Legend🤘

The Dolls were living art. I wish I was old enough back then to experience them. I was just a little baby 🍼

Jerry Nolan is so cool, so much smarter than I had thought. Everything he said about the Dolls not being understood in the USA is TRUE. "They couldn't handle it", soooo true!!!

What a GREAT R’n’R drummer,such a real inspiration,such a teacher. Thankx Jerry,you will remain a phenomenal musician in R’n’R history

Thanks for uploading this. I'm so glad that Jungle Records is around to keep the spirit of the Heartbreakers alive!

This (the interview with The New York Dolls' and The Heartbreakers' drummer Jerry Nolan, uploaded here and in other parts on KZfaq) is the best interview I have ever heard or read about The New York Dolls, without the bullshit and ego one had to incur when hearing and reading some of the same information coming from Messrs. David Johansen and Johnny Thunders, the former because he was impatient with rehashing his past, the latter because he was just too consumed with his day-to-day existence while continuing to keep his music career alive, and understandably so. In the early 1980s I met and saw all of the ex-New York Dolls except for bassist Arthur Kane, without having ever attended a NY Dolls concert (because I was still a boy at the time of the Dolls' existence and not allowed by my father to go to rock concerts). I also did not live in New York. But I soon made up for lost time. In 1980 I interviewed David Johansen for my college newspaper (and had a minor feud with him, which lasted a few years before finally burying the hatchet in the late 1980s).and had a few escapades with Johnny Thunders in Boston as well, during the years I wrote record reviews for 'The Boston Globe' and was also a staff writer for a now-defunct, Boston-based music magazine. One of those escapades nearly resulted in my getting beat up by some nightclub bouncers, on a night when a friend and I had tried to help out Johnny and his Gang War bandmate Wayne Kramer (formerly of The MC5) when they were being beaten up by those same Neanderthal club bouncers, after the gig, in the parking lot of a then-newly-opened Boston club (which became The Channel, but was called Channel One in its first few months). On two other occasions, Johnny tried to bargain with me because he wanted items of clothing I was wearing. Johnny was quite a character and I loved him dearly. I related to Johnny the most of all the Dolls I met. But even when I was hanging out with Johnny I feared he wouldn't long be with us. So I valued my brief times with Johnny even more so, as I knew they were special. I also had brief interactions with Jerry Nolan and Syl Sylvain. Sylvain was the kindest and least complicated of the four Dolls I met. And the last time I talked with Syl (circa 1995) we discussed his band playing a bill with my band in Boston, which was never to happen, on account of my subsequent illnesses and own addiction. That was before David Jo reunited with him and Arthur as a new NY Dolls lineup, which I never attended, as without Johnny and Jerry it just didn't seem different enough from a David Jo solo gig, which I had already attended many times in the 1980s. I really should have gone to the Boston gig, if only to finally meet Arthur and reacquaint myself with David and Syl. But I didn't learn of the show until after the fact anyway. Also during roughly that same period (1995), a mutual friend of Arthur's and mine (who owned a record label in partnership with original Doll Rick Rivets) had told me he sent Arthur a tape of some of my band's music, which interested Arthur enough he told my friend he would like to record some songs with us. But I waited too long, was unwell myself and then Arthur died. So, as a consequence, I never did meet the only NY Doll I had never met. But still, I was honored Arthur appreciated my band''s music enough to consider recording with us. And because of that I felt connected to Arthur even without actually meeting him. I am happy David, Syl and Arthur were able to reunite. I just wish Johnny and Jerry could have been part of that reunion. The fact only David Jo remains of all the Dolls is very sad, nearly the same sadness that all of the original members of The Ramones are also no longer with us. I realize "time marches on." I just wish it didn't have to move so quickly. But we still have the great music these guys made together and separately, as well so much great video and films of them, such as the one uploaded here. These things, collectively, help to keep The New York Dolls and The Heartbreakers alive for us all. And The New York Dolls really should be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. There is new hope for this now, with a Martin Scorsese film about David Jo about to be released (and with backing from Ron Howard's production company).

legend RIP

6:30. Very similar to the comments made by Johnny Ramone in his 2004 interview (also right before he died) where he paid tribute to the Dolls and the 2 to 3 minute song. These are like gems. Precious moments with modern music’s greatest contributors!

He was gorgeous

Great drummer and a sharp cookie. ❤

Jerry was a great storyteller

thanks for this one. LUV.

I never take a chance to see him on drums. In Dec 84 was a Heartbreakers tour planed for Germany, was replaced by Henri Paul (r.i.p.)and the Que sera sera line up. Thanx to Jungle for all the nice releases from 82 till now🔊🔊👂💥👂♠️

Jerry Nolan tenia una vocecita muy singular XD

The vomit incident he refers to happened in Orly airport, Paris, Dec 1973. Nick Kent wrote about it. McLaren wasn’t yet “involved” with the Dolls, but was already tagging along.

;-)❤️

Take a chance with me ooohhhh

7:04 - only a junkie would understand this term “like a piece of cotton to a tar”, Jerry says it like it’s second nature.

Respectfully Jerry seems unhealthy and strung out here I saw this interview before never noticed this aspect. I really like his attitude towards the respect of the music. I feel JN is speaking the truth in a rather raw way. He actually gave a very good explanation of what punk rock was about from an actual practioner.

Imitation from New York?

Love his Brooklyn accent 😂. A total and a real Brooklyn kid. Godbless him. Rip.

Looks like Christian Bale here.😀