW, Sami Yaffa was in Hanoi Rocks, don't start talking shit on him because they were 'hair metal'. They had big hair, yes, but they were never hair metal. Get it straight.

morrissey doesnt know music. but the smiths will always rule

...hmmm

I got an idea, lets make fun of shit we know nothing about and then pretend we are so fucking punk because we read punknews.org. You are all heroes. If you like good music, check out the dolls. If youre too punk, jerk off to your little sisters afi cd.

give me a break. this band has always blown. they never helped start anything but fake, lets dress up, put makeup on and inspire poison punk. i would of made fun of them and mocked them in the 70s, 80s, 90s, and now. that is of course if you are really a punk. morrissey doesnt know music. but the smiths will always rule.

I want to be punk like you. Do you like have to go to school for that?

To the 2 fags below me. DJ wrote most of the dolls material, so you don't know what the fucks going on, and the queer below him, you forgot to mention how great the new fall out boy record is. Is it painful being gay?

"$20 to see all surviving members of one of the most influential bands in punk history..I think we could do worse."

Hahaha, this is exactly why this shit sucks.

What you described sounds like you're going to the museum. I'm sorry, I love the first two Dolls records, but this shit just proves how irrelevant they are as individuals. I somewhat respected David back when he made his shitty solo stuff... At least a lot more than when he got some hair metal guys to play some music he didn't write and propped himself up in front of them to pretend the NY Dolls aren't in the grave. Fuck that.

-Will

give me a break. this band has always blown. they never helped start anything but fake, lets dress up, put makeup on and inspire poison punk. i would of made fun of them and mocked them in the 70s, 80s, 90s, and now. that is of course if you are really a punk. morrissey doesnt know music. but the smiths will always rule

$20 to see all surviving members of one of the most influential bands in punk history..I think we could do worse.

The dolls kept playing shows after Johnny and Nolan left in the 70s so whats the difference now? Johnny was the shit, but Johansen is the balls of the dolls. I'm sure these shows will be great.

I dunno, I feel like seeing the Dolls without Thunders was a shame, but then again, given the choice of seeing them without Thunders or not at all, I'll take without Thunders, no question. While I can see the logic behind calling it a cash-grab, the show indicated to me that it wasn't - they seemed really into just making music together, and the fact that they actually put out a new album makes it seem to me like they actually want to be a band together.

For once I agree with Will. Without Thunders this reeks of hackneyed cash-grab. They might have some good new songs (though I would dispute that), but it's still ultimately crass and sort of soulless. Just one of the many reuinion outfits surfacing now that punk is profitable again.

has there been a review of new New York Dolls album?

--Cos

ah will...the eternal pessimist. i guess you can surmise all you want about what the old dolls fans are thinking but you'd be wrong. the reality is the response has been very positive and receptive and it's based on the diehard fans i've talked to, reviews i've read like this one, and me seeing them last year and being impressed at how rockin they were. and the absence of johnny thunders hasn't been this dark cloud overshadowing them. maybe you should try catching this show when it comes around. you might even enjoy it for a minute or two.

I don't see how anyone who liked the New York Dolls before this reunion could be into these gigs... I mean, no Johnny Thunders? Sorry, guys, but this is as lame as if the Heartbreakers reunited with just Richard Hell or something.

-Will