(My pal) Otis Blackwell 'Daddy Rollin' Stone' Two-Ways (unapproachable original and Johnny Thunders Steve Marriot cover) PLUS David Letterman Superstar Interview
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March 21, 2019
(My pal) Otis Blackwell 'Daddy Rollin' Stone' Two Ways (unapproachable original AND Johnny Thunders, Steve Marriot cover) PLUS David Letterman superstar interview
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Johnny Thunders
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March 1, 2011
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Johnny Rotten venu à l'occasion de la sortie d'un film de Julian Temple consacré aux Sex Pistols "l'obscénité et la fureur".
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February 28, 2011
Johnny Thunders+Johnny Rotten "I was born to cry" TWICE
Johnny Thunders
"I was born to cry
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March 9, 2009
Mona et Moi: Johnny Thunders [1989: dir. Patrick Grandperret - FRANCE]
This French film by Patrick Grandperret features Johnny Thunders playing a fictional musician named Johnny Valentine. There is a small amount of English dialog and the French dialog is subtitled in English.
The depressing story centers around Pierre and his girlfriend Mona. Pierre is a nice, but dumb, guy who fails at everything he does and eventually loses Mona. You can't really blame her for leaving Pierre because he's such a loser that nobody would want to stick with him.
Johnny appears as a major character in the film and much of the story revolves around a concert that he headlines. There are several shots of him that have nothing to do with the narrative but exist simply to give him more screen time. In the end, he steals Mona away from Pierre and they seem happy together. His character is described as "A beautiful loser, a junkie, busted but unbowed" which, of course, describes his real life.
He has many lines and performs several partial songs. The soundtrack features more Thunders tunes including
'Two Time Loser', 'In Gods Name', Born To Lose', 'So Alone', 'Hurt Me', and 'I Was Born To Cry'.
There are also several small appearances from Jerry Nolan, Billy Rath and Henri Paul.
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Un film de
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Denis Lavant,
Sophie Simon,
Jackie Berroyer,
Jean-françois Stévenin...
(France)Genre : Drame - Duree : 1H30 mnEditeur DVD : MalavidaSortie à la Vente en DVD le 15 Novembre 2005
Mona et moi est un film phare des années 80 célébré par la critique comme un « renouveau du cinéma français ». Unique, flamboyant, d'une liberté absolue, culte, surprenant, une émotion pure, des personnages attachants... furent les termes qui revinrent le plus souvent.
Le film, présenté dans la section Perspectives du Cinéma Français au Festival de Cannes, fut distribué par MK2 Découvertes et connut une jolie carrière en salles.
N’ayant pas le financement nécessaire à partir du premier scénario écrit avec Simon REGGIANI, Patrick Grandperret auto-produit un pré-film de 20 mn, grâce auquel il obtint l’Avance sur recettes
Le tournage fut une expérience tout à fait originale : les acteurs vivent ensemble, dans le décor et travaillent en quasi continu, sans répétition. Le scénario, réécrit au jour le jour par le réalisateur et Dominique GALLIENI se nourrit de leur vie commune. C'est sans doute ce qui donne au film cette sensation de vérité et de force...
Le montage dura également des mois..
Patrick Grandperret
Réalisateur, Scénariste, Producteur
(France)Né(e) en 1946Biographie
Patrick Grandperret est né en 1946. Il commence en tant qu’assistant sur des longs métrages, et sera amené à collaborer avec Maurice Pialat. Patrick Grandperret remporte le prix Jean-Louis Bory pour son premier long-métrage réalisé en 1981, Court-circuit. Son deuxième film se fait huit ans plus tard, il s’intitule Mona Et Moi et raconte l’histoire de deux jeunes paumés accroc à la drogue, membres d'un groupe de punk rock, errant dans une vie où tout leur échappe.
Il réalise ensuite L'Enfant Lion en 1993, où une lionne et un enfant nés le même jour partagent le même lait, le tout à travers le continent africain. C’est une histoire d’il y a bien longtemps, un conte d’Afrique, l’aventure de Oulé et Sirga.
En 1995, Le Maitre Des Elephants avec Jacques Dutronc, prend place une nouvelle fois en Afrique.
Dans ces œuvres, on compte également Les Victimes (1996), où il collabore une nouvelle fois avec Jacques Dutronc, et également avec Gérard Darmon, Vincent Lindon et Karine Viard.
Il réalise Clara Cet été Là, où les amours adolescents et les plaisirs charnels garçon/fille, fille/fille se croisent et s’entremèlent.
