heartbreakers/walter lure

altho i grew up on lawn guyland, an hour's train ride from manhattan (every dipshit on the island says they're "20 minutes from the city," but it's not true), back during the dawn of punk, i spent my teenage years playing in stupid blues rock bands and didn't really "get" punk until i was living in austin in '79 and heard the heartbreakers live at max's kansas city. imo, they were better in this post-richard hell incarnation than even the dolls were: a strung-out, profane bowery boys/dead end kids/east side kids of rockaroll that looked like a whole band of harvey keitels from taxi driver.

the barman just posted an int with johnny thunders' gtr-slingin' foil from that band, walter lure, a nyse stockbroker for the past 24 yrs, who holds the distinction of having had _everyone who was ever in a band with him_ die -- not just the hb's but also his own outfit the waldos, too. he's still kickin', tho, and recently toured europe, where he recorded a live alb that'll be released "soon" (check his myspace thingy). altho he usedta carry a lot of the gtr load in the hb's while johnny was singing/incapacitated, he doesn't always play gtr now (boo!), but appears to have a coupla asians in his band (yay!).

meanwhile, someone's posted an entahr heartbreakers' max's set from '79 on youtube. like, um, heroin from the gods...