En 2006, il réalise Meurtrières, le scénario est en fait à la base inspirée d'une idée de Maurice Pialat et narre le parcours de deux jeunes filles en quête d'amour.
Filmographie sélective
2006 - 2003 - 2002 - 1996 - 1995 - 1993 - 1989 - 1976 -
Johnny Thunders stars in rarely seen French movie ‘Mona et Moi’
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Johnny Thunders as “Johnny Valentine.”
Mona et Moi directed by Patrick Grandperret in 1989 is mainly notable for Johnny Thunders’ performance as a character—clearly based on himself—named “Johnny Valentine.”
The film’s storyline is bare bones:
Valentine flies to Paris to headline a concert organized by some low-level rock promoters/fans who are in Valentines’ thrall.
Nothing much happens but Thunders is given plenty of screen time and actually does a pretty good job of acting.
But given that his character is described as “a beautiful loser, a junkie, busted but unbowed,” there’s not exactly a shitload of acting required of him.
There are some brief scenes with Heartbreakers' Billy Rath and Jerry Nolan, and some live performances of Heartbreaker tunes including “Born To Lose.” In addition to rock and roll, there’s a smattering of sex, drugs, existential angst, and Thunders appearing now and then to keep things interesting.
Denis Lavant, the lead actor in Mona et Moi, should be recognizable to anyone who’s paid attention to French films of the past three decades, having starred in films by Leos Carax, Clair Denis and Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
He doesn’t have much to do in Mona et Moi except to look forlorn while Thunders/Valentine steals his girlfriend, Mona.
France has always been friendly turf for American rockers who struggled to make it back in America, including Thunders, Stiv Bators and Willy DeVille.
Perhaps they were seen as later day Rimbauds and Artauds—Genet Vincents—vulnerable bad boys in black leather.
you scumbag. aren't you gone yet? you stole another one. how many does that make? i hope sprocket finally fired you.
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November 6, 2008
Johnny Thunders & Patti Palladin (do it) 'Crawfish'
August: 22nd
In the afternoon, Patti Palladin and Johnny rehearse their duet 'Crawfish' together with Jerry, Billy and Only One's guitarist John Perry at 313 Studios, Holloway. An interview of Johnny is filmed there for the Jungle video, the camera later captures them at the Marquee with 'Sad Vacation' making it onto the final film. Many years later all six tracks filmed at the Marquee appear on the DVD of the Jungle 3-disc set 'Down To Kill'.September:
13th: The final mix is 'Blame It On Mom' from the Tin Pan Alley sessions, which together with 'Tie Me Up' from Patti's 'Crawfish' b-side makes the album full-length. 'Talk About Me' is left as an outake.
October:
Johnny is back in Stockholm, eager to be on his best behaviour to please Susanne. An American tour is being booked by US agent Dean Brownrout. After most of the dates are booked in, Johnny 'crushes his hands in a car door' and postpones them. Some speculate that the real reason is that he's anxious to stay with Susanne for a while and live a quiet domestic life.
28th: 'Crawfish', the single recorded by Patti and Johnny is released on Jungle. Patti's deal with London has collapsed, so the tapes are sold to us. It gets good reviews and reaches the top 5 of the UK indie charts.
June 14, 2007
Willy Deville talks Johnny Thunders (John Anthony Genzale, Jr.) Dead in the Quarter OR Started out on Burgundy...
in '96 i lived two blocks from willie. after his girlfriend started buying art at my gallery i got up the nerve to go over one night, and for the next three years spent as much time there hangin' out on his stoop as possible, discussing music and doctors, like:
doc pomus, dr. john, little jimmy scott, little willie john, nyc, mardi gras indians, etc.but mostly local characters of whom he was definitely one. i got to admire his antique furniture, artwork, and his Victorian eyeglass collection, and got to share with him some of my cures for headaches which he always appreciated but wouldn't ever share with his girlfriend, and which was always repaid by early morning serenades in his studio in the back of the apt. featured above, accompanied by their yapping dog, dixie belle.
Singer Willy DeVille, who lived next door to the hotel in which Thunders died, described his death this way:
I don't know how the word got out that I lived next door, but all of a sudden the phone started ringing and ringing. Rolling Stone was calling, the Village Voice called, his family called, and then his guitar player called. I felt bad for all of them. t was a tragic end, and I mean, he went out in a blaze of glory, ha ha ha, so I thought I might as well make it look real good, you know, out of respect, so I just told everybody that when Johnny died he was laying down on the floor with his guitar in his hands. I made that up. When he came out of the St. Peter's Guest House, riga mortis had set in to such an extent that his body was in a U shape. When you're laying on the floor in a fetal position, doubled over - well, when the body bag came out, it was in a U. It was pretty awful.
courtesy of junkipedia
i've included this next article for my host:
Johnny Thunders låg död på mitt hotellrum NEW ORLEANS
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Sitter i Johnny Thunders dödsrum, dricker Hurricane, lyssnar på Dr John och stoppar nålar i voodoodockan.
Men ångbåtsorgeltanten tutar vidare.
Rum 37 på hotell St Peters House är litet, kostar 69 dollar, jag sitter på sängen.
På andra sidan korsningen Burgundy Street (Rue de Bourgogne) och St Peter Street ligger CD"s Saloon - baren där punkrockens Dean Martin, heroinisten Johnny Thunders, träffade två skurkar och tog sitt sista glas.
Sedan hittades New York Dolls-mannen död här på golvet, utanför toaletten. Rånad och antagligen mördad av dåliga droger. Han hade också lymfkörtelcancer.
and your host has been kind enough without the aid of nicotine to translate it into pidginglish:
"Johnny Thunders was laying dead in my hotel room"
Sitting in Johnny Thunders room of death, drinking Hurricane, listening to Dr John and putting needles in the voodoo doll.
But the steamboat-organist-lady is still horning away
Room 37 on hotel St Peters House is tiny, costs 69 dollar, I'm sitting on the bead.
On the other side of the Burgundy Street (Rue de Bourgogne) och St Peter Street crossing is CD"s Saloon - the bar where the Dean Martin of punk rock, the heroinist Johnny Thunders, met two crooks and had his last glass.
Later the New York Dolls-man was found dead död here on the floor, outside the toilet. Robbed and probably murdered by bad drugs. He also had lymphocyte cancer.
Han was 38 years old.
Thunders sang "You can"t put you arms around a memory" and Per Bjurman likes him alot.
Bjurton likes New Orleans alot too. He's a sinner, he's a saint.
Bon voyage, baby.
My travel companion, Svenska Dagbladets enfant terrible, the man with William Faulkners "Sound and the Fury" on the nighstand, puts the needles in the country music enthusiast who can find a five star record every week and I've got two guys - you know who you are, teehee - back in the old country who will receive my needles in the voodoo doll for 15 dollars.
but fiest I'm aiming at the lousy lady onboard the Mississippi steamboat Nachez. Her off-key steamorgan
squeels by Tennessee Williams tramway "Linje Lusta" and perhaps all the way to Tipetina"s and I'm sure voodoo musician Professor Longhair, whos head you ought to rub there, had put his needles into her if he had been into voodoo. Been her in "The Big Easy" four times now, but never seen Mystikal or Master P. Or Dr John. But the lady plays the steamboat every time..
My voodoo must be wrong.
Voodoo religion exists only in Haiti, in Brasil and here in Louisiana. 15 % of New Orleans population is down with voodoo. The local voodoo saint is Marie Laveau but that doesn't help me. The old lady still plays.
I wish someone could rub my head too. Well, this sickening headache; I don't know whether it was the cajun-martini I had at Paul Prudhomme's Louisiana-cooking-restaurant, K-Pauls, or if it is the plague from NYC, or if it's the flu, or if the needle I put in Mr. X's head backfired...
That's how the story goes.
Respect voodoo.
Like Dr John sings :
"After you rub it a while, you dub it."
Meeting perhaps the worlds fattest black gay. He's cooking his cajun sausages Po-Boys together with a tiny little transvestite at Clover Grill, a little place on Borbon Street and Dumaine.
"Come on in, ya"ll, we not gonna eat ya, he says and flirts with a gumbo in the hand.
What a man!"
Many rumors surround Johnny's death at the St. Peter House in New Orleans, Louisiana in April, 1991. He apparently died of drug-related causes, (i'm sorry but i'm just not buying that) was it accidental or the result of foul play?
Dee Dee Ramone (and you know how fond jt was of dd) took a call in New York the next day from Stevie Klasson, Johnny's rhythm guitar player.
"They told me that Johnny had gotten mixed up with some bastards... who ripped him off for his methadone supply. They had given him LSD and then murdered him. He had gotten a pretty large supply of methadone in England, so he could travel and stay away from those creeps - the drug dealers, Thunders imitators, and losers like that."What is known for certain is that Johnny's room (no. 37) was ransacked...cont.
here.
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